Bound By Contract: My Disabled Husband

Author: Evelyn Reed

Chapter 1

Word Count: 839 | Released on: Today at 16:50

into the fabric of her dress

a whip cracking in the sterile air of the hospital corridor. "Your sister Stella has a

nd never let anyone forget it, looked at Eleanor as

w. "Why should I? It's the Carlisle family. All of New York knows Julian

e also a Hayes daughter, and right now, the family

eanor's father, Richard Hayes, stepped out, his face etched wi

ire, Hayes Industries, and he carried t

ctor said Stella can't have any more em

fatherly warmth in it, only a cold command. "The matter is settl

dropping into an icy abyss. She f

rate plea. "Dad, you can'

rtis's name, a delicate c

e. Her face was pale, but her eyes, when they met Eleanor's, were fil

as she tucked her arm into Richard's. "Jett loves me

room. His handsome face was a mask of awkwardness, but his bod

of a new-money family,

bled, avoiding her wounded gaz

Her family, her fiancé-the entir

ey. She pointed a slender finger at Eleanor's neck, her voice

, purplish mark bloomed on her skin, just below her e

at flooding her cheeks. The humiliation was a

hose face was a blur in the darkness of a hotel roo

Jett have broken up, you shouldn't be so careless with yourself. If the

ntly, shifting from coldness to pu

more vicious. "You shameless thing! Now you have no ch

ses and patients felt like

dge with nowhere to go. She looked at the faces o

hing him a smug smile. A clear de

shooing away a fly. "That's enough. Sto

ether with Brenda and Jett, they esco

left alone i

nforgiving glow. She leaned against the cold wal

ainst them. A choked sob escaped her lips

d now she had to carry this

rkness, a single thought t

ho that man was last night. And she would

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Bound By Contract: My Disabled Husband

Evelyn Reed Romance

“Eleanor's family business was on the brink of collapse, and they desperately needed the Carlisle family's wealth to survive. Her father forced her to take her sister's place to marry Julian Carlisle, a paralyzed and notoriously cruel billionaire heir. Worse, her fiancé immediately abandoned her to stand by her sister's side, claiming they were now in love. To ensure Eleanor couldn't back out, her sister publicly pointed out a fresh, purplish mark on Eleanor's neck in the crowded hospital corridor. "Sis, you two are broken up. How could you be so careless?" It was a brutal reminder of the terrifying night before, when Eleanor was drugged and assaulted by a stranger in a pitch-black hotel room. Instead of defending her, her father looked at her with pure disgust. He threatened to cut off her beloved younger brother's college tuition and ruin his life if she didn't obey. Sold like damaged goods, Eleanor was sent to the imposing Carlisle estate, where Julian's relatives openly mocked her origins and accused her of being dirty. Her entire world had turned its back on her, leaving her utterly isolated and suffocating in shame. She couldn't understand how her own flesh and blood could sacrifice her so ruthlessly, nor did she know the identity of the mysterious man who ruined her. But standing in front of her terrifying new husband, Eleanor refused to shed another tear. She signed a one-year contract marriage, boldly rejected Julian's ten-million-dollar severance offer to keep her dignity, and publicly declared war on his abusive family. She was going to survive, find the man from that night, and make everyone who betrayed her pay.”