Stark Juvenile, a successful entrepreneur, has never been accepted by his half-siblings due to his birth from their father's mistress. After losing his parents and all his assets, he becomes a self-made millionaire with the help of his high school friends. He dreams of owning a miniature city but needs to acquire Johnson's ranch owned by Isabella Johnson. Despite her initial resistance, Stark charms Isabella and falls in love with her. He loans his friends millions and buys back the juvenile homestead for his stepmother and half-sisters. Jennifer seeks revenge against Stark and tries to take over his empire but is unaware of a clue buried that allows him to buy out shares at a low price. A confrontation ensues over Isabella, causing her to leave pregnant and Jennifer demanding they vacate the property. Isabella is abducted by childhood friends of Stark's who demand transfer of wealth. They are caught and sentenced to life imprisonment, allowing Stark and Isabella to reunite happily ever after.
Isabella? Oh God. Talk to me, Isabella."
Stark dropped to her side and carefully lifted the side board that had tipped onto her when she'd clipped it failing down the steps.
She didn't move.
Yanking out his cell phone, he placed an emergency call. The connection phased in and out because of the storm, making it difficult got him to relay the necessary information. It soon became clear that it would be impossible to send in a Life Flight helicopter given the current whether condition.
During the endless minutes that followed, she didn't stir.
More frightened than he could ever remember being, he checked for a pulse. When he found it, he could have bawled like a baby.
He spared his half sister, Jennifer, a deadly glare. "Get out," he ordered.
He didn't bother watching to see if she had obeyed, instead returning to the call. Demanding. Pleading. Swearing.
The next half hour, as he waited for EMT to arrive, proved the longest of his life, driving him to very brink of despair. If Claire hadn't been there, her steady, reassuring voice a comforting balm, he'd have totally lost it.
He crouched above Isabella, more helpless than he'd ever been before in his life. The great Jack Stark couldn't buy or bargain or bribe his ways out of this disaster. There was only one thing he could do, something he didn't remember ever having tried before.
He prayed.
Once the emergency personnel arrived, they stabilized Isabella before whisking her out to the ambulance. He lost count of the number of times he told them she was pregnant. Or how many times he told that they were supposed to marry in less than seventy-two hours.
He offered everything he could think of in exchange for their help in saving her. None of it did any good. The event if that night leaked through his fingers on a course all their own, beyond his ability to direct or control.
It wasn't until the paramedics had loaded Isabella into the ambulance that he faced a truth he'd been dodging for weeks. He loved her. He loved her more than life itself. How could he have not recognized it sooner?
Maybe because he'd never experienced such depth of emotion before, not that it mattered now.
During the endless ride to the hospital, he made up for that lapses. He didn't know whether she heard. He could only hope that somehow, someway, his words skipped through to that realm of oblivion where she hid from him.
He'd been blind not to have recognized his feelings sooner, to have believed that what he felt for her could be anything less than love. The first chance he got, he'd correct that oversight. He just needed one more chance.
That was all. Just one.
Chapter 1 PROLOGUE
03/02/2024
Chapter 2 TRAFFIC
03/02/2024
Chapter 3 THE BILLIONAIRE'S OFFICE
03/02/2024
Chapter 4 MY HALF-SISTER
03/02/2024
Chapter 5 LOCK DOWN THE ELEVATOR
03/02/2024
Chapter 6 I WANT MORE
03/02/2024
Chapter 7 THE BILLIONAIRE'S WEAKNESS
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Chapter 8 DINNER WITH THE BILLIONAIRE
03/02/2024
Chapter 9 I DON'T THINK YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR
03/02/2024
Chapter 10 I WON'T
03/02/2024
Chapter 11 MY ORIGIN
01/03/2024
Chapter 12 THE FIRST KISS
01/03/2024
Chapter 13 HE MADE A REQUEST
01/03/2024
Chapter 14 VACATION WITH THE BILLIONAIRE
01/03/2024
Chapter 15 Capri
01/03/2024
Chapter 16 PRIVATE BEACH
01/03/2024
Chapter 17 THE PAST
02/03/2024
Chapter 18 SON OF A MISTRESS
02/03/2024
Chapter 19 Ambrosia
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Chapter 20 MYSTERIOUS QUIRK NATURE
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Chapter 21 SEXUAL HAZE
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Chapter 22 A NIGHT STAND
04/03/2024
Chapter 23 THE SHUDDER
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Chapter 24 GOING DOWN
04/03/2024
Chapter 25 A TRUMP CARD
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Chapter 26 SLIGHT TEAR IN THE EQUIPMENT
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Chapter 27 UNANIMOUS VOTE
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Chapter 28 PARTNERSHIP DEAL IN THE MUD
04/03/2024
Chapter 29 ANOTHER NIGHT
05/03/2024
Chapter 30 OUTCOME OF A NIGHT WITH THE BILLIONAIRE
05/03/2024
Chapter 31 BILLIONAIRE'S MISTRESS
07/03/2024
Chapter 32 TAPESTRY OF EMOTIONS
07/03/2024
Chapter 33 TESTED POSITIVE
09/03/2024
Chapter 34 HOMESTEAD IN FLAMES
09/03/2024
Chapter 35 PRIORITIES
09/03/2024
Chapter 36 ONCE YOU'RE IN, NO GOING OUT
12/03/2024
Chapter 37 I THOUGHT I LOST IT ALL
12/03/2024
Chapter 38 I'M A KEPT WOMAN
12/03/2024
Chapter 39 CHARITY GALA
13/03/2024
Chapter 40 I WANT TO MARRY YOU
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