All Chapters of The Billion Dollar Bet: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

"I never meant to hurt you." He said it like he actually believed it, like intention mattered more than impact. "The bet was just—it was about proving a point. That marriage is a transaction, that love is a myth people tell themselves. We wanted to show that if you follow the right formula, if you s

CARTER'S POV The words hung in the air between us and my first thought, the one that came before anything else, was that she was lying. Had to be lying. Grace wouldn't get pregnant now, not when the bet was public and our marriage was over and she had every reason to trap me with a baby that would

I sat down at my desk and stared at the contract still spread across it. My signature next to Marcus's, Brandon's, Derek's, James's. Five men who'd thought they were so clever, so above the rules, so capable of gaming a system that had existed for centuries. And maybe we had been clever. Maybe we ha

Because Grace was right. I'd gotten everything I wanted. The money, the victory, the proof that I was smarter than everyone else. And all it cost me was the only person who'd ever looked at me like I was worth loving, who'd believed in me enough to build her whole life around mine, who was now carry

"I want to change the terms." I grabbed a pen, pulled the documents toward me. "I'll sign the paternity waiver. I'll agree that any children I have are not his legal responsibility. But I'm not taking fifteen million." "Grace—" "I'm taking ten. The original amount. The same amount each of his frie