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

Chapter 33

POV: “Corinna”

The sunbeams made their way through the cracks of the bay window; the dark curtains that blocked them out were nothing under its power.

I twitched in my sleep, the light behind my eyes pulling me from my dream. I shifted my head to the right, breathing in deeply. The light, however, was stubborn.

It followed me, and I groaned. flipping onto my stomach and burying my head in the pillow.

I had never been a morning person. Necessity had forced it upon me, but as my consciousness surfaced from sleep, I counted the days in my head.

Friday. It was Friday morning. I had no responsibilities, so I could sleep in until 10:00.

If the stupid sun would let me rest.

Mornings were the worst.

I yawned, still half-asleep as I pulled my pillow over my head, blocking out the rays of the morning sun filtering through the curtains of the window.

I sighed in relief, my body relaxing as I slipped right back into sleep. I could’ve slept the day away.

If it wasn’t for the alarm I’d set last night ringing incessantly,

“Ugh!” I threw my pillow, hearing it thump against the wall as I sat up in bed, grumpily. I fished for my phone on the nightstand, wincing at the sudden light from the screen as I shut off the alarm.

There was an unseen text message on my phone that caught my attention.

1 frowned, sitting up in bed as I opened it up.

“Girl, don’t look at the news, Leila texted me.

“Why? Did my father do something stupid again?’ I wrote back, rolling my eyes. It wouldn’t have been the first time my father had gotten himself into trouble.

He wasn’t a good man or even a good father, but he was better than none at all. Adelaide took that for granted. Just another thing I hated about her.

‘Not exactly, came the reply.

“Then what?”

Finally, she texted back with a link to a news article. Wasting no time, I clicked it, and my jaw dropped open.

*Damon Steyn and Adelaide Hildebrand Elope before wedding!

I scrolled down to read at a fast pace.

Two days before their official wedding. Damon Steyn, the son of CEO Dalton Steyn of Steyn Industries, and Adelaide Hildebrand, the first daughter of the old Hildebrand lineage, were caught leaving the Las Vegas Chapel dressed in wedding attire Thursday night.”

me. They really went

his face as he carried Adelaide in his arms, both

a tint of

at the wedding dress Adelaide had on. It was too pretty for someone like

upstage us, I knew

my phone to throw it at the

fix

nails on the hard plastic of the phone

three rings, it

Steyn. Leave your name and number and

“Sh*t!”

even knowing where

he was gone again. Typical Steyn. Always gone when they were needed.

number of my grandmother. The old bat had always disliked me, but years of sucking up to her were

phone rang and rang then cut off abruptly.

No answer.

on this too. She had always loved Adelaide more

me. I couldn’t let Adelaide win. I couldn’t let

have done all along. I dialed my

first ring. I could always depend on my mother

her sugary sweet

I said, hurriedly, “I just woke up and saw the news, and that

coldly. “She’s as crafty as her mother was.”

off,” I said, full of doubt about our strategy. “If

being scolded-like I always did with my mother.

we’ve been working towards for years,” my mother spat. “That boy, Damon. You did what I

frowned. “He still wants me. I made

said and chuckled deviously. “Don’t stop until

Mother,” I

Make sure to give me an update once

“Love you, too.”

hand through my messy

since

of their cars to keep them apart, sabotaging

was a wild card. He was difficult to predict. He’d

two brothers.

thing was clear. He still wanted

me, he loved her. I curled my arms around my knees, anger,

I use Damon to

my mind. I smirked, my

think he wanted to. I’d been making her

could just imagine now how her face would twist up in despair-the desolate look in her eyes as she realized that no one in this world