Charlotte always hoped for forever with her college sweetheart, Jonah, but after their marriage, the man she gave her heart took her freedom and turned her into a shadow of herself. He married another woman for her money and dumped Charlotte to the curb because of his greed. Broken, with no hope from anywhere, her savior comes in form of the man she least expected, her ex’s uncle. Xavier Roman is the wealthiest man in the state, a zillionaire whose income cannot be counted. He proposes a contract marriage to his nephew’s ex-wife in order to silence the ugly rumors surrounding him and she agrees out of desperation. In return, he promises to help her exert her revenge on everyone who wronged her, and spoil her beyond imagination. Driven by hate and jealousy, her ex-husband returns with his family, tarnishing her image in every way they can to get back at her, but she cannot be touched because of the man whose name she is affiliated with. What happens when she starts to want more than just his money? What happens when he realizes that it was never just business for him? How will she ever get over him, when coupled with his money, he shows her in more ways than one, what it means to be truly pleasured by a man…?
View MoreThe ride home was silent and uncomfortable. Charlotte opened the car door and sat by the passenger side without once looking behind at Xavier. Xavier, not wanting to push things past their limit and send her storming out of the car now he had only just got her, remained silent at the back of the car. Carlos, fortunately did not try to make small talk, but that only meant there was a thick tension that hung in the air among them. Maybe it was even for the better. Xavier looked like shit and he knew it. Let Charlotte deal with one disappointment after the next. They reached home quickly enough and Carlos parked the car in the garage. He was the first to come down, but when the rest did, he said his goodbyes and left. Now it was only the two of them. Charlotte entered the house without a word. Some of the workers had come out of the house and were staring at them like fools. Xavier was irritated, but the headache he was beginning to spout, plus the strong urge to throw up kept him
“I have to find her,” Xavier said. “It hasn’t even been a full day,” Private said dismissively. “Just give it time. Let Carlos do his thing.” “She’s going to flare up when she sees him,” Xavier groaned, shaking his head. “Stop drinking, boss,” Private said when Xavier took yet another swig, this time of liquor. “You have to forget about this and focus on other things for a while,” Private advised. “Piss off!” Xavier cursed, standing up. “You’re not my therapist. Don’t tell me what to do. I’m going there whether you approve or not.” “Sir…” Xavier didn’t stand there to let him finish. He walked out of the living room where they had been discussing and went into the house in search of his keys. When he was dressed, he went downstairs and almost fell over twice. Grunting, he picked up his phone and dialed Carlos, completely ignoring his detective who fortunately remained silent. “Hello, boss,” he greeted. “Come to the house. I have somewhere I need you to take me,” he instructed.
“Is there something you need?” Carla asked Charlotte when she entered the room and saw her going into the kitchen. “No,” Charlotte whispered. “I mean yes. Very hot tea.” “Stay here, sugar. I’ll go get it for you,” she said sweetly. Charlotte nodded and stayed by the dining room table. She kept hitting the table absentmindedly. She was in big trouble. Just a few minutes ago, she had overhead Carla on a call with someone discussing her husband. From the little she had heard, the only reason Carla was doing this was for them. As Charlotte heard her friend singing in the kitchen while she waited for the water for her tea to boil, her hands tightened in rage. That thing that always caused people to betray her was back again and now, the only friend she thought she had was literally selling her off to god knows who. She hated herself in that moment. How had she been dumb enough to reveal all those things about her husband to him? She had no idea who her friend had been talking to, but
“Their marriage isn’t real!” Carla whisper-yelled into the phone at the other side of the house while Charlotte slept. “What?” Jonah asked. “It’s crazy,” she chuckled. “They managed to fool everyone. He just married her to change his reputation for the better. What a sad thing to do.” Jonah pursed his lips as he absorbed what Carla was saying. “Where did you get this information from?” He asked doubtful. Carla frowned. “Do you think I just made it up? Charlotte told me herself, just an hour ago before she went to bed.” “Hmm. That makes sense,” Jonah said. “I always wondered when she got the chance to build a friendship with him not to talk of marrying him. Did you get a recording, anything we can use to back up the claim?” There was a pause. “You didn’t tell me I had to do that.” “You idiot!” Jonah cursed in his mind. “How else are we supposed to convince people it’s true?” He asked out loud. Jonah was frustrated. Nothing he did was working. Slowly, he was beginning to lose
Thanks so much for helping me out, Carla. It really means a lot,” Charlotte said as she arranged the room where she would spend the night. “Hey. We used to best friends. This is the least I can do,” Carla said while helping her friend. Charlotte smiled weakly and went back to what she was doing. “Besides, I know you’re going to get enough out of the divorce,” Carla said with a wink. “I’m just playing my cards right.” Charlotte’s forced smile became a grimace after she heard those words. “Relax, jeez,” Carla said. “I was only joking.” “I know.” Even though she knew her friend was only joking, it still stung to think about what the future held for her. Would she really divorce him? Was she even allowed to? Their marriage hadn’t even lasted for up to three months and according to their arrangement, they could only get divorced after two years. “Let me fix us something to eat,” Carla said as she walked out of the room and left Charlotte to settle down. Had she overreacted by walk
“I actually thought you’d be much different-looking in person,” Xavier said to his private detective while he swirled a glass of wine in his hand. “How so? You thought I’d be taller?” Private, as he was known asked with a smirk. That was usually the first thing people said whenever they found out about his job or saw him face to face for the first time. “Definitely. And i thought you’d be more mysterious generally,” Xavier completed. “I get that a lot,” he said with a chuckle. “Why did you ask to meet me in person?” Xavier shrugged. “I realized I’d never seen the man that knows almost all my secrets and knows where to find out the rest.”“I never said you couldn’t meet me. I’m not a hitman. People knowing my identity does not directly put me in danger,” Private said. Xavier downed his eighth glass of wine that night and began to pour another. “I suppose I just enjoyed the mystery,” Xavier slurred. “Oh just forget it. I know you already know what I look like. You ran a background
Xavier woke up some time later and frowned when he realized Charlotte was not beside him. He couldn’t tell what time it was, so he tried to switch his phone on, but couldn’t find it anywhere. While he sleepily wondered where his phone was, he heard slight whimpering coming from the bathroom. Confused, he rushed in there and found Charlotte sitting on the closed toilet seat and sobbing. “What’s wrong?” He asked, crouching down and holding her shoulders. “Did you have another nightmare?” Charlotte wrestled out of his grasp and lifted his phone to show him. Her eyes were puffy and her face was swollen, a sign she had been crying for a while. “The only nightmare is coming across your family!” She tried to yell, but her voice only came out as a raspy whisper. “You’re all terrible people. Every last one of you.” When Xavier saw the recording he had made with his nephew playing under the texts he had sent to his detective, Xavier understood what was going on. “Shit,” he cursed, angry a
“What took you so long?” Charlotte asked Xavier when he returned by midnight. “I kept calling but my calls weren’t going through.” “I’m really sorry,” he apologized with a broken voice. He wasn’t apologizing for staying out late alone, he was apologizing for all she had gone through in the hands of his nephew. Charlotte’s expression softened when he apologized and looked at her like that. “I didn’t mean to make you feel bad,” she said, hugging him and pressing her face into his chest. “I was just worried sick. You don’t have to feel bad. It’s okay. I missed you, that’s all.” Xavier hugged her back, holding her so close to him and shut his eyes. They stayed in that position for a while, and she maintained the hug even though she didn’t know what had triggered it. She had suffered so much, even more than she knew. She had been practically poisoned by Jonah whose selfishness had robbed her of her ability to ever carry a child. “Is everything okay?” She asked, breaking the hug a lit
A sly smile appeared on Xavier’s face but it was gone before Jonah could see it. “That’s good,” he said, using the back of his hand to cover his mouth. From Jonah’s end it would have looked like he was simply deep in thought. “Make sure you say everything exactly as it happened.” Jonah swallowed and thought back to the time when Charlotte announced her pregnancy to him. “She told me she was pregnant but…but I wasn’t ready. I didn’t even like her that much. I was just using her to make Valerie jealous but then one thing led to another and she fell pregnant,” Jonah said. “I asked her to get rid of it but she vehemently refused. Her mother threatened me to marry her so I did, because it would have affected our family name if she told people I had denied her pregnancy so I had to.” Xavier nodded as he listened to his nephew. This was going just like he had planned. His phone was on, recording every word that came out from his mouth. “I understand you,” Xavier said, urging him to spea
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