I Was His Secret Shame. Now I'm His Aunt.

No one knows that Julian Reed, the aloof heir of the Reed family, is consumed by insatiable desire yet crippled by severe germaphobia. To bury the secret, he adopts a girl from a remote orphanage and grooms her into his most exquisite kept woman. To the world she is his adoptive sister; at night she is his alone. For ten years he tells her she can belong only to him.

Then Sloane Hastings appears. She can lie beside Julian without the disinfection the adopted sister endures, and she openly accepts his proposal. Cast out of the room with a stack of cash, she finally understands she was never his only one. She dials a number and offers herself to Vincent, Julian's uncle, bargaining for shares, a place at Reed Corp, and the chance to bear a Reed heir.

Julian hands her a bank card and orders her never to appear before him again. As she leaves with a half-empty suitcase, Sloane demands the bracelet on her wrist, her mother's heirloom.