Betrayed, I Become The CEO'S Contracted Bride
For three years, I was the unrecognized genius bleeding for Marcus’s empire. On the night he was crowned the city's youngest billionaire tycoon, I stood in the shadows, waiting for the proposal he promised. Instead, I watched him pull my treacherous step-sister onto the stage, sliding a six-carat diamond onto her finger while presenting my life’s work as their joint masterpiece.
When I confronted him, his sneer was dripping with disgust: 'You belong hidden in a sterile lab, Elara. She belongs in the spotlight. Know your place.'
Stripped of my legacy, my reputation, and my dignity, I was discarded in the freezing rain. That was where the bulletproof Maybach found me.
Alexander Thorne. The ruthless tyrant of the business world. An apex predator who viewed human emotion as a disease—and the only man with the power to crush Marcus overnight.
He rolled down the window, his gaze lethal.
'I need a brilliant doctor to keep my sister breathing, and a wife who knows how to submit in public. You need a weapon. Get in.'
The contract was absolute: Two years of marriage, total obedience before the cameras, and absolute silence regarding his family. In exchange, he would grant me the unimaginable wealth and power to destroy the parasites who ruined me.
Marcus thought he had buried a pathetic, obedient lab rat. Alexander thought he had bought a desperate, easily controlled doctor. As I signed the marriage certificate and became the untouchable Mrs. Thorne, they both failed to realize one fatal truth.
I didn't just want my research back. I was going to burn their empire to the ground.
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Chapter: Chapter 305Elara pressed the connect sequence on her primary console. The secure site around her maintained a steady, mechanical quiet. Her coffee sat cold in a plain paper cup on the edge of the desk. She took a small sip. The liquid tasted like aluminum and old grounds. She set the cup aside and focused on the center monitor.The connection established itself with a half-second of visual static. The encrypted feed from the estate medical wing cleared into sharp focus.Elara brought up the biometric overlays on her secondary screen. Dr. Chen had authorized the current dosage taper exactly four hours ago. Elara cross-referenced the active heart rate with the morning baseline. The numbers scrolled in steady green lines. The taper was holding.She looked back at the main video feed. She expected an empty room. She expected to see a sleeping child.Mira sat on the edge of the narrow medical cot. She held a damp white cloth in her right hand. She wiped a line of sweat from Lucia's forehead with care
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Chapter: Chapter 304Marcus did not refer to his apology on the next call.He asked about Lucia's latest results, reported that the pothos had survived another week and listened while Elara described a problem with the secure site's sample freezer. Nothing in his manner suggested that she had failed to provide an answer he expected.Elara waited for the question anyway.It did not come.After the call, she opened the transcript from the review office. The monitoring system had placed Marcus's account beneath the federal disclaimer, each sentence separated by timestamps.He had admitted that the Syndicate's order influenced him. He had also refused to use that danger as permission for the erasure he planned. Arthur's decision to turn it into the gala spectacle remained Arthur's. The original betrayal remained Marcus's.The distinction had once sounded like a defense. On the call, Marcus treated it as an accurate division of responsibility.Elara read his a
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Chapter: Chapter 303The calls continued for five weeks before Marcus spoke about the terms of his cooperation.He had mentioned interviews and the receiver's work, but never the structure around them. Elara knew the public filings. The sealed restrictions remained outside the case material she was permitted to see.That evening, Marcus joined from a different room.The walls were white, and the table had been fixed to the floor. A federal notice filled the space behind him where the apartment window usually appeared."Where are you?" Elara asked."Review office. The receiver found another Sterling account attached to Vass's trust. I have been here since morning.""Are you being questioned?""I finished three hours ago. The transport officer cannot return me until nine."Elara looked at the clock. Their call would end at eight twenty-five."You could have canceled.""I did not want to."He said it without lowering his voice or
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Chapter: Chapter 302Marcus usually called at seven.At six forty-eight on a Thursday afternoon, Elara finished Lucia's dosage review and opened the communication portal before the approval notice arrived. The page showed no pending contact.She refreshed it once.The action was automatic enough that she noticed it only after the screen returned unchanged. Elara checked the site's clock against the time in the portal. Both were correct.Marcus had not promised to call that evening. The witness officer approved each request separately, and the last one had ended without another date. No schedule existed for Elara to rely on.She returned to Lucia's results.The latest language assessment showed progress in recognition and a new gap in sequence recall. Elara compared the pattern with Mira's early withdrawal records, marked three differences and sent Chen a revised test for the morning.At six fifty-six, she checked the portal again.The pending notic
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Chapter: Chapter 301The witness officer approved Marcus's first non-case call three days later.The channel remained monitored, but Hammond did not attend. A notice at the top of the screen stated that the conversation could not address sealed evidence, active witness coordination or any person under current federal protection.Marcus joined at seven."Dr. Vance," he said."This is not a witness session."He paused. "Elara."She had agreed to the contact, but hearing her name from him without a case question behind it changed the room. Elara looked at the monitoring notice until the reaction passed."How is Lucia?" Marcus asked."Stable. The late extraction left deficits we are still mapping.""Does she know where she is?""She knows she is safe. Location and sequence are harder. Some days she remembers the estate. Other days she thinks the institute moved her into another assessment wing."Marcus did not tell Elara that Lucia
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Chapter: Chapter 300Marcus identified the clinic director before Hammond finished reading the alias."Gabriel Oren," he said. "He shortened it to Gabe Ren on the school contracts. Arthur used him after Elise Maron stopped attending the trust meetings."Hammond placed the two signatures beside each other on the shared screen. "What did Oren do?""He converted the assessment reports into medical recommendations. Maron identified behavior. Oren wrote the referral that moved a child into Arthur's clinic network."Elara opened the files she had matched the day before. "Was he a physician?""He had a medical degree from Romania. I do not know whether he was licensed in Switzerland.""Did you meet him?""Once in Geneva and once at a school outside Lyon.""Who paid him?""A consulting company controlled by Vass until 2011. After that, the payments came through the education grants."Hammond added the company to the evidence request. The name
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