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 trapped, was

despair, then stepped back and headed for the door. But Yulia grabbed

couldn’t hide. “What do

take for

go?” Nathan’s voice was like ice. “How come you get to decide everything? When you were scheming

you go? Now you want to walk away scot-free? You

play with

tangled mess of emotions. “I’ve heard enough. I admit I was wrong,

drag this marriage on forever, right? Give me a concrete

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

their conversation had circled back to this

shoulders. “What if I helped

eyes flickered

you still bring up divorce after you got what you wanted? Or

are you divorcing me

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

I’d never want to see him again, even if we got divorced, I don’t love

time.”

do you

paused, a struggle evident in

his face twitching involuntarily. “I mean the love between two adults?!” He bellowed at

Yulia flinched, closing her

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

“For the shares!”

crap! Ronald’s been dangling those shares over you for ages. You never mentioned

her face numb under

he roared again, and Yulia’s ears rang with the force of his

of you. If you

position have you put us in? Did

out with other

forth, stunning

wife?!”

“What good does it do? Did that stop you from

wife should, would I have the

“Do you realize how awful you sound? Blaming

with other

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

since it’s

opened her mouth, but no