The Billionaire's Third Wife
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Last published Thu, Nov 6, 2025
Mateo Hayes is a man who has always believed love is a weakness.
After two failed marriages and a business empire on the brink of collapse, he's faced with an ultimatum: marry or lose everything.
Desperate to secure a lucrative contract, Mateo deals with Sarah, a woman from an average background who has learned to use her beauty to survive. With a proposition too tempting to refuse, Sarah agrees to marry him for three years in exchange for a life-changing sum of money. What starts as a business arrangement quickly becomes a game of power, secrets, and buried desires. What happened to his previous marriages? and how did Sarah become his third wife? Will they walk away from each other when the deal is over?
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