Hidden Marriage for Three Years: The CEO’s Wife Has Had Enough

Hidden Marriage for Three Years: The CEO’s Wife Has Had Enough

Irene Vale · Completed · 70.0k Words

500
Hot
641
Views
3
Added
Add to Shelf
Start Reading
Share:facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsappreddit

Introduction

“Does Mr. Howard Have an STD?”
With one sentence, Sienna tore apart her marriage to Ethan.
For three years of their secret marriage, she was his obedient wife, his silent assistant, and the woman he always overlooked.
Until she discovered that every business trip he took was spent living with his adopted sister.
While he was hospitalized after a car accident, she slipped divorce papers into his documents and tricked him into signing them.
She quit her job, moved out, and inherited a massive fortune.
The whole city mocked her, saying she was nothing without Ethan.
But she turned around and climbed back to the top of the industry, standing beside a man even more powerful than him.
Only then did Ethan realize what he had lost, kneeling before her and begging for another chance.
She leaned down slightly and smiled.
“Mr. Howard, when you cheated on me… did you ever think I could choose someone else too?”

Chapter 1

"Doctor, Mr. Howard doesn't have any STDs, right? By the way, I'm his wife."

In the quiet corridor of the private hospital, Sienna held a thermos in her hand. She smiled gently, but her words startled the doctor.

"The car accident only injured his leg..."

"I know the accident wasn't serious, but he cheated on me, so I'm asking if he caught anything."

"Well, this... the blood test results are naturally fine..."

After getting the reassuring answer, Sienna walked into the hospital room satisfied, her smile even sweeter.

"Honey, I made some porridge." She placed the thermos on the bedside table. "Want me to feed you?"

Ethan Howard was leaning against the hospital bed and looked up at her.

His hospital gown hung loosely over his shoulders, his manner lazy and elegant—he didn't look like a patient, more like a runway model.

The floor-to-ceiling curtains were wide open, flooding the room with bright light. On the table by the bed lay a tablet, laptop, and several paper documents—the whole setup felt like a CEO's office.

He held a pen between his fingers, and even injured, he radiated the commanding presence of someone in control.

"My hands aren't broken."

His voice was cold and emotionless. After speaking, he glanced toward the hallway to see if anyone was passing by.

If there were others around, she couldn't call him honey. After all, their marriage was secret.

Sienna had long grown used to this distance.

"Come print these documents. I'll sign them and you can take them to the office." He ordered her.

At the company, she was also his assistant. Usually, besides printing documents, her only other task was making coffee.

"Okay." Sienna walked over to operate the computer, keeping watch on Ethan from the corner of her eye. Seeing he wasn't paying attention, she quietly downloaded and printed an extra document, then deleted the record...

The printer spat out warm sheets of paper. Sienna flipped through the documents to the signature pages and handed them to him.

After three years of marriage, she'd always been obedient and understanding. He'd long stopped being on guard around her, so he didn't notice that a divorce agreement was slipped in among them.

Her heartbeat raced like a roller coaster, rising and falling, but Sienna calmly collected the documents. "Are you hungry? I—"

Before she could finish, light footsteps echoed in the hallway, followed by a cheerful, bell-like voice, sweet and coy: "Ethan, I brought you food."

The woman who entered was petite, with shoulder-length hair and a plaid skirt—she looked like a high school student.

Completely different from Sienna in her business suit with long hair flowing over her shoulders, radiating professional energy.

Seeing Sienna there, she wasn't surprised. Acting as if she hadn't noticed, she went straight to Ethan's bedside. "Ethan, does your leg still hurt?"

"Much better." Ethan's voice naturally softened.

"Sienna, you brought food too. I thought you wouldn't come again today." Queenie Howard turned to Sienna with a smile. "I got mine from a private restaurant. If it's better than what you made, I'm really sorry."

Ethan had been in a car accident abroad two days ago, came back yesterday to be hospitalized, and only notified Sienna today—not to take care of him, but to pick up documents.

From abroad to home, Queenie had been with him the whole time. To outsiders, they looked like siblings with an especially close relationship.

But actually, they weren't blood-related, weren't close as children, and had only grown closer in recent years.

"You can go." When speaking to Sienna, Ethan's tone was noticeably colder. "Take the porridge with you."

"Sienna made it herself—don't waste her kindness. Ethan, if you won't drink it, I will." Queenie reached out to unscrew the thermos lid. Her movements seemed strained, and the container gradually slid toward the edge of the table, about to fall.

Sienna grabbed it, stopping her, and picked up the thermos.

"You don't need to drink it either. The greasy, salty stuff from the private restaurant tastes better anyway."

She spoke calmly, then carried the thermos into the bathroom and poured the still-steaming porridge into the toilet.

"Mr. Howard, if there's nothing else, I won't come back. Queenie can definitely take better care of you than me—she understands you better." Sienna picked up her bag.

Ethan's expression had already darkened, and now he spoke through gritted teeth. "Sienna, stop with the passive-aggressive comments."

"Sienna, what do you mean? Yesterday was an emergency, and Ethan was unconscious—I forgot to tell you." Queenie's eyes immediately reddened. "Don't blame Ethan, okay? If you want to blame someone, blame me..."

"I only blame myself for not being considerate enough." Sienna cut her off, gave Ethan one long look, and closed the door behind her.

Half a month ago, she'd seen an expense report in her email—Ethan and Queenie had booked the same hotel room.

Howard Group had branches worldwide with annual profits in the billions, and Ethan's net worth was unfathomable. Couldn't he afford two rooms?

Or did siblings without blood ties not need to avoid suspicion?

Curious, she checked the past six months of expense reports and discovered that every time Ethan went on a business trip, he brought Queenie, and every time they shared a room.

She'd thrown up while holding her laptop.

Driving back to the company, Sienna used Ethan's card to access the executive elevator and took the signed documents to Assistant Sam.

"Even when Mr. Howard isn't here, you shouldn't use his elevator." Sam had always looked down on women who had looks but didn't do real work, and his voice was quite stern. "Check these over, then take them back to Mr. Howard for his signature."

In front of Ethan, anyone in the company could boss Sienna around.

He never stood up for her.

And everyone had gotten used to treating her like some useless relative the Howard family had forced into the company—Ethan was unhappy with her but couldn't fire her, so he could only make things difficult for her openly and behind the scenes.

Sienna didn't take the tablet Sam held out to her.

She asked back, "Why can't you just send the files directly to Ethan instead of making me make another trip?"

Sam froze, eyes widening as he stared at her, thinking she'd lost her mind. "What did you say?"

"Let Ethan check them himself, print them himself, and find someone to bring them to you himself. That Queenie comes to the office all the time with nothing to do—I think she'd be perfect for it." Sienna added.

Sam laughed coldly with sarcasm. "Sienna, I think you've lost it. Howard Group doesn't support freeloaders. You do nothing and still want a high salary? There's no such good deal."

"Keep that good deal for yourself." Sienna took off her ID badge and tossed it in front of him. "I quit. Find someone else to deliver your stuff."

"Quit? Even if you quit, you have to finish today's work, or you—"

Sienna wasn't afraid of threats and cut him off directly. "I don't want that paycheck."

She stared into Sam's eyes, her tone seemingly no different from usual, but the words she spoke were chilling.

"Tell Mr. Howard," she said, word by word, "I quit catering to you."

This time, it was Sam who froze.

His other hand clutched his phone, and now he slowly tilted the screen.

The screen showed an ongoing call with Mr. Howard, right there for Sienna to see.

Last Chapters

You Might Like 😍

Let Them Kneel

Let Them Kneel

243.4k Views · Ongoing · My Fantasy Stories
Kaelani spent her life believing she was wolfless.
Cast out by her pack. Forgotten by the Lycans.
She lived among humans—quiet, invisible, tucked away in a town no one looked at twice.

But when her first heat comes without warning, everything changes.

Her body ignites. Her instincts scream. And something primal stirs beneath her skin—
summoning a big, bad Alpha who knows exactly how to quench her fire.

When he claims her, it’s ecstasy and ruin.

For the first time, she believes she’s been accepted.
Seen.
Chosen.

Until he leaves her the next morning—
like a secret never to be spoken.

But Kaelani is not what they thought.
Not wolfless. Not weak.
There is something ancient inside her. Something powerful. And it’s waking.

And when it does—
they’ll all remember the girl they tried to erase.

Especially him.

She’ll be the dream he keeps chasing… the one thing that ever made him feel alive.

Because secrets never stay buried.
And neither do dreams.
Bloodright

Bloodright

1.4k Views · Ongoing · Blessing Agbede
Adaline Voss has never questioned her luck. When a full scholarship arrives from a university she has never heard of, she takes it. She needs the door. She walks through it.
Ashveil University is not what it looks like in the photographs. The students here carry something that shifts their eyes at the edges of anger. The northwest trees hold an attention that trees should not be able to hold. And the empty chair at the council table, the one nobody sits in, the one nobody explains, has been waiting three hundred years for one specific person to arrive.
Nobody told Adaline she was that person. They classified her as Dormant. A blank space in a file. Nothing.
She is the opposite of nothing.
Beneath the campus, three ancient entities are waking up. Every house in the pack world wants to control what runs in her blood. The boy sent to assess her has stopped being able to do his job. And the woman who has been three steps ahead of everyone since before Adaline was born is not a villain. She is a warning. She is what Adaline would have become if nobody had found her.
The suppression field holding everything together is failing. The clock is running. And the only way to stop what is coming requires Adaline to give up the thing she can least afford to lose.
She already knows her answer. She decided before anyone told her the full price.
Love's Deadly Equation

Love's Deadly Equation

2k Views · Ongoing · Genevieve Hale
⬥ Keegan ⬥
I was sent to her.
To watch her. To protect her. And, when the order comes… to kill her.
My name is Keegan Caffery. I’m the Carter Mafia’s best hitman. I don’t miss. I don’t fail.
At least, I didn’t use to.
I don’t know what it is about her that got to me first—her mouth, her mind, or the way she looks at me like I’m not what she should fear.
I’ve had a gun to her head since I walked into her life.
She knows it.
And she still doesn’t run.
She just watches me back like she’s studying a problem she refuses to call impossible.
She’s the one variable I can’t control.
And God help me… I don’t want to.
I have an order. I have loyalty. I have a trigger.
But every time I imagine it—
I can’t stand it.
Her or me. That’s the math.
It’s a deadly equation I don’t want to solve.
⬥ Maisie ⬥
I’m not ordinary. I stopped pretending long ago.
My name is Maisie Seo. IQ 145. Clinical genius.
Which sounds impressive until you realize what it actually means: I don’t fit anywhere people expect me to.
I see patterns everywhere. Outcomes before they happen. People like equations I’ve already solved.
It gets lonely in a world you’ve already figured out.
So I dull myself down. Smoke the edges off. Pretend, badly, to be the kind of normal that lets people stay.
Then he walked in.
I knew what he was immediately. Dangerous. Intentional. Wrong in all the right ways.
I should be afraid of him.
I keep waiting for that to kick in.
Instead, I’m fascinated.
Because for the first time in my life… I’ve found something I can’t solve.
He is my deadly equation.
Faking It With My Worst Enemy On Ice

Faking It With My Worst Enemy On Ice

2.2k Views · Ongoing · Cherry Cynthia
Clare Voss has spent five years loving her stepbrother Zane in silence, cooking his breakfast, cheering at every match, and dreaming of the day he would finally see her.

But on his birthday, everything falls apart when his girlfriend exposes Clare's most humiliating secret in front of the entire team.

Just when Clare is ready to disappear, Rhys Calloway, her worst enemy and the team's arrogant captain, pulls her into his arms and tells everyone she is his girlfriend.

She should have pushed him away, but she kissed him back instead.

Now Clare is locked into a two-month fake relationship with the most infuriating man she has ever met, trying to get over a stepbrother who never cared and survive a captain who makes her forget why she was supposed to hate him.

The problem is that Rhys kisses like he means every single second of it, and just when Clare starts to move on, Zane decides he wants her back.

One girl, two hockey players, and a heart that was never supposed to feel this much. Will she choose the stepbrother who broke her or the enemy who caught her when she fell?
BROKEN TRUST

BROKEN TRUST

12.6k Views · Completed · O.J Thewriter
She broke their marriage. He walked away.

Neither of them knew she was carrying his child.

Emily’s affair didn’t just end her marriage—it erased the life she thought was guaranteed. Ryan left without looking back, carrying his anger like armor and leaving Emily alone with regret she would never outrun. Three years later, fate drags them back into each other’s world, along with a little girl who has Ryan’s eyes and a truth that shatters everything he thought he knew.

Old wounds reopen, grief masquerades as rage, and love refuses to stay buried. As parenthood binds them together and the past demands accountability, Emily and Ryan must face the question neither of them is ready to answer: is broken trust the end of their story… or the beginning of a love forged through loss, forgiveness, and brutal honesty?
Mission: Steal the Male Lead

Mission: Steal the Male Lead

808 Views · Ongoing · Tintedverry
Morwenna de Lacy awakens inside the bestselling romance novel she hates most—and discovers she has become the villainess fiancée destined to die before the story even reaches its midpoint. Her only hope for survival lies in the mysterious Audience Satisfaction System, which assigns increasingly impossible missions: make the cold Duke Corwin Winterveil fall in love, outshine the beloved heroine, and avoid every death flag written into the original plot. In a glittering empire of noble scandals, royal engagements, magical aristocrats, and ancient gods, one wrong move could cost her everything.

But the more Morwenna changes the story, the stranger the world becomes. The heroine seems to know the future, unseen spectators begin commenting on her life, and the gods watching from above grow obsessed with the drama unfolding before them. Trapped in a story where fate has already decided the ending, Morwenna must choose whether to follow the script or rewrite it entirely. But if the world itself was never meant to belong to its characters, can she steal the male lead before fate steals her freedom first?
Tango 2 the Alpha's Heart

Tango 2 the Alpha's Heart

3.2k Views · Completed · judels.lalita
"Eyes up here," he said.

My gaze snapped to his. He was smiling, causing my heart to skip a painful beat. Before I could respond, the music began, and my body instinctively reacted to the sweet melody.

I found myself molded to Lex's will, my feet irresistibly following the dance steps.

The crowd gasped as Lex pulled me into a more intimate position, his hands roaming over my body in a seductive manner.

The experience was both terrifying and magical, allowing me to feel every longing emotion through the dance.

I soon found myself lost in his arms.

When the music finally stopped, my arms were wrapped around his neck, his hands resting on my back, our noses almost touching. He gazed deeply into my eyes.

The ballroom fell silent.

Was he about to kiss me?


Lilly’s life was never easy; she lost her memory and family in a blazing fire. Angelica found and took her in—only to make her a slave to the household.

Years of torment and abuse left Lilly weak, vulnerable, and believing she was without a wolf, but that didn't mean that all hope was lost.

At night, in her dreams, he would patiently wait for her—the man who brought sunshine into her darkest moments.

They would dance the night away, but as dawn approached, he would vanish into the morning sun.

Lilly had given up hope of finding a mate, having a family, and leading a normal life.

But things are about to drastically change for her...

Secrets, lies, betrayal... and a baby on the way.

What if Lilly wasn't wolf-less? What if it was all a lie?

What if she had a living family? Would she stay and bond with them or make a run for freedom?
My Billionaire Husband's Secret

My Billionaire Husband's Secret

3.5k Views · Ongoing · Linda
After college, Lucas pursued me relentlessly.

He was the CEO of the Blackwood Group — a man whose wealth and power eclipsed ninety-nine percent of the world.

He was gentle. Romantic. Attentive. I fell for him fast.

But a year into our marriage, I began to notice something — a pattern.

Lucas's sexual appetite was intense — he wanted me almost every night. Yet every single month, he arranged a solo trip to send me away. I told myself it was his way of spoiling me.

Then a message arrived from someone called Sweet An.

Do you really know your husband?

From that day on, my life filled with shadows.

I suspected my husband of having an affair.

When Lucas and I made love, something felt wrong — his body too large, too much, like something I couldn't explain.

I heard sounds during sex — animal sounds, like something feral had crawled into bed with us.

My best friend Mia said: "There are men sick enough to let dogs fuck their wives."

The family doctor, Daisy, told me: "You could never stay by Lucas's side forever. Your background doesn't make you worthy of being his wife. Do you understand?"

I went looking for whoever had been tearing my marriage apart. I fought to win my husband back.

But the deeper I searched, the larger the secret grew — something far darker hiding beneath this supposed betrayal.

Does Lucas truly love me?

And why, out of everyone in the world, did he choose to marry me?
The rejected white luna

The rejected white luna

9k Views · Completed · gabrielgladys37
Aria was the daughter of the Alpha of the Silver moon pack born into a life of strength and legacy but instead of respect, she is overlooked by the members of her own pack due to her weak wolf. She had always wanted to have a mate just like everyone else but on the night of the mating ceremony, her dreams came crashing down when her own mate rejects her publicly choosing another.Aria is left humiliated but something inside her refuses to stay broken. As tension rises and unseen forces begin to shift, Aria starts to realize there may be more to her than anyone ever believed and when Aria stumbled on another pack and found out he is her second chance mate. Aria is stunned especially when she finds out who he is. what happens when Aria finds out that her second chance mate who she thought loves her was working for the Lycan king? And somehow finds herself in his kingdom? Would she be weighed down by betrayal? Or would she come out strong? What happens when she found out her fated mate who had rejected her wants her back? Would she go to him ? Or forgive her second chance mate?
The Billionaire's Surrogate's Secret

The Billionaire's Surrogate's Secret

5k Views · Completed · Something Else
“Stop! Stop, again. This is risky and you’re my boss and I’m just your surrogate! Nothing else. After this contract, I will leave and you will never see me again!”
“Who said that’s still fucking true? We stopped being just man and surrogate the first time our eyes met.” He walked towards me, boring into my eyes with those eyes of his. “I fucking want you, Vanessa.”
My heart stuttered.
This could not be real.
“But the rules—“
“I made them. I can destroy them. I already destroyed them when I kissed you.” He was dangerously close now, but all I kept getting was danger signals combined with the panic, alarm, lust and above all, the guilt.
It was killing me.
Vanessa Sterling who never liked men because of what her father did to her mother ended up having a drunken one night stand with a stranger and that might end up changing her life forever.
Rodri Darnell who doesn’t want to get married or have kids but is forced to give his father a grand child, decided to use a surrogate.
Vanessa Sterling was supposed to be an ordinary surrogate to Rodri Darnell of the Dolphin Emirates, but he fell in love with her.
Their only problem will be Vanessa's secret.
My Alpha's Fake Luna

My Alpha's Fake Luna

3k Views · Completed · Rosalind Claire
"I hate you."

Those were the last words my Alpha whispered before he severed our bond.

I believed our marriage was over.

I was wrong.

For two years, I thought Alpha Michael never loved me.

Every misunderstanding pushed us farther apart.

Every silence broke another piece of my heart.

While another woman slowly took my place.

But everything changed after the death of the Grand Alpha.

My mate began watching me.

Protecting me.

Holding me whenever I fell.

Looking at me like he was terrified of losing me.

If he hated me...

Why did he keep risking everything for me?

And why did everyone panic the moment I finally chose another future?
Reborn and Unleashed: The Boss Lady Takes No Prisoners

Reborn and Unleashed: The Boss Lady Takes No Prisoners

6k Views · Completed · PageProfit Studio
In her past life, Vivian Grant was seen as a powerless beauty trapped by the cold and ruthless Alexander Brooks. Even he believed she never loved him. But when enemies closed in, it was Vivian who sacrificed everything, including her own family, to avenge him.

Now reborn, Vivian refuses to hide her strength. She's revealing her true identity, claiming her power, and rewriting her fate. No more submission, no more misunderstandings—this time, she'll take control of her life and her love.

As regretful brothers beg for forgiveness and powerful enemies fall at her feet, Vivian has one goal: to rise without mercy and make the man she once loved fall for her all over again—on her terms.