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"Shying away from your wifely duties, little wife?" He questioned in a husky voice, lowering his face to hers.

Ariel quickly turned her head away, "No, Mr. Chaz, you're misunderstanding me again," She voiced quietly.

Aiden scoffed, not believing her. He looked down at his chest and found her slim hand still placed against it.

"You're quite corny, Ariel. Saying you don't want me, yet you're hands are all over me," Aiden whispered in her ear.

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After overhearing her father and stepmother planning how they were going to marry her off in place of her Stepsister to the unsuccessful son of their debtor. That night,  Ariel plans her run away, but that same night, Ariel mysteriously gets kidnapped.

Waking up to discover she'd been kidnapped by the same people she was trying to run away from made her life seem like it had hit rock bottom.

Now, she was going to be forced into a marriage with a man she didn't know and didn't love. But, would everything remain the same for her when she discovers that her new husband was the richest Billionaire in the country?

Chaz Aiden was a successful billionaire with billions of businesses all over the world and zero interest in women, especially after his mother had divorced his father for a richer man. When his grandmother asked him to do him a favor by marrying the Hudson family's daughter, he knew it was for the sake of greed.

He swore to make his new wife's life a living hell, making sure he reminded her that she would always be an object he purchased, contracted and never to be loved.

Billionaire's Contracted & Unloved Wife

Hope rose in Ken's chest as he heard Ariel's reply.

Ariel saw the look on Ken's face and could almost understand what he was thinking.

"Um, what I meant is, what if by the time he falls in love with me, I still haven't fallen in love with him?" She blinked slowly.

Who was she kidding? Aiden would never love her.

Ken slowly nodded, it had nothing to do with him.

"Well, then, you have the right to your feelings, Ariel, just because someone confessed their feelings to you doesn't mean you must reciprocate it. I know I might be shooting myself in the leg by saying this, but that's just the reality of life; we have to accept that things must not always work out the way we want them," Ken spoke in a gentle voice.

Ariel quietly stares at Ken's face: handsome, intelligent, thoughtful, kind, and loving.

Why couldn't Aiden be like Ken? She sighed and nodded at Ken.

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