All Chapters of The Fake Heiress’s Ruthless CEO: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

•Odette•“She looks so much like Annabelle,” Nikki said, her wine glass hiding her mouth. Her gaze was discreetly fixed on a beautiful girl standing a few feet from us.The girl had straight brown hair with crystal blue orbs and a pointy chin. She shared a three-part resemblance to my mother who was beside her, glowing like the sun.“Of course, she does.” Bitterness stained my tone as I watched the biological mother and daughter bond in front of my birthday guests.My birthday that was no longer the celebration of my birth to the Valmont family. It was now the day the real daughter of the Valmonts was switched with some girl originally from South Bronx who’d lived as the family’s sole heiress all her life.The girl from South Bronx was me. The real daughter of the Valmonts was Silver, publicly referred to as Silvia now.She turned up a month ago when my mother had a devastating accident in which she needed blood transfusion. My blood hadn’t matched my mother’s for donation.Silver, wh

•Draven•“You’re late.” A grumpy masculine voice greeted me as I stepped into my penthouse.“Who let you in here?” I narrowed my eyes when a whirring sound filled the room, and in the next second, an elderly man sitting on an electric wheelchair appeared in front of me.“Boy, I own this city. I can enter anywhere I want.” Grandpa William said with a gruff tone, the smug look on his aged features deepened.“I’m not a boy.” I kicked my shoes off and walked into the house, going past the man like he wasn’t here with me.“Where are you going?” Grandpa William yelled after me.“To sleep.” I halted.“Why?”“Because I’m made of organs and blood vessels that have been pumping energy all day and need a break.” A snappy response to the question rolled out of my mouth.“Sit down. I have something to tell you.” Grandpa William drove his wheelchair to the sitting area, expecting me to follow him.I didn’t, at first. I watched him wait on me till his glower penetrated through my skin and began pric

•Odette•‘I’ve fantasized about popping your cherry since I was in college.’Draven’s words from last night replayed in my head as I stepped out of my car. I walked from the underground parking lot to get to the main office building of ‘Eve’, my family’s company.I hadn’t slept well last night. Draven was all I thought about. Heck, I even dreamt about him.Why would he be fantasizing about fucking me? We didn’t even know each other in college. He was in his senior year while I was a freshman. How could he have noticed me?Unless, of course, he knew me before then. Maybe he had noticed me from the tight knit gatherings that the boastful parents of the Upper East liked to force their kids to attend. Even at that, he should have no business thinking about me. No business wanting to… fuck me.I had refused him vehemently last night and stormed out of the private room without giving him more time to continue saying filthy things.I shook the thought off my head as I strutted down the clea

•Odette•Everything was sealed and done with. After signing the contract, Draven explained to me how the next few weeks would play out.I would submit a formal resignation letter to my family’s company with the excuse of taking time for myself and giving Silver complete allowance to do more for the company.Father wouldn’t think too much about me resigning at this point. Mother might be bothered but she would realize she wouldn’t be able to change my mind eventually.After that, Draven and I would take our ‘relationship’ public. In order for his grandfather to believe that he wasn’t just pretending to settle down, we’d have to perfect the act of being in love.Draven said we’d have to choose popular sites for our dates; places where people would see us and surely talk. When the foundation was built, we’d hold a wedding at the back of his family’s house, inviting our family members and the press.It was all stated in the elaborate 4-week plan PowerPoint he emailed to me after the contr

•Odette•“Don’t make it sound as if it’s a big deal. As a businessman, of course I have to go into deep research about a product before investing in it. That’s just common sense, isn’t it?” Draven reasoned, making me appear like I lacked the common sense he was talking about.“And I’m sure you’ve done the same towards me, haven’t you?” Draven’s smile broadened.Yeah, right. Draven’s personal life was completely unknown to the world. The only things I could get my hands on about him were from gossip blogs and business magazines.Even at that, I still barely knew him.The lines about him being calculating, ruthless, and unpredictable were everywhere. No one ever mentioned the specifics. Just the end results.“There’s not much info about you available to the public. My research on you can’t even be defined as research.” I admitted with a sigh just before the waiter returned with our orders.“Public? You’re not the public, Odette Valmont. You should consider yourself privately mine.” Dra