Lerato R.Ngobeni
For years, I've been the one holding my family together.
I work, I take care of my father, I ask for nothing. I thought if I just kept going, we would be okay.
Then his gambling caught up with us. A debt I never agreed to, I never signed, but somehow it's mine to pay.
Because hidden in his contract was a clause.
If he can't repay... his daughter becomes the payment.
I didn't want to believe my own father could do this to me. But it was already decided. And the man I'm supposed to marry? I see him every day.
Sebastian Kessler. My boss. A cold, intimidating man everyone at the office is scared to even talk to.
At the age of 35 he's buried his heart with his wife five years ago. He doesn't want love. He doesn't want a wife. Especially not me.
What he doesn't know is that the woman his family is forcing into his life is already working right under his nose.
And what I don't know is why my boss is tangled up in my father's debt in the first place.
There's something in that contract they're not telling us. Something that could ruin us both.
I never asked to be his wife. He never wanted another one, but we didn't get a choice.
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