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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...

Olivia_Onoh · 现代言情
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150 Chs

Chapter 44

                              Sutton Price

The weekend was over. Sutton felt everyone would stare and gossip about her as the girl who got ditched at the altar. No one would want to be labelled with that tag. But to Sutton Price, none of it really mattered. She didn't care that she was abandoned on her wedding day. In fact, she didn't know what to feel exactly.

It should have relieved her that the sham of a marriage didn't go through, but she also felt embarrassed for being at the other end of it. Her emotions waged war within her, and she didn't know whether to be angry at Jacob or to be happy for herself.