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

Chapter 76

I left him to cool off and to be honest, I needed to clear my head too. I got up from the couch and made my way to my

told me that she had been given a sedative and would likely be out for the night but I just needed

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to see her tot myself

1 knocked and waited a beat for her to answer but no one said anything. I cracked the door open and saw that all her lights were out and her curtains were drawn back to allow the light from the moon to pierce inside. A gentle blue hue hit up the room giving it this calm aesthetic.

When I looked at her bed I had expected her to be asleep but she was sitting up with her knees to her chest. Her eyes were set out the window and her hair which was usually up was free and talling all around her.

“Rina?” I walked over to her with caution insite of her current mental state I didn’t know if she wanted to be held or if she just needed space. “I was told they gave you meds and knocked you out

All she did was shrug. She didn’t utter a single word which worried me.

“The moon is pretty tonight. Her voice was so low I felt like I had to strain my ears to hear her properly. “Sometimes I just catch myself watching it for what could be hours but sometimes passes by like minutes.”

I came up to the bed and sat beside her. I didn’t know exactly what she needed but I would be here when she figured it all

out

A few moments of silence passed between us and all I could feel was thus overwhelming sadness rolling off her in waves. From her face alone you could see just how much this man had taken from her and it angered me

The fact that this was the pain that she allowed me to see was even more gut–wrenching She didn’t like to let me know just how much this idiot had affected her. She was carrying all this pain and she wouldn’t let me help her carry it.

“He told you, right?”

“He did”

because I loved him like crazy. And

not fucked up,

shoulder. She placed her hand over mine and gave it

too much and

you know how blessed you are?”

you mean?”

that love you so wholly and fully is such a blessing. That man wakes up

two weeks of us bickering had made the fact slip from my mind momentarily. I had let the outside noises have a say in our love story when they had no room to speak in the first place. It

“You’re right.”

me in the eyes. Her face was shadowed by the moon but her eyes glistened against its gentle shine. “I heard

I nodded.

was just my insecurities seeping in. After having to

here you are consoling me

sisters are for,” she brought my hands to her lips and gave them a soft kiss.

here.”

“Always.”

drifted off to sleep. I walked out of her room and made my way back downstairs to where I knew my husband would be. The moon was full and he and I had

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on the lounge chair by the pool. His head was tilted up and his arms were at the back of his

words stuck with me. This man had been nothing but gracious with me. Never once had I ever had to doubt his love for me since our

way to him. I came to sit right by his legs causing his eyes

and I had all my defenses down. I wasn’t here to wage another war with him again. I wanted

the crook of his neck and breathed him in. I had missed this scent. I didn’t want to spend another day not waking up

you.”

let out a low laugh. “It sucked not waking up next to you, baby. I missed stealing your

back playfully, “I knew you were using it.

it