Substitute Bride: Healing The Broken Billionaire

Chapter 7

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he mattress. The thick memory fo

rass bedside reading lamp. It cast a warm,

uth were completely gone. His jaw was relaxed. Without his icy

t hand in hers. Her fingers felt small and d

y the dried, flaky blood crusted under his fingernails

int, troubled frown appeared on his forehead. But

the cooling antiseptic ointment to the small, angry

bandage around a deeper cut on his thumb. Satisf

. His large hand clamped down around her slen

aped into her throat, choking her. Sh

de-eyed at his face, waiting for h

t rose and fell in a deep, rhythmic pattern. I

turned his head slightly, burying his face into the

open with her free hand. She didn't want to b

grip tightened painfully. A low, distressed

heartbreaking words about his trauma and his

cided to let him hold her hand until he f

he slid off the high mattress and sat down o

mattress. Her right arm remained stretched out across

unds were the loud ticking of the grandfath

mind raced. She thought about her sister Sylvia, lyi

oded blackmail. She felt the crushing weight o

a lifeline in a storm, she felt a strange, unexpected sense of so

stress of the wedding, the frantic escape attempt, and the terrifying

ly heavy. They felt like

intended to sneak back to the leathe

s large thumb began to unconsciously str

motion acted like a potent lullaby

. Her head sank deeper into

other second, she fell into a deep, dreamless

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Substitute Bride: Healing The Broken Billionaire

Karyelle Kuhn Billionaires

“To save her family from bankruptcy, Serena was forced into her twin sister's wedding dress to marry a notorious, paralyzed billionaire. On her wedding night, she tried to escape the terrifying mansion, only to be violently stopped by her own father. He dug his thick fingers into her bruised arm and threatened to cut off her hospitalized sister's life support if she dared to run away. Trapped with no way out, Serena endured harsh humiliation from her new husband, Julian, who thought she was just a desperate gold digger thanks to her stepmother's sabotage. The next morning, things got even worse. Julian's terrifying grandmother, the family matriarch, threw a ten-million-dollar check at her. "Take the money and file for a quiet annulment today. Leave the cripple immediately." "If you refuse, I will personally ensure your family is crushed into dust before Friday." Serena stared at the crisp paper that could instantly buy her freedom and save her sister. Her own father was using her sister's life as blackmail, and Julian's own flesh and blood treated him like a disposable liability. But she remembered the traumatized, broken man who had blindly held her hand through a severe PTSD attack the night before. She didn't take the easy money. Instead, Serena slid the check right back across the polished mahogany table. "My marriage to Julian is not for sale," she stated firmly, officially declaring war on the powerful matriarch.”