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

Chapter 86

“Corinna’

I grew up in front of the camera. I was comfortable in front of it. I knew how to turn it on and off. But as of late since the whole fiasco with that stupid husband of mine, I had been struggling mentally

The man was a hmatic. He was coming after everything of mine, including the inheritance that had only just now been given

to The

He needed my money for lux campaign to run for governor because he knew that no one wanted to back him. I was the only reason he had some kind of public Lavor They loved me, not him At first, I had been blind but now I had 20/20 vision. The man was nothing but a mampulative asshole who only cared for himself and nothing more.

1 had allowed him to take too much of my heart and I refused for him to get my money too. It was rightfully mine and I would fight tooth and nail in that.

The tabloids were horrendous when the news broke but I didn’t give a damn. They could throw as much dirt on his name as they liked. I never liked the Vegas crowd anyway-not that LA was any better Everyone here was just so fake a pretentious that it was nauseating Everyone was always trying to get a leg up and get their next big break. You didn’t know who was real and who was just out to use you

The best piece of advice Lcould give myself was to just stay away from them all. I needed to focus on my career and what I

needed

I looked at my done-up face in the mirror and calmed my mind. I was going to be doing a cover shoot for La Vie magazine and I was so excited. I had worked my entire life for a moment like this. I was finally going to be on the cover of a worldwide magazine. This was only the first step to a much larger and better career. Thit I needed to kill it today-this was my one and only shot

“You got this.” I gave myself one last pep talk before heading out of the room and toward the set.

I was dressed in a paint-stained white ball gown. It was a take on my soi

sarriage.

didn’t want my business out there I also wanted to make that money, and if I

walked over to the photographer to introduce myself but then I stopped short when I noticed who it was.

Oh My God

and shoot me? He was one of the most sought-after photographers in the world. He had

his gaze and looked up at me. His amber eyes connected with my hazel

gorgeous and I was just staring

before offering him my hand. “I’m Corinna Steyn, it’s a

eyebrow. “You’re still going by your married name?”

um. yes, I don’t think I

name. 1 liked it and it meant

who held his camera. “I think we can

This was it.

the grand set they had created. It was this forest-like place with grass and shrubbery and flowers all over. 1 knew right

not an insecure woman-not by a long shot. But here I just felt so

I had from Ashton had really rattled me. He had said some things that I shouldn’t have allowed to get to me but I did. I allowed them to seep into my mind and make a

you are capable, you

my affirmation in my mind willing the anxiety

marked ‘x’ and hit my first pose. They got a few practice shots in to check the lighting and then it was show time. I

needed this inner kind of fairy to shine through and I didn’t have that. My inner fairy had her wings clipped and her heart

first few shots and looked down. My heart

They were bad.

camera and I tried again but he still had that same frown on his face when he looked down. My nerves were sceping in and I was allowing them to

to get out of my own head but the harder I tried the deeper 1

it, I was breathing harder and faster. The corset of my dress started feeling much tighter than it had before and my heart pounded in

to calm myself but no matter what I tried all

onto the set. His large frame covered my smaller frame with