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.”

went and got married? In Vegas of all places?!

dressed in a suit, a massive grin on his face as he carried

a tint

was too pretty for someone like her.

to upstage us, I knew it. Who did

it!” I snapped, raising my phone to throw it at the wall, but I stopped, calming myself. We still had

could fix this.

number, tapping my nails on the hard plastic of the phone impatiently as

three rings, it cut

Leave your name and

“Sh*t!”

not even knowing where Ashton

again. Typical

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

and rang then cut off abruptly.

No answer.

too. She

bottom lip, the panic growing inside of me. I couldn’t let Adelaide win. I

my teeth and did what I should have done all along.

the first ring. I could always depend on my mother to be there for

her sugary sweet voice.

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

“She’s as crafty as her mother was.”

I do? Maybe we should back off,” I said, full of doubt about our strategy. “If I try anything more

silent, my voice cutting off immediately. I felt like a child being scolded-like I always did with my mother. She had an extraordinary ability to make me

is what we’ve been working towards for years,” my mother spat. “That boy,

frowned. “He still wants me. I made sure

chuckled deviously. “Don’t stop

Mother,” I

me

“Love you, too.”

and I ran a hand through my messy hair. Everything wasn’t lost. I could still do this.

love with Adelaide since

him. Whispering in both of their cars to keep them apart, sabotaging any attempt of kindness from them.

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

two brothers.

one thing was clear. He still wanted

wanted me, he loved her. I

I use Damon

sick, cruel, horrible idea, filled my mind. I smirked, my plan beginning

sleep with me. I just needed Adelaide to think he wanted to. I’d been making her believe

in her eyes