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,

fell into despair, then stepped back and

with a desperation she couldn’t hide. “What do you

it take for you to let

go?” Nathan’s voice was like ice. “How come you get

me, did you ever consider whether I’d let you go? Now you want to

toy you can play with until

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

me a concrete date. When can we truly

me, Yulia, why do you

how their conversation had circled back

shoulders. “What if I helped you take over

eyes flickered

need Ronald’s shares. Would you still bring up divorce after you got what you wanted? Or

divorcing me

furrowed, and after a long moment, she shook her head. “No.

never want to see him again, even if we got divorced, I

time.”

do

paused, a struggle evident in

breath caught, his face twitching involuntarily. “I mean

flinched, closing her

to calm himself. “So why

“For the shares!”

over you for ages. You never mentioned divorce

face numb

Yulia’s ears rang with the

inside her. “It’s because of you. If you

need to force this issue. What position have you put us in? Did you

out

stunning Nathan into silence.

wife?!”

does it do? Did that stop you from playing

you acted like a wife should, would I have the chance

help but laugh bitterly at his words. “Do you realize how awful

with

of tension. He stared at her for

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

but no