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?”
to look embarrassed. “It’s a marriage, Olivia. People would
it might bite me. “And you’re not entitled to my body as part
fluid grace of a
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legs hit the couch
a dangerous octave, sending an unwelcome shiver down my spine. “I have needs. Strong ones. I’m not the type of man
face flamed. “That’s not my
visiting hotel rooms or bringing women to my house while married to you, people will talk.
swallowed hard, trying to ignore how my body was reacting to his proximity. “So what? Find someone
what you think this is? Me ordering you to spread your legs
the contract. “It’s
body. “I’m not some monster who forces himself on unwilling women. But I am a man with a healthy sex drive
nipples tightening traitorously beneath my blouse. I crossed my arms over
to be a business arrangement,” I said, hating how breathless I sounded.
That’s what
on it doesn’t change what it
reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind my car. The casual intimacy of the gesture
from his touch. “I’d call
flashed in his eyes: anger, maybe, or surprise that I’d speak to him so bluntly. Then it was gone, replaced by that cool,
voice even. “Read through it. If there are terms you want
at the folder still clutched
about it,
clean.”
my brothers? The fact that he’d
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