Billionaire Contract Marriage: Her Quest
**They wanted to choose my husband. So I bought one instead.**
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"You'll be meeting your soon-to-be husband at the next family dinner."
Aunt Melissa's words hit like poison. I choked, shock stealing my breath. Family dinners at my grandparents' estate were already hell—arguments shattering crystal, curses wrapped in concern, smiles hiding knives. But this? This crossed every line.
Who the hell did they think they were, choosing my husband like I was some pawn in their twisted game?
*That's never happening.*
I built Phias Empire from the wreckage of my inheritance, clawed my way up from the car crash that killed my parents twenty years ago. I survived being trapped underwater, survived my family's hatred, survived my cousin Sophie's lifetime of cruelty—always my shadow, desperate to eclipse me.
I didn't survive all that to let them control who I marry.
Then I saw him.
David Kane. Six-foot-three of devastating perfection, commanding my manufacturing floor like he was born for it. Dark hair, ice-blue eyes, a body that made me forget how to breathe. A contractor. The branch manager's son.
Nobody important.
*Perfect.*
My family wanted to force a husband on me? Fine. I'd bring them one—on my terms. A contract so airtight no one could question it.
And God, I wanted him.
I couldn't wait to see Sophie's face. Couldn't wait to watch their plans crumble.
They forgot who I am.
I'm Sophia Ashford. I don't play by their rules.
And I'm about to make the most dangerous deal of my life.