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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 62

                    Jacob Mackay

He settled in behind his desk and put his confrontation with Zion in the deepest parts of his mind, but the one thing he couldn't ignore was the accusing finger Castle pointed at his father. His mind riveted to Nicole and her frenzied behavior at the hotel prior to Jace's death. He had written her off when he saw her take solace in the arms of the same man she called a monster, but now that he thought about it, she was only a grieving woman who took comfort in the nearest willing individual. 

Maybe he had been quick to judge her. He thought of all the evil things his father had done. He was no saint, alright, but Jacob wondered how possible it was that Jameson Mackay could murder a little boy that was supposed to be his son.