Billionaire Secret Husband

Five years ago, Natalie was at the height of her modeling career. But then, one by one, scandalous stories started to emerge about her. Stories about her personal life, her relationships, her supposed vices. She was mortified, and she had no idea who was spreading these rumors.

She tried to ignore the stories and continue with her career, but they kept coming. Eventually, it all became too much, and she decided to leave the industry. She moved back home, hoping to start over.

Just when she thought she could finally start over, everything came crashing down. The one person she thought she could count on betrayed her in the worst way possible. She had trusted Leo completely, and she couldn't believe he would do this to her.

As the rain continued to pour down, Natalie felt like her whole world was falling apart. She was alone, and she didn't know what to do next. All she could think about was how she had let herself be fooled by someone she thought loved her. The memories came flooding back to her as she walked through the rain. She remembered the arguments she had with her grandfather over Leo. Her grandfather had never approved of their relationship, and he had made that clear from the start. But Natalie had been so in love, so determined to make things work, that she had ignored his warnings.

Now, she couldn't help but wonder if he had been right all along. If maybe she should have listened to him and avoided all this heartbreak. But it was too late now, and she could only think about how to move forward.

Still walking in the rain, Natalie reflected back on her life,she started to hate how things turned out. This wasn't her. Slowly she brought her hand to her face, wiping her face clean. She brought out her phone from her trouser pocket to call her manager. Just as she was about to answer someone ran into her, causing her to slip. Natalie shut her eyes close preparing herself for the impact,but she felt none. Natalie slowly opened her eyes, someone's hands around her. Nat was temporarily lost in his light blue eyes, perfect face and a mole on his ear. Is she dreaming?

"When you're done drooling,you tell me" his cute manly voice resounded in her ears, snapping her from her thoughts.

"Um-so sorry." She managed to stutter when she regained her posture.

"No problem,beauty" the stranger flashed a flirty smile. Natalie stared at his face once again,it seems she's seen him somewhere but doesn't know.

"Excuse me,do I know you?" She couldn't help but ask.

By this time the rain had stopped falling.

"Um... Who doesn't? I'm Ricardo Rodriguez. I don't have to tell you the rest,do I?"

Nat was taken aback,but she quickly covered it with a smile.

"Can you walk with me?"Ric asked.

He actually was out on a run,when he bumped into Natalie. He instantly recognized her,I mean who wouldn't. His company was the among the first three best in the country,coupled with the fact that he had business with the Mafia.

He has no business with the entertainment industry but something happened and he picked interest when he first saw her.

Without replying Nat took a few steps forward and he instantly followed her.

"What are you doing out so late?"Ric couldn't help but ask.

This man's voice kept giving her tingles in her system any time she heard it. He had this cold, domineering aura,king-like presence and she was just beginning to wonder why she wasn't scared.

"Relationship issues, 🤧 am done being a puppet people could just toss around." Nat said with all seriousness,her voice cold as ice.

Ric hummed softly,after some seconds passed Nat asked "what about you?"

"Well a lot of pressure here and there,I decided to take a walk." He lied.

Ever since Ric noticed her,he often sends his men to take note of her every movement. Of course they reported what happened back to him,and that's why he was there.

No way he was going to tell her that.

Natalie sighed exhausted from all today's drama. Looking at his woman being sad made his heart ache. Leo,her ex wasn't going to find it funny when he later gets him.

Before they both realized,they were at her front door.

"Thanks for keeping me company tonight Rick,you can go home now." Natalie said and turned to leave. But something or someone held her back.

Hearing how his name rolled out of her mouth got him highly turned on,he couldn't let her leave like that. He badly wants to have her on all fours right here and now.

Staring at her and seeing tiredness written all over made him to abolish the thought.

The next word Ricardo said shocking Natalie to the bone "Marry me..."

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"What!" Natalie exclaimed in shock. Who on earth proposes to a girl they just met,a normal human wouldn't. Well I guess they haven't met Ricardo.

"I mean,you want revenge right and who do you trust enough to keep you safe."

"And you think I trust you?" Nat couldn't help but ask..

"Well you can always learn to trust me. What do I have to hide"

Silence descended on them only the drops of rain on the roof and birds chirping sound were heard, Natalie was lost in thoughts. Ricardo is right,there was no one she trusted or trusted enough to keep her safe.

"I'll just leave you to think about-"

"I agree" Natalie cut him off.

"Let's get married, tomorrow we'll head to civil affairs and get our marriage license but I have rules." Nat continued

Ricardo nodded slowly. When he didn't respond she continued.

"You shouldn't reveal our relationship for the next 6 months,on no account should you interfere in my career." Natalie knew who Ricardo Rodriguez is that's why she added the last request,just a call from him will make people do his will.

Ricardo smirked when he heard her last request. Natalie rubbed her palms together to keep out the cold,Ric sees this and removes his jacket and uses it to cover her.

"Head inside Ali you don't want to get sick,do you?"

Nat let out a smile and proceeded to go in.

Ric tucked his hands in his pants and turned only for him to almost collide with his assistant

"President, elder Rodriguez called"

Ric frowned and spoke in an extremely cold voice "if you picked up you know you'll be dead in 30 secs."

Stevens shivered in fear, believe me the fear of Ricardo is the beginning of wisdom.

"I-I didn't si-r" Stevens stuttered and Ric nodded

"Phone all the modeling agencies you know by tomorrow morning,send them my regards. When they respond I'll tell you the next step to take"

Stevens nodded and proceeded to open the car door.

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𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆

Still clad in her nighties,Nat walked around her living room with a cup of coffee in her hands. Ruffling her hair in frustration,she places the cup on the table and picks her phone and dials her manager number

"Here goes nothing."She mutters before hitting the call button.

"What!" Jean answers with an anger laced voice.

"I'm sorry Jean,can we meet? I want to make a comeback." There was no response at the other end. Natalie sighed sadly and proceeded to end the call.

Natalie sat down with a thud. Jean has every right to be furious at her, starting from the time she[Natalie] quit to the time she openly slapped her in public.

Nat sighed again for the tenth time,just as she stood up to go get dressed someone badged in.

"Shouldn't you have been dressed?"

It was Jean!

Nat smiled and practically jumped on her in excitement.

"Oh! Hey take it easy will you"

Nat unhooked her hands on Jean "I thought you were not gonna show what made you change your mind."

Jean sat down and stared at Nat "I will always show up as far as my best friend needs me"

Nat sat down beside Jean and side hugged her "I'm sorry,I didn't want to believe Leo and everyone else would do that to me."

"Hey baby girl,it's fine. But I hope you gave him a beating when you found out?" Jean asked. If there's anything she loves is a good show.

"Well not yet,I want you present"

"Now go get dressed,you have a busy day ahead. And I need snacks ASAP"

Nat stared curiously at her.

"I'm perceiving a lot of questions,well two days ago I had this feeling you would come back so I started making appointments for you."

Nat smiled and headed upstairs "your snacks are still where it used to be"

"Awesome!" Jean jumped in excitement and ran to the kitchen.

𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑

Natalie headed downstairs "yeah I'll drop by later" she said and ended the call. Natalie paused mid-way her gaze on Jean who was munching on a bag of chips.

Jean has been the only friend she's had that didn't find a way to extort money from her. Nat still felt guilty for what she did to Jean in the past but there was no going back,just moving forward and having her revenge on anyone who had hurt her one way or the other.

"Are you gonna continue staring at me or you're going to go for your shoot." Jean said not raising her head up.

"Wait! You already secured one for me?" Nat asked with excitement written clearly on her face.

"I don't know but I think someone already did the convincing,I only did the accepting."

Natalie shakes her head slowly, Ricardo didn't know how to rest.

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Jean and Natalie were still on their way to the new agency,when the news leaked with different headlines.

[Outdated model wants to make a comeback],[Dead fish about to rise]

An uproar began online

🗣️ How's this possible,after all she did

🗣️ Isn't she ashamed

🗣️ Who'll want to sign her up

🗣️ Don't they have shame

🗣️ I mean she was once on her way to becoming a supermodel what makes you think she can't make it again.

These were most of the comments netizens dropped. Of course Jean and Natalie weren't aware of this as a result they didn't know that a certain someone was determined to make things difficult for them.

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𝐑𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏𝐒

Stevens walked hastily into the room like an office. The boss laid back on the chair rubbing his forehead slowly.

"Boss!" Stevens called, startling him.

"What!" Ric asked with anger as he stared at Steve

"Madam is likely to have a lot of trouble. Her shoot is likely to be intercepted by reporters and netizens."

"I don't have to tell you what to do Steve,send some bodyguards and if any one dares to harm her take note of their names they shouldn't hurt my princess..."

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"Stevens, please send the bodyguards to my car and get it ready for me," Ricardo said, his tone leaving no room for argument. Stevens smiled and nodded, then set off to run the errands.

Ricardo sat back in his chair, swiveling slowly from side to side. After a moment, he reached for his phone and dialed the number of his receptionist. "Would you please take care of thve documents on my desk and clear my schedule for the rest of the day? There's an important matter I need to attend to."

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"How could she do this?" Liam exclaimed, pacing back and forth in his office. "After what she did to my sister... the nerve of her, trying to make a comeback." Anger flashed across his face.

"Calm down, Liam," Eduardo, his best friend, said. "We can't let her just get away with this. She needs to pay for what she's done."

"I agree," Liam said, his voice hardening. "Let's make it impossible for her to have a peaceful comeback."

A plan began to form in Liam's mind. They would use social media to their advantage, using it to paint Natalie in a bad light and turn public opinion against her. Eduardo got to work, uploading photos of Mia with captions that portrayed Natalie in a negative light.

One photo showed Mia's cheerful, smiling face, with the caption: "Mia dead, Natalie to make a comeback." The next photo was of Mia's gravestone, with the caption: "Rest in peace, Mia. May Natalie never have peace."

Within minutes, the posts went viral, and angry comments began pouring in.

*****

Natalie and Jean emerged from the van to a wall of flashing camera lights and a barrage of questions from the assembled reporters. "What are you doing here, Natalie?" one shouted. "You don't belong here. Leave the modeling industry, we're better off without you," another yelled.

The questions and insults kept coming: "Murderer! How could you do that to Mia?" "You should just die, you're a terrible person." "Go jump in a ditch!" "Are you really trying to make a comeback after all you've done?" "What about the scandal you caused?"

Jean noticed the reporter who'd asked about the scandal, and was about to respond when he was interrupted by Natalie. "Didn't the police already clarify that?" she asked coldly, her eyes flashing. "This is just a new beginning for me. A new chance to prove that I'm a changed person."

The reporter who'd asked the question took a step back, unnerved by Natalie's icy demeanor. He took a breath and then pushed his microphone toward her face, hitting her in the mouth in the process.

Nat recoiled, a hand coming up to cover her bleeding mouth. A hush fell over the crowd as they watched the exchange, unsure of how to react. All except for Jean, who had snapped a photo of the scene as it unfolded. She knew exactly how she was going to use that photo, and it wasn't going to end well for the reporter.

Sean, the reporter, was oblivious to the photograph that had just been taken.

Another reporter in their midst was brave enough to shove the mic once again in Natalie's face, hitting her in the nose.

"Don't you feel regret? I mean how can you wake up each day knowing that Mia's deãd? You want to make a comeback? Impossible! Try bringing Mia to life. Wait, both of them are equally impossible,so just quit Natalie!"

During this time Natalie had a cold look on, it's taken everything in her not to slap everyone of them 7 ways to hēll. If she really wanted to clear herself, anger won't help.

They wanted her to speak,right? That's exactly what she's gonna do. Of course before making up her mind to hurt everyone who had ever hurt her she has done her homework.

Mia was a friend and Natalie doesn't hurt friends. Six years ago Mia and Nat were pretty close, Mia found out she was pregnant for Eduardo,she couldn't tell anyone nor could she run to her brother cause her brother consistently abused her physically. She was at her peak of her career and having a child will destroy everything. She ran to Natalie for help,then Nat was also going through her problems and so she couldn't help her.

Mia went to the media claiming Natalie was bullying and blackmailing her, during her interviews she ran to the toilet to puke in the process Eduardo also found out she was pregnant and asked her to abort which she refused. Eduardo wasn't ready to be a father,even though he was,he wasn't going to marry a damaged whore like Mia. So he constantly hit her and every time he had the chance and each time she'll show her wounds to the media and claim that her scars were from the men Natalie sent to beat her up. The day Natalie showed up at Mia's house she wasn't home and coincidentally was the same day Mia committed suicide. Security camera caught Nat entering the house and coming out later with nothing but just a bag. Everyone assumed she threatened Mia to a point of suicide. Of course no one knew what was in the bag till date. And it's been six years! Back Then Nat never knew why Mia constantly bullied her but presently if anyone was to bully her she doesn't care who you are she was going to give you how she sees fit.

Jean once told her that Mia was being paid by someone,but will someone pay you to kill yourself?

Natalie smiled when she remembered the text threat she received last night. Liam really doesn't know who she is. His end is near.

On-lookers saw her smile and were furious

🗣️ How dare you smile!

🗣️ Shouldn't you be feeling remorse

🗣️Bitch

🗣️Slit

🗣️ You killed someone!

Natalie scoffed at the last statement. Forgetting about her wounds she stepped closer,her face in front of the camera she said these words "You want to go down this road? Fine with me! You want to play? Fine! Let's rumble. Game on"

🗣️ What's she saying!

🗣️ Who's she referring to?

Everyone present stared at Natalie like she had gone mad. They were still frozen to the spot when a group of bodyguards arrived and led her in. They wasted enough time as it is.

"Where have you been?" Jean secretly whispered to a bodyguard.