MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE

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only came from years of serving people at their best and worst. Gold Bennett didn't move. She just

ch for it either

slowly. Thi

he number of times he'd paid for dinner,and even then, it was usually fast food or a drive-thru milkshake. Not that she minded. She hadn't dated Ja

everything fe

ad been glued to his phone, his fingers tapping at invisible messages. Now, he was

, or should I just gu

e hadn't realized she could see hi

ed me here to say," she r

ked. "G

,",she gestured around at the upscale restaurant he had s

ad suddenly grown too tight. He ran a hand

t som

like

Just four words that spl

away. Her mind was still

finally, her voi

a. Her dad's a big-shot investor, and she's got a l

nd we don't? Aft

amazing. You helped me get through law school

ked the meals. Covered your textbooks. I

sly. "I'm not try

laugh. "You don't have t

e table, and for a long mo

ind her eyes, but she refused

se. Not even that you want someone else. It's that you waited until you had eve

hed. "That'

you when you said we were building something. What's not fair is that I lost sleep helping

it like this,

till made

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e receipt. Gold signed it w

pe she's everything you want. I hope her connections and her p

g,maybe to apologize, maybe to backtra

with her head held high and her

ork had a way of cutting straight through you, but Gold didn't flinch. She need

and each other, steam rising from grates. Her phone buzzed in her p

coul

rior looked the same as it had that morning, but everything else felt... off. She c

n't home.

kicked off her heels, and sank to t

idn't

at f

steady, like rain on glass. She buried

rself

ship, but the years s

t around Jason, the

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in. This time, she g

: You

ords. She didn't kno

t even

, she typed back,

ut an ea

gers, and looked around at the apartment she had decorat

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ave her heart, it w

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