The Contracted Heart of the Billionaire Heir

Chapter One

Donald's POVHunched over the desk, I tried to make heads or tails of the work before me but my brain was too tired to provide meaning to it. A headache was niggling at the back of my brain and I raised my hands to my temples, soothing the spot.Too tired to think, I stood from the chair heading towards the kitchen to make a fresh pot of coffee.Once it was ready, I made it the way I liked it. Black and two cubes of sugar.Once the semi-bitter taste of the coffee touched my tongue, everything simultaneously felt better.Sighing, I leaned against the counter taking my sweet time before I walked back to my desk, my brain prepped to work.I had barely sat down for ten seconds when my phone buzzed with a notification.Reluctant to check it but curious, I craned my head towards the direction of the phone, my phone's screen was lit up, with a message from Tessa.Now, that piqued my curiosity. Tessa was a friend of my wife, and it was a bit odd that she would be texting me. Abandoning the w