The CEO's Contractual Wife

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Olivia

He held out the folder. I didn’t take it. My hands remained firmly in my lap, though I couldn’t deny the curiosity building inside me.

“What is that?” I asked, eyeing the manila folder with suspicion.

“A draft of our agreement. Not finalized, of course. I’d want your input on the terms.”

I laughed without humor. “You already had this drawn up? Before even speaking to me?”

“I like to be prepared.” He placed the folder on the coffee table between us. “Take it home, read it, and then decide.”

My curiosity got the better of me. I reached for the folder and flipped it open.

The first page was a standard legal header, but what caught my eye was the figure: $1,000,000 to be transferred im- mediately upon signing. My eyes widened involuntarily.

“Keep reading,” Alexander prompted.

I flipped through the pages, skimming the dense legal text. Promotion to Senior Marketing Strategist. Relocation to the Carter estate. Public appearances as a couple. The divorce settlement: $5,000,000.

Then I reached a section that made my blood run cold.

“Duration of marriage: minimum one year, with potential extension based on the circumstances…”

“Extension?” I looked up sharply. “What does that mean?”

“Just a precaution. If my grandfather becomes suspicious, we might need to extend.”

I continued reading, my face growing hotter with each paragraph.

“Cohabitation in the same bedroom… public displays of affection… sexual relations as required to maintain the ap- pearance of a normal marriage…”

I slammed the folder shut. “Sexual relations? Are you kidding me?”

decency to look embarrassed. “It’s a marriage, Olivia. People

it might bite me. “And you’re

rose from his seat with the fluid grace of a predator and

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backed up until my legs hit the

my spine. “I have needs. Strong ones. I’m not the type of man who goes

face flamed. “That’s

arrangement.” He moved closer, his expensive and masculine cologne filling my senses. “If I’m seen visiting hotel rooms or bringing women to my

was reacting to his proximity. “So

crude language. “Is that what you think this is? Me ordering you to

contract. “It’s

close enough that I could feel the heat radiating from his body. “I’m not some monster who forces himself on unwilling women. But I am a man with a healthy sex drive who won’t be celibate for a year or

nipples tightening traitorously beneath my blouse. I crossed

I said, hating how breathless

That’s what you

a fancy label on it doesn’t change

a strand of hair behind my car. The casual intimacy of the gesture made my skin tingle. “Then what would

jerked away from his touch. “I’d

in his eyes: anger, maybe, or surprise that I’d speak to him so bluntly. Then it was gone, replaced by

his voice even. “Read through it. If

down at the folder still clutched in my hands. “And

wave of heat through my body. “Think about it, Olivia. Five million dollars. Your father’s surgery. Your brothers’ needs are taken care of. All

clean.”

he’d dug so deeply into my personal life should have

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