MY HUSBAND'S BILLIONAIRE RIVAL
But when she'd raised it hesitantly over breakfast three days into their arrangement, he'd only glanced up from his tablet, mildly puzzled by the question.
"Why would I ask you to close it?"
"Because it doesn't exactly fit the image," she'd said. "Billionaire's wife, flour under her nails, minimum-wage staff."
"The image," he'd said, in that flat, precise voice of his, "is whatever I decide it is. Keep the bakery, Elena. I didn't marry a woman I intended to cage."
It was, she suspected, the closest thing to kindness he knew how to offer — and it had unsettled her more than she wanted to admit, how easily he'd granted her something she'd braced herself to fight for.