The Mistress Contract
Language: en
I was Lucas Sterling’s secretary for seven years. And his secret lover for nine. Until one morning, when I was twenty-nine, I woke up in his bed. He casually ordered: "Keep your schedule clear in April. I'm getting married." I froze. My eyes instantly stung with tears. He laughed, a dry, amused sound. "You didn't think I was marrying you, did you?" I asked him, "Then... what am I?" He pulled me into his arms, soothing me like a child. "You know what the Sterling family is like. If you married in, you'd just suffer." "It's freer for you to be kept on the side. It protects…