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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 83

                        Jacob Mackay

Jacob couldn't find one of his sneakers. He looked everywhere in his drawers and closet. Jacob sighed in exasperation. This could only be the handwork of Dylan. He was a wannabe Jacob and so always did whatever his father did, including wearing his clothes and shoes. Jacob bounded down the stairs to the sit-out, where he was sure Nicole and Dylan would be. Just as he got to the foot of the stairs, the door banged and Anika walked straight through. Jacob halted and pinned her with a look. Anika rolled her eyes at him and tapped her feet impatiently.