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.

Grandma

known

Mrs. Hildebrand,” Damon chuckled, hunched

slapping him

a smirk. I saw him roll his eyes over her shoulder and stuck out

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

her it was almost 80 degrees out. It wouldn’t stop her worrying over us anyway.

never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too difficult to move around in, so they’d downsized when I

memorabilia. It had that feeling of coziness

the kitchen,” Grandma said with

s’mores cookies?” I exclaimed.

course,” Grandma chuckled.

your chocolate,” Damon

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

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some inside

chuckled as we all settled into the family room.

but 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.

I remember you’d follow Damon and Ashton around like a

me a pointed look, but I rolled my eyes.

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

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

the mention of my mother, her name was practically taboo after her death. Especially around my father.

She’d died

stepmother and brought in Corinna soon

you would have so much fun playing as kids,” Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of her many family albums. “This one

her to see the picture.

were all posing for the camera. Corinna was in a pretty red dress, much too

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funny faces we

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

bakery, but I had to change it because ghosts scared Corinna too

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

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

a time when I was excited to have a sister,

up, those times became smaller and smaller