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Bound By Lies: The Unwanted Contract Wife

Bound By Lies: The Unwanted Contract Wife

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Chapter 1 

Word Count: 923    |    Released on: Today at 15:05

Manhattan penthouse, her stilettos making no sound on the Per

a crystal glass, the ice cubes clinking crisply against t

lista pulled a brown kraft envelope from

dum to our prenuptial agreement," she s

re tilting his head back to drain the liquor

eeping over his wife of two years as hi

eldest daughter of the Harriso

velope over, spilling a stack of high-definitio

the Four Seasons Hotel; the woman's face was intentionally blurred o

ght middle finger-formed from years of holding a microsurgical scalpel-s

l tumbler onto the stone su

as a question, yet his voice was

derous glare and ke

Palmer's tabloid scandal hits the front page tomor

r, pale finger and tappe

y on Fifth Avenue as hush money. Tha

d expression, his jaw tightening as cold

yanked his tie loose, and stro

el caught on the metal base of a barstool-no r

f her hips, trapping her completely between his arms as

reath brushing her ear,

Fifth Avenue

n his rough fingers caught her chin, forc

As Kevin spoke, his thumb dragged slowly and suggestive

a flicker of panic passing through her am

do you

ess suit without a shred of pretense, the co

rital obligation

tering the composure she had barely managed to hol

o break free of his grip, h

is not in t

r chin, ignoring her struggle a

e your clothes

nce, broken only by the faint hum

tight fists at her sides, nails digging deep into her palms-her p

slid both hands into his trouser pockets, looking dow

y, one notch at a time. Just when Kevin tho

ted shaking fingers to her collar, undo

, the mockery on her face freezing as h

ed to the floor, revealing her pale skin and the

shoulders rigid, his voice

o the b

t, walking barefoot down the long corridor toward the master

rom the living room. Her back slid down the door panel until sh

etallic click of the door

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Bound By Lies: The Unwanted Contract Wife
Bound By Lies: The Unwanted Contract Wife
“My husband of two years and I had a purely transactional marriage. Or so I thought, until I discovered he was using me as a human shield to protect his true love-a woman who once saved him from severe depression. To keep her hidden from the tabloids, he staged scandals, and even threw me out of his car on the freezing Brooklyn Bridge at night just because I found her perfume. To protect my shattered pride, I publicly mocked him in a crowded lounge, claiming I didn't care about his affairs and that he was nothing but an on-call ATM to me. "A machine that spits out cash?" Enraged by my coldness, Kevin retaliated by exposing my deepest, most humiliating scar in front of everyone. He screamed about how I had gotten blind drunk on my eighteenth birthday, crying and hugging a streetlamp in the freezing cold while begging a stranger for comfort. I was paralyzed with shock. I had only ever told my closest friend that secret. But Kevin sneered and claimed I had drunkenly babbled the pathetic story to him two years ago, using my trauma to beg him for his pity and money. The overwhelming humiliation suffocated me. Had I really thrown away my deepest pride while unconscious just to get him to sign our prenuptial agreement? Standing alone in the bitter Manhattan wind, I wiped my tears and made a decision. I was done playing his convenient shield, and it was time to cash out and leave.”