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!

feeling of helplessness, of being trapped, was

into despair, then stepped back and headed for

she couldn’t hide. “What do you want from me, Nathan?

take for you to let

“How come

you go? Now you

play with until

her expression a tangled mess of emotions. “I’ve heard enough. I admit I was wrong, but

marriage on forever, right? Give me a concrete date. When can we truly

me, Yulia, why do you suddenly want to

guard, Yulia was unsure how their conversation had circled

“What if

flickered with

Would you still bring up divorce after

are you divorcing me for

she shook her head. “No. I can’t forgive him.

to see him again, even if we got divorced, I don’t love him anymore. I haven’t

time.”

who do you love

evident in

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

Yulia flinched,

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

“For the shares!”

dangling those shares over you for ages. You never

felt her face numb

ears rang with

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

this issue. What position have you put us

out

forth, stunning Nathan

wife?!”

retort was sharp. “What good does it do? Did that stop you

like a wife should, would I have

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

out with other

stared at her for a long moment before his expression softened,

“So since it’s not about Ronald, it’s about

opened her mouth, but no words