Secret Billionaire’s Contract Bride: Marrying My Enemy’s Lover

Chapter 33

POV: “Corinna”

The sunbeams made their way through the cracks of the bay window; the dark curtains that blocked them out were nothing under its power.

I twitched in my sleep, the light behind my eyes pulling me from my dream. I shifted my head to the right, breathing in deeply. The light, however, was stubborn.

It followed me, and I groaned. flipping onto my stomach and burying my head in the pillow.

I had never been a morning person. Necessity had forced it upon me, but as my consciousness surfaced from sleep, I counted the days in my head.

Friday. It was Friday morning. I had no responsibilities, so I could sleep in until 10:00.

If the stupid sun would let me rest.

Mornings were the worst.

I yawned, still half-asleep as I pulled my pillow over my head, blocking out the rays of the morning sun filtering through the curtains of the window.

I sighed in relief, my body relaxing as I slipped right back into sleep. I could’ve slept the day away.

If it wasn’t for the alarm I’d set last night ringing incessantly,

“Ugh!” I threw my pillow, hearing it thump against the wall as I sat up in bed, grumpily. I fished for my phone on the nightstand, wincing at the sudden light from the screen as I shut off the alarm.

There was an unseen text message on my phone that caught my attention.

1 frowned, sitting up in bed as I opened it up.

“Girl, don’t look at the news, Leila texted me.

“Why? Did my father do something stupid again?’ I wrote back, rolling my eyes. It wouldn’t have been the first time my father had gotten himself into trouble.

He wasn’t a good man or even a good father, but he was better than none at all. Adelaide took that for granted. Just another thing I hated about her.

‘Not exactly, came the reply.

“Then what?”

Finally, she texted back with a link to a news article. Wasting no time, I clicked it, and my jaw dropped open.

*Damon Steyn and Adelaide Hildebrand Elope before wedding!

I scrolled down to read at a fast pace.

Two days before their official wedding. Damon Steyn, the son of CEO Dalton Steyn of Steyn Industries, and Adelaide Hildebrand, the first daughter of the old Hildebrand lineage, were caught leaving the Las Vegas Chapel dressed in wedding attire Thursday night.”

be f*cking kidding me. They really went and got married? In Vegas of

was of Damon dressed in a suit, a massive grin on his face

a tint

pretty for someone like her. She deserved to wear rags, and now she’d done

did this to upstage us, I knew it. Who did they

the wall, but I stopped, calming myself. We still

fix this.

the hard plastic of the

three rings, it

your name and number and

“Sh*t!”

knowing where Ashton

I needed him, he was gone again. Typical Steyn.

my grandmother. The old bat had always disliked me,

rang then cut off

No answer.

probably in on this too. She had always loved

my bottom lip, the panic growing inside of me. I couldn’t let Adelaide win. I couldn’t let them do this to me.

should have done all along. I dialed

picked up on the first ring. I could always

came her sugary

woke up and saw the news, and that b*tch eloped with Damon already! She’s completely undermined my

coldly. “She’s as crafty as her mother was.”

said, full of doubt about our strategy.

I felt like a child being scolded-like I always did with my mother. She had an extraordinary ability to make me

victory. This is what we’ve been working

frowned. “He still wants me. I made sure of

and chuckled deviously. “Don’t stop until you ruin her.”

I

baby. Make sure to give me an update once you destroy

“Love you, too.”

call ended with a click, and I ran a hand through my messy hair. Everything

confidence, however, was wavering. I knew Damon had been in love with Adelaide since we were children. She was the only one that didn’t know how

Adelaide hated him. Whispering in both of their cars to keep them apart, sabotaging any attempt

Damon was a wild card. He was difficult to predict. He’d always been the

two brothers.

thing was clear. He

he wanted me, he loved her. I curled my arms around my knees, anger, and jealousy

use Damon

idea, filled my mind. I smirked, my plan beginning

I just needed Adelaide to think he wanted to.

in despair-the desolate look in her eyes as she realized that no one in