The Billion Dollar Contract
By tomorrow morning, everyone would know.
My coworkers at the design firm. My friends from college. Chloe. They’d all wake up to the headlines: Billionaire Adrian Blackwood’s Mystery Wife.
My stomach gave a loud, angry growl. I hadn’t eaten since breakfast—before the stylist appointment, before the confrontation, before the move. In the chaos of selling my life away, I’d forgotten that food existed.
I padded out of my room, my bare feet silent on the cold tile. The penthouse was dark, save for the ambient glow of the city lights filtering in through the massive windows.