The CEO Who Felt My Pregnancy

The diagnosis is direct: Lila Reed, a designer at Vaughn Group, is carrying triplets while chronically malnourished, and her uterus is under extreme strain. She is at high risk of miscarriage. Around the same time, CEO Hayden Vaughn cannot explain his nausea and cramping. The Vaughn family mating mark reveals the cause: he has found his mate, and the bond makes him feel whatever Lila feels.

Lila's job is the only thing keeping her from being sent back to her village. Her mother, Brenda Reed, has already lined up a pig-farm owner who will pay thirty thousand dollars for her. When Hayden is drugged, Lila sleeps with him. She asks for full-time status and nothing else: "I want full time employment. Is that OK?" Hayden remembers her as an investment department intern and orders her full-time paperwork processed.

At the office, design supervisor Chloe Voss bullies Lila, demands she kneel, and treats her as disposable. Hayden intervenes: Chloe is demoted one rank and loses three months of pay, while Lila completes full-time paperwork. Later, five million is transferred to Lila's payroll card. She tries to return the money and keeps a bar shift for extra income.

Brenda arrives at Lila's apartment demanding fifty thousand dollars, discovers the pregnancy, and threatens to track down the father. Lila's landlord evicts her because Hayden has bought the entire block for a shopping mall. Hayden, nearby, has her get into his car, learns she has nowhere to stay, and sends her to the staff apartment reserved for employees with one full year of service. She has just been hired.

Hayden notices how pale Lila is and feels her aches through the bond. He orders a company-wide physical exam even though one was completed three months earlier. The report confirms Lila is pregnant. Chloe sees it and moves to fire her, while hiding that she swapped Lila's exam papers years ago to force her into a second-rate college.

Later, Lila tries to run. Hayden finds her, marries her, and shields her from jealous rivals, malicious coworkers, and her own family. After multiple dangers, Hayden proposes. Connected by the mating bond, they look forward to life with the unborn triplets.