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

Chapter 70

Today was finally the big day. All the prepping and planning had led to this one singular moment.

“Oh

my God.” Lucas came up beside me. He had his little makeup belt and was looking around the set. His eyes were wide with wonder. I had looked just the same when I viewed the site for the first time. “I knew these guys had a budget but damn. It makes what we had been working on child’s play.”

I placed my arm around his waist and gave him a side hug. “This is our moment. We earned this.”

He turned and hugged me face-on. “I can’t believe we’re here.”

“Well, believe it.” I smiled.

I was drinking in every single moment of the day. I didn’t want to take anything for granted. I knew where I had come from and I knew where I wanted to go.

“Let’s get ready for the first scene.” I pulled myself out of his hold and walked over to my chair as Gabriel and Tiffany got ready.

After my talk with Damon on the beach he was no longer worried about Gabriel, not that he ever had to be. The man was nowhere near the standard of my husband. And it wasn’t because he was bad looking-far from it actually. But I just didn’t get the same rush that I got from Damon.

I settled into my seat greeting my assistant directors. I picked up my mic and for the first time in this project, I called for silence.

“Okay everyone, let’s get this show on the road.” I nodded to the clapper loader on my staff.

“Right,” he moved into the frame, “Samuel and Jasmine war room scene, take one. Action.”

He rushed out of the frame and the cameras moved in on Tiffany and Gabriel.

“War?! Samuel, you threaten my people with war? How can you do this to me?” Tiffany walked to the table and sat at the head of the chair. She looked at the map that had been laid out to signify the kingdom of Versti (the world that Emma had created). “You say you care for me and that I am to be your bride but you allow your father to do this?”

“It is not war, Jasmine.”

this? What do you

silent waiting for

Tiffany was meant to sound more broken than this but

be king,” Gabriel sighed. “I must think of my people first. I must think of their

of your wife’s?”

isn’t working.”

word echoed through

already knew that it was about her. It was the way she looked at me and

“I’m sorry.”

to me. I

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She nodded.

I need you to really feel what you’re saying. You’ve just found out that this man has been lying to you. You found out that he wants to kill

nodded, still looking

the part of Jasmine. She had long blonde hair that brushed her back and blue-grey contacts that gave her those

you. Gabriel, come stand here with me.” We took a few steps to the left and I prepared myself for what I was about to do. “We’ll go from the part where Jasmine is raging at Samuel. That’s when we get

already getting himself into character. “Should I start us off?”

I nodded.

remembered the majority of what the script said seeing as I had worked on it for months. “Okay,

reaching to touch my face. “What do you want me to do? Shall I decide

pulled away from his touch. “There shouldn’t even be a choice. I should come first, Samuel. I should be the

to be king

at the end. “Are you saying that your love for your people weighs far greater than your love for me? Is that what is to become of us? Am I to be your

was the part that I needed Tiffany to execute well. I needed to get all the emotion to pour out of her, but not like a

His eyes moved over my face in a triangle movement. Left eye, then right eye, then my

it seem so appealing and satisfying. The man

–

rubbed my cheek gently. “I would burn

I was about to speak but then closed them again. I closed my eyes causing the singular tear to fall from my eye. The tear

are you choosing to drive this knife into my