TANGLED IN HIS WORLD: A Steamy Billionaire Romance

OLAS

ink around in my glass, I had the feeling like I was being watc

elp you?

instead pulled out a phon

see a message from Adrian, my step-brother: "I see

for years now, ever since I was declared the next heir to our family inhe

e lady, I felt someone following me. I quickened my

spinning me around. I prepared to defend myself but was sho

" I asked, my

am here to help y

are...?"

He's worried about you

hown that much concern for me before

and his goons. They had been the ones sending people to monit

a distance, waiting for the

y step-brother's plan to cut take my inheritance.

veillance system he had brought with him to monitor the area. As we sat in silence,

f men approaching my building. Max quickly sprang i

saw Adrian standing in

an sneered. "I see you

wash over me. I knew h

ays so eager to please. But let me guess, you're still strugglin

, Adrian. And I'll find som

ot cut out for the dating game. Maybe you should just accept your fate as a lonely,

my way, Adrian. I'll fin

e there to stop you. You'll never have a wife as long as I'm around." We'll see

things I was trying to explain to you about Adrian, my stepbrother. He has been trying to take away my inheritance from our father ever since he found out that I was willed to a great percentage of the family inheritance, and the only way to access it is for me to get married. And

sed them to ensure that Emma would never be able to m

ean?" Prisca a

about her and we put her on all social media until a Good Samaritan working in a nearby hospital who asked us to keep her anonymous hinted to us how a woman has been forced to be in a build

as trapped in that building for months, with no way to escape. Adrian had her there and he made sure that no one could find her. I was dev

for you, It's not your fault, Nicholas," she said firmly. "You couldn't have known what Adrian w

had to go through," I said. "I felt so helpless, like there was nothing I could do to he

on, he used his influence to bring Emma out of Adrian's confiscation. The place was locke

to marry her and claim my inheritance. He did that to

Nicholas, I'm so sorry. That's terrible. Sooo.....What happene

den I had to carry all these years. "I'm so sorry, Nic

ce anyone, and she had to leave town. She broke up with me,

f for what happened to her. I was young and naive, and I d

wanted to offer me comfort. "Nicholas, it's not your fault. You were young and didn't kn

know, but it's hard not to blame myself. Emma was t

ghtly, offering me

looked into her eyes, my v

elp. Will you be my contracted wife? Adrian will stop at nothin

s taken aback by my request because she had never considered being anyone's cont

ontracted wife, a mere business transaction, made her heart

a big decision. I need time to think,

a loud throb at the door, and a woman cam

saw her, she walked over an

bella?" I asked, tryin

u," she said, her voi

eyebrow, "

lied, looking at me

a. We broke up, remember

ouldn't have let things end the way

t have time for this. If you have nothin

rd Carmen to see he

ntment written all

"I can explain, Prisca. P

and away, feeling s

en selfish or made a mistake in asking her to be my contracted wife, a

family's wealth was at stake, which I could

re at that moment, although we had both been

as I left the warehous

a's reply would be and it

at stake, and I couldn't afford to

be my contracted wife and besides Isabella's unexpected arrival had only added t