The Hundred Million Dollar Contract Wife

Chapter 5

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The Hundred Million Dollar Contract Wife

Catherine Romance

“The auctioneer's hammer fell, wiping out the Hayes family empire and leaving Elara with a crushing nine-figure debt and a critically ill mother. Her last lifeline was her fiancé, Blake Sterling. But when his Bentley pulled up outside the auction house, he didn't come to save her. "I can hardly marry a woman with a nine-figure debt attached to her name. Our family is a corporation, not a charity." In front of flashing cameras, he publicly broke their engagement, looking at her with cold, dismissive contempt. Stripped of her dignity, Elara returned the ring and walked out into a freezing blizzard until she collapsed in the snow. Her tragedy didn't end there. Her mother's cognitive decline rapidly worsened, requiring a private care facility that cost an impossible sum. Driven to an absolute dead end, Elara was forced to attend a humiliating "bride-finding" gala hosted by the elite Carlisle family, hoping to secure a rumored hundred-million-dollar settlement to save her mother's life. She was fully prepared to sell her pride and be assessed like a mere commodity. But she never expected the man sitting across the table to be Blake's legendary, ruthless uncle-the titan of Wall Street, Rhodes Carlisle. Desperate, she offered to act as his fake fiancée in exchange for the money. Rhodes calmly pushed a thick, leather-bound prenuptial agreement toward her. "A fiancée is a temporary arrangement with no legal standing. We get married." Elara picked up the pen and signed her name, instantly wiping out her debt and officially becoming her ex-fiancé's aunt.”