Rejected Bride, Billionaire's Wife
“So what am I to you then? A liability? A flaw in your perfect empire?”
His gaze hardened, but his voice dropped, quieter now. “You’re my wife. That makes you untouchable.”
My breath caught in my throat. The room shrank around us, his words wrapping around me like chains and fire all at once. I should have been angry, should have walked out—but instead, I whispered, “And yet I feel like a stranger.”
His eyes darkened, and for a heartbeat, the mask slipped. The icy billionaire looked at me not as a strategist guarding his empire, but as a man torn between reason and something far more dangerous.