The last vow
Adrian Vale a billionaire industrialist and the most feared negotiator in global finance—has spent his life building series of company which have all grown into a large empire defined by power, A man who stands in rooms where governments policies were influenced, multibillion deals were sealed by warm handshakes, captains of industries negotiating influence like their lives and companies depended on it in precision, elegance, intellect and financial control. Adrian Vale at the helm of affairs built his empire on power, control, ruthless precision, manipulation, and stone-cold decisions. Many rumored that he had no heart. But in the midst of all the glamour and fame was man who could no longer stand on his feet, a rare life-threatening degenerative illness had turn his body once energetic body to a prison, his legs useless and lungs unreliable, making every breath harder with numerous health complication in his body thereby stripping him of his wonderful and well organized life with a reminder that his life was coming to an end soon and leaves him with only months to live, that control over his world, empire and business begins to slip away slowly in the twinkle of an eye yet the world still wishers his name with reverence and fear but of these mattered any more as Adrian Vale still had one final condition to fulfil before he dies.
Bound by a family’s clause written in blood which he laughed off and thought didn’t matter `In his word’s marriage didn’t matter, it was a distraction. The clause states that `No heir shall claim full control of the Vale legacy and fortune unless legally married`, Adrian must marry before his death or risk losing everything he has labored for, worked for and have built, his empire, fortune and his entire life’s work over the years to distant relatives circling like vultures waiting to dismantle it in months, with only months left to live, one condition stands between him and losing everything he’s ever built:
HE MUST GET MARRIED.
Meanwhile Jessica Williams who was no stranger to impossible choices. Struggling to afford life-saving treatment for her younger brother, she's now faced with a onetime life changing opportunity to make a life changing decision to accept an offer that sounds too extraordinary to refuse: a contract marriage worth 500 million, with very simple terms and arrangement: stay married until his death, and walk away with a fortune. No love, No expectations, just a temporary union until death, No feelings, No complications.
Jessica never imagined her future would include becoming the wife of a dying billionaire, but with her brother’s life on the line and no meaningful options left, Jessica Williams agrees to a contract marriage with Adrian Vale—a powerful billionaire with a terminal illness and no time left to waste. she accepts the contract without delay.
What begins as a calculated cold agreement soon becomes something far more complicated beyond words, as nothing about Adrian is simple because behind the cold exterior and high walls is a man fighting for more than just his failing body. Living under the same roof begins to change everything, a slow but steady connection becomes something deeper, something dangerous, something real due to close proximity and being under the same roof, guarded walls begin to crack in an inexplainable way, as tension begins to build, bond begins to form which leads to an unexpected connection. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right and behind the contract lies a dangerous truth: his illness may not be entirely natural but his condition continues to worsen, Enemies begins to close in, secrets unravel, as a deadly conspiracy unfolds within the walls of his own empire, trust is gradually becoming a weapon, and every ally could turn in to a potential enemy. Jessica begins to uncovers inconsistencies in Adrian’s medical treatment, a chilling truth is about to come to light as a terrifying possibility emerges, someone is making sure he doesn’t
