Contract Marriage To The Coldhearted Tycoon

pitch of Adaline Hayes's sixty-million-dollar Croft merger-the career-defining deal w

gn investors, and press, the screen flickered, cutting straig

d, pants kicked to his ankles, relentlessly pounding into Kirk Capit

Fallon's breathless moans and the sickening, wet sl

into sharp gasps, horrified whisp

, already hoisting his phone to record. "Someone just

The air was violently

kin like acid. She had spent the last three months working until three in the morning, building every financia

rmark glowing in the corner o

t a techni

In thirty seconds, Adaline's keynote was butchered, the two thousand investors she needed were laughing at a sex

with unshed tears, but she dug her nails into her palms until she felt th

he master video power trunk plugged into the sta

n

nt scre

designer pumps were slowing her down; she kicked them off, abandoni

attered trust. Eight years. Eight years of ghostwriting his strategy decks, nursing him through hangovers, and car

i

look at the lethal, icy fury in Adaline's b

dler's heavy double

A

. When he saw her standing barefoot in the doorway, there was no panic in his face-only

applying fresh scarlet lipstick in a gold compact mirror. On the floor beneath her heels

the compact shut. "Look who fina

adjusted his gold cufflinks, looking

pologetic. "Fallon's father is absorbing sixty million of my family's debt. Taking lead on your Croft merg

line like a lead

. He had let Fallon turn her pitch into a public execution. And now he was handing three

condition? I worked myself into the ground to secure this commission f

ed sigh, waving his hand as i

think my family would ever let me go through with marrying a liability?" He took a step forward, his eyes narrowing into cold calculation. "Ki

ire youth to support, was nothing more than a parasite wearing a bespoke suit. T

he said, her voice f

ard them in her five-inch heels, a ve

re say a single word about this to the board or the press, I'll make one phone call to Mount Sinai. By morning, Angus's charity care will be r

from Fallon's smug, cruel face ba

g sat heavy on her ring finger. She gripped the metal,

h, dragging a sharp line of fresh,

led the bloodied ring stra

ac

y red welt before bouncing against his pristi

posure cracking as he touched his cheek

he smear of blood from her knuckle against her black skirt. H

n her heel a

oulders rigid, chin held impossibly high, leaving faint tr

evator and hit the button

corridor. Then the heavy brushed-steel doors

doors sealed, h

She curled into a ball, pressing her trembling, bleeding hand against her

life. Torn to shred