The Billionaire’s Emergency Bride의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 5

The Wrong DoorTALIAUnknown: 24 hours left. Bring the money or die.A wave of iced chills rolled down my spine and I gulped down the last champagne left on my tray.I can’t die. And I cannot lose my brother.But when a man named Dex sat across from me in a booth that smelled like cigarettes 48 hours ago, and told me in a very calm tone that my brother's debt was now my debt. He said my brother had been stupid enough to put our mother's apartment up as collateral. He'd smiled when he said it. Like it was good news.Like it wasn’t a ruin.I looked around this ballroom, looking for my plan – Marcus Webb.Marcus Webb is a philanthropist, semi-drunk on his third glass of champagne by eight-thirty, and he has a reputation for being sentimental about hard-luck stories. I just need five minutes and enough composure to ask him for a loan without crying. I've been rehearsing the speech in bathroom mirrors all evening.But I couldn’t find him amdist the crowd of expensive perfumes and rich laug

The Devil’s PlanTALIATwo million dollars.I keep staring at those words on page one like they'll rearrange themselves into something that makes more sense. Like maybe I misread. Like maybe it says two hundred or two thousand or anything that doesn't make my brain short-circuit.It says two million.I turn to page four.Clause 4: The Party of the Second Part agrees to maintain physical proximity to the Party of the First Part at all public and private engagements as defined in Schedule A, and shall not be absent from shared residence for a period exceeding twelve hours without prior written consent.I read it twice. Then a third time.Physical proximity. At all times.I turn to page seven.Clause 7: In all matters pertaining to public conduct and private decisions affecting the integrity of this agreement, the judgment of the Party of the First Part shall be considered final and binding.The Party of the First Part is Soren Vane.His word is final. In public and private. In my home —

The Gilded CageTALIAThe estate arrives before I'm ready for it.We turn off the main road and the city disappears behind. Like it was completely gone, swallowed by tree line and darkness — and then the gates open and I see it.Glass and steel rising out of manicured ground like something that grew here on purpose. Every light is precise. Every angle is intentional. It is the most beautiful and the most unwelcoming building I have ever seen.I don't say anything.Neither does Soren. He's been on his phone since the call. Typing. Reading. Existing in whatever dimension he operates in where other people's crises are just logistics to process and file.My brother is alive. That's what one of his people confirmed twenty minutes ago. A man in the front seat who spoke into his earpiece and then said the asset is secured and receiving medical attention like my brother Eli is a line item. Like he isn't the person who taught me how to ride a bike and ruined every birthday cake he ever tried t