Billionaire's Bargain: You belong to me

Billionaire's Bargain: You belong to me

Bleeding ink

5.0
Comment(s)
158
View
24
Chapters

Adeline has never had enough, even though the world believes she has it all. Found abandoned on the street as a baby, she grew up under the roof of a foster mother who constantly reminded her of her "good fortune." One day she's supposed to celebrate the happiest moment of her life, her world collapses: her foster mother has agreed to hand her over in an arranged marriage-not to a kind stranger, but to a billionaire who barges into their home with a breathtaking offer. "You can't just walk into my house and claim you want to marry my daughter. Who do you think you are?" she protests. "Two hundred million dollars," he replies coldly. "I want her." With her freedom sold for a fortune, Adeline faces a choice she never imagined: Would she fight the deal and lose everything she's ever known? or sign away her future to a man whose wealth hides darker motives?

Billionaire's Bargain: You belong to me Chapter 1 Marriage proposal

Adeline's Pov

After more than a year of sending resumes and knocking on closed doors, I finally had a job. It wasn't glamorous, but it felt like a lifeline-proof that maybe the tide was turning in my favour. I had no idea the same day would tear my world apart.

"Mom! Mom!" I screamed.

"Calm down Adeline and talk to me," she said, shaking her head.

Words always slip away from me whenever I'm happy or too sad. Right then, my chest heaved, my breaths shaky, like someone who had just run a marathon.

"I finally got a job," I exhaled, half-laughing. "It's not really nice but I love it." I twirled around her, giggling.

"I'm so proud of you," she smiled. "What's the job?"

"Just a job at a restaurant," I muttered, not really sure of how she would react.

Her face fell immediately

"Restaurant?" she repeated.

"Don't start, Mom. You can't expect everything to be successful overnight. Rome wasn't built in a day. You have to start from somewhere."

"I know, but how much is the pay? You know how many debts we have, and you came in laughing like you'd won the lottery." She gave a short bitter laugh and shook her head. "All these years I've reminded you how lucky you were to be picked up off the street...now I'm not even sure whether you're still my good fortune or another burden."

The smile I'd been wearing was sliding off my face, I shook my head, the tears returned ten fold, an undeniable burn settled low in my stomach, something I haven't experienced in years.

I let out a shaky breath, "I know about the debts," I whispered. "I know you picked me up when nobody else wanted me. But do you have to remind me every single fine I try to breathe? Do you have to make me feel like I'm a mistake you regret?" My voice cracked and I blinked hard against my tears. "All I wanted was to come home with good news for once. Just this once."

Sometimes she acted as if she really cared about me and on other days she said things that are like poison on my skin. She didn't even know that her words were knives, piercing through me long after she'd thrown them.

"Don't make it look like I said anything that's a lie," she said and looked away.

A sudden knock on the door snapped me out of whatever thought I was drowning in. She wiped her palms on her skirt, walked closer, and opened the door.

"Hello, how may I help you?" she questioned.

I glanced toward the door, my heart still heavy from our exchange.

She stepped aside and a man stood by the doorway. My breath heaved, his jaw was chiseled like it had been carved from stone, his dark hair was a mass of soft curls that looked almost perfect to be real. Even the way he adjusted the cuff of his shirt was elegant, a small gesture that somehow made the expensive fabric mild to him as if it had been sown onto his skin. He wasn't just handsome; he was the kind of beautiful that made you forget every word on your tongue.

I knew I shouldn't be fantasizing about a stranger who had just shown up at our door, but I couldn't help it. The way he looked at me made my fingers tighten around the hem of my dress. I told myself to stop staring, but my eyes wouldn't listen.

His voice snapped me out of the twisted thoughts swirling in my head, ''I came to see you," he said, slipping his hands into his pockets.

My aunt gestured for him to come in and sit, and I stepped back, still trying to understand what was happening. Then I saw her expression change.

"Alex Muretti... are you the one?" she asked.

She grabbed her phone instantly and rose halfway from the chair before quickly sitting back down. "You...you're the one," she gasped.

What was going on? Why did my aunt seem to know him when I didn't? My gaze flicked from her to him.

"The owner of the RV Resort and Crown Stone Enterprise," she whispered.

He only nodded, as if my aunt's reaction were nothing out of the ordinary.

"Two years ago," Alex said, still sitting in our tiny living room. "You borrowed fifty million dollars from a loan shark and couldn't pay back. They threatened to kill your daughter in exchange. Then you were told that someone covered the debt for you. A few months later, you went back again-this time you borrowed three million dollars. And the same thing happened."

My brows lowered, what I just heard shocked me to my core, "What do you mean my mom borrowed that kind of money twice? Can you just stop lying?" I snapped. My voice trembled as I turned to my mom, "Mom... say something."

Her reaction almost made me believe the story he was spinning, but I still wanted to deny it because she'd never told me anything like that.

Alex reached into his briefcase and brought out an envelope, and then he placed a document across the table. My aunt picked it up, read the first page, and her eyes widened.

"Okay? Thank you for helping us," I whispered, looking from her to him.

He didn't blink, "I don't want your house, your money. I want Adeline. A marriage contract between the two of us."

Goosebumps scatter across my flesh, my mouth twitch. I hated that I had thought he was handsome, but right now I could only see a deranged ugly psychopath.

Men, they always ruined everything by opening their mouths.

"I know you have helped us and I am grateful, but...I'll pay you your money back," she blurted out.

"You can't just walk into my house and claim you want a marriage contract with my daughter. Who do you think you are?" she protested.

I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding. Why the hell did I even think she'd accept something like this? I knew she loved money a lot, but not by selling off her daughter.

"Two hundred million dollars," Alex said coldly. "I want her."

Dread formed in the pit of my stomach, what the hell does he think of himself?

"This isn't about the debt," he shrugged. "I don't save someone from drowning just to ask them to pay for the rope later. When I do a good deed, I don't expect a thank-you, and I am still the one offering a sum of two hundred million dollars."

He stood, straightened his jacket and placed a card on the table, "That has my number."

He glanced at me for a heartbeat and then he turned and walked out without another word.

My mom clutched the card with trembling fingers, and for the first time I saw tears gather in her eyes.

"We don't have a choice, Adeline," she whispered.

I exhale, the breath stuttering from my throat.

Continue Reading

You'll also like

The Mute Bride Is The Secret Mastermind

The Mute Bride Is The Secret Mastermind

Jin Yi
5.0

I was the titan of Wall Street until an indictment and an ankle monitor turned my penthouse into a gilded cage. To save face, I was forced into a marriage with Elza, a "mute" girl from the Schmidt family whom I treated as nothing more than a silent piece of furniture while my empire crumbled. The night I was poisoned at a high-society gala, a mysterious server in an oversized uniform saved my life with terrifying, clinical precision. They disappeared into the night, leaving me with a silver cufflink and a burning obsession to find the shadow who held my life in their hands. Back home, I took my frustration out on Elza, telling her she was "exhausting to look at" and "smelled like sickness" after her charity visits. Her own family treated her like a stray dog, trying to humiliate her at the next gala by dressing her in what they claimed was a cheap knockoff while whispering to the press that she was nothing but a high-end escort. "Stay out of my way," I would growl at her, never noticing the steel in her eyes. I sat at my table, watching my rivals' stocks plummet and wondering who "The Zero"—the legendary financial ghost—really was. I never suspected that the woman I ignored was the same one solving the equations that were currently burning Manhattan to the ground. The injustice peaked when Elza stood before the city's elite, not as a victim, but as a queen. She dropped over a hundred million dollars to buy back her family’s legacy, revealing a secret fortune that made my own empire look like pocket change. As I grabbed her wrist and saw the small red mole hidden beneath her watch, the truth hit me like a physical blow. The silent wife I had despised was the savior I had been hunting, and she was finally done playing the victim. "We have a lot to talk about, wife," I whispered, realizing I had been sleeping next to the most dangerous woman in the world.

The Billionaire's Blind Bride: No Mercy

The Billionaire's Blind Bride: No Mercy

Emma
4.3

I married Clive Harrington, the coldest billionaire in Manhattan, under a strict contract that forbade any emotional burdens. When I needed a high-risk surgery to save my sight, I checked into the clinic alone, hiding the procedure from a husband who saw me as nothing more than a legal asset. I thought I could handle the darkness in silence. But while I was blind and bandaged in my hospital bed, my biological mother called, screaming that if I didn't produce a Harrington heir by the end of the fiscal year, she would cut off the life-saving treatments for my disabled sister. I was crawling on the cold hospital floor, desperately feeling for a cane I had dropped, when I touched a pair of expensive leather shoes. It was Clive. He was supposed to be in London closing a multi-million dollar deal, but there he was, watching his "contract wife" groveling in the dark like a beggar. He didn't walk away in disgust. He carried me to a five-thousand-dollar-a-night VIP suite and sat by my bed, listening in chilling silence as another voicemail from my mother filled the room, calling me a "useless broodmare" who was only worth the trust fund disbursements my marriage secured. I expected him to remind me of Clause 34B or hand me divorce papers now that I was "damaged goods." Instead, I felt his thumb brush a stray tear from my cheek, his presence shifting from a statue of ice into a predatory shield. "I thought I was just currency to you," I whispered, my voice trembling behind the gauze. "Just an investment." Clive didn't answer with words. He picked up his phone and called his head of legal with a single, terrifying command: "Kill the Douglas family’s credit lines. Every debt, every lien—trigger them all. If they want a war, I’ll give them a massacre." As he leaned down to kiss my bandaged forehead, I realized the contract was dead. My husband wasn't protecting an asset anymore; he was hunting the people who had dared to touch what belonged to him.

The Discarded Heiress: Marrying My Lethal Husband

The Discarded Heiress: Marrying My Lethal Husband

Xiao Wang
5.0

The rain in Detroit was slick with grime when my family finally came to fetch me. They didn't want a reunion; they wanted a sacrificial lamb to marry into the Kaufman empire to save their failing business. I thought I was just being sold off, but the limo ride ended under a dark overpass where six hired thugs were waiting with chains. My own sister had ordered them to "break my spirit" so I’d be a shaking, pathetic mess by the time I reached the altar. They called me "Detroit trash" and sprayed air freshener when I sat on their leather seats. My stepmother wanted a video of me begging for my life, and my father was ready to trade me like a used car to a man everyone called a "vegetable." They expected a submissive country girl, unaware that I was a high-level "cleaner" who could snap a radius bone before they could even scream. When I finally reached the Kaufman estate, I found my fiancé, Barron, slumped in a wheelchair, drooling and silent. But as soon as the doors closed, the "invalid" grabbed my wrist with a grip of iron and whispered a command that changed everything. I didn't understand why my own blood was so desperate to see me destroyed. What had I ever done to deserve a hit squad and a forced marriage to a man they thought was a corpse? But Barron isn't a vegetable, and I'm not a victim. We just touched down at the Moon family gala in a matte-black helicopter, and as the doors slide open, the "broken" bride is about to show them exactly what happens when you throw away the wrong daughter. "If we're going to crash a party," Barron whispered, his eyes burning with lethal clarity, "we should make an entrance."

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book
Billionaire's Bargain: You belong to me Billionaire's Bargain: You belong to me Bleeding ink Billionaires
“Adeline has never had enough, even though the world believes she has it all. Found abandoned on the street as a baby, she grew up under the roof of a foster mother who constantly reminded her of her "good fortune." One day she's supposed to celebrate the happiest moment of her life, her world collapses: her foster mother has agreed to hand her over in an arranged marriage-not to a kind stranger, but to a billionaire who barges into their home with a breathtaking offer. "You can't just walk into my house and claim you want to marry my daughter. Who do you think you are?" she protests. "Two hundred million dollars," he replies coldly. "I want her." With her freedom sold for a fortune, Adeline faces a choice she never imagined: Would she fight the deal and lose everything she's ever known? or sign away her future to a man whose wealth hides darker motives?”
1

Chapter 1 Marriage proposal

09/10/2025

2

Chapter 2 What choice

09/10/2025

3

Chapter 3 I will sign it

09/10/2025

4

Chapter 4 Alliances and Favor

09/10/2025

5

Chapter 5 Dinner

09/10/2025

6

Chapter 6 Whispers

09/10/2025

7

Chapter 7 Second thought

09/10/2025

8

Chapter 8 Press

09/10/2025

9

Chapter 9 Blue

20/10/2025

10

Chapter 10 Wedding

20/10/2025

11

Chapter 11 I chose her

02/11/2025

12

Chapter 12 Boundaries

03/11/2025

13

Chapter 13 My ocean

04/11/2025

14

Chapter 14 Long time friend.

05/11/2025

15

Chapter 15 Hurt

06/11/2025

16

Chapter 16 Fear and comfort

09/11/2025

17

Chapter 17 Sunrise

12/11/2025

18

Chapter 18 Sunrise; don't breathe in her direction.

14/11/2025

19

Chapter 19 Reminder

18/11/2025

20

Chapter 20 Irrevocably mine

25/11/2025

21

Chapter 21 The night we spoke

27/11/2025

22

Chapter 22 The price of a mistake

30/11/2025

23

Chapter 23 Manipulation

11/12/2025

24

Chapter 24 I want you...

12/12/2025