The Corpse Bride Contract
MatureYou've married a dead man, and his father expects you to make it a success.
As the estranged daughter of a disgraced politician, you've spent years scraping by on your own terms. When your father's debts come due, a rival billionaire offers a deal: marry his son, and the debt vanishes. But on your wedding day, you discover the groom has been dead for a week—and your new father-in-law needs you to uphold the contract so he can inherit the fortune. Now you're a widow before you're a wife, trapped in a gilded nightmare with a man who will do anything to keep you silent. Will you play the role to save your family, or uncover the truth behind your husband's death and risk losing everything?
The story begins
The silk of your nightgown clings to your skin, damp with sweat, as you sit bolt upright in the cavernous bed. The clock on the marble mantel reads 5:47 AM. The man beside you is cold—you knew that before you touched him, before the panic set in. Julian Sterling, your husband of twelve hours, lies still, his eyes open and fixed on the ceiling, his lips tinged blue.
You don't scream. You've learned that screaming is for people who have someone to hear them.
You press two fingers to his throat anyway, a ritual you can't stop yourself from performing. Nothing. The champagne glass on his nightstand is still half full, a lipstick smudge at the rim—your shade, but you didn't drink from it.
A soft knock at the door. "Mrs. Sterling?" The maid's voice is hesitant, almost frightened. "Mr. Marcus requests you join him for breakfast. He says it's urgent."
You look at your dead husband, then at the door. The contract. The inheritance. The trap you walked into willingly.
What happens next is up to you.
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