TheHana

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"Am I all right? How can you ask me that when you just bought me?" she cried.

"I was trying to save you," he said.
But he couldn't deny he wanted her ...

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Hannah's father has always treated her like his property. But now he has gone too far. To pay his debts, her father sold her to an auction house, where wealthy men buy wives.

Roman Thaddeus is a billionaire playboy with no plans to get hitched. But when he sees Hannah on the auction block, he knows he needs to buy her before those filthy men get their hands on her.

Now Hannah and Roman are trapped in a marriage contract. If they fight back against the Auction House, their lives could be in danger. And soon their hearts are in danger, too.

Marriage Contract: Sold To The Billionaire

Roman had been off the phone with the FBI agent for nearly fifteen minutes. The two of us just sat in silence together as we each pondered over what the man on the phone asked Roman to do.

Before long, and after the sun had risen high enough to bear down on us, Roman cleared his throat and turned me to face him. I relented against him a bit, knowing what it would mean to face him and the situation that now presented itself to us.

I held fast against his grip and the way he tried to move me. Instead I just shut my eyes and pushed my face into his neck, where I tried to pretend that nothing the FBI agent on the phone had told us within the past ten minutes had happened.

It was a somewhat childish thing to do, I knew that, but I wanted to do it anyway. If I could only just steal a few more moments with him, where we were at peace and nothing wrong was going on in the world, I would.

The Measures We Take: Hannah