The Hundred Million Dollar Contract Wife

Chapter 7

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y held the massive oak doors open, and the faint strains of a string quartet drifted out into the cold night air. She moved through a vaulted marble foyer, pas

er in a blaze of golden light, and she paused for ju

The light from the massive crystal chandeliers caught the crystals on he

t, the undisputed ce

whisper

she's s

tion dawned o

ayes girl? The one whose

ara felt their eyes on her, hundreds of them, judging, dissecting. She tightened her grip on her s

n-looking butler began making her way through the crowd towa

toe. A genuine, warm smile touched her lips. "My dear child," she sai

area, placing her in the seat of honor right beside her own. The entire ballroom see

out her family. She didn't lie or embellish. She spoke of her family's situation with

e her a thumbs-up, a look

he center of this whole spectacle had yet to appear. She felt like a prize piece of livestock, prepped and d

s signing the last of a stack of contracts. The noi

la is well underway. Mrs. C

looking up. "It's a ridiculous charad

r. She is... quite the center of attention.

lding the pen, fr

would come. He had orchestrated it. But he hadn't anticipated the raw cour

d moment. Then he capped his pen

is voice a low growl. He

hanged

who had walked into his world, n

d. "Don't you worry, dear. My grandson c

eart bega

om swung open. A tall, powerful figure stood

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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.”