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.”

“Then what do you call this? What do

waiting for the appropriate time to

me? How much longer?” Tiffany was meant to sound more broken than this but her words didn’t hold the emotion I

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

what of

stared at the monitor with my brows furrowed. “This isn’t working.” I

word echoed through the room.

two leads. Tiffany already knew that it was about her.

“I’m sorry.”

her off. “No, don’t you dare apologize to

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She nodded.

at eye level. “I need more emotion out of you. 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 your people, your countrymen. I need the pain to

looking

that brushed her

left and I prepared myself for what I was about to do.

into character. “Should I

I nodded.

of what the script said seeing as I

my face. “What do you want me

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

to be king

voice break at the end. “Are you saying that your love for your people weighs far greater than

tears to brim my eyes. This was the part that I needed Tiffany to execute well. I needed to get all the

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

way he did it made it seem so appealing and satisfying. The man had a way of charming anyone even

–

gently. “I would burn the

to speak but then closed them again. I closed my eyes causing the singular tear to fall from my eye. The tear trickled down my cheek until it hit his thumb. I opened

to drive this knife into