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

switched our plates so I had the

cut my own steak! I glowered at him as he leaned back in his seat

plan something like this,” Ashton

back reared its ugly head, ready

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Adelaide, Father.” Despite the trash flowing from

her to craft this plan,” Ashton

choked on my

By this

out of his stupid mouth.

infected him with her

our family’s reputation,” Ashton said coldly to my father. “Father and I are politicians. This could

you insane? I wanted to yell

nodded, his anger dying down, “Adelaide would never do

wow, so stupidity is

said to me coldly, “you have not held a ceremony yet. This mistake can easily be reversed.

“What?” I gasped.

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

at my father’s sudden declaration.

as the room spun around me. Thoughts rushed through my brain in

over and over.

father hate

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

a little. Corinna was always his golden child, but me? Nothing

trying to appease my cold-hearted father years

beyond cold. It was downright

what was happening, tears sprang to my eyes. But I couldn’t. I mustn’t. I must not cry. For years, I’d been telling myself to be strong, to be tough, to be –

mine. Stunned, I

gripped my fingers tightly under the table, cold and confident like everything was still in

whispered for only me to hear. “I won’t let

smiled with all the sincerity of Corinna’s tears and looked my father dead in the

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to worry about, future

looked her

dare-” my father sputtered.

Silent as a ghost as always, I hadn’t

but Piers had dealt with my father’s temper

madam is on

My father

“Mother-in-law is

congratulate me, obviously,” Corinna

and Tabitha brought out her compact make-up kit to do touch-ups. Even

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