In His World
5.0
Comment(s)
17
View
33
Chapters

One drunken night and one desperate deal. Elena signed a contract to marry a stranger who promised to clear her debts. Adrian Blackwell needed a wife and Elena needed money. But Elena looks exactly like his first wife who jumped from his balcony. Now she's pregnant with twins, trapped in the place where a woman died, discovering Adrian's family has secrets that kill. Love wasn't in the contract but survival might not be either.

In His World Chapter 1 The Marriage Deal

Adrian POV

I walked into Marcus's bar at midnight because it was the only place in London where I could think without someone asking me questions I didn't want to answer, and Marcus looked up from wiping down the counter when I came through the door.

"You look like someone died," he said.

"Worse." I slid onto a stool. "My brother got engaged."

Marcus stopped wiping. "James? Your brother James who said commitment was for people who'd given up on life?"

"Apparently he found someone desperate enough to say yes." I signaled for a drink. "My father announced a new rule at dinner tonight, whichever son gets married first becomes CEO."

"That's insane even for Richard Blackwell." Marcus poured me whiskey. "How long do you have?"

"Seventy-two hours starting from when James announced his engagement three hours ago." I downed the drink. "So about sixty-nine hours now."

"And you need a wife in sixty-nine hours."

"I need a wife period, the timeline just makes it more interesting." I pushed the glass toward him. "Another."

Marcus refilled it. "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know yet, that's why I'm here drinking instead of home panicking." I looked at the nearly empty bar. "Any suggestions?"

"Find someone who's as desperate as you are." Marcus sat down across from me. "Offer them something they can't refuse."

"Like what?"

"Money, security, a way out of whatever hole they're in." Marcus shrugged. "Rich men have been buying wives for centuries, you'd just be continuing a proud tradition."

I was about to respond when the door opened and cold air rushed in along with a woman who stumbled through like she'd forgotten how to walk properly.

She caught herself on a table and stood there swaying, and even from across the room I could see she'd been crying for hours because her face was blotchy and her mascara was smeared down her cheeks.

"Should you help her?" I asked Marcus.

"Probably." But he didn't move and neither did I, and we both watched her make her way to the bar like she was walking through water.

She collapsed onto a stool three down from mine and put her head on the counter. "Vodka, I need vodka, the whole bottle if you have it."

Marcus walked over. "I think you've had enough already."

"I haven't had nearly enough." She lifted her head and I could see her eyes were red and swollen. "My parents died two weeks ago in a car accident and today I found out all their debts are mine now."

"How much debt?" Marcus asked gently.

"Forty thousand pounds and the bank wants it in thirty days or they're taking my house." She laughed but it came out broken. "The house where I grew up, where my mother taught me to cook and my father read me stories before bed, they're taking all of it."

Something clicked in my brain, something cold and calculating that told me this was the opportunity I'd been looking for even though I knew I shouldn't take it.

I got up and moved to the stool next to hers. "Forty thousand pounds?"

She turned to look at me and her eyes tried to focus. "Are you offering to lend me money? Because I can't pay you back."

"I'm not lending anything." I signaled Marcus for another drink. "I'm offering to pay off your debt completely."

"Why would you do that?" She squinted at me. "I don't even know you."

"My name is Adrian Blackwell and I need something from you." I waited while Marcus poured her vodka. "You need money and I need a wife."

She stared at me and then started laughing, the kind of hysterical laughter that people do when they've gone past crying into something else. "You're joking, this has to be a joke."

"I'm completely serious." I pulled out the contract my lawyer had drawn up three days ago just in case. "Marry me tonight, stay married for eighteen months, and I'll clear your debt plus give you five thousand pounds a month."

"You're insane." But she was looking at the contract now. "Why would you need to pay someone to marry you?"

"Because I need a wife by Friday and you're here and desperate enough to say yes." I pushed the contract closer. "Read it."

She picked it up and tried to focus on the words but her eyes kept sliding off the page. "I can't read this, everything's blurry."

"Then I'll tell you the terms: eighteen months of marriage, you live with me and attend events with me and play the role of my wife in public, and when the eighteen months are up we divorce and you walk away with enough money to start over."

"And you'll pay my debt?"

"Tonight, as soon as you sign." I pulled out a pen. "Forty thousand pounds transferred to your account immediately."

She looked at the contract and then at me and then at Marcus who was watching us both like he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "This is real?"

"Completely real." I held out the pen. "Sign and save your house or don't sign and lose everything."

She took the pen and her hand was shaking so badly she could barely hold it. "Where do I sign?"

I showed her and she signed without reading anything, just scrawled her name across the bottom line and pushed the contract back toward me.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Elena." She reached for her vodka. "Elena Hart."

I pulled out my phone and transferred forty thousand pounds to the account number she'd written on a napkin, and her phone buzzed a second later.

She looked at the screen and started crying again. "It's real, you actually did it."

"I said I would." I folded the contract. "Now we need to make it legal."

"What?" She looked up. "We already signed."

"That's the contract, now we need the marriage ceremony." I looked at Marcus. "You're ordained aren't you?"

"I got ordained online five years ago to marry my sister." Marcus shook his head. "But I'm not marrying you two, this is insane."

"But you can legally perform a marriage?"

"Technically yes but-"

"Then do it." I looked at Elena who was drinking more vodka. "Unless you want to back out?"

"No." She downed another glass. "Let's get married, why not, I've already destroyed my life today anyway."

Marcus sighed and went to his office and came back with a laptop and a marriage certificate, and the old man who'd been sitting at the end of the bar turned around.

"I'll be your witness," he said. "This is better than television."

"Perfect." I stood up and pulled Elena to her feet and she swayed against me. "Can you stand?"

"Maybe." She was holding onto my arm. "Everything's spinning."

Marcus positioned us in front of the bar and started reading from his laptop about love and commitment and forever, and Elena's eyes kept closing like she was falling asleep standing up.

"Do you Adrian Blackwell take Elena Hart to be your lawfully wedded wife?" Marcus asked.

I looked at Elena who was barely conscious. "I do."

"And do you Elena Hart take Adrian Blackwell to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

Elena's eyes opened slightly. "What?"

"Do you take Adrian as your husband?" Marcus repeated.

"Sure." Her words were slurred. "Why not."

"I need you to say I do," Marcus said.

"I do." She was swaying worse now. "Can I sit down?"

"By the power vested in me I now pronounce you husband and wife." Marcus closed his laptop. "This is the worst thing I've ever been part of."

Elena's eyes rolled back and she collapsed and I caught her before she hit the floor, and she was completely unconscious in my arms.

I pulled out the ring I'd been carrying in my pocket for three days and looked at her left hand, and I slid the ring onto her finger while she was passed out and couldn't object.

"Did you just put a ring on your unconscious wife?" Marcus asked.

"She's my wife now." I looked down at Elena. "She should have a ring."

Continue Reading

You'll also like

Secret Triplets: The Billionaire's Second Chance

Secret Triplets: The Billionaire's Second Chance

Roderic Penn
4.5

I stood at my mother’s open grave in the freezing rain, my heels sinking into the mud. The space beside me was empty. My husband, Hilliard Holloway, had promised to cherish me in bad times, but apparently, burying my mother didn't fit into his busy schedule. While the priest’s voice droned on, a news alert lit up my phone. It was a livestream of the Metropolitan Charity Gala. There was Hilliard, looking impeccable in a custom tuxedo, with his ex-girlfriend Charla English draped over his arm. The headline read: "Holloway & English: A Power Couple Reunited?" When he finally returned to our penthouse at 2 AM, he didn't come alone—he brought Charla with him. He claimed she’d had a "medical emergency" at the gala and couldn't be left alone. I found a Tiffany diamond necklace on our coffee table meant for her birthday, and a smudge of her signature red lipstick on his collar. When I confronted him, he simply told me to stop being "hysterical" and "acting like a child." He had no idea I was seven months pregnant with his child. He thought so little of my grief that he didn't even bother to craft a convincing lie, laughing with his mistress in our home while I sat in the dark with a shattered heart and a secret life growing inside me. "He doesn't deserve us," I whispered to the darkness. I didn't scream or beg. I simply left a folder on his desk containing signed divorce papers and a forged medical report for a terminated pregnancy. I disappeared into the night, letting him believe he had successfully killed his own legacy through his neglect. Five years later, Hilliard walked into "The Vault," the city's most exclusive underground auction, looking for a broker to manage his estate. He didn't recognize me behind my Venetian mask, but he couldn't ignore the neon pink graffiti on his armored Maybach that read "DEADBEAT." He had no clue that the three brilliant triplets currently hacking his security system were the very children he thought had been erased years ago. This time, I wasn't just a wife in the way; I was the one holding all the cards.

The Billionaire's Secret Triplets: Mom's Revenge

The Billionaire's Secret Triplets: Mom's Revenge

HONEY MULLINS
5.0

Six years ago, I was a naive girl sold by my father to the powerful Sanders estate, only to be tossed onto the streets after a brutal assault they labeled "marital infidelity." I fled the country pregnant and broken, hiding from the shadow of a husband I had never even met. Now, I’ve returned to New York with my triplets to sign the final divorce papers and disappear forever. But Archibald Sanders—the man I was told was a crippled recluse—intercepted us with the cold precision of a predator. He didn't see the woman his family destroyed; he saw a gold-digger who had shamed his name. His security team hunted us to a grimy motel, using tactical force to snatch my children away and drag me to his glass-walled empire. In his office, he loomed over me, demanding a DNA test and threatening to throw me in prison while my babies were lost to the foster system. He was convinced I’d cheated, yet he stared at my sons with a haunting confusion, unable to ignore the stormy blue eyes that were a perfect mirror of his own. I stood there, paralyzed by his scent—the sharp tang of rain and expensive leather that triggered the icy dread of my worst nightmares. How could he accuse me of betrayal when he felt exactly like the monster who had shattered my life in that dark hotel room? "I'll sign anything," I sobbed, "just give me my kids." But the game changed when my five-year-old son hacked the tower’s security, holding the skyscraper hostage to save me. In the chaos, a fragile, silent boy—Archibald’s secret son—wandered into the room and reached for me as if I were his missing soul. Archibald’s face turned to stone as he tore up the agreement and locked the doors. "Until I find out why my son is looking at you like that," he growled, "you aren't going anywhere."

HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance)

HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance)

Viviene
4.9

Trigger/Content Warning: This story contains mature themes and explicit content intended for adult audiences(18+). Reader discretion is advised. It includes elements such as BDSM dynamics, explicit sexual content, toxic family relationships, occasional violence and strong language. This is not a fluffy romance. It is intense, raw and messy, and explores the darker side of desire. ***** "Take off your dress, Meadow." "Why?" "Because your ex is watching," he said, leaning back into his seat. "And I want him to see what he lost." ••••*••••*••••* Meadow Russell was supposed to get married to the love of her life in Vegas. Instead, she walked in on her twin sister riding her fiance. One drink at the bar turned to ten. One drunken mistake turned into reality. And one stranger's offer turned into a contract that she signed with shaking hands and a diamond ring. Alaric Ashford is the devil in a tailored Tom Ford suit. Billionaire CEO, brutal, possessive. A man born into an empire of blood and steel. He also suffers from a neurological condition-he can't feel. Not objects, not pain, not even human touch. Until Meadow touches him, and he feels everything. And now he owns her. On paper and in his bed. She wants him to ruin her. Take what no one else could have. He wants control, obedience... revenge. But what starts as a transaction slowly turns into something Meadow never saw coming. Obsession, secrets that were never meant to surface, and a pain from the past that threatens to break everything. Alaric doesn't share what's his. Not his company. Not his wife. And definitely not his vengeance.

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book
In His World In His World Blyss Nyx Adventure
“One drunken night and one desperate deal. Elena signed a contract to marry a stranger who promised to clear her debts. Adrian Blackwell needed a wife and Elena needed money. But Elena looks exactly like his first wife who jumped from his balcony. Now she's pregnant with twins, trapped in the place where a woman died, discovering Adrian's family has secrets that kill. Love wasn't in the contract but survival might not be either.”
1

Chapter 1 The Marriage Deal

28/01/2026

2

Chapter 2 The Price Of Saying Yes

28/01/2026

3

Chapter 3 A Face From The Past

28/01/2026

4

Chapter 4 The Balcony Where She Died

28/01/2026

5

Chapter 5 The Locked Room

28/01/2026

6

Chapter 6 The Voice She Left Behind

28/01/2026

7

Chapter 7 If This Doesn't Make Him Love Me

28/01/2026

8

Chapter 8 Except She Was Pregnant

28/01/2026

9

Chapter 9 A Room Without a Life

28/01/2026

10

Chapter 10 The Cost of Distance

28/01/2026

11

Chapter 11 Between Heat and Fear

28/01/2026

12

Chapter 12 Deathbed confession

11/02/2026

13

Chapter 13 Between Blood and Love

11/02/2026

14

Chapter 14 The Baby Isn't His

13/02/2026

15

Chapter 15 He Might Be My Brother

13/02/2026

16

Chapter 16 The Dead Man's Secret Heirs

13/02/2026

17

Chapter 17 Daughters of His Obsession

13/02/2026

18

Chapter 18 The Women He Collected

13/02/2026

19

Chapter 19 She Didn't Jump

13/02/2026

20

Chapter 20 Daughters of His Obsession

15/02/2026

21

Chapter 21 Just for Tonight

19/02/2026

22

Chapter 22 Before He Died

19/02/2026

23

Chapter 23 Named After the Dead

24/02/2026

24

Chapter 24 You Stole Everything

24/02/2026

25

Chapter 25 Competing with a Ghost

02/03/2026

26

Chapter 26 The Truth in Gunfire

02/03/2026

27

Chapter 27 Stay With Me, Adrian

05/03/2026

28

Chapter 28 The Space Between Life and Death

05/03/2026

29

Chapter 29 The Words I Never Said

05/03/2026

30

Chapter 30 Between Hope and Reality

05/03/2026

31

Chapter 31 If You Can Hear Me

05/03/2026

32

Chapter 32 Something Isn't Right

05/03/2026

33

Chapter 33 Two Heartbeats

05/03/2026