The Amnesiac Billionaire's Fake Perfect Wife

The Amnesiac Billionaire's Fake Perfect Wife

Our Time

5.0
Comment(s)
View
20
Chapters

For three years, Jessenia lived as the perfect, grieving fiancée of her missing billionaire boss, Harlan Schwartz, enjoying his massive trust fund and raising their son. Then, the hospital called. Harlan had been found alive. Jessenia was paralyzed with terror. Before his plane crashed, Harlan despised her. She was just a scheming assistant who got pregnant. He had thrown a massive check and an NDA at her, ordering her to disappear forever or he would destroy her life. But the doctors revealed Harlan had severe amnesia. He forgot the NDA, and he forgot his deep hatred for her. Jessenia seized the chance, using their son to convince him they were deeply in love. Harlan accepted the logical lie, but his body didn't. Every time she tried to touch him, his muscles turned to stone, physically recoiling from her in instinctual disgust. To make matters worse, Harlan brought back Kaylee, the innocent-looking island girl who saved him. "Cole never said he had a fiancée," Kaylee whispered, staring at Jessenia's massive diamond ring with calculating eyes. Kaylee quickly realized Jessenia had no legal marriage certificate and launched a vicious, silent war to usurp her position, constantly setting traps to expose Jessenia's fabricated romantic timeline. Every day is a terrifying tightrope walk. Harlan's sharp, analytical brain is already noticing the flaws in her fake photos and stories. If he remembers the truth, he won't just kick her out. He will take her son and throw her in prison for fraud. Jessenia must break his physical defenses and eliminate the island girl before her flawless circle of lies shatters completely.

The Amnesiac Billionaire's Fake Perfect Wife Chapter 1 1

The nine-figure number on the encrypted tablet glowed in the dim light of the master bedroom.

Jessenia sat on the edge of the velvet armchair. The fabric was soft against her bare legs. She scrolled through the monthly statement of the Schwartz family trust fund. The numbers were staggering. They were enough to buy small countries. They were enough to erase a lifetime of poverty.

She picked up the bone china cup from the marble table. The black coffee was still hot. She took a slow sip. The bitter liquid burned the back of her throat, but it felt like victory. This penthouse was hers. The security was hers. The class leap was complete.

The private cell phone resting on the marble table suddenly vibrated.

The harsh buzzing sound shattered the quiet of the room. Jessenia flinched. She set the coffee cup down and picked up the phone. The screen displayed a name: Eleanor Vance. Harlan's mother.

Jessenia cleared her throat. She sat up straighter, adjusting her posture even though she was completely alone in the room. She forced her facial muscles to soften into the gentle, obedient mask she wore every day.

"Hello, Eleanor," Jessenia said. Her voice was sweet and perfectly measured.

"Jessie," Eleanor gasped. Her voice was shaking violently. "Jessie, he's alive. Harlan is alive."

Jessenia's pupils dilated. Her lungs stopped working. The air in the room vanished in a single second.

Her fingers lost all their strength. The phone slipped. Her arm hit the edge of the marble table. The bone china cup tipped over and crashed onto the floor. It shattered into dozens of sharp white pieces. The hot black coffee splashed across the expensive Persian rug, a dark stain spreading rapidly through the fibers.

The heavy oak door of the bedroom pushed open. Brenda, the assistant housekeeper, stepped inside.

"Ms. Strickland? I heard a crash. Do you need me to clean-"

Jessenia's head snapped around. Her eyes were wide, but her voice was dangerously quiet. "Leave us," she said, with an icy finality that made Brenda feel a chill and quickly exit the room.

Brenda slammed the door shut.

Jessenia slid off the velvet chair. Her knees hit the floor. The sharp edge of a broken china piece sliced into her knee, but she didn't feel the pain. Her mind was already three years in the past.

She remembered the cold marble floor of Harlan's office. She remembered the crisp white paper of the Non-Disclosure Agreement hitting her chest. She remembered his dark, merciless eyes.

"Get rid of the problem, Jessenia," Harlan had said. His voice was devoid of any human warmth. He tossed a pen onto the desk, right next to a check with seven zeros on it. "Sign the NDA. Take the money. Or my legal team will make sure you cease to exist in this city. You will never work again. You will never breathe without my permission."

He didn't love her. He despised her. She was just an administrative assistant who had manipulated a situation to get into his bed.

Jessenia wrapped her arms around her shoulders. Her stomach twisted into a violent knot. She was going to lose everything. If Harlan walked through those doors, he wouldn't just kick her out. He would take her son, Leo. He would throw her in prison for fraud.

She scrambled to her feet. She stumbled into the massive walk-in closet.

She dragged a silver Rimowa suitcase from the top shelf. It hit the floor with a heavy thud. She ripped open the zipper. She didn't bother folding anything. She grabbed handfuls of cashmere sweaters and threw them inside. She needed her passport. She needed Leo's birth certificate. She had to leave the country tonight.

Her phone buzzed again.

Jessenia froze. She walked back into the bedroom and picked up the phone from the carpet. It was a text message from Eleanor. It contained a location pin for a private hospital on the Upper East Side.

Below the pin was a second message.

He is hurt very badly. The doctors say he doesn't remember anything.

Jessenia stared at the word remember.

Her thumb hovered over the screen. The frantic beating of her heart began to slow down. The paralyzing terror in her veins suddenly morphed into something else. It twisted into a dark, reckless ambition. A gambler's high.

If he didn't remember the NDA. If he didn't remember his hatred for her.

Jessenia dropped the clothes. She kicked the suitcase back into the closet. She walked into the master bathroom and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror. She looked at her face. Her skin was pale. Her eyes were wide and manic.

She turned on the faucet. She splashed freezing water onto her face. The shock of the cold grounded her. She forced her hands to stop shaking.

She reached for her makeup bag. She applied a thin layer of concealer. She left the redness around her eyes untouched. She applied a pale lip tint. She looked exactly like a woman who had spent the last three years crying over her dead lover.

Jessenia walked back into the closet. She put on a simple, perfectly tailored cashmere coat. It made her look fragile but elegant.

She grabbed her purse and ran out of the bedroom. She ordered the driver to bring the car around immediately.

The black Maybach sped through the streets of Manhattan. A sudden rainstorm battered the windows. The sound of the rain was deafening, but inside Jessenia's head, it was completely silent. Her brain was working at lightning speed, building a flawless circle of lies.

The car pulled up to the private hospital. Jessenia ran through the sliding doors.

She took the elevator to the VIP floor. The doors opened. She saw Eleanor and Mitchell Schwartz standing outside a hospital room. Eleanor was pressing a tissue to her face.

Jessenia forced her tear ducts to open. The saltwater stung her eyes. She ran down the hallway.

"Eleanor!" Jessenia cried out.

She threw her arms around the older woman. She buried her face in Eleanor's shoulder, playing the role of the perfect, devastated fiancée.

The attending doctor walked out of the room. He held a clipboard.

"Mr. Schwartz is stable," the doctor said. "But he is suffering from severe retrograde amnesia due to head trauma. The memory gap seems to be a few years, but the exact timeframe needs more detailed cognitive assessment."

A few years.

Jessenia's heart soared. The heavy weight in her chest vanished. A gap of a few years covered exactly what she needed. It gave her the perfect gray area. It covered her hiring as an assistant. It covered the one-night stand. It covered the NDA.

She hid her face against Eleanor's shoulder. The corners of her mouth twitched upward into a cold, sharp smile.

Jessenia pulled away. She wiped her eyes. She took a deep breath. She walked toward the heavy oak door of the hospital room. She pushed the handle down.

The door opened.

Jessenia stepped inside. She looked at the hospital bed. Harlan Schwartz was sitting up. His face was pale, and a white bandage was wrapped around his head. But his dark eyes were exactly the same.

Their eyes locked.

Continue Reading

Other books by Our Time

More
The Scars We Carry

The Scars We Carry

Modern

5.0

The heavy iron gate of the juvenile detention center groaned open, a sound I had dreamed of for five long years. I stepped out, a small, warm hand in mine-Leo' s. He was my only good thing from that hellhole, a promise to his dying mother. But freedom felt just as suffocating as my cell, because the world outside held nothing but the bitter truth. The Blackwood family, powerful and relentless, had already claimed everything I loved. They had driven my parents to suicide with their lies and pressure, all while I was locked away, helpless, branded "Chloe the Monster." The media fed their narrative, and even my own brother, Daniel, pointed an accusatory finger in court, sealing my fate. Then, a familiar fleet of black luxury cars screeched to a halt, boxing us in. Ethan Blackwood, my former fiancé, stepped out, his handsome face contorted with hatred. He wanted me to suffer, to pay for Sophia, his mother, who now sat in a wheelchair. They forced me to crawl across burning coals, my hands and knees searing, just to protect Leo. But it wasn't enough. They dragged me to my parents' fresh graves, informing me they had "couldn't handle the shame." Then, they tied me to a frame, and Daniel, my own brother, systematically ran me over with a car. My world went black. I woke in a hospital, broken, only to be reunited with Leo, who was terrified, apologizing for something he didn' t understand. The day they took him to a foster home was the hardest of my life, leaving me with a shattered body and no hope. I earned pennies cleaning toilets, clinging to the jar that symbolized my only goal: getting Leo back. Then came the ultimate cruelty: a message from Ethan with a picture of Leo playing by a pool, followed by: "He looked so happy. It's a shame he was so clumsy. This is what happens when you defy me, Chloe. Everything you love will turn to ash." My innocent boy was dead. The grief wasn't despair; it was a blinding, white-hot rage that consumed everything. I found them, Ethan, Daniel, and Sophia at the hospital, and with a primal howl, I confronted them. As their faces twisted in shock and contempt, a horrifying clarity hit me: there was no escape. I shoved Daniel toward Ethan, then, without a second thought, I threw myself through the twelfth-story window. But instead of endless dark, I woke up back in the courtroom, five years earlier, on trial for attempted murder. Daniel was on the stand, about to lie, about to seal my fate. This time, things would be different.

Buried Alive With My Fake Husband

Buried Alive With My Fake Husband

Romance

5.0

I woke up in total darkness, the air smelling of stale chemicals and dying flowers. When I tried to sit up, my forehead slammed into solid wood just three inches from my face. I was trapped in a coffin, buried alive next to the cold, stiff body of my fake husband, Cedric. My stepmother, Hermina, had poisoned our champagne at the gala to seize my trust fund, and now she was hosting a lavish memorial service for us right outside the lid. I found a faint, erratic pulse in Cedric's neck, but I couldn't just scream for help. If Hermina realized the dose wasn't lethal, she'd finish the job with a lethal injection under the guise of medical assistance. To survive, I bit my tongue until I tasted blood and tore my hair into a tangled mess. When I finally kicked the lid open and spilled onto the marble floor, I didn't act like a rescued heiress; I crawled like a broken doll, shrieking about poisoned bubbles and "the bad man" while Manhattan's elite watched in absolute horror. The betrayal was suffocating. My own family watched as Hermina tried to sedate me back into silence, playing the role of a grieving saint while her eyes remained cold as ice. Even more shocking was Cedric, who rose from the casket like a predator, commanding the room with a terrifying authority that proved our entire marriage had been a lie. I couldn't understand how many secrets were buried in that house, or why my "boring" husband was suddenly acting like a man who owned the city. After kneeing Cedric in the stomach to break his iron grip, I bolted out into the torrential rain. I didn't care that I was barefoot or that the world thought I was insane. I had the key to my father's secret safe in my hand, and I was going to make sure Hermina paid for every second of darkness she forced me to endure.

The Mute Wife's Silent Revenge

The Mute Wife's Silent Revenge

Modern

5.0

I haven't spoken a word in three years. As a professional art restorer, I spent my days fixing seventeenth-century Dutch oils and playing the role of the perfect, silent wife to billionaire Arno Rutledge. I thought our marriage was a cold but stable arrangement, a gilded cage I had accepted to keep my father’s medical bills paid. That illusion shattered when I found a VIP hospital pass in Arno's suit pocket. Following the trail, I discovered my husband was keeping a woman named Serena on life support in a restricted wing. He wasn't just paying for her care; he was micromanaging her vitals from a tablet like a volatile stock portfolio, obsessed with controlling her every breath while lying to me about late-night board meetings. When I confronted him at the hospital, the mask of the refined businessman slipped. He didn't offer an apology; he offered a violent shove. I crashed into a glass display case, the shards slicing deep into my dominant hand—the hand I used to restore history. As blood pulsed onto the white tiles, Arno didn't even look back. He was too busy cradling the other woman’s hand, leaving me to stitch my own mangled flesh together with industrial glue in a public restroom. Back at the penthouse, the nightmare only escalated. When I tried to pack my bags, Arno froze my bank accounts and reminded me that he controlled the ventilator keeping my father alive. He dragged me into my studio, snapped my custom sable brushes in front of my face, and forced himself on me atop my own workbench. "You’re an asset, Edlyn," he whispered against my skin. "And right now, you’re underperforming." He told me that since my hands were now "broken equipment," I had to find other ways to compensate for my lack of value. He thought he had successfully liquidated my soul, leaving me a hollow shell trapped in his high-rise fortress. But Arno made one fatal mistake. He thinks because I am mute, I am also blind. He thinks because he broke my hand, I have lost my touch. He doesn't realize that a restorer’s greatest skill isn't her hands—it's her ability to see the hidden rot beneath the surface. He wants to treat me like a line item on a balance sheet? Fine. I’m about to show him exactly what happens when an asset decides to set the entire portfolio on fire.

You'll also like

The Scars She Hid From The World

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener's shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose-the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book
The Amnesiac Billionaire's Fake Perfect Wife The Amnesiac Billionaire's Fake Perfect Wife Our Time Billionaires
“For three years, Jessenia lived as the perfect, grieving fiancée of her missing billionaire boss, Harlan Schwartz, enjoying his massive trust fund and raising their son. Then, the hospital called. Harlan had been found alive. Jessenia was paralyzed with terror. Before his plane crashed, Harlan despised her. She was just a scheming assistant who got pregnant. He had thrown a massive check and an NDA at her, ordering her to disappear forever or he would destroy her life. But the doctors revealed Harlan had severe amnesia. He forgot the NDA, and he forgot his deep hatred for her. Jessenia seized the chance, using their son to convince him they were deeply in love. Harlan accepted the logical lie, but his body didn't. Every time she tried to touch him, his muscles turned to stone, physically recoiling from her in instinctual disgust. To make matters worse, Harlan brought back Kaylee, the innocent-looking island girl who saved him. "Cole never said he had a fiancée," Kaylee whispered, staring at Jessenia's massive diamond ring with calculating eyes. Kaylee quickly realized Jessenia had no legal marriage certificate and launched a vicious, silent war to usurp her position, constantly setting traps to expose Jessenia's fabricated romantic timeline. Every day is a terrifying tightrope walk. Harlan's sharp, analytical brain is already noticing the flaws in her fake photos and stories. If he remembers the truth, he won't just kick her out. He will take her son and throw her in prison for fraud. Jessenia must break his physical defenses and eliminate the island girl before her flawless circle of lies shatters completely.”
1

Chapter 1 1

Today at 14:08

2

Chapter 2 2

Today at 14:08

3

Chapter 3 3

Today at 14:08

4

Chapter 4 4

Today at 14:08

5

Chapter 5 5

Today at 14:08

6

Chapter 6 6

Today at 14:08

7

Chapter 7 7

Today at 14:08

8

Chapter 8 8

Today at 14:08

9

Chapter 9 9

Today at 14:08

10

Chapter 10 10

Today at 14:08

11

Chapter 11 11

Today at 18:11

12

Chapter 12 12

Today at 18:11

13

Chapter 13 13

Today at 18:11

14

Chapter 14 14

Today at 18:11

15

Chapter 15 15

Today at 18:11

16

Chapter 16 16

Today at 18:11

17

Chapter 17 17

Today at 18:11

18

Chapter 18 18

Today at 18:11

19

Chapter 19 19

Today at 18:11

20

Chapter 20 20

Today at 18:11