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 15 After Sloane’s husband formally filed for divorce, every social circle she used to belong to shut her out. She called Grant again and again. He never picked up. By then, Grant was already on a flight to Chicago. The next day, after my
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 14 Less than an hour after Sloane was thrown out of the club, she posted a long statement on Instagram. Alongside a selfie with red-rimmed eyes, she claimed she had only been looking out for a friend, that everyone had taken part in the
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 13 “But every time, you were the one who suggested testing her first.” Grant’s phone suddenly buzzed. It was a screenshot from Lily. On the screen, Sloane had once boasted in the group chat: “I took my ex’s exit check and used it as
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 12 Sloane had gone pale, but she still forced herself to stand her ground. “Of course I was thinking of your family. She had no custody rights, and yet she had access to Lily at any time. What if she used the child to
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 11 I paused. “What exactly do you still want?” Grant tightened his grip on the phone. “I looked into the wedding-planning emails. It was Sloane using your name. Mara, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have believed any of it, and I definitely shouldn’t have forced
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 10 The sender’s name said Mara Ellis, but the email address was off by a single letter. The messages repeatedly asked to add expensive features and even deliberately hinted that the costs could be covered by the Whitmore family fund. Every email’s IP address
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 09 Backed into a corner, Sloane suddenly laughed coldly. “Yes, she took nothing. But she wasted four years of her life, didn’t she? Wasn’t she just trying to become Mrs. Whitmore? Walking away now only means the prenup didn’t offer enough.” “The venue deposit
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 08 Grant took a sharp step toward her. “The second time, who told me Mara wanted to go to Chicago so she could pressure me into buying an apartment in Boston with only her name on it?” At last, Sloane’s face changed. “I was
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 07 Grant looked up sharply. “Why?” The assistant opened two emails, his expression complicated. “Mr. Whitmore, these are the emails you sent Ms. Ellis when she turned down the Chicago headquarters position the first two times.” In the first, he had asked me to
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From A Humiliating Bet To The Boss He Can’t Have Chapter 06 Sloane’s voice suddenly cut in on the line. “Don’t let her lead the conversation. Ask her if she doesn’t care, why is she even answering your call?” So she was there, too. Grant didn’t tell her to shut up. I hung up immediately.
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