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

sister’s Toom Bauman

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”

much because I loved him like

not fucked up,

She placed her hand over

to her. This man had done too much and it was time to sever ties. She didn’t need him–she never did. She had me and we would

you know how

you

her voice. “To have a man like that love you so wholly and fully is such a blessing. That man wakes up every day and he

the outside noises have a say in our love story when they had no room to speak in the first place. It didn’t matter to me that Angela was there. What

“You’re right.”

face was shadowed by the moon but her eyes glistened against its gentle shine. “I heard you guys yelling at each other

I nodded.

don’t know why you worry yourself about a woman like that. You wear the ring. You have his name. You have his heart.” She was right on all accounts and it was just my insecurities seeping in. After having to fight for our love the first time I guess I was left jaded and wounded. These were wounds that I never

comforting you and here you are consoling me

she brought my hands to her lips and gave them a soft kiss. “You’re helping

here.”

“Always.”

way back downstairs to where I knew my husband would be. The moon was full and he and I had just fought. He often found solace in

nature

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

once had I ever had to doubt his love for me since our vows. He chose me every morning when that sun rose. And continued to choose

porch steps and made my way to him. I came to sit right

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

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

cold without you.” I muttered into

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

the back playfully, “I knew you were

like it because it smells like you.”