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.

of that nonsense,” Grandma huffed, reaching out to

Grandma was incredibly strong. “I’ve known you

Damon chuckled, hunched

boy,” Grandma said playfully, slapping him

roll his eyes over her shoulder and stuck out my tongue

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

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

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

to the brim with photos and memorabilia. It had that feeling of

in the kitchen,” Grandma said with a

chip s’mores

Grandma chuckled.

Damon rolled his

I said,

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

are so sweet 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

of tea-making, but I was never good at it. I could

and dogs,” I scoffed. “We never

“But you were also quite close, even 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 of you getting into so much

me a pointed look,

the four of us,” I pointed out.

Grandma said, quietly. “But I mean before Corinna got

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

was soft and pretty. She’d died when I was still a

stepmother and brought

so much fun playing as kids,” Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of her many

leaned in close to her to see

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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the funny faces we

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

a haunted bakery, but I had to change it because

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

felt sad

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

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