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.

that nonsense,” Grandma huffed,

incredibly strong. “I’ve known you since you were a tot. I keep telling you, call me

hunched over from their

said playfully, slapping him on the arm with a chuckle.

is right,” I said with a smirk. I saw him roll his eyes over her shoulder and stuck out my

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

her it was almost 80 degrees out. It wouldn’t

My grandparents had never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too difficult to move around in, so

home was packed to the brim with photos and memorabilia. It had

said with a smile. “He’s making

s’mores cookies?” I

Grandma chuckled.

Damon rolled his eyes, grinning.

obviously the superior flavor,” I said, proudly. “Why? What’s yours?”

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inside joke I wasn’t getting, but I

together, just like when you were kids.” Grandma chuckled as we all settled into the family room. She poured us some tea, still as graceful as when she was a young

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

I scoffed. “We never

I remember you’d follow Damon and Ashton around

look,

out. “Corinna stuck

before Corinna got taken in.

death. Especially around my father.

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

and brought

Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of

to her to

of. It 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 red dress, much too big for her, and clearly, she

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smiled at the funny faces we were

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 it starting a

be a haunted bakery, but I had

pretty sure we raided Odessa’s closet and makeup for that look.” Damon grinned saying, “I can’t believe we ever thought that looked

and smiling faces, I felt sad that none of us

excited to have a sister, a time when

and smaller until all we felt for one