Secrets of a Hidden Marriage
ContemporaryArrogantCEOAge GapBetrayalLove after Marriage
"This is my first time... it hurts... oh, it’s bleeding..." Allie winced as a cut from the kitchen knife throbbed on her finger. Liam glanced at her, his face full of concern, and applied the medicine with a sharp, almost angry tone: "I’ve told you not to go near the kitchen! Just tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll make it for you!"
For Allie, her 20th birthday gift was discovering her boyfriend's betrayal with her best friend in bed. Furious, she turned her back on Nick and married Liam Hart, the city’s most influential and untouchable man. From that moment, she faced endless challenges: Nick’s constant manipulations, Liam’s family scheming against her, and the toxic people in their lives. Everyone sees Liam as the perfect, doting husband—no one knows the price she pays for his love.
Exhausted, Allie faced Liam one night, her voice trembling with frustration: "Liam Hart, you are a monster in disguise."
Liam, looking hurt, replied with a soft grin, “You wound me, darling. How could I possibly be a monster when I’m the one who’s supposed to protect you?”
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Chapter: Chapter 209: She Buttoned His Collar — Vivian Saw EverythingWe're getting dressed when the knock comes.I open the door.Vivian.She's in a silk robe, hair perfectly arranged for someone who claims to have just woken up, eyes doing a rapid sweep of the room the moment I step back. Her gaze lands on Liam — buttoning his cuffs, unhurried, in the middle of my childhood bedroom at seven-thirty on a Sunday — and something moves across her face before she locks it down."Brother-in-law." Her voice is warm enough to frost glass. "Mom made fish soup noodles. She wants you both downstairs for breakfast."Liam walks toward the door.He stops beside me."Can you—" He tips his chin toward his collar, where the top button has come loose. "I can never get that one."I turn.He's already done everything else — the shirt perfectly pressed from Secretary Fang, the jacket ready on the chair. Just the collar. Just this one button.I reach up and do it.It takes
最後更新: 2026-06-10
Chapter: Chapter 208: He Had His Secretary Bring Clothes. She'd Washed His Shirt for Nothing.The shirt never fully dries.I know it the moment I walk into the bathroom the next morning, still warm from sleep, and pick it up from where it ended up in the sink — crumpled and slightly damp and deeply, irreversibly wrinkled — and I stand there holding it with the specific expression of a woman reconstructing the sequence of events that led to this outcome.The sequence is: I was washing the shirt. Liam came in. The shirt went into the sink.The rest of the sequence is not relevant to the shirt."It's ruined," I say, when I walk back into the bedroom.Liam is sitting up against the headboard, the quilt pooled at his waist, watching me with the unhurried contentment of a man who slept well and is in no particular rush to begin the morning. There is something criminally unfair about how he looks right now — the morning light through the curtains, the particular dishevelment that happens when someone sleeps hard — and I hav
最後更新: 2026-06-09
Chapter: Chapter 207: 2 AM — She Was Washing His Shirt with a HairdryerHe is shameless.I realize it the exact moment the pain evaporates from his face and the triumphant smile takes its place — slow, deliberate, aimed directly at me — and I stand there for a full three seconds with my concern evaporating into something hotter."You faked it," I say.He stretches out on my childhood bed like he owns it."I needed to know how worried you'd get." His voice is warm. Easy. The voice of a man who has won something and is comfortable letting you see it."I nearly had a heart attack.""You went white as a sheet.""Because I thought I had—" I stop. Take a breath. "You are the most—"I step on his stomach.Not hard. Enough. He makes an extremely satisfying sound.Then I crawl back under the quilt, turn my back to him, and pull it over my head.He lifts it."Are you angry?""Go away.""You're not angry. You're embarrassed that you cared.""Go. Away."He doesn't go away, but he does, eventually, stop talking. The mattress shifts as he gets up. I hear the bathroom d
最後更新: 2026-06-08
Chapter: Chapter 206: She Kicked Him. Then She Panicked. Then He Laughed."Let me go."She doesn't scream it. She says it low and tight, pressed against the mattress with Liam's weight above her and his mouth at her throat and two weeks of distance and fury and missed meals and sleepless nights colliding in the space between them with nowhere to go."Liam—"He kisses her instead. A deep, claiming kiss that isn't asking anything, that is only saying — you are mine, you were always mine, I have been miserable without you every single day — and for a moment she goes completely still because it lands everywhere at once, through her chest and her stomach and the stupid, traitorous parts of her that missed him the way you miss sunlight in a cold house.Then she gets her head back."I will scream," she says against his mouth."Your father's house," he says. "That would be embarrassing for both of us.""I will absolutely scream.""Allie." His voice is rough. He pulls back just enough to look at her — and she sees it, sees all the things he hasn't said. Two weeks of
最後更新: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 205: I Locked the Door for a Reason — He Didn't Care"That's not his shirt."Allie says it without thinking — the words just come out, automatic, the way you correct a small wrong when your brain is running on tired and you've lost the energy to calculate every sentence before it leaves your mouth.Liam goes very still."You still remember what he wears," he says. Flat. Not a question."I said the shirt isn't his. Nick doesn't wear blue dress shirts—""So you've inventoried his wardrobe.""Liam."He turns away, jaw tight, and she watches him discard the shirt back on the chair with the disgust of a man who has decided this particular piece of clothing is personally offensive to him. Which, given everything, it probably is.She grabs clothes from her closet — the same impulse she's had since she was seventeen, when this room was a refuge and the first rule was always when overwhelmed, shower — and heads for the bathroom.Sh
最後更新: 2026-06-04
Chapter: Chapter 204: Your Ex-Boyfriend Has Terrible Taste"If you don't believe me," Liam says, "ask him."The sentence lands like something dropped from a building.Allie looks at his face — really looks — searching for the tell that this is overprotection, irrational jealousy, a man spiraling past the evidence. But Liam Hart doesn't spiral. He doesn't say things he doesn't mean. He doesn't build accusations out of nothing.His face is completely, devastatingly serious.She thinks about Adam in the hospital — head lowered, flushed, saying the porridge was good like it cost him his whole composure. The camera sessions, how his eyes kept finding her when he wasn't monitoring them. The balcony Liam won't explain but clearly cannot unsee.He likes you. The way a man likes a woman."That's—" she starts.A knock at the door.Both of them go still.It gets louder.Liam releases a breath through his nose, crosses the room, turns the han
最後更新: 2026-06-03
My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With
ContemporaryDramaSteamyCEOHidden IdentityPossessiveBetrayalForgivenessHate to Love
Six Secrets. One Devastating Truth. Zero Escape.
One heartbroken night. One reckless stranger. One decision that changed everything.
Three years ago, Sloane Carter walked into a Chicago bar to forget the man who destroyed her. She walked out carrying a secret that would define the rest of her life — six of them, actually. Because the devastatingly handsome stranger she gave herself to that night didn't just break through her walls.
He left her with sextuplets she's been raising alone, loving fiercely, and hiding from the world ever
since.
She never got his name.
She never needed to.
Until now.
When a desperate job search lands Sloane inside PIERCE Tower — Chicago's most powerful corporation — she comes face to face with the one man she never thought she'd see again. Declan
Pierce. Billionaire. CEO. Ruthless. Magnetic. And the father of her six children, who have his jaw, his eyes, and absolutely no idea he exists.
Now Sloane is trapped — forty-two floors up, steps from his office, dodging his questions, outrunning his memory, and fighting a pull between them that three years and six babies haven't dulled one single degree. Declan Pierce didn't build an empire by missing details. And the more time she spends in his orbit, the more she can feel him circling the truth — patient, dangerous, inevitable.
She has one rule: he cannot find out.
He has one certainty: he's seen her before.
And somewhere between the boardroom power plays, the jealous relatives, and six toddlers who look exactly like their father — the clock is running out on the biggest secret in Chicago.
Because Declan Pierce never loses. And he's already decided that Sloane Carter is something he's not willing to let go.
The only question is what happens when he finds out why.
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Chapter: Chapter 40: FeverJamie Cross looked up at her with red-rimmed eyes and a chin that wouldn't stop wobbling, and Sloane made a decision she was probably going to regret."Okay." She lowered her voice to a whisper. "But it has to be our secret. Just yours and mine. Nobody else finds out. Can you do that?"His wet face transformed instantly — sorrow to delight, like flipping a switch. "I love secrets!""I know." She held out her pinky finger.He grabbed it with both hands, squeezed once, and sealed it with the gravity of a four-year-old who had just made the most important deal of his life.She knew — she knew — that Claire had orchestrated this. That Jamie hadn't wandered to PIERCE Tower alone. That his knowing her name, calling her sister, was Claire's doing — a breadcrumb left deliberately, a door pushed open.But Jamie himself was just a child.Same age as her six. Same wide eyes. Same complete, devas
最後更新: 2026-07-18
Chapter: Chapter 39: Strawberry MarksThe temperature in the pantry dropped ten degrees in an instant.Sloane felt it the moment the question left her mouth — felt the shift in Declan's body, the way the air around him changed, like a pressure system rolling in off the lake. His jaw went tight. Those black eyes went cold in a way that was different from his usual cold — deeper, older, the kind of cold that came from somewhere that had never fully healed."It seems," he said softly, "that you have a lot of nerve."Oh no.She opened her mouth to walk it back — I didn't mean anything by it, forget I said it, Mr. Pierce, I'm so sorry—His mouth came down on her neck.Not a kiss.A bite.Sharp, sudden, the pressure of his teeth against the curve of her throat — and Sloane's entire world reduced to that single point of sensation. She gasped. Her spine arched. One hand flew to his jacket lapel and gripped i
最後更新: 2026-07-17
Chapter: Chapter 38: Don't You Dare MoveSloane stood alone in the executive pantry and stared at the espresso machine like it owed her an apology.Salt, she thought. If I could just find salt.She opened the refrigerator. Ice maker. Nothing else.She checked the drawers. Napkins, stirrers, a tiny jar of agave that would not accomplish what she needed it to accomplish.She opened the cabinet above the machine. Coffee beans, filters, a spare portafilter.No salt.She stood there for a moment, hands braced on the counter, and thought about what she was doing — genuinely contemplating sabotaging her own job by seasoning the CEO's coffee — and felt the first real laugh of the week trying to climb up her throat.She pressed her lips together and killed it.Don't, she told herself. Don't find this funny. This is not funny.But she knew the truth: even if she'd found a full saltshaker, she wouldn't have used it.B
最後更新: 2026-07-16
Chapter: Chapter 37: Add Some Salt"Help you?" Sloane looked at her mother across the coffee shop table and almost laughed. "Claire. Declan Pierce cut off his entire family years ago. Everyone in that building knows it. What exactly are you going to do for me from the outside of a locked door?"Claire's mouth tightened. The admission sat between them like a stone neither of them wanted to pick up."I know you hate me," Claire said quietly."I don't." Sloane said it simply, without heat. "Hate takes energy I've already spent."Disappointment was the right word. Disappointment so complete and so old it had calcified into something that barely felt like anything at all. You couldn't hate someone you'd stopped expecting things from."The milk powder." Claire leaned forward, grasping at something lighter, something safe. "I saw you carrying so much of it. Why do you need—""I like it in my coffee." Sloane stood. Picked up her bag. "I've said everything I came to say
最後更新: 2026-07-15
Chapter: Chapter 36: I've Been Thinking About YouThe train rocked through the dark tunnel and Sloane gripped the pole so hard her knuckles went bone white.Her reflection stared back at her from the black window opposite — pale face, hollow eyes, four canisters of baby formula at her feet like an anchor. Around her, strangers scrolled phones and dozed against the glass, each sealed in their own world.She was completely alone in hers.Claire Bowen.The name kept surfacing, unwanted and sharp. She pushed it down. It came back.She'd heard the gossip on the forty-second floor. Declan's half-brother's mother. Destroyed a marriage to take the position. Old money, younger woman, a son born into a family that never fully accepted her.She hadn't connected the name to a face until tonight.Until a woman with manicured hands and a designer coat looked at her on a Chicago sidewalk and said her old name like a prayer.Like she'd been waiting to say it.
最後更新: 2026-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 35: She Knew Her FaceThe moment Sloane walked back into that office, her hands decided to betray her.She set the coffee down too hard.The cup hit the saucer with a crack that split the conversation in half. Coffee sloshed over the rim, spread across the side table in a dark, spreading stain, and every pair of eyes in the room snapped to her simultaneously.Oh no.One of the executives — the one who'd been talking the most, the one with the practiced confidence of a man performing for his audience — seized the moment immediately."Really." He turned to her with the expression of someone who had just been handed a gift. "You can't even serve coffee properly? That needs to be remade—""Mind your own business."Three words. Quiet. Absolute.Declan's voice filled the room and then emptied it of everything else.The executive's mouth closed so fast Sloane heard his teeth.Declan's fingers — long,
最後更新: 2026-07-13
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