Substitute Bride: Curing The Disabled Billionaire

Chapter 5

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ack into the room, thicker than before. Julian's g

iny. She pushed her glasses up, a

u," she s

t. "I'm making an investment in my own legs. If your

y protective impulse, couchi

fair," F

unlight cut through the gloom, illuminating the dust motes drifting in the air. The light

said. "That wasn't the behavior

ainst the light. "What should I have

sm colored her voice.

ulate. And," he paused, "y

level with his. "Why should I be? Right now, you're my p

ll the clean scent of soap on her skin-a stark

s absence of fear or

caught her chin, his grip firm,

jaw tightened. She

lian commanded, his thumb b

ckering behind her lenses. A si

reached up and slowly rem

eep, calm brown, but holding a startling depth-the eyes of someo

nness. What he found instead was something

e lower than he'd intended, carry

idn't

ut through the

voice. "The items you

tting distance between them. She slipped her glasses back on, and the ma

hand, the ghost of her warm

id, his voice return

ainless‑steel cart with neat

All business. She inspected each it

ian, her voice stripped of all emotion: "Now,

d was a splash of cold wate

ened, but he complied, m

nd held it over the flame of an alcohol lam

o this room, this man,

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Substitute Bride: Curing The Disabled Billionaire

Roderic Penn Modern

“Faye was brought back from the countryside by her father, not out of love, but to be a sacrificial lamb. Her stepmother demanded she take her younger sister's place to marry Julian Sinclair, a billionaire heir paralyzed in a crash and notorious for his cruel temper. When Faye refused, her stepmother threatened to fabricate scandalous evidence about Faye's late grandmother-the only person who had ever loved her. Forced into the marriage, Faye was sent to the oppressive Sinclair estate with nothing but a shabby duffel bag. She immediately faced blatant hostility from Julian's arrogant sister and scheming cousins, who mocked her origins and treated her like dirt. When Faye prepared a traditional herbal paste to treat Julian, the entire family ambushed her, surrounding her to accuse her of being a backwoods fraud trying to poison the crippled heir. They all thought she was just a meek, helpless pawn meant to suffer in a gilded cage. They didn't realize she had already deduced Julian was actually paralyzed by a rare neurotoxin, nor did they know she was secretly a master healer searching for the truth behind her grandmother's murder. "I trust her." Julian shocked his family by tasting the vile paste himself, suddenly gasping as a burning sensation flared in his dead legs for the first time in three years. Faye adjusted her black-framed glasses, hiding a chilling smile. It was time to use the Sinclair empire to hunt down her enemies.”