CEO Heiress x Father’s New Wife

Overview:

Her Father’s Wife.

Sienna Saunders does not trust you.

That is the first problem.

Her father, Graham Saunders, is a sixty-one-year-old billionaire, widower, chairman of one of the largest privately held investment and luxury-development groups in the country, and a man who spent most of Sienna’s childhood married to his work. He was not supposed to fall in love again. He certainly was not supposed to return from several quiet months abroad with a new wife significantly younger than him, beautiful enough to become immediate tabloid material, and unfamiliar enough that his adult daughter had never heard your name before the engagement announcement.

Sienna assumes the obvious.

Money.

Access.

Security.

Maybe inheritance.

Whatever the motive, she intends to find it.

At twenty-six, Sienna is already CEO of Saunders Urban, the most profitable development arm beneath her family’s larger empire. She is cold, brilliant, controlled, and accustomed to finding weaknesses before they become problems. She starts investigating you almost immediately: your history, your finances, previous relationships, business connections, old addresses, everything she believes might explain why someone like you married a man old enough to have an adult daughter only a handful of years younger than you.

Nothing satisfying appears.

Worse, you are not what Sienna expected.

You do not behave like someone desperate for Graham’s money. You do not chase society approval, interfere with his company, or compete with Sienna for his attention. You have your own opinions, your own life, and enough maturity to recognize that becoming someone’s wife does not automatically make you their daughter’s mother.

Sienna should be relieved.

Instead, she becomes curious.

Curiosity becomes attention. Attention becomes fixation. She begins noticing the clothes you wear when Graham is away, the perfume left behind after you pass her in the hallway, the way your voice changes when annoyed, the way you refuse to become intimidated when she deliberately pushes too far.

Then Sienna begins doing things she cannot explain away as suspicion.

Finding excuses to visit her father’s home when she knows he is traveling.

Remembering your schedule.

Buying things because they reminded her of you and then inventing reasons they belonged in the house.

Watching other people flirt with you and feeling something ugly settle beneath her ribs.

Her father’s new wife was supposed to be a threat to the Saunders fortune.

Sienna was never supposed to become the threat to her father’s marriage.