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.

none of that nonsense,” Grandma huffed, reaching out to

Despite her shorter stature, Grandma was incredibly strong. “I’ve known you since you were

Mrs. Hildebrand,” Damon chuckled, hunched over from their height

playfully, slapping him on

I saw him roll his eyes over her shoulder and

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

tell her it was almost 80 degrees

Grandpa?” 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

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

he’s in the kitchen,” Grandma said with a

s’mores

Grandma

chocolate,” Damon rolled his eyes,

obviously the superior flavor,” I said, proudly. “Why?

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

we all settled into the family room. She poured us some tea, still as graceful as when she was

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

dogs,” I scoffed. “We

of you would admit it. I remember you’d follow Damon

pointed look,

out. “Corinna stuck to them like glue 100.”

Corinna got taken in. When Maelyn was

after her death. Especially around my father. Hearing it always made my breath catch in my chest for a second.

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

father married my stepmother and brought in Corinna soon

as kids,” Grandma chuckled, as she pulled out one of her many family albums. “This

leaned in close to her to see the

us as kids. We were all posing for the camera. Corinna was in a pretty red dress, much too big for her,

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smiled at the funny faces

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

laughed. “It was supposed to be a haunted bakery, but I had to change it because

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

I felt sad that none of us

excited to have a sister, a

smaller until all we felt for one another