My Billionaire Husband Chose His Past Over Our Future
A Billionaire Marriage-in-Crisis: Romance of Betrayal, Secret Baby, Divorce & Second ChancesBy Whitney Cortez
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
She hides everything she loves. Even the child.
Iris is trusted to hold other people's histories in her two hands — a master art conservator who can read a hundred years off a canvas but has never once let a single soul hold her own heart. Her mother taught her the rule early: what you love out loud is the first thing the world comes to take.
So when her husband's father dies and Adrian turns toward the family Trust, an old debt, and a promise made at a deathbed she wasn't in the room for — when he lets their future go quiet and reaches for a past that is already finished — Iris does the only thing she knows how to do. She buries what she wants most. Including the fact that she's pregnant.
Then, alone in a cold studio at midnight, she finds a ghost beneath a founder's portrait: a figure painted out of history a century and a half ago, climbing slowly back toward the light. And she has to decide whether some buried truths are meant to be uncovered — in the painting, in her marriage, and in herself.
This is a reconciliation, and Whitney keeps her promise: the betrayal is a choice, not an affair, and the worst of it stays off the page. Adrian doesn't apologize his way back. He earns it — and it costs him the very empire he chose over her. Nothing he says will move her. What he surrenders will.
One-click for the story where the past is finally set down, and the future is claimed out loud, in the open, for everyone to see.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Romance
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dear Reader
1917. Painted Over
2Prologue: The Ghost Beneath
2018. The Truth He Owns
31. Everything We Planned
2119. Loosening His Grip
42. A Dying Man's Promise
2220. The Studio At Midnight
53. The Day He Chose
2321. Too Close To Tell
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64. Letting Her Go
2422. What He Must Surrender
75. What I Keep Hidden
2523. Relinquished
86. Guarding The Legacy
2624. I Cannot Trust It
97. Armor Of Silence
2725. The Family's Blowback
108. The Wrong Kind Of Help
2826. The Secret Surfaces
119. Under The Varnish
2927. Reading Her Wound
1210. The Cost Of Loyalty
3028. Done With Hiding
1311. Back In His Orbit
3129. Claiming The Future
1412. Learning Her Language
3230. Freely, From Strength
1513. Almost Seen
3331. The First Cry
1614. What The Trust Demands
3432. Beneath The Painting
1715. The Living And The Dead
35Epilogue: Left Showing
1816. The Line I Hold
36About the Author
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