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

Chapter 39

It was a sunny morning as I drove down one of the busiest of the Las Vegas streets. It was surprisingly crowded all the way through as 1 adjusted my sunglasses for the tenth time since I started driving.

The sun was bright and hot-a little too much of both as it beat down on me. The sudden heat waves were the things I hated the most about living in Las Vegas, but it beat a hurricane or blizzard any day.

I shifted lanes as I pulled off the highway and onto the familiar road before me. Kids were out playing in the nice community. It was a pricier neighborhood but worth it.

I smiled as I heard the familiar tune of the ice cream truck several blocks down, probably giving joy to the kids of Viewpoint Circle.

But ice cream and the heat wave were not what I was here for.

I pulled into the familiar driveway, shutting off my car as I stepped out, locking it with a click of the remote.

I glanced at the stones lining the pathway heading to the house, seeing four sets of handprints imprinted into the rocks.

My name was scribbled on one of them, hands far too tiny to be an adult.

It felt like I’d made those handprints in a different lifetime.

When I reached the door, I raised my hand to knock, but the door had already flung open.

Piers, my grandmother’s butler, stood there as stiff and unusual as ever.

“Good morning. Miss Adelaide,” Piers said in a monotone voice.

“Are you ever going to tell me how you do that, Piers?” I smiled, pulling off my sunglasses. “Cause I’d love to know that party

trick.”

“Practice, Miss Adelaide,” Piers said, his lips twitching at the corner in a way that I knew meant he was laughing inwardly. “Mrs. Hildebrand is waiting for you.”

He opened up the door, stepping aside as I entered. The place was spotless as ever, but the walls were quickly running out of

room

walls were a shrine to every moment of our lives, and I

history was on full display

spotted

the pair of gardening gloves he offered to me. I used the same pair every

Adelaide,” Piers said before taking off into the house. I pulled on

look at these lilies. Aren’t they beautiful?” she gushed, a beaming smile

beside her.

in full bloom. The flowers were so bright they almost put the sun to

grinned. “Looks like your

garden, you mean,” Grandma laughed. “You helped plant it.”

pull at the weeds

glanced at me knowingly. “What did you really come here

pop, the force knocking me onto my backside. I laughed, discarding the uprooted

that obvious?”

weed with one good, hard tug. I

the smile on my lips. “You’re right, though. I

“Cause you know I can’t share any details on that. It’s

it’s not,” I shook my

were debates about whether Corinna’s wedding should be canceled entirely. Corinna and Ashton were against it from what I’d heard, but this went

which was unacceptable. My grandfather was a mellow man, and so was Ferdinand, Danon’s grandfather, but both of them had a line everyone knew

played jump rope with

to believe what I was about to say, “if Grandfather truly denies their marriage, what is Corinna

mean?” Grandma

she can make money that way. Especially with how bad she is

hands paused mid-air, and she turned to me slowly with

your pardon?”

I glanced up at my grandma, honestly.

I do,” I said, firmly. “I have my job, and I’ve been living on a low paying salary for years. Besides, I have Damon to take care of me if I need it. Corinna, well, I doubt there’s

my heart racing in my chest. I

the money.

Corinna, however….