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?”

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

isn’t a marriage. It’s a business transaction.” I stood up, clutching the folder like it might bite

with the fluid grace of a predator and took a step toward me. I

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my legs

voice dropped to a dangerous octave, sending an unwelcome shiver down my spine. “I have needs. Strong ones. I’m not the type of man who goes without sex for

flamed. “That’s not my

becomes your problem in this arrangement.” He moved closer, his expensive and masculine cologne filling my senses. “If I’m seen visiting hotel rooms or bringing women to my house while married to you, people will talk. The tabloids will speculate. And eventually,

trying to ignore how my body was reacting to his proximity. “So what?

think this is? Me ordering

waving the contract.

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

felt suddenly heavy, my nipples tightening traitorously beneath my blouse. I crossed my arms over my chest, hoping he

I said, hating how breathless I sounded.

wife. That’s what

a fancy label on it

my car. The casual intimacy of the gesture made my

touch. “I’d call

I’d speak to him so bluntly. Then it was gone, replaced by that cool,

the contract home,” he said, his voice even. “Read through it. If there are terms you want to negotiate, we

folder still clutched in my hands. “And the

it, Olivia. Five million dollars. Your father’s surgery. Your brothers’ needs are taken

clean.”

brothers? The fact that he’d dug so deeply into my

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