All Chapters of The Billionaire's Elusive Wife : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The rain had not started yet, but the sky above the Laurent estate was already dark.Elena Laurent stood halfway down the upstairs hallway, one hand resting against the wall as she listened to the voices coming from her parents' study. She had only come upstairs to tell her mother that dinner was ready. But the moment she heard her father's voice, she stopped.“We cannot keep delaying this.”Elena frowned.Richard Laurent rarely sounded uncertain, but tonight his voice carried an urgency she had never heard before.Her mother's reply came a moment later.“I know. But Adrian's family expects the Laurent name to be represented properly.”Elena's heart skipped.Adrian?She moved closer to the slightly open door.“We already have someone who can take her place,” Richard continued. “Isabella is the obvious choice.”Elena's fingers tightened against the wall.Someone who could take her place?Her mother's voice dropped. “What about Elena?“She was never supposed to be involved.”Elena stopped bre

For the next several days, Elena stayed at hotel .She told herself that she needed time to figure out what to do, but the truth was that she was afraid to step back into the world she had walked away from. Every time she looked at the marriage certificate lying on the table beside the bed, she felt the same confusion that had followed her since she woke up alone.She was married to a man she barely knew.She didn't know where he had gone, why he had left the ring behind, or how a legal marriage had somehow taken place without her remembering the ceremony. The hotel staff offered no answers, and the stranger had left no contact information.For several days, Elena tried to convince herself that the entire situation was simply a strange chapter of her life that would eventually make sense.Then her body began to feel different.At first, she blamed the exhaustion on everything that had happened. She had barely slept since leaving the Laurent mansion, and the emotional strain had made i

The Laurent Corporation had never faced a crisis this serious.For months, the company had struggled with declining profits, failed investments, and mounting debts. Several major partners had withdrawn their support, while the company's falling shares had left shareholders questioning whether Richard Laurent could still lead the corporation.Richard had spent weeks trying to keep the company from collapsing, but every solution seemed to create another problem.Then, without warning, a mysterious foreign investor had stepped in.The investor had purchased the largest individual shareholding in Laurent Corporation and injected enough capital to settle the company's most urgent debts. The intervention had prevented an immediate collapse and given the corporation a chance to recover.Nobody knew the investor's true identity.All they knew was that the person was connected to Nova Global, the multibillion-dollar technology empire that had rapidly become one of the most powerful investment