The Sterling Contract: From Obligation to Love

of the Marriage Bureau

, a man as cold and imposing as his family

remony, my ex, Caleb, and his fiancée, Chl

's business, smirked about her upcoming l

of defiant fury

be there, and then brandished our freshly signed marriage certi

nfirmation froze Caleb, making Ch

tacks, spreading vile, AI-generated intimate photos of me across

lone and shattered, walking aimlessly towards t

his happe

etely adrift, Julian, the man w

aling he' d already unleashed his formidable resource

sion and initiated a

e was my unexpected protector, and for the first time