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.

two planned this date

and get my refill. But I didn’t miss the subtle eye he made my

the woman

air. “It was a date night with

make

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

back with my drink. “It’s on

I took the drink and sipped

into. Had I known that this would be the outcome of our time

fought her a little harder.

came down to sit beside me.

chairs down. She held a small smile on her face. She raised her glass in the

I raised 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

for your thoughts?”

“I don’t think sharing my problems with a stranger is

wrong. A problem shared is a problem half-solved.” She turned in her chair to fully face me. “Besides, you look like you could

My gaze moved

shoulders are physically weighed down by your problems. And sometimes it’s easier to unload on strangers

on a Monday evening when you could be enjoying your martini in peace?”

shrugged. “Maybe I’m an

some reason it made the tips of

but that didn’t mean

I can read you

“Do tell.”

if the limited edition Richard Mille is to say anything, you are a man of money. And you seem to come from it but you have also made quite a lot of it

I said but she had pretty much hit the nail on the head. “So does this empath also happen

mouth. “I’m a lawyer, which means I’m very

lying too, right? Aren’t all lawyers supposed to be