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Bound By Lies: The Unwanted Contract Wife

Chapter 6 

Word Count: 776    |    Released on: Today at 15:04

law firm, the noisy open-plan office went dead silen

ble floor in her stilettos, ignoring the c

a rapped her knuckles twice against the w

vestigation report an

wna shrunk her neck like a guilty quail and hur

drop the Venetian blinds, cutt

she leaned both hands on her mahogany des

hat did

and handed over the f

wear I didn't mean to put you on speaker, m

" Calista cut her off briskly, pull

showing the black Aston Martin pulling into a gated

g the top photo. "Where is the woman

ok her he

uldn't catch anything inside. And the security around that Long Island estate

ched the bridge of her nose; to protect that woman,

e her, he naturally covered his tracks," Calista s

k, scribbled a string of zeros with her fountain pen, an

the check and her e

what is

ng her arms over her chest. "Drop every non-urgent case on your desk. Within se

ck, Dawna snapped her spine straight,

s hiding her inside the Pentag

estigator, calling in every favor she had across the city and tappi

st into Calista's office without knock

I found th

he desk and pointed at a blin

e time-seven o'clock every evening-outside a

and grabbed her trench coat

atch them i

s unremarkable second-hand Toyota, parked in the sh

ily against the windshield, bl

a V12 engine, the familiar black Aston Martin glided into

her breathing shallow as she prepared to fina

nd a long leg clad in bespoke suit trou

ted with a telephoto lens and be

under the glow of the streetlamp, both

h cropped dark chestnut hair and a jagged sc

directly toward the second-hand Toyota across the stree

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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.”