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The CEO's Reluctant Bride
Updated at Apr 4, 2026, 20:30
She was never supposed to be his. He was never supposed to want her.Adaeze Okonkwo had one dream finish medical school and make her family proud. But one morning, that dream shatters when she discovers the devastating truth. Her father, drowning in debt, has signed her life away to the most feared businessman in Lagos.Damien Blackwood.Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable.He doesn't do love. He doesn't do feelings. He does contracts, mergers, and power. A wife was never part of his plan but a business arrangement? That he could manage.Their rules were simple.No feelings.No attachment.No love.But Adaeze never got the memo.She challenges him at breakfast. She argues with him at dinner. She laughs too loudly in his silent mansion and fills his cold world with a warmth he never asked for.And Damien Blackwood the man who swore he would never feel begins to feel everything.But just when their walls come down, the past comes roaring back. His ex-fiancée returns with a dangerous agenda. A dark secret surfaces that makes Damien question everything including her.Was their love real? Or was she just another transaction?Forced marriage. Enemies to lovers. One billionaire who never believed in love. One woman who will make him regret that.Some contracts are signed in ink. Others are sealed with the heart.
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