All Chapters of Marriage Contract: the Billionaire and I: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

“Please inform me on what basis you think telling the truth will harm the image of my son and my enterprise.” Uncle Gabriel may be tired, but the way the three lawyers are sitting before us is telling me that they’re now mentally-considering other places they can work at. “Well, sir…” one of them starts but stops himself from talking. “Why don’t you tell him what you told me? The thing about how our community isn’t like that and how it’s better for Nathan to get somebody pregnant than to admit that he got sexually assaulted?” The smugness on my face fights its way that I fail to hide it. “What is my daughter-in-law talking about?” Uncle Gabriel sternly asks. I love how they’re close to shitting their pants before him.   “Something like that will circulate the media sooner or later, sir. We thought that it’s better not to mention that Mr. Rodriguez got sexually assaulted since this would weaken his image in the business community. This community i

He lived a long happy life. He was a great and successful businessman. He was an amazing father and a wonderful husband. But I still can’t believe that he’s gone. I’m still in shock. I know I should have expected that to happen anytime soon, but it happened sooner than I imagined. I feel like there are many things I wanted to do to make him happy, but I didn’t get the chance. At the same time, I know that I have done everything he wanted me to do. I cleaned up my attitude, I got married, I became a successful CEO. Audrey called Linnea right after my mum informed her that my dad was admitted to the hospital. Five days later, he died. Speaking of my mum, she seems lost and I totally get it, but it kills me to see her like that. She lost her lifetime partner, the one she loves the most. She has been crying and I don’t know what to do to help her out. Linnea told me we should let her cry her pain away, but it’s hard. “Hey, I will do it.” Linnea approaches

“Did you say anything to anyone?” Nathan asks me and I shake my head. “Nobody knows about this except our families, Thalia and Asher. None of them will say anything to anyone. Not even by mistake,” I tell him. “Then how on earth did the media find out about the whole contract thing?” In a matter of an hour, the news has circulated the media. Our phones are blowing with messages and calls and we’ve been ignoring them all. This kind of information was never meant to be disclosed to the public. It was our secret. A secret we decided to leave behind. Can’t we just take a break? We seriously need to catch our breath! One drama after the other that I feel like passing out. “Where do you keep your copy of the contract?” Nathan wonders. “At my parent’s place, buried in a box at the very back of my closet,” I reply. “What about yours?” “My bedroom.” “I don’t really think somebody got copies of them,” I tell him. “So somebody hea

“I’m sorry, what?” I can’t help but say that with wide eyes. She wants us to drop charges? After everything she has put us through? She just wants to walk away unpunished? I almost lost Linnea because of her! “That would happen in your dreams! I won’t calm down until you rot in prison!” I snap at her, not being able to hold the anger bottled up in me. “I can’t go to prison, please.” Tears start rolling down her cheeks, but I won’t fall for her crocodile tears. “You should have thought about that before plotting your sick games!” I shout at her face. She looks petrified, but I don’t care. She didn’t think about what she’d be doing to me. “You almost cost me my reputation, I could have lost my wife because of you. My life would have been turned upside down and now you want me to drop the charges? The audacity of some people!” Linnea places her hand on my thigh and gives it a slight squeeze, trying to get me to calm down. “Listen… I can’t go to prison. There are people who depend on

I never knew that we could have our hearts broken over losing something we didn’t even know we had. My chest is burning with pain. I haven’t even been thinking about getting pregnant, but losing my baby is killing me. I have always thought that becoming a mother before twenty-five is a stupid thing to do, but when I realized that I was close to becoming one and I lost the baby, my heart broke. I came out of the OR a while ago. Nathan has been by my side. Literally gluing his body to mine. I asked him to hold me the moment I came out of the OR and ever since then, the two of us have been sitting in silence. There’s nothing I want to say. “Nathan, can we please go home?” I whisper. My voice is hoarse from barely talking. “We still have an hour left,” I remember hearing the doctor say that they wanted to keep me for a couple of hours to make sure I would be okay. Hasn’t they passed yet? It feels like I have been here for so long. “Do you want me to call your mum