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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 45

                      Jacob Mackay

Jacob sat in the last row of the pews in the classroom and watched Sutton and her deliberate schemes to ignore him. He could see she was furious even though she tried her best to not show it. He just sat with a stoic expression on his face and watched her. He didn't even know why he was here. His instincts had brought him to this place after he had dropped off the samples at the lab. He was at war with himself on what his reaction would be like if Jace turned out to be his son eventually. He needed to find her peace again. She always comforted him.