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

Chapter 16

POV: “Corinna*

“Ugly.”

I scrunched up my nose at the dress as 1 flipped the page of the magazine in front of me. Everything in the magazine was hideous. My dress had to be stunning..

“Puffed sleeves. Gross.”

I groaned, shutting the magazine with a huff and throwing it somewhere on the floor with the dozen others I had discarded.

“There isn’t anything good enough,” I sighed. I stretched out on the couch, wincing at the ache in my stomach. I didn’t think it would hurt this badly.

Dammit. I huffed, shifting onto my back so I could stare at the ceiling in boredom. I placed a hand. around my sore abdomen and growled.

It had better not scar, or I’d be suing those idiots at the clinic. My modeling career could not be derailed, not when I was finally so close to acting.

But it was worth it. I grinned, smugly, thinking of Adelaide’s stupid face when I got the inheritance. instead of her. She thought she was so much smarter than me, but she had no idea what Ashton and I were planning.

She didn’t even know what was going to hit her. I reached out to the coffee table, grabbing the next bridal magazine, hoping it had something that would suit me. I didn’t have high expectations. “Boring.” I rolled my eyes at the first dress. The mermaid cut was so out of fashion this year. Did the bridal magazines not get the memo?

I heard the sound of the door clicking open, and I sat up in a hurry, before remembering that it was a bad idea. I groaned, holding my hand over my stomach as the pain shot through me in waves,

I watched, laying on my side as Ashton came in, his coat messy like he’d thrown it on in a hurry.

“Hey, darling.” I purred with a smile.

“You did the surgery?” Ashton asked, barely even glancing at me over his phone.

I pouted. “Yes. The eggs have been harvested. The bill’s on the counter by the way,” I said waving my hand dismissively toward him.

Ashton stiffened, then glanced at me with a dark look, “You didn’t take care of it?”

“Does it look like I’m made of money?” I asked, sarcastically. Gosh, he could be stupid sometimes. His family was much more well off than mine and he knew it.

He growled, throwing his coat on top of me.

I pushed it off of me and onto the ground. As I did so, I noticed something shiny sticking to my

Ashton demanded walking away from me. “Cook?” I wrinkled my nose in disgust, “Clean? Get your maid to do that! I will not be a housewife.” “I don’t have a maid,” Ashton bit out, glaring at

“I don’t do any

at his jacket with a frown. Something was unusual about it.

You’re supposed to keep the house clean and make

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I get home,” Ashton rubbed his forehead,

Once I recover from this procedure, I plan on going to work immediately. So if you want those things done, 1 suggest

shook the jacket, dozens of specks of glitter cascaded casually

Glitter?

the room at him. It hit the table he was attempting to clean off, sending all of the trash to the floor. It hurt to stand up

grabbed his jacket off the floor. “I was at the IVF clinic. I

nobody knew it. “I didn’t realize our

Ashton said, convincingly. He walked over to me, his eyes soft and soothing. “This is her second surrogacy. She was just showing me the drawing her surrogate son made for

him but decided it wasn’t worth it. I was only worried that he’d get caught anyway. I didn’t care who he

spotlight meant there could be no

the plan, you can’t be caught doing

Ashton said, gravitating towards the kitchen. “We pretend you’re pregnant while she carries the baby. Get the inheritance before Damon and Adelaide. Don’t worry, the plan will work.

I snapped, settling back down on the couch.

the bridal magazine I had been reading, my phone began to

sugary-sweet voice of Corinna Summers

Corinna

“How

to the director whether you get the part or not.” “Oh, thank you! This means so much

as I hung up the phone, my sweet smile dropped into a

I could hear him typing something,

callback for the movie I auditioned for! This will be my first acting gig,” I said and grinned, excitedly.

engrossed

I said, trying to get him to see

“Sure.”

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as he stared

little happy for me. If I get this gig,

before