Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Billionaires Game : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Shane's POVI remembered her name. Lucy. She had told me at the party and it stuck. That was the only reasonable thing I did other than standing like an idiot while her picture was being taken.My phone buzzed from somewhere in the room. I didn’t move. My brain felt like it was wading through fog laced with static.What the hell happened last night? Did I force her? Had I done the worst?I shut the door and leaned against it, then started to rub my face hard enough for it to hurt. I could still taste the wine. It was bitter and off, like it had been laced with something metallic. I remembered drinking it with her at the bar. I remembered laughing.And then…Nothing.Not how we got here. Not if anything happened. Just her in my bed, and this dull throb in my skull that hadn’t let go since sunrise.The buzz came again. This time from the table. My phone lit up with messages. Dozens of them.I opened the first notification:TMZ: “Unknown Woman Leaves Shane Wilson’s Suite in Last Night’s

Lucy's POVShe slammed the ring box shut.“You're crazy!” Lucy snarled, leaping up from the sofa as if it scorched her. “So some shiny rock gives you the right to fix my life?”“I think it gives you a way out,” I said evenly, watching her pace like a cornered animal.Her hands shook. “You want me to smile for the cameras and play your pretty little fiancée, just so you can come out squeaky clean?”“No,” I said, rising slowly. “I want you to stop being ripped apart by strangers who don’t know you. And I want the people who set this up to know they didn’t win.”She whirled on me. “By what—marrying me on paper and parading me like a brand asset?”I stepped closer. “Do you want them to keep dragging your name through the dirt? You’ve seen what they’re calling you. A user. A side piece. That’s their story. Unless we give them a better one.”“You mean your story.”“I mean ours,” I said, voice low. “Even if it’s fake.”She blinked, silenced for a second. I saw it…the crack in her armor. That