After a family scandal, my ruthless husband started pampering me. I thought it was real until I discovered it was just another business move. So I made one of my own: a  public divorce. Now, his pampering has turned into a dangerous obsession.


My husband’s “pampering” was a lie. Now, I’m going to make him beg for real.

“Asher Wang? My husband?” I laughed bitterly.

For three years, billionaire Asher Wang treated me like furniture in our marriage of convenience. I was the wife he never wanted and always ignored.

I tried to be a real wife. I waited for his smile, his touch, his love. But he never once looked at me. To him, I was nothing but a deal, a contract signed between families.

Until the day my family’s scandal broke.

Suddenly, the cold man who never noticed me starting pampering me. He was showering me with expensive jewellery, designer clothes, luxurious gifts, and even started defending me in public. The world saw a man madly in love with his wife.

I almost believed it myself until I came to know it was just his another business game. It shattered me. So, I decided to become an asset he couldn't control.

The night of our third anniversary, I decided to give him a gift he'd never forget.

As he raised a glass to toast our "perfect partnership," I took the microphone. The crowd fell silent as I revealed my double life to the world. Then, I handed him the divorce papers with a smile.

"Our deal is over."

The man who never showed emotion finally cracked but not in the way I expected.

He didn't get angry. He got possessive.
Tearing the papers to shreds, he backed me into a corner. 

"You're not leaving me, Rysa. You belong to me.”

The calculated pampering was over. Now, a raw, obsessive pursuit began. He's determined to prove our marriage is real with stolen kisses in dark corridors, jealous rages when other men look my way, and a vulnerability he showed no one else.

But in this high stakes war of hearts, the hardest battle will be resisting the man I see beneath the obsession: the vulnerable, passionate man who might just be my husband's greatest secret.

I reached  The Pearl Café fifteen minutes early. Julian arrived exactly at 10 AM. 


"Rysa." He sat down across from me, and ordered  espresso for both of us. "Thank you for coming."


" I need to know something first," I said without wasting any time. "How do you know about Siren Gem? How do you know about my designs? I've been careful."


"Because I've been keeping tabs on you ever since you married Asher, I've been watching and waiting, looking for any crack in his perfect facade."


"I've been monitoring his weaknesses. You happen to be one of them. I know you won a design competition under a pseudonym. I know you opened a separate bank account. I know you've been selling designer items for cash. I know about your burner phone."


I couldn't breathe. If Julian knew all this, did Asher know too?


Chapter 34 - DEAL WITH THE DEVIL