Contract Marriage With My Billionaire Wife

Lucas wrapped his arms around her shoulder and patted her head, as the man could hear her sniffles which made him even more worried about the situation. He wanted to rip off Diego’s head but before that he needed to know the truth.

“Hey, hey, look at me.”

Lucas held her face in his both hands and forced her to look up, when he wanted her to say anything to him. Whereas Nathalie perhaps did not seem in the very position to utter anything.

“Tell me what happened? Where did you go?”

Although he had known everything and Sandro’ hunch was right too, she had been hiding something big from him. After all why would she agree to meet the man she had refuse to marry long ago!?

“I… I… I’m sorry, Lucas. I had to… I had no choice….”

She somehow managed to utter a few words as her breathing grew heavier, that Lucas had no choice but t take her to the room.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay. You know I’m here with you.”

He scooped the lady in his strong arms and took her upstairs and settled her in the bed. The man locked the door and then walked towards the bed side table to fetch a glass of water for her.

“Here, take this.”

Nathalie wiped off her tears roughly and took the glass from him, whereas Lucas crouched down in front of her on the floor. The man waited for her to finish the water and as soon as Nathalie put the glass down, he confronted her again.

“Tell me what happened?”

He grabbed her hands and encouraged her to speak while he waited for her.

‘Come on, Nat. Tell me the truth. Tell me what is going on, for fucks sake!’

He talked to himself knowing that he needed hear it out from her.

“I… I’m sorry Lucas for hiding it,”

The woman began to speak and whatever she said perhaps was not what Lucas had expected. Nathalie resumed her speech after she made sure that he had been hearing her carefully.

“I did not mean to do it purposely, but you know things sometimes just happen on their own.”

She took a pause and inhaled deeply as the woman tried to avoid her gaze with him.

“Before I offered you the contract for this marriage, I… I had been sent a proposal for Diego.”

The lady was not aware that Lucas had already known about him.

“The media knew and the spread of us getting engaged travelled like a wild fire. I didn’t want to marry him,”

She took a pause and looked up at him, when her tone turned into convincing one and she sounded desperate.

Somehow Lucas felt happy that she did not want to marry Diego in the first place, but that didn’t either mean that she loved Lucas too. Right?

“Because I knew he was a playboy and already has a wife. That bastard had been leeching his wife off for money instead of doing something. They kept their marriage secret and hidden successfully since it was just a business deal to save Diego’s father failing business.”

Lucas became shocked upon hearing that, no doubt he was totally unaware of that news. And it took him by surprise that he felt pitiful for that woman, even though he didn’t know anything about him.

“His proposal was just out of the blue and I rejected him, for which he was here.”

She sniffed and her tone grew even more shallow with tears swelling up in her eyes.

“And… for that… he was here. He wanted a revenge for insulting him.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hide it. I became terrified that you would see him at the cafe, so I had to go with him.”

Nathalie stopped and hid her face between both hands, whereas Lucas sighed upon her apology.

‘She still isn’t telling me the whole thing.’

No wonder he had already guessed it, after all he earned the title of ‘The Devil’ of the board room for a reason. People feared him since he could always figure out the catch behind the deals.

“Hey, it’s okay. It doesn’t matter who was there and what was there,”

Lucas squeezed her hand gently which he had left loosened during the listening.

“What matter is, who is here at the moment. And are you happy with him?”

He assured her that he would always be by her side.

She nodded with a smile as the lady chuckled softly after Lucas nodded behind her. It was the moment when he noticed something and tilted her face a little only to see a red finger print on her cheek.

“Did he do this?”

His expression grew darker upon seeing her face, which scared her immediately. She held his hand to warn and to stop him from doing anything stupid.

“Hey, hey it’s just… nothing. Don’t do anything stupid okay. Diego is powerful than us.”

Lucas wanted to laugh at her statement but held her face and rubbed it gently.

‘Bullshit, powerful. Duh! I can make him disappear within the snap of my fingers!’

He wanted to say that but could not, although Lucas had to channel out the anger through any way.

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He lifted her hand up and kissed it gently while his eyes never left her face. Nathalie on the other hand knew what was coming, which made her excited and nervous at the same time.

‘Oh no! He is going to punish me for sneaking out.’

Lucas got up from the floor and put her hands on the bed while leaving no room for her to escape from his clutches. The man slipped his hand behind her head and brought her face closer.

“Or did he touch you here?”

He kissed her forehead making sure that Nathalie would feel that it was a tempting punishment/

He bent down on her and lifted her chin while their breaths collided and his lips were just inches away from hers.

“Or maybe here? Let me erase his every mark on you!”