All Chapters of The Billionaire's Last Wife: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Eliana read the clause three times.Then a fourth.She stared at the words as though they might rearrange themselves if she looked long enough.They didn't."Absolutely not."Ivy sat across from her in the now-empty café, arms folded as she watched the contract like it might bite. Her expression had moved past curiosity. Now it was concern."Read it again.""I don't need to." Eliana dismissed."Read it."Eliana exhaled and flipped back a page."'The wife shall reside at Wolfe Manor for the entire duration of the marriage.'"“And?” Eliana’s gaze dropped lower."'Under no circumstances may she leave the estate without her husband's permission.'"Ivy leaned back slowly."That's not a marriage.""No.""That's imprisonment with expensive furniture."Despite herself, Eliana almost smiled. She closed the folder; the same one she should have pushed away.She should have thrown it in the bin and told Ivy never to mention Drevian Wolfe or his ridiculous contract again. Instead, her fingers rema

Eliana did not sleep.Every time she drifted toward unconsciousness, the sound returned. It was soft at first, almost indistinguishable from the wind moving through the old walls, but eventually it became unmistakable. She could hear a woman crying. She would sit up in bed, listening until the sound disappeared, only to hear it again several minutes later from somewhere farther down the corridor.By three in the morning, she had stopped trying to convince herself that it was the pipes. There were no pipes in the world that sounded like someone quietly sobbing. By seven, however, she had almost convinced herself that she had imagined it.Perhaps the strange house, the unfamiliar surroundings and everything she had learned about Drevian Wolfe had finally gotten into her head.Perhaps that was what fear did. It made ordinary things look suspicious.Eliana left her bedroom at seven-thirty. Mrs. Brooks was already in the kitchen, preparing breakfast as though the previous night had never h

Eliana stared at the photograph.Then she looked at Drevian and back at the photograph. Her fingers tightened around the edge of the paper, almost as though she could force the image to change if she held it tightly enough.It didn't.The man in the photograph remained exactly where he had been, standing behind Isabella at the charity event, his face clear enough to be recognized.And in that moment, Eliana knew the face. She had seen it in the portraits downstairs. She had seen it in the family photographs. She had seen it in the newspaper articles she had read after arriving at Wolfe Manor."Your father?"Drevian gave a single nod."Raymond Wolfe." He added."But your father died twenty years ago.""Yes." Eliana looked down at the photograph again."This was taken almost nine years ago.""I know."There was something unsettling about how calmly he said it.He didn't look shocked or confused. He looked like a man who had spent years trying to convince himself that something impossibl