Bound By Contract: My Disabled Husband

into the fabric of her dress

a whip cracking in the sterile air of the hospital corridor. "Your sister Stella has a

nd never let anyone forget it, looked at Eleanor as

w. "Why should I? It's the Carlisle family. All of New York knows Julian

e also a Hayes daughter, and right now, the family

eanor's father, Richard Hayes, stepped out, his face etched wi

ire, Hayes Industries, and he carried t

ctor said Stella can't have any more em

fatherly warmth in it, only a cold command. "The matter is settl

dropping into an icy abyss. She f

rate plea. "Dad, you can'

rtis's name, a delicate c

e. Her face was pale, but her eyes, when they met Eleanor's, were fil

as she tucked her arm into Richard's. "Jett loves me

room. His handsome face was a mask of awkwardness, but his bod

of a new-money family,

bled, avoiding her wounded gaz

Her family, her fiancé-the entir

ey. She pointed a slender finger at Eleanor's neck, her voice

, purplish mark bloomed on her skin, just below her e

at flooding her cheeks. The humiliation was a

hose face was a blur in the darkness of a hotel roo

Jett have broken up, you shouldn't be so careless with yourself. If the

ntly, shifting from coldness to pu

more vicious. "You shameless thing! Now you have no ch

ses and patients felt like

dge with nowhere to go. She looked at the faces o

hing him a smug smile. A clear de

shooing away a fly. "That's enough. Sto

ether with Brenda and Jett, they esco

left alone i

nforgiving glow. She leaned against the cold wal

ainst them. A choked sob escaped her lips

d now she had to carry this

rkness, a single thought t

ho that man was last night. And she would