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CHAPTER 12
Time seemed to freeze for a moment. When Gemma came back to her senses, she steadied herself and pulled out of his arms.
He held both of his hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry for offending you, ma'am. If I didn't hold you, you would have fallen." He was stating the obvious but something was off with the way he said it. Why did it almost sound like he was hitting on her? She cleared her head to stop thinking nonsense and nodded. "I'll go to my room." A couple of steps later, the pain was unbearable in her ankle so she bent down and took off her heels, then she walked upstairs with more ease. His heart ached as he watched her leave. He must be the only man who wished for the woman he loved to be slightly more delicate. If she were as delicate as most wealthy women, she would not have the strength to take off her heels at that moment. She would be in so much pain that she would need help getting to her room, and he would give her just that.Related chapters
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Gemma felt something odd about Livian. Why did he look uncomfortable when she asked him to follow her to her room? He made it feel kind of wrong.Thinking that it was probably because he was scared that he could have done something wrong and upset her, she led the way and kept some distance so he would be comfortable. Whatever she was about to tell him was not something that could be discussed in the kitchen. Not with the Black family snooping around for ways to end her life. They could thwart her plans and before she dealt with them, it was best to be cautious.Her room was nothing like Livian imagined. He had imagined a feminine room with warm tones of gold, red and perhaps white, which would suit her taste from the past. However, her room was filled with silver and black. How cold. This was probably in line with Ethan's taste and she had not changed it. Did she love the bloke that much?She locked the door and sat on the fluffy couch, an arm's length aw
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"That sounds…" He didn't know what to say. He would have been happy for her knowing she and the man she loved reunited in the least expected way even after losing each other, but he couldn't. The man was an asshole."Fated?" She chuckled. "I thought we were too." She looked down into her cup."He didn't deserve you." He said in a low voice that almost sounded forced. Heaven knew how much he had wanted to say it in the last nine years. He knew that she would be angry with him so he had kept it to himself. Finally, he could say it with ease.She was surprised when he did. "How would you know that?"Crap. He had forgotten that he only knew from years of stalking her.He cleared his throat and shot up another excuse, digging himself even deeper into the mess he had created when he started lying to her. "You don't speak of him as someone you miss but as someone you hate.""Well... ironically, yeah."Maybe it was because Livian was easy t
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Gemma had chosen a private garden to be the venue of their wedding. There was a cottage and a front yard that wasn't too large, filled with at least five kinds of flowers. It would have been a jumbled mess of color if the garden had not been well taken care of. The flowers were in good shape and the hedges and grass perfectly trimmed.It must be her hideaway. He loved it as soon as they arrived and to be fair, he would have loved it even if it didn't belong to her.They didn't have many guests—Cora was her bridesmaid as well as her only guest, while his guest was Heidi—the woman who had taken up the role of his grandmother when this whole charade began—and her grandson. It was a stretch to say that she and her grandson were his only family but one thing about it was true. He considered her his family.Heidi had been his nanny when he was little so he was closer to her than he was to his real family. Her grandson, Blake, had agreed to be his groomsman under
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"Aren't you getting a little too much into the act?" Her eyebrows quivered when Livian placed her on the bed and proceeded to take off her heels. The room had been decorated with red roses and candles, typical of a bridal chamber. It was his idea and of course, it was too real for a contract wedding.The light illuminated the side of his face, accentuating his handsome profile as he took her foot to gently massage it. "You asked me to put on a realistic act. How can it look realistic if I don't act like a normal husband would?"A chuckle escaped her lips. "Do normal husbands massage their wive's feet at random occasions?"Her question made a frown settle on his lips. "Why are you certain that they don't?""That's something dream husbands do and let's be real. They don't exist." She looked indifferent about it. "If we are both working and I'm tired after a long day of work, then so is he. I don't expect any special treatment just because I'm
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Not catching the hint of mischief in his tone, she proceeded to open the next box. The content was a ruby bracelet. If she wasn't lost in admiring it, she would have realized that the man beside her had tensed up while waiting for her reaction.She ran her fingers along it gently. "This is beautiful. I don't and don't know who the sender is but it looks familiar."He swallowed beside her. Of course it was familiar. He had given it to her as a gift on her nineteenth birthday. She had worn it for a while before he spoke ill of Ethan, then she'd returned it to him as a sign that she no longer wanted anything to do with him.He watched quietly as she checked it over and over. Part of him wanted her to figure it out, but part of him dreaded the outcome. What would happen once she found out? Would she kick him out? It was too soon for that to happen…But then again, she was going to figure it out sooner or later and she would be mad at hi
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