The Wife He Filed Under Business

I married Marcus Reyes in a glass conference room on the fortieth floor, with three lawyers, a notary named Gerald, and a contract I'd read four times. Twelve months. He needed a wife to keep his company. I had my own reasons.

He saved my number under Business.

From January to March, at his kitchen table after midnight, in pencil, in a gray notebook, I wrote the plan that saved four of his hotels. He handed it to his chief of staff. I watched her present it to three hundred investors, I watched his chairman congratulate her, and I watched my husband applaud.

Then, at a press conference in New York, a reporter asked about his mystery wife. He smiled and said, "She's filed under business. Twelve months, very efficient." The room laughed. I was standing in the doorway.

The contract said he couldn't ask about my family, so he never did. He doesn't know my real name is June Vale, or that the one independent report his listing depends on has my signature on it.

Our contract ends at 11:17 on the morning of his shareholder vote. He has until then to learn what I've always known: you show your working.

The Wife He Filed Under Business is a steamy standalone billionaire marriage-in-crisis romance with a contract marriage, a secret heiress, a chief of staff who takes the credit, a very public grovel, and a guaranteed HEA. No cheating. The final book of The Quiet Heiresses.