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.

nonsense,” Grandma huffed, reaching

stature, Grandma was incredibly strong. “I’ve known you since you were a tot. I

hunched over from

said playfully, slapping him

saw him roll his

in. No use standing out in the cold,” my grandma said, hooking both of us by our arms as she pulled us

80 degrees out.

modest home. My grandparents had never liked flaunting their wealth and found a big house too difficult to move

cozy home was packed to the brim with photos and memorabilia. It had that feeling of

kitchen,” Grandma said with a

s’mores cookies?” I exclaimed.

Grandma chuckled.

Damon rolled his

I said, proudly. “Why?

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strawberries,” he smirked like it was some inside joke I wasn’t getting,

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

I was never good at it. I

like cats and dogs,” I scoffed. “We

it. I remember you’d follow Damon and Ashton around like a little duckling after its mother. The three of you getting into so much mischief.”

sent me a pointed look, but I rolled my

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

“But I mean before Corinna got taken in. When

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

she was soft and pretty. She’d died when I

married my stepmother and brought in

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

to her to see the

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 had too much makeup

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the funny

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

for that look.” Damon grinned saying, “I can’t believe we ever thought that looked

and smiling faces, I felt

excited to have a sister, a time when we actually

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