Semua Bab The Billionaire’s Dirty Possession : Their Genius Bride: Bab 1 - Bab 4

Bella Hale I don’t remember walking away from the door. One moment I was standing there, listening to the soft, intimate sound of my husband kissing another woman, and the next I was moving down the hallway on legs that barely felt like they belonged to me. My hand was clamped so hard over my mouth that my teeth dug into my palm. It was the only thing keeping the broken sounds inside. My stomach lurched violently with every step. The taste of bile rose hot and sharp in my throat. I swallowed once, twice, but the nausea only climbed higher, twisting tighter until I thought I might actually be sick right there on the marble floor. Five years. The number kept repeating in my head like a cruel joke. Five years of loving him. Five years of defending him when people whispered. Five years of believing that the man I married was real. And the entire time, I had only been a convenient key to my parents’ fortune. A small, broken sound escaped me anyway. I pressed my hand harder against

Bella Hale I cried so much that night my eyes finally stopped producing tears. By the time the sky began to lighten, there was nothing left. No more sobs. No more shaking. Just a hollow, scraped-out quiet and the dry, burning ache behind my eyes. I lay on the thin motel mattress staring at the water-stained ceiling, the cheap fabric of the bedspread scratchy against my skin. My dress from the banquet was wrinkled and ruined on the chair. My makeup had long since streaked and dried into something ugly. I was foolish. No doubt about it. I had trusted too easily. Loved too blindly. Signed whatever he put in front of me because I believed the soft way he looked at me meant something real. Every warning sign I had ignored now felt like a personal failure. The locked study. The late nights. The way he had grown distant while I kept making excuses for him. I had handed him everything—my heart, my parents’ legacy, my future—and he had used it to laugh at me behind a closed door. If n