LOGINDrunk and heartbroken, Juliette spends a night with a stranger, wanting nothing more than to forget about it. Four years later, while trying to get her business off the ground and take care of her ailing grandmother, Juliette faces a severe financial crisis. When yet another client refuses to continue with her company’s services and her grandmother falls gravely ill, she has no choice but to give in to her uncle’s demands. The only condition? She must marry the youngest son of the Garret family, a man rumored to be hideously ugly and impotent after a terrible accident years ago. For the sake of her business and her grandmother, Juliette agrees to marry James Garret, the so-called ugly and impotent billionaire. But after the wedding, she discovers the truth. His family has imposed a condition: unless he gets Juliette pregnant within the year, he will be cut out of the family will and stripped of his billionaire status. When Juliette meets James for the first time, she is shocked to find that he is neither ugly as the rumors claimed him to be nor impotent. Why else would he, on their wedding night, lean in close and whisper in her ear? “Let’s make some babies, sweet thing.”
View MoreLaura wasn’t sure whether to hate the woman standing in front of her or simply stab her with the heel of her shoe.God, she was annoying.And the things she was saying—as if she were so much better than Laura, as if marrying James were some kind of good fortune. She clearly had no idea what she was getting herself into.Sure, there was a time when James was someone even Laura admired. Not only was he easy on the eyes, but he was also powerful, with a good and successful life ahead of him.But now? After the accident, he was nothing but a burden—one even his own family didn’t want anything to do with. Wasn’t that the very reason he had been thrown into the west wing, left all alone to suffer and wait for the day he would die?And here this woman was—what was her name again?—treating that useless cripple like some kind of rare gem. Huh. If only that were true.But even then, Laura felt she couldn’t quite stand seeing someone so happy about marrying James. Maybe it was because she couldn
From the privacy of his office, James watched everything unfold. On his laptop, the live video footage played silently, capturing every moment in the drawing room of the Garrett mansion.He hadn’t planned to interfere.At first, he’d told himself he was only checking the feed out of habit—an old reflex born from years of caution and control. The Garrett mansion was full of sharp tongues and sharper intentions. Leaving Juliette alone with any of them had never sat well with him. Still, he’d expected discomfort. Maybe cold politeness. Perhaps a veiled insult or two.He hadn’t expected this.James leaned back in his wheelchair, fingers loosely clasped as his eyes stayed fixed on the screen. He watched her stand there—small in stature compared to the woman looming over her, yet somehow unmovable. She didn’t raise her voice. Didn’t crumble. Didn’t retreat. She met cruelty with composure and arrogance with quiet steel.Interesting, he thought.Most people either pitied him or avoided him alt
“You—” the woman scowled, all her earlier arrogance melting away as she was gravely offended. “You think that’s going to help you? Maybe you don’t know this, but the only reason you’re able to marry into this family is because I didn’t want this marriage in the first place.”That was… new information for Juliette. She didn’t know anything about this woman, and now that she did, something inside her stomach coiled tightly.Instinctively, she looked away, taking a moment to herself to process this new piece of information.Was she trying to say that she was James’s ex? And that she had rejected him?“Why?” Before she knew it, she was asking, looking back at the arrogant woman. Her brows pinched together. “Why would you do that?”“You mean reject James?” She chuckled, as if finally getting the reaction she had been expecting. “Isn’t that obvious enough?” she said, leaning forward and whispering into her ear. “Because he’s of no use to me anymore.”That stung. And more than that, it hurt.
The next few days passed without any further drama.She woke up early every day, personally making tea for herself and coffee for James—as the two of them were the only ones staying in the west wing, and troubling the servants for such a menial task felt unnecessary—and then visited James in his office.To her surprise, not a single day went by when James wasn’t already awake at that hour. She always found him in the same place, seated behind his desk, his laptop open in front of him, with a few loose papers scattered nearby that he often scribbled notes on.She would smile at him, and he would nod back, enough to make her feel acknowledged.And even that tiny act of appreciation felt enough to Juliette somehow.Later, she would get on with her morning routine, get ready, have breakfast, and leave for work.It continued like that for almost a week—until the weekend arrived.It was Sunday, and the Garrett mansion seemed livelier and buzzier than ever before.“What’s happening?” Juliett
Juliette nervously threaded her fingers through her hair, her heart pounding like a drum. She looked out the car window at the posh road, where a fine building loomed over her and her ride.She swallowed for what felt like the hundredth time, her fingers tightening around the steering wheel. “It’s
On the rooftop of the Blue Diamond restaurant, James Garret sat with his cousin, Declan Davidson. A tumbler of whiskey rested in his hand as he looked down from the building, his dark eyes fixed on a certain car.“How long has she been in there?” James asked, swirling the glass slowly, almost lazil
After meeting Madam Garret, when Juliette reached home, she found Aunt Isabella and Sophia in the dining room. As she walked past them, she heard her name being called.“Where are you coming from?” Aunt Isabella asked in a stern voice, as if she had been waiting hours just to say it.Juliette stopp
“Those people are so damn heartless!” snarled Cheryl, her beautiful face twisted in frustration. “How do you even live with them? Do they have no shame at all? What kind of twisted world are they living in?”“Don’t even get me started,” groaned Juliette, burying her face in her palms. “But that’s n
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