Claimed By The Husband's Ruthless Uncle

Chapter 5

Word Count: 810 | Released on: 07/05/2026

umped, her book slipping from her lap and hitting the floor with a thud. She tightened the

ach dropped instantly. Julian's arrogant, smirking

alms began to sweat. She decided to st

ng his fist against the heavy wood. "I know y

stood another man. It was the tall, terrifying man from the study, the one Julian

r ribs. Did they figure out her trick? Or d

d out through the door, her voice s

ce was a mask of cold fury. He

ment, we have the right to enter the premises to investigate suspected breaches of

ht in her throat. They broug

napped his fingers at the building security guard standing nervously i

force to bang it against the interior wall. He stormed int

way, clutching the collar of her

way demanded. His

ickly replaced her fear. "Who? What giv

he air dramatically. "Stop acting. We saw t

He looked at the two men with

lk-in closet, and the master bathroom. Diana stood frozen, her entire body trembli

returned to the living room.

le ticked violently under his sk

room. His sharp eyes immediately locked onto the nightstand.

rapping was still perfectly intact. He picked up the ra

akable plastic zip-tie held a white paper price tag from Walmart, still stubbornly attached to the fabric. He rubbed the material b

s realization crashe

threw the underwear onto the coffee ta

furious face, and finally at Julian's confused e

lain why you broke into my apartment like a pack of ra

nequin from the closet. She grabbed a small tape recorder from the dr

The sound of a man coughing and he

Are you satisfied? I did this to protect myself from a husband who

recording of the coughing man

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Claimed By The Husband's Ruthless Uncle

Shirlee Melnick Romance

“Audrey Fletcher was forced to marry the notorious playboy Julian Sterling to save her family's sinking company after her sister ran away. On their wedding night, her new husband threw a $100,000 check at her face, told her they would be strangers in private, and abandoned her in the bridal suite. She thought being trapped in a loveless, transactional marriage was the worst fate possible. She was wrong. To protect herself, Audrey hung a pair of men's boxer shorts on her balcony to fake a lover's presence. Instead of deterring her husband, the ridiculous ruse brought Alistair Sterling-Julian's terrifying, powerful uncle and the true puppet master of the family. He stormed into her apartment with a legal team to catch her cheating, and later even offered her ten million dollars to divorce his nephew. When she refused out of fear of her own family's ruin, the situation escalated. Forced to attend a charity gala, Audrey was tricked by staff into wearing a scandalous, backless gown and sent to a dark penthouse suite to beg her husband for peace. But the man waiting in the shadows wasn't Julian. It was Alistair. "Does the thought of seducing your husband's uncle give you a special kind of thrill?" He didn't listen to her desperate explanations. Instead, he pinned her arms behind her back and crushed his mouth against hers in a brutal, punishing kiss. Trembling with terror and revulsion, Audrey bit his lip until she tasted blood, shoved the billionaire away, and ran for her life. She couldn't understand why this powerful man was so dangerously obsessed with destroying her sham marriage. But as she fled into the cold city night, she realized the terrifying truth: the real game was just beginning.”