Bound by Fate: The Billionaire's Unwanted Wife

ous release still sent wild spasms across her slender frame. Luca had separated and detached himself from

ghtly brown skin but knew from experience that her touch would be rebuffed. His words, the ones that were usually said to shat

a son, El

e than a biological need. After eighteen months of the same, Elizabeth had finally grasped that things would never change. She

sat up, naked, her body still shivering and hugged her knees to her chest. She wrapped her arms around her legs, pressed her head to her knees and watched as his breathing steadied, his own shaking was reducing slowly. He lay spread-eagled, likewise

he words and they came from h

a divorc

wound spring, before he turned his head to meet her watching s

wered her eyes, attempting to conceal the shaft of anguish in his words. When she was sati

anaged, hoping her l

the purr of a cat. "What happened

ange," she

lbow, resting his head on his palm. He looked so much like a Roman warri

mur of agreement from Luca but Elizabeth wasn't deceived by his eas

ame Elizabeth I married. The one who professed to love me so deeply, she couldn't liv

, without moving, without s

e only thing I've ever wanted from this pathetic excuse for

r a divorce," she attempted

no easy way out of this marriage. Not until I had what I wanted from you and that day appears to be a lo

he covered her face in her knees an

inutes later and took a few seconds to calm herself, wipe the hot tears from her cheeks with the backs of both hands before putting on a gauzy peignoir and strolling into the kitche

tle of orange juice. His short black hair was wet and stood up in tufts where he had carelessly towel-dried it after his shower and he wore n

ch... Luca never touched her outside of the bedroom. In the eighteen months they had been married, this was the first time that she could recall him caressi

, Elizabeth... ever," he informed he

ivorcing you, Luca ," she

they can get." Somehow she hadn't anticipated that. She should have but she didn't. Luca had given her cousin, Amelia, the start-up capital for her shop. Elizabeth didn't know what the circumstances of that loan were but she had always imagin

othing but certainty. "Amelia h

tever it takes to get

can help her..." s

e start-up capital for her bookshop but he made his contempt of the idea more than obvious to eve

u're an honest businessman, you wouldn't damage a small business merely t

I care what people think of me, Elizabeth? Do you think I care what you

ut he made a scoffing sound in the back of his

ired this marriage, remember? You asked for it... So if you want a divorce right now, it'll com

done with being a doormat! She said nothing, opting to turn and walk away instead. He watched her leave, she could feel his eyes searing into her thin back yet he did not call her back. She did not ret