Lahat ng Kabanata ng SOLD TO THE DEVIL IN SILK: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

EMILYI couldn’t sleep. Not even for a second. My body lay still, but my mind was a storm. How could I even begin to accept marrying a monster huh? A man who thought everything and everyone could be bought with money. The audacity… the arrogance… the filth, that man is an arrogant bastard and I really despised him with the fiber of my being…..“No,” I whispered to the silence, clutching my arms tighter around myself. “I won’t do it. I can’t, I will never ever do that.”Suddenly, the rusty cell door creaked open. My heart leapt with fear. And then he walked in, James Bolton like he owned the world and everything breathing in it…. He was just too arrogant and I felt like punching him in the gut.“Good morning, sunshine,” he said with a smirk, the strong scent of alcohol following him like a shadow, a responsible human drinking alcohol in the morning, he is really a red flag.I didn’t respond. I couldn’t. I just stared at him, cold and numb. Inside me, there was chaos, fear, rage, confu

EMILYIt’s been three days since the slap.Three whole days of darkness, silence, and hunger, I really suffered.They locked me in a freezing metal room with nothing but a bucket and a glinting lightbulb that buzzed like it was mocking me. I hadn’t eaten. I hadn’t bathed. I was losing my mind. My body was giving up. I was dizzy from standing. My lips were cracked and soared, I haven't really eaten for days. My stomach… empty.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw James’s face.That twisted smirk.That quiet storm in his eyes. That... kiss.I still felt it. On my lips. Like poison I couldn’t spit out.But I hated him. I hated him.“Open up,” a voice barked from outside the door.I didn’t move. The door swung open and the guards stepped in like champions...They didn’t say a word. They just grabbed me roughly like a dumb bag and dragged me by my arms across the hallway. I was too weak to fight. My bare feet brushed the cold concrete, but I barely felt it anymore,I was weak and tired all ov

EmilyThe moment the words left his lips "Tonight, you’re sleeping in my bed" something inside me twisted. A thousand alarms blared in my head, but I didn’t show it. I kept my chin high as I walked away from the dining room, the stains of humiliation still wet against my skin like cold water….The maids were already waiting for me in the corridor, like they’d been prepped for what was next. Without a word, they ushered me into another room a different one this time. Bigger. Brighter. More luxurious than any I’d been in since I got here.They didn’t just clean me up. They dressed me like I was going on a royal date. The silk black nightgown they picked barely touched my knees, thin straps hanging on my shoulders like whispers, the fabric hugging every inch of my skin. One of them dabbed a little perfume behind my ears. The scent was warm, sinful like temptation wrapped in petals.My heart was beating fast when they finally led me through a long hallway until we stopped in front of a da

EmilyJames hadn’t spoken to me since that night. Three days. Three long, aching days of silence.He didn’t call for me. Didn’t look my way. I sat at dinners, quiet and cold, watching him from across the table as if I were nothing more than a ghost in his mansion.But something had changed. He was colder. Not angry. Not calculating. Just… distant. Like something inside him had gone numb.And then Naomi returned all of a sudden…. She strutted back into the estate like a phoenix reborn, lips redder than blood and hips swaying like she owned every inch of marble under her feet. Dressed in a wine-colored gown with a slit high enough to reveal legs made for sin, she didn't spare me a glance.James didn't say a word about it. Just sat there at the head of the table, pretending she hadn't been banished days ago.I kept my face unreadable, but inside, a thousand thoughts screamed. Why was she back? What happened between them? And why did James look like he'd swallowed poison but refused to sp