Todos os capítulos de Married To The Billionaire CEO : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

The thing about confidence is that it looks exactly like stupidity. Maybe it's a fancy word for stupidity if you look at it.Anna Brooke was banking on this moment, it could either break or make her career. She straightened the front of her brown blazer she wore on top of a black skirt before making her way towards the elevator leading to the thirtieth floor of Gran Astorias like someone who belonged there. The security guard glanced at her lanyard. It said PRESS, only a level two access which got you into the general conference room, panel discussion room and a very sad buffet stand a few floors below. It didn’t get you to the VIP sessions at the thirtieth floor where she was.“Ma’m–““Sorry, yes I know”, Anne said, already moving because the trick was to keep on moving no stopping “Hendericks sent me David Hendricks, he’s with Innovative Tech? He said to grab the deck from the suit and bring it back down. I’ll be out in a minute.” The guard, young and probably new and overwhelmed

The city never went dark. That was the thing about Las Vegas that people who had never lived here didn’t understand. They came for the aesthetics and go back home sunburned and lighter in the pocket and tell people the Strip was something else at night. And it was. The Strip was a performance, it was Las Vegas putting on its most expensive outing clothes. At 11:50pm on a Tuesday night, the top floor of DuPont Tower was lit in the way it was always lit clockwise with that particular brightness of a workspace that didn’t know the difference between daytime and midnight. There was four people on the floor, Royce, Marcus, a junior analyst named Sasha who was definitely regretting her career choice and Vincent the overnight security guard. Royce DuPont was at his office as usual. It was a very unremarkable environment which came as a surprise to investors and journalists. It was very spacious and boring with a large clean desk placed at in front of the floor to ceiling window which sh

“How was it?” Jade asked immediately she got home.Anne dropped her bag on the floor and sat beside Jade. Steve migrated immediately from the windowsill to Anne’s lap, which he did whenever she seemed like she needed the weight off something.“He wants to fund ANGEL” Anne sighed.“Okay” Jade said carefully. “That’s good news right?”“There’s a condition.”“I knew it! What was it?”Anne looked at her. “He needs a wife. For twelve months. For a public image situation involving his company board and the gala.”“He wants you,” Jade said slowly, “to marry him.”“In exchange for full seed capital, infrastructure and personal mentorship for ANGEL.”The apartment was quiet except from the purring sounds coming from Steve Jade looked at her for a long moment “Steve,”addressing the cat, “your landlord is getting married.”Steve purred.“It’s not a real marriage,” Anne said.“It’s a legal marriage for money, which is technically the original definition of marriage, so.”“Jade.”“I’m not judging