When my fiancé and his friends turned a prenuptial agreement into a betting pool, I took the job in Chicago I’d already turned down twice for him.
He was still at the club, waiting for me to cave.
Half an hour ago, he had put me on the spot in front of everyone.
“Sign it,” he’d said. “Prove you’re not just in this for the money.”
A prenuptial agreement lay on the table.
The terms were simple.
If we married, I would have no claim to his house or his family’s assets.
Next to the agreement was a check for one hundred thousand dollars.
If I didn’t want to sign, I could take the money and leave.
One of his friends had turned those two options into a wager.
You Told Me To Walk So I Walked Right Out Of Your Lives Chapter 01 My entrepreneur parents always think I’m just waiting to get my hands on their money. To “toughen me up,” they put me on a strict allowance: no more than three hundred dollars a month. I wasn’t allowed to touch the
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 34 When spring came, I received an invitation from Lily to her graduation ceremony. Only my name was on the card. There was no Whitmore family title, no label tying me to anyone else. I went. After the ceremony, Lily ran through the crowd
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 33 On the first anniversary of the project’s launch, the company held a celebration in Chicago. The director who had encouraged me to accept the long-term position for the third time was there, too. Holding a glass, she asked me, “Any regrets?” I knew
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 32 Half a year later, Lily came to Chicago again. This time she wasn’t there to apologize, and she wasn’t carrying evidence. She had only a travel bag on her back, and she asked if I had time that weekend. “We have a career
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 31 Sloane had deleted the edited video, published the original records, and formally committed in writing not to use my name for attention again. I did not ask for compensation. But in order to prove she had not been the only organizer, she attached
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 30 “Okay.” She answered so quickly, it was as if she were afraid I would change my mind. I took her to a restaurant nearby. In the past, when ordering, I would consider Grant’s preferences first, then whether Lily could eat it, and only
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 29 When Lily finished, tears finally spilled down her face. “Mara, I’m sorry.” “I knew Sloane didn’t like you back then, and I didn’t say anything.” “When the school removed you from the emergency contact list, I didn’t ask why, either.” “I thought grown-ups
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 28 “I flew here by myself. I booked the hotel myself, too.” I stopped two steps away from her. “Why was it so important that you see me?” Lily’s eyes turned red. “Because after you left two years ago, my dad told me you
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 27 The day the statement went up, my new project launched on schedule. No reporters at the event asked about the prenup. They asked about the number of jobs the project would create, the plans for the next fiscal year, and why I had
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 26 Sloane’s lawyer proposed a private settlement. The terms were that she would delete the post and stop mentioning me, and in exchange I would stop pursuing the fake email account and the public defamation. I read the document and pushed it back. “There’s
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