The Billionaire's Contract Bride (Replacement)

was po

lips, not because she tasted anything, but because F

cup down with

s, dabbed at her eyes with a silk handkerchief. Her fathe

her was Ethan, Emma's biological brother, per

Fiona asked, her voice honeyed. "It's j

cup. "I'm sure

aren't you

ressure your sister. She's had a

exchanging a gl

d to take a sip. "It's del

t something flickered in

into the cushion. Ethan watched Emma like she was a stain on

omecoming. It w

orward to your arrival," Rac

na took Emma's hand. "I w

iona's skin was pale, unblemished. E

that," E

ile, in Ethan's curled lip, this fam

said. His first words to her. "We'll

nod

o her room." Ethan walked fas

third floor. You won't be

aircase,

en years. You're a technicality. A DNA resul

't want your place. I had

y are yo

oice." She picked up her duffel bag. "I'm not here to tak

him stand

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her door, then

r you for years

e was calm. "You had Fiona, yo

composure

. "After eighteen yea

listened. "Beca

rway. "The Hawthorne family want

fro

t. The engagement was meant for Fiona. But the Hawtho

ht me back to marry a strange

cause you're our daught

brought me back because I'm useful. Becaus

"The company is weeks from collapse. You

my alter

alternative."

lingere

shoul

el l

folded note fr

on't trust anyone, the Hawthorne family is coming for you, not

watermark. The Haw

from a friend. It had

oor o

otched from crying, but her ey

a said. "It seems yo

never accept her. At the mother who sold he

It was not a

ice." She stepped closer. "But I'm not the quiet country girl you thin

pped pa

his family won't eve

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skyline, a man in a wheelchair watched the secur

ark-haired girl with the quiet ey

ing," he

me had