The Billionaire Hotel Owner Was Forced to Marry a Crime Boss’s Daughter — Then His Ex Came Back,….
Chapter 14
A year later, Adrian’s hotel had recovered.
Elena had started a foundation helping people escape controlling families and rebuild their lives.
Maya’s travel blog had become even more successful.
And Adrian had changed.
He still loved expensive suits.
He still enjoyed beautiful hotels.
He still occasionally drove too fast.
But he no longer collected relationships like trophies.
One evening, Elena walked into the hotel ballroom.
The restored painting hung on the wall.
Perfect.
Beautiful.
Whole again.
Adrian stood beside it.
“Do you remember this?”
Elena smiled.
“The painting that ruined our lives?”
“The painting that started everything.”
She laughed.
“You destroyed it.”
“And it cost me a fortune.”
“It also gave you a wife.”
Adrian looked at her.
“No.”
Elena raised an eyebrow.
“It gave me a chance.”
“A chance for what?”
He took her hand.
“To become someone worth loving.”
She smiled.
“You’re still arrogant.”
“I know.”
“Still impossible.”
“Probably.”
“And still obsessed with hotels.”
“Definitely.”
She laughed.
Adrian looked around the ballroom.
For years, he had believed happiness came from having everything.
Money.
Women.
Power.
Freedom.
Now he understood.
Those things could fill a room.
But they couldn’t make a home.
Elena leaned against him.
“What are you thinking?”
Adrian smiled.
“That I accidentally destroyed a priceless masterpiece.”
She laughed.
“And?”
“I got something much more valuable in return.”
“What?”
He looked at her.
“You.”
And for the first time in his life, Adrian Vale didn’t want another woman, another party, another adventure or another escape.
He wanted tomorrow.
And the day after that.
And every ordinary day that came after.
Because somewhere between a broken masterpiece, a forced marriage, an old love returning and a secret buried for twenty years…
The billionaire playboy had finally discovered the one thing money had never been able to buy.
A love he was willing to stay for.
