Secret Billionaire’s Contract Bride: Marrying My Enemy’s Lover

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The wedding preparations were going smoothly with Lacey and Kathy’s help. I didn’t know the first thing about planning a wedding, but I learned it came with a lot of price tags. Too many. It was overwhelming.

“Tip number one,” Lacey told me grinning. “Don’t tell them it’s for a wedding. The price shoots up to unbelievable prices. If you say it’s like an anniversary, you get the same thing for much cheaper.”

“Isn’t that lying, though?” I asked, looking at her seriously.

“It’s good business!” Lacey refuted with a sly grin.

In addition to the wedding plans, the remodeling on the set for the movie was getting done at hyperspeed. Cassidy was a genius, and a fast one, too. I had to admit, I was happy Damon had called him.

“We’ve just got some more painting to do, and you’ll be all set,” Cassidy told me over the phone one morning in his usual rough voice.

I really felt like things were looking up, like puzzle pieces I didn’t know were missing suddenly slid into place. I couldn’t believe it fell together so well.

The only thing that bothered me still was Corinna and Ashton.

I knew how much their lies would hurt my grandmother. Damon managed to convince me to keep it quiet so we could gather more evidence.

He wanted to make sure we could take them both down in one fell swoop.

In the meantime, though, I was going to enjoy my life. I wasn’t going to let them ruin the happiness I was feeling.

“Grandma!”

I grinned as I pulled my grandmother into a hug. She chuckled, patting my back like when I was a child. It was always so comforting.

“You saw me only a few days ago, child,” my grandmother said, amused. “Did you miss me that much?”

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“Yes,” I smiled into her warm sweater. When I pulled back, Grandma caught sight of Damon behind me.

“And I see you brought your husband,” she said with a warm smile, her eyes falling on Damon.

“It’s nice to see you again, Mrs. Hildebrand,” Damon said, politely smiling at her.

nonsense,” Grandma huffed, reaching out to

stature, Grandma was incredibly strong. “I’ve known

chuckled, hunched over from their height

him on

with a smirk. I saw him roll his eyes over her shoulder and stuck out my tongue in

the cold,” my grandma said, hooking both of us by our arms as she

almost 80 degrees out. It wouldn’t stop

modest home. My grandparents had never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too difficult to move around in, so

It had that feeling of coziness that always made me feel

with a smile. “He’s

chip s’mores

course,” Grandma

Damon

superior flavor,” I said, proudly.

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to strawberries,” he smirked like it was some inside joke I wasn’t getting, but I smiled at him still.

kids.” Grandma chuckled as we all settled into the family room. She poured us some tea, still

I was never good at it.

cats and dogs,” I scoffed. “We never agreed

follow Damon and Ashton around like a little duckling after its mother. The three of you getting into

pointed look, but I rolled

I pointed out. “Corinna stuck to them like

“But I mean before Corinna got taken in. When Maelyn was still alive.”

mention of my mother, her name was practically taboo after her death. Especially around my father. Hearing it always made

didn’t remember much about my mother, only that she was soft and pretty. She’d died when I was still a

stepmother and brought in Corinna

but the four of you would have so much fun playing as kids,” Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of her many

her to

‘Bakery’ and the four of us as kids. We were all posing for the camera. Corinna was in a pretty red dress, much too big for her, and clearly, she had too much makeup on.

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the funny faces we were

directed everything, and Damon made the ‘set.’ Ashton provided the materials, and Corinna was the star, of course. It was the

supposed to be a haunted bakery, but I had to change it because ghosts

for that look.” Damon

and smiling faces, I felt sad

Corinna. There was a time when I was excited to have a sister,

those times became smaller and smaller until all we felt for one another was