The Enticing CEO’s Chosen Bride

Yulia’s lips quivered as she shook her head, her eyes widened with fear and helplessness. “What do you even

want?” she stammered.

Nathan looked at her with a cold detachment. “The question is, what do you want, Yulia? You wanted this marriage,

pulled every trick in the book to get it. You called the shots in the beginning, but when it ends, that’s not your call. If

you’re planning on going head-to-head with me, by all means, let’s see who’s tougher.”

“So what are you saying? That I’m stuck with you until you’re bored? I can’t ever bring up divorce?”

“You can bring it up, and I might agree, as long as you leave Anya with me.”

“You know I’ll never give up Anya!”

A smirk crept onto Nathan’s face. “Who knows? Maybe Ronald and his shares are worth more to you than Anya.”d2

Yulia bit her lip so hard that white marks formed around her teeth. “Why are you doing this, Nathan? Anya’s my

daughter. She’s got nothing to do with you. Why are you so obsessed with her?”

“People don’t always need reasons. I like her, and that should be enough.”

Yulia’s anger flared at Nathan’s shameless reasoning, her hand itching to slap some sense into him. “But you’ll end

up hurting her. With your playboy lifestyle, you might even marry someone else. What can you offer Anya, except a

life full of scandals and tabloid headlines? How can she grow up healthy in a home with a stepfather and

stepmother? What are you really thinking? Is this how you like Anya? I will never agree. Over my dead body will I let

you take her.”

Nathan’s lips curled into a sneer. “Suit yourself.”

Yulia felt her anger choking her, unable to vent.

Over her dead body? What would happen to Anya if she died?

How utterly cruel!

of helplessness, of being

back and headed for the door. But Yulia grabbed

“What do you want from me, Nathan? What

for you

was like ice. “How come you

let you go? Now

toy you can play with

expression a tangled mess of emotions. “I’ve

right? Give me a concrete date. When can we

expression darkened. “Tell me, Yulia, why do you suddenly want

unsure how their conversation had circled back to this

“What if I

flickered

Ronald’s shares. Would you still bring up divorce after

are you divorcing me

and after a long moment, she shook her head. “No. I can’t forgive him.

him again, even if we got

time.”

do

evident in her eyes. “I love

mean the love between two adults?!” He bellowed

Yulia flinched, closing

deep breath to calm himself. “So why the hell are you in such

“For the shares!”

dangling those shares over you for ages. You never mentioned

her face numb

and Yulia’s ears rang

to bubble up inside her. “It’s because of you. If you hadn’t

have you put us

out

Yulia’s usually gentle demeanor burst forth, stunning Nathan into

wife?!”

“What good does it do?

acted like a wife should, would I

at his words. “Do you realize how awful you sound?

out with

was a mask of tension. He stared at her for a

towering over her. “So since it’s not about Ronald,

her mouth, but no words came