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The Billionaire's Devotion

(Excerpt—) Their faces were still inches apart, breaths entangling. Instead of her lips, he kissed her on the cheek before pulling away to look at her. She wasn't looking at him anymore. She had trained her eyes on the view outside the window. "We could try again," Jacob said. "I don't know what you want from me." Sutton replied in a quiet voice. "I'll keep my word this time around. Six months and I'll set you free, Sutton Price."  Sutton wasn't listening anymore. Something else was on her mind. She brought her eyes to him again, and her next words were not what he expected. "What really happened to Perseus Castle?"  Jacob's hand fell away from Sutton's. His adam apple bobbed as he searched her face. He had the choice to lie. *** Jacob is a man with many demons, who finds himself entangled in a forbidden romance with his father's new wife. A marriage of inconvenience seems to be his only way out of it, but nothing goes according to plan. Sutton is a wealthy heiress broken badly from her past; a past that ties her with the billionaire devil Jacob, even before they meet...

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Chapter 123

Jacob Mackay...

The floating city was magnificent. Jacob stood on the deck opposite the floating city with the rest of the crowd. He was awed by the outcome of the project. From beneath his hat, he stared at Judah, standing by Jameson's right hand. That should have been him on that stage presenting the floating city. But since he couldn't be there, Jacob took solace in the events that were about to go down.

Everywhere buzzed with activities as guests moved around. Jacob blended with the crowd, trying to remain anonymous. He was disguised in baggy jeans, a hoodie, and a baseball hat. He looked nothing like himself. He was present to the beginning of the end for the Mackays, orchestrated by him.