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The Fixer's Secret: Taming My Husband

Chapter 2 2

Word Count: 1023 | Released on: 04/01/2026

el Julian's gaze on her shoulder blades. It felt like a laser burn. She order

of young men. They were Hosts. Beautiful, paid companions that the club kept on retai

her phone. She typ

tantly. Then a reply. H

ted. Two min

storm of red hair and designer silk. Trailing behind her was a

a smile that could melt glaciers. He spotted

d, waving franticall

gain. Julian didn't turn aroun

ng on her best surpris

took her hand and kissed the knuckl

id, laughing. It was a light, tinkling

thout asking and draped it over her shoulders

r? he

into him, letting the jacket env

ted the bar area from the poker pit. She hopped up onto a high st

lian had a direct l

the bartender. Cha

lose. Is that h

red, reaching up to adjust his

inned.

s fabric, she said, her voice pitched just loud enough to carry. It'

lian's hand froz

sure, tried to intervene. Julian, baby, it's

was staring at Victoria

terrible joke about a lawyer and a shark, but Leo threw his head b

f chips into the center

changed looks. The p

ooked over the rim of the glass at Juli

. I've always thought intelligence is the sexies

d so hard a muscle f

, Juli

paused. Sir

is entire stack forward. Two m

he table knew it. He hadn't e

sped. Ju

a shark named Sebastian who had been

ds. A Full House. The unb

es. He had the nut flush draw. He had missed. He had been staring

t was a two-million-dollar lapse in judgme

throat. The house win

e in a second of testost

sick. Julian, that was... that was t

d. A slow, sarc

e raised her glass.

against the floor with a screech

predatory grace of a panther that had d

raightened up, instinctivel

g, Leo bega

Julian

ayful shove. It was a blow to the chest that sent Leo stumbli

s shattered. Amber liquid spr

went de

ook at the bouncers who were starting to mo

e the flecks of gold in his gray eyes. She could smell the whisk

sked. His voice wa

cing so fast she thought she might pass out

Julian. Are yo

. For a second, she though

ched out and gr

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“I spent three years playing the role of the perfect, silent wife to Julian Sterling, the most volatile billionaire in Manhattan. To the world, I was just a socialite; in reality, I was a high-stakes crisis negotiator known as "The Fixer," living a double life to survive a marriage that was nothing more than a cold, clinical contract. The illusion shattered when Julian publicly humiliated me at his private club, flaunting his mistress while his mother issued a brutal ultimatum: produce an heir by next week, or my family's remaining assets would be wiped out. But the true betrayal lay hidden in a secret file in my parents' safe. I wasn't chosen for love or status; I was a "genetic stabilizer," a biological filter purchased to breed the mental instability out of the Sterling bloodline. My own parents had sold me like a lab rat, trading my life to unfreeze their bank accounts. Julian treated me like a "slab of meat" while chasing the ghost of a woman named Seraphina, and my mother-in-law viewed my womb as nothing more than a corporate asset. I realized then that every person I had ever trusted had placed a bounty on my DNA. "I'm not jealous, Julian," I told him as he pinned me down in a hospital room, his eyes wild with the Sterling madness. "I'm just the one holding the bill." When a secret request came in for a "ghost negotiator" to defend Sterling Industries against a hostile takeover, I didn't turn it down. They had no idea that the elite specialist they were hiring to save their empire was the same wife they had spent years trying to break. I'm done being the cure for this family. This time, I'm the poison, and I'm going to make sure they pay every cent they owe me.”