The CEO Wants Me- Heiress Has Risen Again

Chapter 2 CHA

Word Count: 714 | Released on: 13/10/2025

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e couches, beautiful young women nearby, pouring them wine and cutting them fruit. Adrian was sitting at the center of a low table, idly riffle-sh

," Harold Sutton (Will), CEO of Redwood Properties, asked, his face a picture of strained pleas

e card. He turned to the man.

us! Was it your

), Adrian's closest lieutenants, who were playing games nearby, instantly

face. "Mr. Sutton, I heard you praising a lovely dancer! Why do

right! She'll be here shortly! I'm paying a small fortune for this exclusive perfo

Adrian remained cold, his fingers tapping

utiful women. "Gentlemen, business is crucial, but so is enjoyment," the hostess cooed. Some w

ertures unnoticed. He lit a cigarette, th

tume with a low V-neck and a thin, black veil over her face. The lights di

r. She's absolutely first-rate," Harold Sutton s

ts sensual and sinuous, hitting the beats with p

d dancer. In spite of the makeup and the costume, a primitiv

as C

nd she was compelling even in this sordid exhibition. She was the

ised a hand and pointed a single, imperious finger at

r dancers paused in

bother the

ingly beautiful smile. She lifted her hands and slowly, deliberately, untied the thin, black str

The businessmen all knew at once who she w

ull of Adrian's most important contacts, dragging the Blackwood name through the dirtiest, most pub

music, her hands moving with tantal

off the sofa, traversed the distance in two steps,

rled, his voice a low, angry thunder, h

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“Claire Harrington grew up in the shadow of Eleanor Harrington, her mother-the woman who built one of Ashford City's most feared media empires. Eleanor exposed scandals, toppled rivals, and destroyed reputations without blinking. When Eleanor died suddenly, her empire collapsed in flames of lawsuits and corruption, dragging Claire into the ashes. At her lowest, Claire thought she had found salvation in Adrian Blackwood, CEO of Blackwood Corporation. But Adrian never wanted salvation for her. He wanted revenge. Years ago, Eleanor Harrington's media empire had smeared his father, driving him to ruin and an early death. Adrian saw Claire not as a wife, but as a weapon for payback. "You married me out of love?" Claire whispered on the night he revealed the truth. Adrian's eyes were cold. "Love? No, Claire. I married you so every time you look at me, you remember the price of your mother's sins." Humiliated and discarded, Claire refuses to be broken. With nothing left, she claws her way into Whitestone Media, a struggling independent newsroom. There she begins to rebuild herself, learning the very weapons her mother once wielded-truth, influence, and scandal. Her allies are few. Olivia Price, a sharp-witted colleague who refuses to let Claire give up. Ryan Gallagher, a racer turned whistleblower, whose loyalty challenges Adrian's claim on her. Yet Adrian never lets her go. Every time Claire rises, he drags her back into his world of power plays and media wars. "Publish another word against me, Claire, and I'll bury you," Adrian warns, pinning her with the same intensity that once undid her. She lifts her chin. "Go ahead, Adrian. Bury me. Just remember who taught me how to dig." As Felicity Monroe, Adrian's ambitious fiancée, maneuvers to secure her place beside him, Claire unearths shocking secrets about Eleanor's empire. The Harrington legacy hides more than scandal-it holds the truth about Adrian's family's destruction, and the possibility that he, too, has been”