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The Secret Billionaire's Contract Bride

Chapter 5 

Word Count: 712    |    Released on: Today at 17:06

disappear. The street was quiet, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. She felt utterly alone, adrift in a life t

ue, Julian Sterling pulled his phone from his

voice on the o

," Julian

lf-storage facility. He guided the van toward a large, windowless roll-up door

ar enthusiast weep. A vintage Aston Martin, a sleek Ferrari, and

ing. He opened the driver's side door

ray t-shirt and jeans, leaving them in a heap on the concrete floor. The suited man handed him

The blue-collar security guard vanished. In his place stood the C

d, sealing him in silence. As the car pulled smoothly out of the garage and into the city traffic, headin

" The voice on the other end was his younger br

an said, hi

new Mrs. Sterling.

n that cheap café, her cheeks red with shame but her eyes defiant as she insisted o

, the words feeling like an understatemen

that's the highest praise imaginable. So, the

your end. As far as Grandmother is concerned

going to keep this up? Playing a twenty-eight-hundred

e call and looked out the window. The Aethel-Stark tower loomed ahead, a m

he Sinclair-Beaumont family was a strategic merger, not a rel

ndor. But her story had intrigued him. An orphan, adopted into a family that clearly exploited her, working tirelessly to build somethi

t kind of person she was when stripped of all pretenses. He wanted to see what

had surp

double life, was

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“Annette's adoptive parents only ever treated her to a feast when they wanted money. Her salary already funded their house, and her savings paid for her brother's college. But this time, they dropped a bomb: her brother was $50,000 in debt. Their solution was to force Annette on a blind date with a wealthy man to pay it off. "I will not sell myself. I'm not going to end up like Eleanor." But her parents weaponized her brother's pain, showing her a video of him breaking down. Cornered and desperate to save him, Annette agreed. She went to the café ready to be bought. But the man waiting for her wasn't the rich heir her parents promised. Julian Sterling claimed to be a simple security guard making a mere $2,800 a month. Yet, he slid a debit card with $50,000 across the table, asking for a one-year fake marriage to escape his own family's control. When he later sent her $4,000 for living expenses, Annette's heart ached with profound guilt. She was entirely convinced this honorable man was secretly working grueling night shifts just to provide for a fake wife. Clutching the key to the stunning apartment he offered her, Annette swore to work tirelessly at her boba shop to pay him back. She had absolutely no idea her struggling, blue-collar husband was actually a billionaire CEO in disguise.”