The Chair My Husband Left Empty - A Later-in-Life Billionaire Marriage-in-Crisis Romance of Betrayal, Divorce, Grovel, and Second Chance Love #991269

He needed a wife. I needed time.
The deal was supposed to last four months.
No love.
No jealousy.
No broken hearts.
At forty-one, I had spent years building my career. Then one decision put everything at risk. My job. My future. The life I had fought to keep.
That was when billionaire Dominic Rourke made me an offer.
Marry him.
Live in his penthouse.
Smile when the cameras are watching.
Help him protect the family power his half-brother wants to take.
In return, he would give me the one thing I was running out of.
Time.
I should have said no.
Instead, I rewrote his contract and became his wife.
Separate bedrooms.
No touching without permission.
No lies.
And one rule I made very clear.
His ex-wife would never come between us.
Then Dominic kissed me.
Not for the cameras.
Not because the contract said he should.
And suddenly, four months felt far too short.
I started falling for the cold billionaire who remembered my coffee mug. The jealous husband who hated another man looking at me. The lonely man who slowly became real when the penthouse doors closed.
I thought he was falling too.
Then came the morning that destroyed everything.
I walked into the most dangerous interview of my life and looked at the chair beside me.
Empty.
I called my husband seven times.
He never answered.
Because his ex-wife had called first.
And Dominic went to her.
By the time he came back, our private marriage contract was leaking to the press. My name was being destroyed. My career was in danger. And the whole world wanted to know how much the billionaire had paid for his wife.
So I did the one thing Dominic Rourke never believed I would do.
I asked for a divorce.
Now he says he loves me.
Now he is ready to lose power, money, and even his company to prove it.
Now another man is standing beside me—the man who never left my chair empty.
And just when I think I know who betrayed me, hidden evidence changes everything.
My crisis may never have been an accident.
Someone wanted me desperate.
Someone wanted Dominic to doubt me.
And someone close to us has been planning our fall from the beginning.
Dominic wants his wife back.
But I am no longer the woman he married.
And this time, love will not be enough.
He bought four months of my life.
Losing me may cost him everything.