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.
From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 25 Sloane called Grant almost immediately. He didn’t answer. Then she sent dozens of messages. [The betting pool was a group activity!] [You were the one who told your assistant to prepare that check!] [Without your approval, could I have projected the chat onto
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 24 But he had never asked Lily if she wanted to be used that way. Grant picked up a pen and signed his name at the end of the confirmation statement. His lawyer reminded him, “Once this is released, you will not only be
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 23 When Grant received the reply, he was sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. The black gift box sat on the table. Inside was still that pair of cuff links engraved with the three of our names. For the past two years, every
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 22 This time, I pushed the file my lawyer had assembled across the table. “No need to postpone.” The first page was the prenuptial agreement I never signed. The second was the uncashed check for one hundred thousand dollars. After that came the Excel
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 21 The day after the legal notice was delivered, Sloane did not delete the post. Instead, she started a livestream. On camera, she wore a plain blouse. There was no jewelry, no champagne on the table the way there used to be. “Two years
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 20 “All of it. The original chat records, the video Sloane sent you, the emails from the fake address, the IP information, your spreadsheet, and the scan of the cashier’s check—we organized everything chronologically.” Not a single one of those things had been dug
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 19 We hadn’t been in contact for two years, and Lily’s profile photo had changed to a graduation picture. I looked at those three lines and didn’t answer right away. A few minutes later, she sent me a link. Sloane had made her Instagram
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 18 Grant gave her only one glance. “Aren’t you the one who looks down on people who depend on others?” Then he walked right past her. Sloane hurried after him, twisted an ankle in her heels, and fell in a heap at the entrance
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 17 “What I wanted was never your compensation after the fact,” I said. “All I wanted was for my fiancé to stand beside me when they turned my dignity into a betting game and humiliated me in public. You didn’t.” Grant’s eyes slowly reddened.
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 16 “I can change,” Grant said, following me. “I’ll explain the group chat and the prenup publicly. I’ll tell everyone this was my fault.” “I don’t need that.” “I can move to Chicago and stay here with you.” “I don’t need that, either.” He
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