atthew

atching Blake w

ow, each step landing like a h

workout, a mix of sweat and expensive c

ound myself crumbled under the shee

nd absurd. "Mr. Sterling, I think you've misunderstood. I

rom me, crossing his legs in a pose

ter from the table,

own, his gray eyes

Group, spearheading a key project for the past six months. Graduated from Cornell's School of Hot

he spoke, my sto

verything

but that's just the beginning. Preston Reynolds will soon use his network to crush your bakery, strip you of your

e a surgeon's scalpel, laying bare

hed my

vestiga

e of paper like that is worthless against real power. Only as my wife-Blake's wife, my legal partn

left me sp

his eyes, was nothing

powerlessness

had come t

come to recei

n. "There are countless socialites in New

gaze d

lent for

as suppressing his true thoughts before

. Your 'trouble' is the perfect smokescreen. Our union will look natural-a sports s

s so logical,

everything was

reamed at m

one cage only to jump

d me this was m

he thing my mot

let Preston

ll wanted

draft agreemen

file for a peaceful divorce, and the wife would receive

purely busi

me protectio

the title of "wif

ed my

them again, my

e. But I have

row, slightly surpri

ery, and you must guarantee that Aethelred Group will not engage in any business suppression against me. Third..." I paused, speaking eac

ares my birth mother had left me, which I

s, Blake's face broke into

hint of...

"I'll have Leo add all your

olding a pen. "If there are no objections, you can sign the lett

d up th

t weighed a th

s tremblin

ut and covered my hand wi

as warm an

voice, a strange, soothing quality in

I signed my name

nt on, my life

l fiancée of Blake,

hought the matter w

id to me, "Good. Now, go pack your