Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge
To Champagne Gold, life was always like a fast-moving truck with no brakes and a drunk driver, one she couldn't avoid. At the age of five, she lost her parents in a helicopter crash. Life after that was one problem to another but she held on... until her grandfather passed away as well. With his death came the loss of her position of CEO and her hard-earned shares. As if that was not enough, she was served with divorce papers and the revelation of her husband's adultery with her cousin. Dealt with one too many blows, Champagne sought to end it all. Perhaps she could be reincarnated or whisked away to another world like the books she read before, but that was not to be. Instead, a mysterious man entered her life. "Rather than escape like a coward, I can give you the power and resources to carry out your revenge. I have but one condition―marry me."
21. I will do it for you.
Sitting in the front seat of the car next to Duke who is driving because Alan who would have driven us to our destination has some other business matters to attend to, I just can't stop fidgeting with my fingers.
Can I do this? Can I face her? Am I ready to face her? To face Alicia?
Since the incident with the divorce and everything, I haven't come face to face with either one of them. Not Alicia, not my aunt, not even my ex-husband.
The one one I went back to the place where I once called home, thankfully, Rowan wasn't home. Duke had insisted on going with me that day, but I pleaded for him to wait for me in the car. For some reason, I didn't want him to see my annoying past, even though he already knows it all.
I found out that my things had been moved out of the bedroom and stocked in a storage room. They had been replaced by Alicia's things. The nerve…