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?”
even have the decency to look embarrassed. “It’s a marriage, Olivia. People would
a business transaction.” I stood up, clutching the folder like it might bite me. “And you’re
with the fluid grace of
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backed up until my legs hit the couch behind
octave, sending an unwelcome shiver down my spine. “I have needs. Strong ones. I’m not the type of man who goes without
flamed. “That’s
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, my grandfather
body was reacting to his proximity. “So what?
at my crude language. “Is that what you think this is? Me ordering
waving the contract. “It’s
He stepped even closer, 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
traitorously beneath my blouse. I crossed my arms over my chest,
is supposed to be a business arrangement,” I said, hating how breathless I sounded. “Not some twisted
wife. That’s what
label on it doesn’t
He reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind my car. The casual intimacy of the gesture
his touch. “I’d call it prostitution with
to him so bluntly. Then it was gone, replaced by that cool, calculated
his voice even. “Read through it. If there are terms you want to negotiate,
at the folder still clutched in my hands. “And the
tone sent another unwelcome wave of heat through my body. “Think about it, Olivia. Five million
clean.”
The fact that he’d dug so deeply into my personal life should have terrified
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