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

Chapter 54

I stared at the test 1 had sent over 30 minutes ago that had gone

Me baby, I’m at the restaurant

I sat by the hotel bar sipping my sorrows away. Today was date night and before she left this morning she had promised me that she would go out in an effort to make it. That was what she had said and I believed her. But here we were again and the

was not here.

We had agreed to meet at 6, a full hour after her meeting was set to finish. Today they were discussing with producers as to who they would like to offer roles in the movie. I knew that it was a big day for her but I also needed her.

I had wanted this date night to be our fresh start so that we could begin again. I had found the nicest French restaurant I could she was really into French cuisine now. And I had even bought her a new pair of diamond earrings that were burning a hole in my pocket. I was excited but she wasn’t there. Again.

When she canceled the site viewing I had been happy for the time For the first time since we moved here, I felt like a priority. But now after that day nearly two weeks ago, it was like it all reverted back

1 ran a billion-dollar business but I still found the time for her because she was my number one and I was now questioning if I was hers.

That was a dangerous place to be for a marriage.

I sipped on my whiskey allowing the bitterness to soak my disappointment. I lifted my hand in the air and waved down the bartender.

“Can I have another please?”

“Rough day?” The look of pity in his eyes made me frown. “You’ve been sitting here moping at your phone.”

“Oh yeah,” I sighed. “I kind of got stood up.”

“Then that woman is a fool.” A soft feminine voice said on my right. I turned to find a woman dressed in a power suit sipping on a martini. She was about three chairs away from me so I hadn’t noticed her when I sat down. But then again I never noticed any woman that wasn’t my wife.

“She’s just busy.” I said with a tight-lipped smile.

deserve you all the same. You two planned this date and she should

bartender looked between me and the woman and left to go and get my refill. But I didn’t miss the subtle eye he made my

date?” the woman continued to speak.

my left hand in the air. “It was

make sure that I made time for you. But then again I have always been the doting kind

was like that. I mean for a time she had been. I felt like I was her number one. But now… it felt like this movie was her number one and I didn’t know how to feel about it. I wanted to be supportive and push her toward her goals but it was now coming at the cost

bartender came back with my

took the drink and sipped on the

into. Had I known that this would

have fought her a little harder.

to sit beside me.

from three chairs down. She held a small smile on her face. She raised her glass

my glass in the air and clinked it with hers. We both took sips of our drinks and settled into a comfortable silence. But after a while, the

your

“I don’t think sharing my problems

you’re wrong. A problem shared is a problem half-solved.” She turned in her

would you figure that?” My

problems. And sometimes it’s

to listen to a random stranger’s problems on a Monday evening when you could be enjoying

I’m an empath.”

didn’t miss the teasing tone in her voice and for some reason it made the tips of my lips tilt upward slightly.

I would bite on whatever she was trying to throw out, but that didn’t mean that I was going to air mine and

I can read you pretty

“Do tell.”

sorts. You like to keep mostly to yourself. And if the limited edition Richard Mille is to say anything, you are a man of money. And you seem to come from it but

much hit the nail on the head. “So does this

popping the olive into her mouth. “I’m a lawyer, which means I’m very good at

Aren’t