My CEO Husband Scheduled Me Like a Meeting: A Billionaire Neglected-Wife Grovel Romance
J Dean, Shawn
Synopsis "My CEO Husband Scheduled Me Like a Meeting: A Billionaire Neglected-Wife Grovel Romance"
My billionaire husband sent me a calendar invitation for our marriage. Thirty minutes. Every Tuesday at seven. In our kitchen. His assistant arranged it. She was even listed as an optional guest. There was just one problem. I'd been working Tuesday evenings for two years. My husband had never noticed. My name is Joanna Kellaway. I'm a professional family mediator. I spend my days helping couples save their marriages. Apparently, I should have started with my own. Gideon Stroud is the billionaire CEO of a real estate empire. He can negotiate multibillion-dollar deals, remember the value of seventy-one buildings, and command any boardroom. But after eleven years of marriage, he can't find time for his wife without scheduling an appointment. He doesn't know when I work. He doesn't remember how I take my tea. At company dinners, he answers questions meant for me before abandoning me for conversations worth millions. So when he asks me to accept our thirty-minute meeting, I decline. Then I send him my professional booking page. Fifty minutes with Joanna Kellaway costs $350. If my husband wants an appointment, he can fill out the intake form himself. Gideon pays. Completes the paperwork. And actually shows up. For one brief moment, I think he finally understands. Then someone photographs him leaving my office. Suddenly, the headlines are everywhere. A billionaire CEO is paying to see his own wife. My marriage becomes a public spectacle. Clients cancel appointments. My professional reputation is questioned. And the mediation practice I've spent years building is suddenly at risk. Meanwhile, my business partner is retiring, and I'm determined to buy her share without accepting a dollar from Gideon. For once, I want a future that belongs entirely to me. Not Mrs. Stroud. Not the billionaire's wife. Joanna Kellaway. So I leave our beautiful glass-walled mansion and move into a tiny apartment above my practice. And Gideon finally discovers how much of his life I've quietly held together. He can't remember birthdays. Doesn't know the people I've spent years caring for. And has forgotten the little things that made our marriage worth saving. Now the billionaire who could buy almost anything wants the one thing his money can't purchase. His wife. But with a $4.1 billion corporate sale approaching, family relationships unraveling, and his empire at risk, Gideon must decide what truly matters. He thinks he can fix us with money, grand gestures, and a rearranged schedule. He's about to discover that I'm not another business problem to solve. I don't need him to buy me a company or hand me another house. I need him to listen. To stay when conversations become uncomfortable. To ask what I want instead of deciding for me. And even if I still love him, that doesn't mean I'll accept the marriage we used to have. Because a second chance doesn't mean going back. It means building something better. My CEO Husband Scheduled Me Like a Meeting is an emotional billionaire marriage-in-crisis grovel romance featuring a neglected wife, eleven years of marriage, an emotionally distant CEO, a strong professional heroine, public humiliation, separation, corporate power struggles, no cheating, painful accountability, sustained grovel, strong boundaries, and an earned happily-ever-after. He gave me thirty minutes on his calendar. Now he has to prove I'm worth more than whatever time he has left.
