Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 166

Chapter 131: Prenuptial Agreement

(Aurora’s POV)

“Which part?”

“The asset split.” She set the document down. “This is a contractual arrangement. I’m not entitled to half of what you’ve built. And more to the point if your company ever runs into serious trouble, I don’t want to be on the hook for the liability side of that equation.”

Phineas raised an eyebrow. “You think I’m going to go bankrupt?”

“I think I’m being practical.”

He was quiet for a moment, watching her with an expression she couldn’t quite read.

They went back and forth on it. Aurora was precise and unyielding, and eventually Phineas conceded the

structure: shared assets accumulated during the marriage would be split equally, but any debts or

liabilities would fall solely to his side. She picked up the pen and amended the clause herself, writing in

clean, unhurried strokes.

“Better,” she said.

She turned the page.

The next clause was a standard fidelity provision – neither party was to engage in emotional or physical

infidelity during the marriage, and any violation would result in the offending party forfeiting all rights to

shared marital assets. Aurora found it slightly odd in the context of a contract marriage, but she had no

objection to it in principle. She nodded and moved on.

Then she reached the next clause, and her eyes stopped moving.

She read it once. Read it again.

The agreement specified that despite its contractual nature, both parties were expected to be physically

intimate no fewer than five times per week.

She looked up.

“Hold on.” Her voice came out flat. “I thought you had a – a physical limitation.”

Phineas’s expression didn’t change. “I’m unable to have children. That has no bearing on anything else.” He

paused. “We’re both adults. It’s a reasonable expectation.”

Aurora was quiet for a moment. She thought back to the conversation she’d misread, the assumption she’d made and apparently never questioned. She felt faintly embarrassed about it, though she kept that

off her face.

In principle, she didn’t have an objection. She was a reasonable adult. She understood how marriages

worked, contractual or otherwise.

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But five times a week was aggressive.

She looked at him steadily. “Three times.”

“Four.” He didn’t hesitate. “A marriage only works if both parties are actually committed to it. This clause stays.”

Aurora studied him for a second. There was something underneath his casual delivery – a quiet seriousness she recognized. He wasn’t negotiating for sport. He meant it.

She picked up the pen, crossed out the five, and wrote four above it. Then she looked up at him.

“Deal.”

She slid the document toward him. He leaned in, initialed the amendment, and signed his name at the bottom of the final page. She signed below his.

Aurora set the pen down and looked at the signed agreement on the bed between them.

Then she looked at Phineas.

“I want to register as soon as possible,” she said. “I’ll tell you why.”

He waited.

“My biological father showing up wasn’t random. He came with a plan – he had leverage, he had timing, and he had Martha already in place.” She kept her voice even. “I think Sienna was involved. I can’t prove it

yet, but the pattern fits. She’s been chipping away at my life for a long time, and this feels like an

escalation.”

She paused. “If I’m your wife, that changes my position significantly. It gives me a different kind of

protection than I have right now.” She held his gaze. “I’m not going to dress this up. I need you, and yes –

I’m using you. Does that bother you?”

Phineas was standing near the window. The afternoon light came in at an angle across his face, and for a

moment the hard lines of his expression softened into something she didn’t have a name for.

He was quiet for a beat.

“No,” he said. “It doesn’t bother me.”

He picked up the agreement and tucked it under his arm. Then, just before he turned to leave, the corner

of his mouth moved.

“You’ll be Mrs. Everett again, though.”

He said it lightly, almost as an afterthought, and walked out before she could respond.

Aurora sat alone on the hospital bed.

Her heartbeat was doing something she hadn’t authorized.

She pressed the back of her hand against her sternum and told herself it was the residual adrenaline from

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earlier. That was a reasonable explanation. She was a medical researcher; she understood the

physiological mechanisms of stress response.

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She looked out the window at the gray afternoon sky and thought – maybe her run of bad luck was finally running out.

The door opened again.

This time it wasn’t Phineas.

Leo came in fast, his face pale and his eyes red at the edges. He crossed the room in four strides and stopped at her bedside, looking her over like he was checking for damage he might have missed.

“Are you okay?” His voice cracked slightly on the last word. “Aurora, I’m so sorry. I didn’t – I didn’t know she’d taken my phone until I tried to call you and it was gone. She locked me in the house. I couldn’t get

out.”

“I know,” Aurora said. “Sit down.”

He pulled the chair close and sat, elbows on his knees, jaw tight.

“I called Phineas,” he said. “He left his card – a while back, when everything with school was happening. I

still had it. I didn’t know what else to do.”

“That was the right call.” She looked at him. “You’re the reason I got out of there, Leo. You know that.”

He shook his head like he didn’t want credit for it.

Aurora watched him for a moment. Then she asked the question directly.

“How much did you know about what Martha was planning?”

Leo’s jaw tightened. He didn’t answer immediately.

“I didn’t know about the kidnapping,” he said finally. “I swear I didn’t. But I knew she’d been in contact with

him. I thought she was just – I thought she was trying to get him to leave us alone.” He exhaled. “I should have told you. I know that.”

Aurora nodded slowly.

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