Todos los capítulos de Contract Marriage with My Ex's Dad: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

"Marry me."The words floated through the crack in the door, the kind of words Ruby Costa had spent three years waiting to hear. Her lips parted. Three years of loving him and finally he was ready. Bianca had been right about the ring. The moment was here."You're so impatient. You couldn't even wait for me to sit down?"Lorenzo's laugh rumbled in response. "How could I wait? I've wasted too much time pretending. I want you. Only you.""Okay, you ridiculous man. Put the ring on my finger before you drop it," came the reply, a woman's low and intimate voice.The world tilted. Ruby knew that voice. She took a step forward, then another, her feet moving without permission.Lorenzo was on one knee before the couch, his dark hair slightly disheveled, his shirt unbuttoned at the collar and on that couch, draped in a silk robe that Ruby had given Lorenzo for his birthday last year, sat Noemi. Her blonde hair cascaded over her shoulders. On her finger, the ten-carat diamond caught the candlel

The morning light filtered through the office windows with that particular shade of gray that promised rain by afternoon. Ruby sat at her desk, fingers hovering motionless above the keyboard, her untouched coffee growing cold beside her elbow. The computer screen had long since dimmed into its screensaver, but she hadn't noticed.Her mind was elsewhere. It had been elsewhere since last night.The stranger's hands. The heat of his mouth on her throat. The way her body had responded before her mind could intervene as if it had been waiting years for permission to feel. She had spent so long believing she was incapable of desire and a single encounter with a man whose face she never saw had shattered that illusion.“What is wrong with me? I should be devastated about Lorenzo. Instead, I can't stop thinking about a man I don't even know.”Her phone buzzed. Bianca again.Ruby stared at the name flashing across the screen. The twentieth call since midnight.She silenced the call and turned

The waiting area outside the executive suite was sleek and silent. Ruby took a seat among the other candidates, trying to keep her hands from trembling. She had barely been sitting five minutes when the office door burst open and a woman stumbled out, sobbing, clutching a crumpled file to her chest as she bolted for the elevator."Oh, he's a mean one," murmured the young man beside her. "I heard he fired his last assistant just because she looked at him the wrong way.""Who's mean?""Luciano Morelli." His voice dropped lower.Ruby's brow furrowed. "If he's so horrible, then why are you here?"“The pay's good. If I'm going to work for a monster, the salary might as well be worth it. Same reason you're here, I'm guessing."Ruby didn't answer. She was thinking about the woman who'd fled in tears, the last three assistants who'd quit within a month, Lorenzo's mocking words about the CEO being brutal. What kind of man makes someone cry in under ten minutes? And what kind of woman willingly