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

Chapter 26

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.

of that nonsense,” Grandma

shorter stature, Grandma was incredibly strong. “I’ve known you since you were a tot. I keep telling you, call me Grandma.”

hunched

stubborn boy,” Grandma said playfully, slapping him on the

roll his eyes over her shoulder and stuck out my tongue in retaliation.

in the cold,” my grandma said, hooking both of us by

going to tell her it was almost 80 degrees out. It wouldn’t stop

I asked as we entered the modest home. My grandparents had never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too difficult to move around in, so

the brim with photos and memorabilia. It had that feeling of coziness that always made me feel

with a smile. “He’s making

chip s’mores cookies?” I exclaimed.

course,” Grandma chuckled.

chocolate,” Damon rolled

I said, proudly.

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was some inside joke I wasn’t getting,

like when you were kids.” Grandma chuckled as we all settled into the family room. She poured us some tea, still as

had attempted to teach me the art of tea-making, but I was never good at it.

dogs,” I scoffed. “We never agreed

“But you were also quite close, even if neither of you would admit it. I remember you’d follow Damon and

look, but I rolled

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

“But I mean before Corinna got taken in. When Maelyn was still

of my mother, her name was practically taboo after her death. Especially around my father. Hearing it

about my mother, only that she was soft and pretty. She’d died when I

stepmother and brought in Corinna soon after

playing as kids,” Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of her

in close to her to see the

as kids. We were all

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smiled at the funny faces

decided to shoot a movie,” Grandma said and smiled. “Addie directed everything, and Damon made the ‘set.’ Ashton provided the materials, and Corinna was the star, of course. It was the first time I’d seen you four do something together without

a haunted bakery, but I had to change it

Damon grinned saying, “I can’t believe we

smiling faces, I felt sad that none of us were this

hate Corinna. There was a time when I was excited to have a sister, a time when we actually

we grew up, those times became smaller and smaller until all