Billionaire's Marriage Of In-Convenience
From "can I borrow a kiss for bet" to "It was nice sleeping with you" Ethan and Esmeralda entered the most inconvenient marriage of the century. _______ A commitment-phobic and emotionally unavailable Billionaire. That is the reputation that precedes Ethan Westbury. The words cold and distant don't even begin to describe him. An unwarned kiss made him cross his path with Esmeralda Fox, the eccentric actress. She is sure that the billionaire who has more money than emotions is the devil in disguise. Now, the story gets spicy here. Ethan's grandfather's will inheritance clause had posed a great threat to everything he had achieved so far in his life. Get married before his thirty-fourth birthday or lose everything to his Asshole cousin who would stop at nothing to defeat him. Marrying the emerald-eyed curvy beauty is the only option he had. The problem? He is unable to keep up his distant and cold appeal before the devilish beauty. She is everything he hadn't expected. She is like a typhoon, breaking all of his fences and walls and creeping into his heart like a clawing vine. Suddenly, it's impossible for him to keep up with this marriage of convenience when his contractual wife is nothing but an inconvenience with a capital I.
A Delirious night
Half an hour later, they were outside their building. Ethan inserted the password to the elevator that would straight take him to his penthouse while Esmeralda waited for him. The elevator door opened and she entered it along with him. Both of them were standing there, without uttering a word. The elevator dinged as they reached their house and he let her leave first and then followed her.
The house was empty as nobody was inside. The staff was supposed to come the next morning. Esmeralda and Ethan were the only people standing inside. There was an air of awkwardness between the two of them. However, both of them were pretending to be normal with each other.
"Where are you going?" Ethan asked as he saw her going the other way that did not lead to her room.
"I'm going to get water, "Esmeralda said, looking back at her.
"Oh, "He reacted, not knowing how to behave ahead.
Normally, she asked, "Do you want some?"