All Chapters of My Influencer Wife Called Me a Fraud, But The Richest Man Called Me Boss: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

第1章

"Guys, this man is going to be the death of me."On the stream, Mara Quinn was sobbing so hard that her makeup streaked down her face.She held up a crumpled hospital injury report.Tears rolled down her face and hit the white desk, one after another.The viewer count was climbing like crazy.One million, two million, five million. It would not stop.The comments scrolled past in a solid wall, every one of them cursing me."A guy who lives off his wife and beats her should just die!""Mara, don't be scared, ten million of us have your back!""Dox him! Make sure he can't show his face in this city!"I sat on the couch in the living room with my phone lit up in my hand, and the woman on the screen was still crying.She was my wife. Three years married, and nobody knew.She was also the fraud-busting influencer with ten million followers whose career I had built from scratch.Now the first fraud she was exposing was me.What she did not know was that her top donor, the man showering her w

第2章

The banging outside slowly stopped.Her fans had gotten it out of their systems and left, still swearing.I got up, walked to the entryway, and looked through the peephole.The hallway was a mess. A little red paint had seeped in under the door and gone dark.I left it and went back to the living room to pour myself a whiskey.The ice knocked against the glass, bright and sharp, too loud in the empty apartment.Mara's stream was still running.She had stopped crying and started bringing relationship streamers onto the call to talk about how to handle a man like me.Every one of them denounced me with righteous outrage, using the ugliest assumptions and the shoddiest logic to tear me apart.I became public enemy number one, a modern-day Don Juan.I picked up my phone and texted her back."I paid cash for that apartment before we got married. What makes you think I'm signing it over to you?"The reply came back instantly."What makes me think? I have ten million followers now! One word f

第3章

The next morning I woke up to my phone ringing over and over.The caller ID said Mom.I picked up, and before I could get a word out I heard my mother trying not to cry."Kade, is any of what they're saying online true?""Did you really hit Mara?""Did you really... make her go to places like that?"Something dropped in my chest.Mara's stream had reached my parents, hours away from here."Mom, none of it is true."I kept my voice as level as I could."She's working an angle. Don't believe it.""But... but somebody sprayed red paint on our wall."Mom's voice was shaking badly."There's a dead rat hanging on the front door.""Your dad got so upset that he had a heart attack. He's still in the hospital."My ears rang.Rage surged through me.Mara had not just set the internet on me. She had dragged my parents into it and sent people to harass them at home."Mom, don't be scared. I'll take care of it right now.""How's Dad?""The doctor says he's out of danger for now, but he needs rest."

第4章

The day crawled toward eight o'clock.Online, the noise had already peaked.Everyone was waiting for the big takedown.Her fan groups were organizing to flood the comments, and Knox had dropped more than a dozen cash giveaways in the chat to keep everyone worked up."Everybody show up tonight and make it loud!""There's no way Kade walks away from this!""With Mr. Cole stepping in, Kade doesn't stand a chance!"I read through those chat logs and could not help laughing.My head of security was really in character.That bonus was gone too.At five in the afternoon Mara called.New number, and she could not keep the smugness out of her voice."Kade, have you thought about it? Three hours until eight. There's still time to sign the deed over to me."I sat down on the couch and kept my voice flat."Mara, do you really think you've won?"She scoffed."What else would I think? Have you looked online? Who isn't cursing you out right now? Your father's in the hospital because of this, and you'

第5章

Seven fifty in the evening.Ten minutes until Mara's stream of the century.Every major platform had her announcement on the front page. Onlookers poured into the stream early, and the comments came so thick they covered the screen."Selling popcorn and water up front!""Here for the moment this scumbag drops the act!""I heard Mr. Cole is coming on tonight. That's huge!"I sat in the leather chair in my study with three monitors in front of me.On the left, Mara's stream. In the middle, the company's data monitoring system. On the right, a live feed from legal showing the asset freeze in progress.Everything was where it needed to be.Eight o'clock exactly.The stream flickered and Mara's face filled the center of the screen, polished, without a flaw on it.She had done her makeup to look bare and exhausted, eyes faintly red, lips pale, an oversized white shirt hanging off her. She looked pitiful."Hey, guys. Good evening."Her voice cracked on the first word."Thank you all for looki

第6章

The call request went out.Thirty million pairs of eyes watched the loading circle spin on the right side of the screen.Mara nervously fixed her hair and pushed her expression into something more wounded, more wronged.Ding.The call connected.The screen split in two.On the right was a spacious office. Adrian sat behind a large mahogany desk in a black suit, expressionless, his presence imposing even through the screen.He gave a small nod, his face still blank.Off camera, his hand turned the ring on his finger.That was the signal we had agreed on. He was ready.The comments went blank for a beat, then came back harder than before."Holy hell, it really is Mr. Cole!""That presence! I can feel the power through the screen!""That is what a real boss looks like! Kade isn't fit to shine his shoes!"The second Mara saw Adrian, she put on a face that was deferential and wounded at the same time."Good evening, Mr. Cole. I'm sorry to take up your night."Adrian's face did not move."Ms

第7章

The door swung open and I walked into the room, straight into the frame.Mara was crying at the screen. She caught movement out of the corner of her eye, whipped around, and froze the moment she saw me.Shock, panic, and fury all mixed together."Kade?"She screamed, her voice cracking."What are you doing here? Who let you in?"The comments stopped for a second, then went off."Holy crap, the scumbag showed up!""He actually dares to show his face? The nerve of this guy!""Look at that smug face, I want to punch him through the screen!"I ignored her screaming and I ignored the abuse filling the screen.I just stood in front of the camera and looked at Adrian on the right half of the screen.Mara caught up and started shouting into her mic."Mr. Cole! Do you see this? This is the man who beats me! He's harassing me right now! Security! Security! Get this lunatic out of here!"Still shouting, she grabbed the glass off the desk and threw it at me.I tipped my head aside and it shattered

第8章

Adrian shot up out of his chair.He straightened the hem of his jacket, and the cold arrogance dropped off his face all at once, replaced by a deference so rare it looked almost like nerves.Mara and millions of viewers watched the impossible happen.Adrian buttoned his jacket, then bowed deeply toward the screen, directly toward where I was standing.It was a full ninety-degree bow, a formal gesture of respect.The comments emptied out.With thirty million viewers watching, the stream looked as if someone had hit pause. Not one comment appeared. Not one animation played.Dead silence.The sneer froze on Mara's face, her eyes round and her mouth open, her brain clearly unable to process what it was looking at."Mr. Cole?"She stammered it out, her voice shaking apart."What... what are you doing?"Adrian ignored her.He held the bow, and his voice came through the mic loud and clear."Boss, I sincerely apologize. This is my failure. I should never have let this mess reach you. The asse

第9章

The comments were moving too fast to read the words.The reversal left every viewer rethinking everything they had believed a minute earlier.The people who had been screaming at me a minute ago went silent, and the screen filled with exclamation marks and jokes at Mara's expense."Oh my god! That is a real heavyweight!""Married in secret for three years, spent a fortune making his wife famous, and she turns on him?""She didn't just dig her own grave. She hit bedrock!""She called a billionaire a freeloader and tried to throw him out of his own house. I'm dying!"Mara sat slumped in the chair, shaking all over.Her phone was buzzing nonstop. Her manager.She answered with a shaking hand and did not dare put it on speaker, but the manager's desperate shouting came through anyway."Mara! Who the hell did you pick a fight with? Moretti Group just issued an industry-wide blacklist notice! Every endorsement is gone! We're looking at penalties we can't pay! Every bank account in your name

第10章

The next day.The weather in New York was beautiful, not a cloud anywhere.By then, Mara's world had already collapsed.The internet reversed course overnight. The ten million followers who had ached for her yesterday had turned into knives by morning.#MaraForgedEvidence#MaraFraud#MaraBlacklistedShe held three of the top ten trending spots by herself.Our attorneys secured an emergency court order freezing every asset in Mara's name pending the contract claims.She was not just left with nothing. She was more than thirty million dollars in debt.The evidence of the forged medical report and the misappropriated company assets went to the police. She was facing a very long prison sentence.I stood at the window with a cup of coffee.Down below, two officers were putting Mara into a car.Her hair was loose, her eyes unfocused, and she fought them the whole way.A ring of paparazzi had formed around them, flashes going off in waves.That light used to be the thing she wanted most. Now

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