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

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

have any

idea what you’ve done?” My father’s fury was something I was used to but never before had I seen him this angry.

As soon as Damon and I walked through the front door of my house, it was like we’d walked into a warzone. My stepmother sat beside Corinna at the dinner table, as she held her hand and glared daggers at me. On Corinna’s other side was Ashton, who I took particular care not to look at.

I’d lose my cool if I saw that “sshole’s face now,

“I can’t believe you ruined Corinna’s engagement party with this nonsense!” red-faced with a receding hairline.

my father shouted,

“I’m sure Addie didn’t ruin my engagement on purpose, Father,” Corinna said bravely, hands clutched on her chest as she smiled tearfully at me.

“I’m so sorry we didn’t invite you or Damon. I couldn’t bear to make Damon watch my engagement after our horrid split,” she said with a pitying look at Damon.

I eyed Damon’s reaction. He paid her no mind, only picked up his steak knife and began slicing into

his steak.

Corinna turned to me with teary eyes, “And I knew you had an important meeting with. your sponsor, Addie. I didn’t want to make you miss it just for me.”

She looked away, hand on her mouth like she’d suppressed a sob,

“You’re such a good sister, Corinna,” my stepmother, Tabitha, patted her hand with a kind smile. She turned to me with a nasty look, “so unlike Adelaide.”

“Good sister, my *ss-” I retorted before I stopped myself.

“Adelaide!” my father slammed his fist on the table, rattling the dishes and spilling his third glass of red wine. “Don’t talk to your sister that way! I should’ve known you would’ve caused trouble!”

Corinna peeked beneath her hand, a tiny smirk on her face only I saw. I clenched my fists under the

table.

I knew better than to take her provocation, but I still wanted to reach across the table and smack her.

“Don’t blame Adelaide,” Ashton’s smooth voice said. “I doubt this was her fault.”

“Not her fault?” my father raged, “the press is having a field day with us! They think there’s a fight for the inheritance of our families because of what she and that illegitimate child did!”

I peeked over at Damon, but he was unaffected by the accusation. Despite being true, it was rude and callous of my father to point this out,

“Here

Damon smirked as he laid down his knife and switched

my own steak! I glowered at him as

simple-minded to plan something like this,” Ashton said to my father with a placating

I’d been holding back reared

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forgive Adelaide, Father.” Despite the trash flowing from Ashton’s mouth, my father believed it wholeheartedly as his glare turned to

seduced her to craft

on

this

eyed Ashton’s wine glass, bewildered and infuriated by the accusations that came out of his stupid

must’ve infected him with her

Ashton said coldly to my father. “Father and I are politicians. This could

you insane? I wanted to yell at

would never do this on

wow, so stupidity

can easily be reversed. You will annul the license and marry the man I

“What?” I gasped.

is willing to take you as his third wife,” my father said, with no room for negotiation in

Corinna looked shocked at my father’s sudden

or say a single thing back as the room spun around me. Thoughts rushed

over and over.

hate me that

a notorious “sshole. Though successful, he was renowned to have a horrid temper and often visited brothels even when he had

child, but I always assumed he had to care for me a little. Corinna

appease my cold-hearted

cold. It was downright

must not cry. For years, I’d

around mine. Stunned, I

tightly under the table, cold and

for only me to

sincerity of Corinna’s tears and looked my father

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have nothing to worry about, future father-in-law. She has me

us furiously before Father looked her way and

my father

as a ghost as always, I hadn’t even noticed he had

Most of the servants would’ve cowered, but Piers had dealt with my father’s temper for a long

madam is on her way.”

is?” My

“Mother-in-law is coming? Why?”

congratulate me, obviously,” Corinna

room enfold into chaos. Father cleared his throat, and Tabitha brought out her compact

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