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

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The wedding preparations were going smoothly with Lacey and Kathy’s help. I didn’t know the first thing about planning a wedding, but I learned it came with a lot of price tags. Too many. It was overwhelming.

“Tip number one,” Lacey told me grinning. “Don’t tell them it’s for a wedding. The price shoots up to unbelievable prices. If you say it’s like an anniversary, you get the same thing for much cheaper.”

“Isn’t that lying, though?” I asked, looking at her seriously.

“It’s good business!” Lacey refuted with a sly grin.

In addition to the wedding plans, the remodeling on the set for the movie was getting done at hyperspeed. Cassidy was a genius, and a fast one, too. I had to admit, I was happy Damon had called him.

“We’ve just got some more painting to do, and you’ll be all set,” Cassidy told me over the phone one morning in his usual rough voice.

I really felt like things were looking up, like puzzle pieces I didn’t know were missing suddenly slid into place. I couldn’t believe it fell together so well.

The only thing that bothered me still was Corinna and Ashton.

I knew how much their lies would hurt my grandmother. Damon managed to convince me to keep it quiet so we could gather more evidence.

He wanted to make sure we could take them both down in one fell swoop.

In the meantime, though, I was going to enjoy my life. I wasn’t going to let them ruin the happiness I was feeling.

“Grandma!”

I grinned as I pulled my grandmother into a hug. She chuckled, patting my back like when I was a child. It was always so comforting.

“You saw me only a few days ago, child,” my grandmother said, amused. “Did you miss me that much?”

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“Yes,” I smiled into her warm sweater. When I pulled back, Grandma caught sight of Damon behind me.

“And I see you brought your husband,” she said with a warm smile, her eyes falling on Damon.

“It’s nice to see you again, Mrs. Hildebrand,” Damon said, politely smiling at her.

none of that nonsense,” Grandma

“I’ve known you since

hunched over from

playfully, slapping him on the arm with a

I saw him roll his

use standing out in the cold,” my grandma said, hooking both of us by our arms as she pulled us into the house.

going to tell her it was almost 80 degrees out. It

My grandparents had never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too

home was packed to the brim with photos and memorabilia. It had that feeling of coziness that always made me

the kitchen,” Grandma said with a smile. “He’s

chip s’mores cookies?” I exclaimed.

Grandma

and your chocolate,” Damon rolled his eyes, grinning.

obviously the superior flavor,” I said,

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smirked like it was some inside joke I wasn’t getting, but I smiled

Grandma chuckled as we all settled into the family room. She poured us some tea, still as graceful as when she was

I was never good at it. I could never be as gentle and precise as she was.

We fought like cats and dogs,” I scoffed. “We

if neither of you would admit it. I remember you’d follow Damon and Ashton around like a little duckling after its mother. The three

sent me a pointed look, but

of us,” I pointed out. “Corinna stuck to them

I mean before Corinna got taken in. When Maelyn

my mother, her name was practically taboo after her death. Especially around my father. Hearing it always made my breath catch in

she was soft and pretty. She’d died when I was still a toddler, too young to even process

my stepmother and brought in Corinna soon after that.

Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one

leaned in close to her to

was a cardboard house named ‘Bakery’ and the four of us as kids. We were all posing for the camera. Corinna was in a pretty

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the funny faces we were making.

made the ‘set.’ Ashton provided the materials, and Corinna was the star, of course.

“It was supposed to be a haunted bakery, but I had to change

closet and makeup for that look.” Damon grinned saying, “I can’t believe we ever

our chubby cheeks and smiling faces, I felt sad that none of us

excited to

smaller until all we