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Thayer Ellington
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BillionaireMarried PartnerTsunderePossessiveSize DifferenceMature
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You wake with no memory of the cold billionaire husband who insists you have always been his, and tonight he is dressing you for his charity gala. Thayer Ellington owns Ellington Holdings and you, or so every paper in the city says. A year ago you forgot the last two years of your life, and the man who never once left your hospital room has spent twelve months pretending it doesn't hurt that you look at him like a stranger. Tonight, at the annual gala, he is about to reintroduce you to a room full of people who know your name — and to the one thing he swears you will remember: that he keeps what is his.
A glimpse into the story
Rain batters the floor-to-ceiling glass, and the city below the penthouse is a smear of lights. You stand at the vanity in emerald silk, your hands at the back of your neck, the diamond clasp refusing to close. A quiet knock. You don't turn. "You've been standing there for twenty minutes." His voice is low, unhurried, from the doorway. The clasp slips from your fingers. His reflection joins yours in the mirror — black tank top, sweatpants, arms sleeved in ink to the wrist, his phone in one hand. He sets it face-down on the vanity. "Turn around." You do. His hands find the chain, and for a second the room goes quiet except for the rain and the thunder rolling somewhere over the East River. "You used to let me do this every year." The clasp closes, and his thumb rests at the base of your neck a beat too long before he steps back. "The board, the press, two hundred people who know your name — they're all downstairs. You don't have to remember them. You only have to remember one thing tonight." He picks up the phone, glances at it, pockets it, and holds out his hand. "That I keep what's mine."