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

Chapter 58

*Damon*

I was miserable and that was putting it nicely. I felt like I was suffocating without her but I needed to get out of LA. However, in doing so I also had to get away from her which hurt more than anyone can imagine. Things had escalated drastically and we were not in a good place.

I couldn’t tell you the number of times I picked up my phone to text her or call her and tell her that I loved her and that I was coming back to her.

But every time I mustered up the courage to text her I always deleted the words on the screen.

She was back from Canada, that much I knew but other than the fact that she was at home I didn’t know how she was feeling, if she was feeling even half of the misery I was.

I had seen her texts and her calls but I couldn’t ever bring myself to answer them. I had been the one to do the chasing. I had been the one to always try and fix things and I wanted her to meet me halfway for once.

I wanted her to show me that she wanted this to work. I needed to see that I was still a priority for her. But the waiting was killing me.

I laid on the hotel bed looking up at the ceiling wondering how I let it all get to this point. But as I slowly divided deeper into the deep waters of heartache and depression my phone cut through the thick fog drawing me back to reality.

Lacey: Hey bozo

I had been drowning in my own depression and Lacey was a literal gift from the heavens.

Me: Hello knucklehead

Lacey: Cute… you’re not funny.

Me: You started it. Anyway, what’s up? How can I be of service to you today?

Lacey: Open the door.

I was confused at first until I heard a knock at the door. I shook my head. Of course, she would just announce herself this way. She was a woman of flare and dramatics but who was I to judge?

I hopped off the bed, dressed in nothing but my sweats, and opened the door for my friend.

she saw my outfit. “Oh my, you’re

deadpan look and moved aside so she could get in but she just stood at the door.

in?”

her head. “The opposite actually. You’re coming with

with

a surprise,” she said in a sing-song voice that already had my suspicions up. “You can come like this,

feel like leaving the confines of my home though.” I pouted. “Why don’t we just

in her stance. “We’re leaving and going to breathe fresh air. You’ve been cooped up in here for the entire day. We’re leaving.

look from her and my mouth shut back up real

Chapter 58

“Shoes”

arms

and left the room with her. I had no idea what kind of adventure she had planned for us but I was

to the driveway of her

pulled me out of my hotel to bring me to your house? That’s

engine and opened her door.

door. She had just moved into this new gated community that was so peaceful and beautiful. The house was big but not overly big in the way that it was a mansion but big enough to have a few

think within our prime we had been

we were.

but then paused. “Shoot I left something in the car, you can

partner, Kathy there but I was greeted with nothing but silence and this tantalizing scent that had my stomach

couldn’t be, there was no way that Lacey had managed to replicate my wife’s

for me.

in the middle of the kitchen looking as stunning as ever. Her hair was pulled into a messy bun.

much I had missed her. Her face, her eyes, her scent. These three days had truly

I could tell she was nervous from the way she was biting down on her lip. “I

–

arms. I nuzzled my nose into

So very perfect.

her eyes. Tears brimmed in them as she stared at me with a