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

Chapter 85

I was woken up by the sound of loud banging. I had drank one glass too many of champagne and now I was paying the consequences of my choices. I groaned, placing a pillow over my head and trying to drown out the loud sound. But de more I tried to ignore the louder it got.

“Adelaide! I know you’re in there.”

Wait a minute? Was that

“Adelaide.”

Yep, that was my husband’s loud bombing voice. But what was he doing here, in Paris?

I peeled the sheets off my body and made my way to the door in my little lace night dress. I opened the door trying to squint away the blinding light that filtered inside.

“Damon?”

He looked like a sight. His hair was disheveled and he had bags under his eyes. His hazel eyes were blazing and they looked behind me in search of something.

“What are you doing here?” I rubbed my eyes trying to correct my vision. “And why do you look made

He pushed past me and entered the room. “Where is he?”

“Who?” I followed him into my suite. “What are you talking about? Slow down and talk to me.”

He wasn’t listening to me. He charged into the room and started looking everywhere. His behavior was concerning me “Damon,” I called after him. “What the hell are you doing?”

“Come out you wife–stealing asshole.”

Okay, woah

This was now getting to the point where I was feeling very concerned. All the hungoverness I had been feeling faded and 1 was now clear–headed.

sense. I saw that something was upsetting him and I knew that I needed to sniff out any and all fires he had set alight in his mind.

up behind him. “It’s just

I had ever seen in my life. I even had to take a step or

get out of your bed after he had

“Damon,” I gasped.

said it was in my head and I believed you. I told you that he wanted you. But you chose not to listen to me and made me out to

an article that showed Gabriel and me at the cast dinner. The way it had been photographed suggested that there was more going on than just

last time I was telling you to stay the fuck away from him, Adelaide” His voice vibrated off the walls of

hurt. I could see

guess that had not been enough. I should have been

you’re mad and this doesn’t

seems, frust me.”

you. Don’t gaslight me any more than you already have Adelaide. Does

was so thick you could

“He

about to come when

for me but he told me they were done. That was what we were speaking

like a sucker punch to the gut. Knowing that I had caused

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he pulled away. “I didn’t want to tell you when he first told me because we were finally in a good place. And after Paris, I didn’t want

stared at me like he couldn’t even recognize me and I

It was unnerving how calm

day you came back from Vegas and Ashton had come to the house.”

same day you flipped out on

I winced. “Yes.”

such a hypocrite, you came at me for having Angela as my friend while you knew that asshole wanted you? Am I a fucking joke

Damon. I didn’t want you to be uncomfortable knowing I was seeing

now? How do you think I feel now, dear wife?” He raised his hands in the air in pure exasperation. “I’ll tell you, I feel like shit. You didn’t do it

“That’s not true.”

cracked the soft flesh of my heart. “You did it because you wanted to save face for your project. You told me that if there was even a whiff of him liking you that