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Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Nine
Eliana Brown~•~William Caddel didn’t believe me when I said my injury wasn’t serious but by the next day, I wasn’t limping anymore. Catherine felt pity for me when I told her what happened to me but was intrigued to find out that William had helped me again. He was practically a stranger yet I owed him so much already. I hated it.Emily had shown me three apartments today already. They were very nice and I’d love to stay in them, but they were way out of my budget. I didn’t have a job. I couldn’t afford to stay in an expensive apartment.When we stopped in front of another expensive apartment complex, I groaned. “I doubt this is in the range I told you, Emily.”Emily wasn’t just an agent. She was also a friend. We weren’t very close but we knew a bit about each other’s lives. Rent in New York was already crazily expensive. Even the smallest apartments cost more than a thousand and apartments like those barely had water inside except it was a shared house.I wanted something I was
Last Updated : 2024-11-19Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Ten
Eliana Brown~•~“I don’t ever want to leave, Anna,” Catherine said dramatically.“Well, you are coming with me whether you like it or not.” I continued dragging her by the arm.She dug her feet into the ground, making it harder for me to pull her along with me. I hissed and pulled her even harder. “No, Eliana. I don’t want to leave.”“Girl, you’re coming back anyway! It’s just groceries.”Catherine smiled sheepishly. “Fine.”I rolled my eyes at her and finally let go of her hand when she didn’t seem reluctant to leave anymore. Catherine had helped with packing my things and unloading them into the new apartment. The problem was that she was in love with the apartment which was why she started acting dramatic when I told her to follow me to get groceries.Since I didn’t have much to offload, I spent less than two hours on it. The apartment was already nicely furnished so I didn’t have to do too much to it. I just made a mental note to add a few flowers and paintings to make the place
Last Updated : 2024-11-20Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Eleven
William Caddel~•~[Me: Meet me at the cafe downstairs]The message was short and straight to the point, not even providing context for why I wanted to meet her, but she responded almost immediately.[Eliana: Okay]Five minutes later, I saw her walking past the lounge and into the cafe. She looked around and smiled when she noticed me before walking straight to the table I was seated at. It was a weekend and I was taking a break from my office in the penthouse to work at the cafe. It had a nice view and for some reason, the natural light helped me work better. I needed to renovate my office soon.Well, I was working until I got a call from my grandfather, which prompted my message to Eliana. We weren’t close enough for me to call her downstairs but she was a lot more naive than she knew.“Hey,” she said unsurely as she sat on the chair opposite mine. “Uh, how did you know I was home?”I checked the security cameras, but she didn’t need to know that. “I have been sitting here all day,”
Last Updated : 2024-11-23Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twelve
Eliana Brown ~•~ William Caddel’s offer was weird. He could have any woman he wanted. Hell, he could pay a woman less than what I owed him to pretend to be his girlfriend for a few days, but he chose me. Who was I to complain though? It was a good way for me to pay off my debt. It meant one of my problems had been resolved. Now, I just had to find a new job to get my life back on track. Maybe, I shouldn’t have quit my job. Then again, I couldn’t fathom the idea of kneeling to apologize to a woman who stole. I was poor but I wasn’t desperate. “Eliana, what do you do?” William’s grandfather asked all of a sudden. Time passed by too fast and soon, we were already on our way to the lake house. William was driving, I was in the passenger’s seat, and his grandfather was in the backseat. “I’m currently searching for a job, sir.” “Really?” He hummed and from the rearview mirror, I saw him looking at William. William pretended not to notice. “Have you ever worked?” He asked instea
Last Updated : 2024-12-06Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Thirteen
William Caddel~•~My grandfather had taken to Eliana very well.It almost gave me a whiplash the way he suddenly changed his attitude toward her. On the first day, he had his guard up and was probing a lot to try and find something wrong in our supposed relationship but twenty-four hours later, he was totally smitten.That also happened to be a problem though because whenever my grandfather got comfortable, his tongue got loose. We were taking a walk along the lakeside when he suddenly stopped wheeling his chair.“What do your parents do, Elia?”I arched an eyebrow at the new nickname but when I processed the question, I frowned. I let out a sigh. “You’re asking too many questions.” If it had been a real relationship, he would have chased her away with his many inquiries.“This is the first question I’m asking her today, is it not?” He opposed me. “And what’s so wrong in knowing the background of my granddaughter-in-law?”At his question, she started coughing, most likely taken aback
Last Updated : 2024-12-07Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Fourteen
Eliana Brown~•~“I’m fine with getting married in private.”William’s head snapped toward me and for the first time since I knew the man, he looked speechless. I knew I had caught him off guard. After all, I was just a girl he met on the road who ruined his expensive suit yet here I was offering to marry him in private to appease his grandfather.“See? That’s what I’m talking about.” His grandfather, on the other hand, looked proud of my decision. “Elia doesn’t mind getting married to you, Will. If you’re insecure about your age, she doesn’t care.”I held back a chuckle at his not-so-subtle jab. William ran his tongue over his bottom lip. “Yeah, she doesn’t mind…”I knew a million thoughts were going through his head at the moment. I couldn’t even blame him. He probably thought I was a gold digger, snatching my only opportunity to get closer to him. I wouldn’t call myself a gold digger per se. We were already in a fake relationship. We might as well get into a fake marriage. I knew t
Last Updated : 2024-12-09Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Fifteen
William Caddel ~•~ I didn’t know if Eliana was stupid, naive, or both. I was leaning heavily on both and rightfully so. I wished I could see through her. I wished I was able to tell what was going on in her head. I wished I could understand her thought process and figure out how she came to agree to get married to me. It wasn’t for my name because it was going to happen in private. Was it for the money? From her point of view, we wouldn’t be married for a long time anyway. Did she want the alimony? But then again, she didn’t hesitate to agree to signing a prenup so what exactly was her game plan? Aside from the three days we had all spent together in the lake house, she had only seen me four times. I was a total stranger to her. She didn’t know my intentions for her. She didn’t know the fucked up thoughts I had about her yet she was offering herself so easily to me. Was she comforted by the fact that I was a public figure? I couldn’t sleep that night. My thoughts were rid
Last Updated : 2024-12-09Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Sixteen
Eliana Brown~•~I was already starting to regret agreeing to marry William Caddel.Sure he was rich, but apart from his name and age, I knew next to nothing about him. I knew nothing about his career, how he handled situations, and how he lived in general yet I blindly agreed to marry him. I didn’t even have any time to get prepared because we would be having a court marriage soon. Since there were no guests, we just needed to get our marriage license and get married. Fuck me.I rested my head against the window, wondering how my life was going to move from here. I had made a lot of impromptu decisions these past few weeks but this one was the biggest of all. I was getting married. I’d always wanted to get married. Harry and I had been together for six years and I wanted to get married to him but he wanted us to properly get our lives together first. Now that I had left him, I saw that he was evading it on purpose and I was thankful I didn’t tie myself down to someone as inconsiderat
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Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty eight
Eliana Brown~•~For the second time that morning, I almost fell over but I quickly held on to the wall to prevent my ass from kissing the ground.I turned around to see that William was inside the kitchen, cooking. Didn’t he say he didn’t know how to cook? “Uh, yeah, I have plans with my friends.”“So you’re not having breakfast then?”I tried to look past him but I couldn’t see anything. After drinking a lot last night, I woke up hungry. “What are you making?”He shrugged. “Come find out.” Then he turned around to focus on the stove.My mouth fell open. Was he tempting me with food now? On purpose? Or did he want me to approach him so he could scold me about last night?I never liked going out to eat alone and breakfast was right in front of me. I was still contemplating going downtown but when my stomach rumbled in protest, I knew I had no choice but to go back where I came from.With a relenting sigh, I went back inside and dropped my bag on the couch on my way to the kitchen. Th
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty seven
Eliana Brown~•~I didn’t think things through when I jumped away from William.I was so close to falling and hitting my head on the table when his hand came around my waist and pulled me even closer to him.My scream faded into a gasp at our proximity. Had he been awake all this while? Why did he pretend to be asleep? I needed to dig a hole and bury myself as soon as possible! I was mortified. My cheeks were flaming red. How did I find new ways to embarrass myself in front of him every time?“Are you good?” His morning voice was even deeper than his normal voice and the raspiness caught me off guard.I nodded ferociously and moved away from him, still sitting on the couch because my legs were shaky as fuck.I stared at the table and saw the bottle of wine we had shared last night. I had drank most of it. Was that why I ended on him last night? Who slept off first? What happened? Did I do anything stupid?I looked at him, wanting to ask what happened last night but I didn’t want to em
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty six
William Caddel~•~I stared at her. Her cheeks were flushed and her nose was beginning to turn red. Her eyes were hazy but she was able to maintain eye contact with me.I wondered what kind of drunk she was. Would she remember what happened the next day? Or would she forget everything? I didn’t know exactly how many glasses she had taken but it was enough to give her liquid courage.She reached up to poke my cheek, surprising me. “I’m talking to you, Will.” Her voice was slow and lazy. It was also the first time she was calling me Will. “Why did you marry me? Do you like me?”“What if I do?”Her drunk ass totally ignored my words. “Are you using me just like the movie? Hmm? Tell me.” She didn’t even wait for me to speak. “What’s going to happen now that we’re married? What’s going to happen tonight? It’s our wedding night right?”I wasn’t quite sure what she meant by those questions and I didn’t want to assume because I had a dirty mind. “Why don’t you tell me why you married me inste
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty five
William Caddel~•~Eliana was officially my wife. She didn’t change her last name for obvious reasons but that didn’t take away the fact that she was legally mine. Well, she was mine in every sense of the word. She just didn’t know that yet.Since it wasn’t a huge ceremony, she had spent the previous day moving into my penthouse. It was a Friday and I had work but for the first time in a while, I took a day off to be able to help her with moving in.She didn’t have to buy furniture for the apartment downstairs so moving wasn’t much of a problem for her. The only things she had to pack were her personal things like clothes, body care, flowers, and the rest. She didn’t sleep in my house that night though. She slept at her apartment and went straight to my grandfather’s house this morning to start getting ready for the wedding.It was our wedding night and the first day we would be living together as a married couple. We sat across from each other, staring. I knew it was awkward for her
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter twenty four
Eliana Brown~•~It was real. I was actually getting married to the stranger I met less than three months ago. I was getting married to William Caddel. It was crazy. It wasn’t like we were dating or anything. My impulsive decision led us here, which was why I was so nervous about walking down the aisle.Yes, we were having a regular wedding. There were only five guests; William’s grandfather, Catherine and her boyfriend, and William’s two drivers, who I later found were his friends, George and Duke.George was an artist who drove him sometimes while Duke was his secretary. They were his closest friends and I’d seen them once or twice in the past month. Well, I’d seen Duke a lot since we worked in the same building but I’d interacted with him once or twice.I was straying from the point.I was getting married today. I was in my long white dress that William had paid for and the ceremony was about to start. All I had to do was walk down the aisle. It was going to be a very short event.
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty three
William Caddel~•~“We are all friends and we share everything with each other, but somehow, Will made the decision to get married without telling any of us.” “If he hadn’t spoken about it in front of me, I never would have known.”“And if you didn’t tell, I’d be in the dark up till now.”The two of them paused and stared at me, waiting for me to say something. When I didn’t, George scoffed. “Of course, he doesn’t even care that he hid it from us.”I let out a breath. I didn’t hide shit from them. Duke was my secretary and George drove me around sometimes. They knew almost everything going on in my life and I never had to relay it to them. I wasn’t used to telling them my business because I knew they would find out about it eventually.“Are we invited at least?”“No.” I finally spoke up.“Why the fuck not?” Duke exclaimed.“I told you it’s not a big deal. Grandpa is the only one invited. We’re only getting married because of him.”“Not a big deal?” George snorted. “The woman you’ve b
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty two
Eliana Brown~•~William paused and slowly arched an eyebrow at me. I immediately felt embarrassed. I sounded like a jealous girlfriend.“Right about now.” He murmured and brought out his phone to book a cab. I turned to the side, looking out the window the car zoomed away from the building. Why did I say that out loud? “And done…”I gritted my teeth. William was doing it on purpose. From their interactions, I could tell my boss admired him. She wanted him but I wasn’t so sure how William felt about her. It didn’t exactly seem like he liked her but he was entertaining her which was somehow worse.I took a deep breath. That wasn’t my problem to worry about, was it? They were old enough to do whatever they liked. They only had a six-year age difference while I was younger than William by sixteen years. Even if I liked him, which I didn’t, I was too young for him.“How was your first day?” William asked, bringing my attention back to him.I cleared my throat and found the courage to face
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty one
Eliana Brown~•~My first day of work was quite bland.After they showed me around, they took me to my desk and left me there for the rest of the day. I felt like an intern all over again. Everyone was busy and I just had to sit there and stare.Not wanting to look idle, I turned on the computer in front of me and started browsing through several sites, trying to learn more about 3D printing.Before five, the desks started to empty one after the other. It was the end of the day but I didn’t know whether I could leave or not. The head of the sales department was still in his office and I hadn’t been productive throughout the day.I let out a sigh and shut down the computer, looking around when I got a text on my phone. Grateful for the distraction, I quickly checked it.[William: you done?][Me: I guess][William: you guess? I have to work for one more hour. I’m in a meeting. I’ll come pick you up when I’m done. Can you wait?]We just talked about the possibility of being seen earlier
Trapped by the cold billionaire Chapter Twenty
William Caddel~•~“Did I hear correctly?” Duke exclaimed as soon as Eliana left my car. “You are getting married to her? I’d think it’s just your delusion but she didn’t oppose it.” His voice portrayed his surprise. I hadn’t told him and George yet about the trip to the lake house or the fact that we were getting married.I glared at him. “Watch your mouth. I’m still your boss.”He scoffed, undoing his seatbelt so he could turn to face me properly. “I knew you were obsessed with her but I didn’t think you’d be getting married to her six weeks after being in contact with her. How did you convince her?” He paused. “Wait, did you threaten her?”I rolled my eyes. He was so dramatic yet he acted so mysterious at work. When I first met Duke, he barely spoke, only talking to me whenever it was necessary. Now, he yapped even more than George.“You manipulated her into leaving her job. You manipulated her into staying in your apartment complex. Now you’re manipulating her into getting married
