Bargain Bride: The Billionaire’s Forced Wife

CHIARA IMMEDIATELY ASKED Victor to get a new pair of suit for her husband the moment they arrive at the office. She can feel her husband’s annoyance to the woman, but he hurried to her side and hugged her, as if he was asking for comfort.

“I already asked Victor to bring you new clothes,” she whispered in his ear while helping him in putting down their lunch on the table.

Just after a few minutes, they heard a knock on the door. Chiara opened it and was greeted by Victor who has. a huge paper bag in his hand.

“Thank you, ” she said before going back to her husband.

Ezio was just standing in the middle of the office like a child who is waiting for her mother to get his towel and clothes. When Chiara locked the door, he immediately removed his clothes as fast as a lightning.

“Don’t you want to you the comfort room?” she asked her husband. “Getting naked in the office seems inappropriate.”

Ezio put on the new clothes given to him. “Just days ago, we were naked in this same office but you said nothing.”

Her face turned red, knowing that her husband was referring to their intimate act in the office. She just ignored him and waited for him to finish before helping him with his necktie.

Chiara removed the food from the plastic containers and they had their lunch. There are only a few minutes left before they can go back to work, but Chiara didn’t rush her husband since they already finished their tasks for that day.

After filling their stomach, Ezio cleaned the table and went back to cuddle with his wife. The scenario on the ground floor crossed in Chiara’s mind once again.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

“Why did you fire her?” Chiara asked her husband who’s playing with her hair as they sat on the visitor’s couch. “She didn’t do anything aside from wetting your pants.”

Ezio squinted his eyes before answering. “Cara, don’t you know that before, a week wouldn’t pass without me firing anyone?” he spoke as a matter of fact.

“And you think that is a good excuse?” Chiara challenged him. She knew about that since Luigi told her one time that Ezio stopped firing people when Chiara and him started to be in good terms. But she can feel that there is another reason why Ezio was so angry at the woman earlier.

Ezio took a deep breath. “She tried to seduce me,” he spoke.

Chiara stiffened at his response. She didn’t expect that he will say that. “Seduced you? How? When?”

“She followed me when I bought our lunch,” he explained, remembering how the woman act earlier. “She was insisting that she will help me, which I refused several times. When I was waiting for the food, she approached me again and tried to show her,” his eyes went down on Chiara’s breast before pointing to it. “That.”

Chiara looked down at her chest and her face contorted in annoyance. “Did you see it?” she asked, sending a warning glare to her husband.

“Of course, not!” Ezio put his hands up in thr air as if he wanted to surrender. “Your breasts are the only one I will look at. Can I have a taste now?”

She playfully hit his arms before going back to the topic. “You’re really shameless. So, what happened next?”

“I turned my back to her and changed places,” he added. “But she still followed me. When I walked back, she tried to rub her skin on mine,” then he grinned. “I pushed her.”

Chiara smiled at his statement. Maybe that’s why she saw the woman’s arm having a few scratches. He indeed pushed her.

“But she was really persistent, cara,” he added more. “When I was about to go to the elevator and tell you what happened, I felt something cold in my pants. Then I saw her pouring the water. It wasn’t an accident, cara! She intentionally did that!”

Chiara’s hunch was right. The way Ezio’s pants was wet was really intentional. Her blood boiled just by thinking that another woman tried to catch her husband’s attention.

“You made the right choice by firing her,” she responded. “I don’t want any lady flirting with you,” she pulled Ezio’s necktie so that he will be closer to her. “You’re mine, okay? Tell that to those women.”

Ezio giggle inside him, but he only gave a wide smile before kissing her lips. “Yes, cara. I’m yours.”

They frenh kissed each other, not minding that they are in the office. As they were near on losing control, they heard a series of knock on the door.

“I almost forgot!” Chiara spoke before standing uo, fixing herself. “Dante texted that he has an update.”

Ezio pouted. “Can’t he just send the update over the phone? This is the second time he interrupted our sexy time,” he spoke.

“As far as I remember, this is the first time,” Chiara responded. “The first time Dante went here, you didn’t mind him and continued ravishing me. That doesn’t count as an interruption.”

Before Ezio could argue, Chiara opened the door and let her husband’s friend in. Dante looked surprised that they opened the door quick, unlike last time where he waited for several minutes.

“So, what did you find out?” Ezio asked his friend, hiding the annoyance because of their interrupted time.

“We were able to catch the mercenary who left a trace of his blood,” he rested his back on the couch, and he looked like he was disappointed of the result. “We interrogated him, but we still cannot find anything that will connect them to Giovanni.”

“But he revealed that the man who paid them sent a masked woman who gave them the deposit of their payment,” he added. Dante pulled a bunch of stapled paper from his bag before giving them to Ezio.

“We dig into the transaction records of those mercenaries. It was difficult to retrieve since they used different name, but we were able to find it, ” he spoke as Ezio and Chiara read the contents of the paper.

While they were scanning the pages, Ezio pointed at one name of a sender, who transfer 300, 000 euros to one of the mercenaries’ account.

“Romano Enterprises,” he read that certain line in the paper, as his pointing finger slide through the page, from the sender’s name to the transaction number.

Chiara turned her head to her husband. “Does that ring a bell?” she asked, because the name of that enterprise isn’t familiar for her. The surname Romano is somehow common in Italy.

“Isadora, Giovanni’s mistress number three,” he chuckled. “is the granddaughter of the Romano Enterprise’s CEO.”

He steepled his fingers and grinned. “It might be a direct connection to Giovanni, but atleast we knew that his mistress is involved with this.”

Suddenly, a thought crossed in his mind as a familiar glint formed in his eyes. “I wonder what Mr. Romano will do once he found out that his precious granddaughter paid mercenaries to kill someone,” he stated.

Dante knew what’s going on inside his friend’s mind. Knowing Ezio, he will use his connection to Mr. Romano to reveal the deeds of his granddaughter.

But Ezio wouldn’t reveal it quickly. He is the kind of person who will give you several clues, destroying you little by little, and by the time you noticed him, the final blow was already done.

His manipulative, cunning, and strategic means brought Ezio to where he is right now. It was unethical, but he was able to make people loyal to him by having knowledge and evidences of the skeletons in their closet.

“Don’t let the mercenary go. We will use him once the time comes,” Ezio spoke as his face went back to being innocent, the face he used when he is with his wife. “Leave the rest to me. For now, I have another task for you.”

Dante’s face beamed with happiness after hearing his friend’s words. “Another task, another money. What is it, my friend?”

“Check the CCTV footages around 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in the ground floor. You will see a woman who poured water on me,” he clicked his tongue before speaking again. “Find that woman’s background and tell me if you found something fishy about her.”

Turns out, Ezio also has some doubts to that woman. In his years of building his business empire, no woman tried to do such bold act to him. Just one stare to them is enough to make those women shut their mouth.

But the woman earlier is a new case. Even if Ezio pushed her away, literally, she didn’t back down. Instead, she tried creating a scene. She’s just a newly hired staff, yet she has the guts to offend her.

Besides, it seems that the woman was ready for the things that happened. When she followed him earlier, she offered a basket to put their put. When he pushed her, she has a disinfectant in her pocket. And lastly, when she poured the water on him, she had a handkerchief ready.

Those were very small details, but it didn’t escape Ezio’s sight. He thought that someone might be waiting for him to react impulsively and use it against him.

The moment Dante left to go to the cafeteria, Chiara grabbed her phone to check on Sophia. But she was greeted by several missed calls.

“Tesoro,” she called her husband. “The same number called me again. Just a few minutes ago.”

She wasn’t able to hear her ringing phone as it was under silent when she was in work. The number called four times within three minutes. If this is not an emergency, Chiara doesn’t know what it is.

Suddenly, her phone rang again. The number flashed on the screen multiple times.

“Answer it, cara,” Ezio whispered to his wife before giving her a peck of kiss.

Chiara clicked the green button on screen. She put the phone on her ear and spoke. “Who’s this?”

Just after a few seconds, the person in the other end of the call spoke.

“Chiara?” Sigmund’s voice echoed in her voice.