Todos los capítulos de The Contract Half Sisters: Married To The Same Bloodline: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Chapter 1ODALYSI did not cry at my father's funeral.People expected me to. I could feel it in the way they looked at me, the way their eyes stayed on my face a second too long, waiting for it to crack. But Ashfords don't cry in public. My mother taught me that when I was six, and my father made sure I never forgot it.So I stood by his coffin in my black dress and my black gloves, and I shook every hand that came to me."He was a great man, Odalys.""Thank you.""You're so strong, my dear. So strong.""Thank you.""If you need anything at all, anything—""Thank you."I said it so many times the words stopped meaning anything. My face hurt from holding it still. The priest's voice went on and on, and the wind pulled at the white flowers on the coffin, and I kept thinking one thing. He's gone, and he never said sorry.Then the whispers started.It began at the back of the crowd, soft at first. Then heads started turning, one by one, like a wave. I didn't need to turn around. I alread

Chapter 3REIGNSThe roof leaked again that night.I woke up at five in the morning because water was dripping on my foot. I moved the bucket, lay back down, and stared at the brown stain on the ceiling. It was bigger than last week. Everything in this flat was getting bigger except the money.I didn't go back to sleep. I got up, washed my face with cold water because the heater had been broken since March, and put on my uniform. It still had the stain on the sleeve from yesterday. I didn't have time to wash it.Before I left, I looked at the picture on the wall by the door. It was my mother and me at the beach when I was seven. She was laughing with her head thrown back. I was holding an ice cream bigger than my face."I'll see you after work, Mama," I told the picture.Then I locked the door and ran for the bus.---For one year, my mother had been in room 12 at St. Catherine's Hospital. It was a private room with a window that looked out on a mango tree. She liked to watch the bird

Chapter 5REIGNSI didn't sleep that night. I sat on the hospital floor with my back against my mother's bed and my cracked phone in my hand, and I read everything I could find about the Vance brothers.I started with Rhett, because I wanted to know exactly how much I should hate him.It didn't take long. He was everywhere. There was a new picture almost every week. Rhett on a yacht with a girl in a red bikini. Rhett outside a club at three in the morning with a girl in a silver dress. Rhett at a football match, a car launch, a birthday party, and every time a different girl on his arm, a different hand on his chest.The girls never lasted. I found one interview with a model who cried on camera. She said he took her to Dubai for a weekend, told her she was special, and then blocked her number on the flight home. She found out from his driver.Another girl wrote a long post about him. She said he never remembered her name, and he called her "sweetheart" the whole time because it was ea

Chapter 7ODALYS I came to Vance Tower to sign my engagement papers.That was all. It was a simple meeting. Mr. Adeyemi had drawn up the agreement, and Cassian's lawyers had checked it. All I had to do was walk in, sign my name, shake his hand, and leave. I had planned it down to the minute. Twenty minutes in his office, then lunch, then home.I didn't want to marry Cassian Vance. I didn't want to marry anyone. But I wanted to lose my father's company even less. So I put on my white dress, I did my hair, and I told myself it was just business. Just one more paper to sign.The assistant looked scared when I stepped out of the lift."Miss Ashford. You're early.""I'm on time. Is he free?""He, um…" The man looked at the door, then back at me. "He has someone with him.""Who?"He didn't answer. That was when I knew something was wrong.I walked past him to the office door. It wasn't fully closed. And through the gap, I heard a voice I would know anywhere."Marry me instead of her."I st

Chapter 9REIGNSI woke up to my phone buzzing.It didn't stop. It buzzed and buzzed against the floor beside my mattress until it slid off the edge. I picked it up and squinted at the cracked screen. Forty-three notifications, from people I hadn't spoken to in years. Old school friends, a girl from the restaurant, a cousin of a neighbor.Have you seen this??Reign is this you???OMG girl what happenedI opened the first link.It was me.It was me on the top floor of Vance Tower, in the green dress, with Odalys dragging me by the hair. Someone had filmed it from behind a desk. The video was shaky, but you could see everything. My face. The price tag in Odalys's hand. The slap.The caption said, in big white letters:MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER TRIES TO STEAL SISTER'S BILLIONAIRE 💀It had two million views. It had been up for nine hours.I watched the whole thing with my heart in my throat. I waited for the end. For the part where she pushed me. For the part where I hung over forty floors of