The Billionaire's Bride

ing gown and a veil covering her face, tears poured down

he knew was that she couldn't let such a

at he was really handsome, he might be older than her but it

e was in his mid-twenties and t

ws that Mrs. De la Cruz was dying and in the h

round ten years old and she'd been no

arding high school and her tuition

she was still a baby, her mother had done all sorts of jobs to make e

la Cruz offered to send her to school and since she'd barely gotten any educat

uz always treated her like a daughter and not the maid's daughter and eve

o know anything and she'd only seen pictures of him and h

ime she has left." The nurse came in to call

ent official was even there with the marriage certificates and a b

her in and she walked closer to her till

look up when Estella walked into the room, the wedding wa

o of you get married and I hope that after I die, I can still look down from heaven and smile down a

e ceremony, he couldn't take his eyes off his mother, she was smiling

" The Priest asked Max, the ceremony was going to be a short

dly because his mother's

girl answered hurriedly, then they signed the marriage certificat

The Priest announced and

him and for the first time s

act if they'd met in a different situat

use she wore a long shapeless dress but there was some

t he felt transfixed, he shook his head to get out of the momentary t

she had plump pink lips and when her tongue darted out to wet her

id and smiled at him, her smile

t from hers, somehow he was worried that she was taking all this just because his moth

his fingers, he noticed as her eyes rounded with fear but it was

f her wanted h

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all her life but she felt short to his six foot three frame, he t

g since she went to an all girls school, the most interaction she'd had with the opp

ut that was all of it, she'd been looking forward to having her first kiss with the love o

gs to her and she blushed when he said she wa

ss but instead of kissing her on the lips, he

to their duties and it remained the newly w

" Ingret walked into th

r's side to go outside with her becau

d slightly, she did not understand what had just happened but it wasn't her place to car

Ingret." He

y, how long do you think you would ne

e to handle everything, it might ta

e turned to leave

to stay by my side now more than ever." He said and

he lowered her eyes an

there's going to be a lot of paperwork and stuff that I ju

t to it then." She sa

lked back into his mother's ward, Estella was talking

hings you like and how to take care of you."

ou wanted her for me." He squeezed her

she just smiled warmly at his mother and for a second he

in a deep breath and he

the door but his mother tightened her grip around his

and tears pouring down his face

ct that his mother was dying, she stood with tears pouring down her

ooked on sadly as Max held his mother

s first diagnosed with the terminal illness, she'd spent a tot

lodged himself from his mother's body as Dr. Ju

is watch and said to the nurse taking

iped his tears and stagger

im, he looked back at her and shook hi

dle all the paperwork t

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ital any longer after the madam had died. She called he

t surprisingly her mother wasn't surprised, the madam had

happen to her, she was sure that Max had played along only because his m

taxi driver as she paid her far

sion and was immediatel

?" They asked her and she couldn't help cryi

with her, it was a very sad

the stairs to her room and dropped to her bed, she wondered

*

b, he sat at the bar and kept drinking until

e night, he was kicked out of his pub and in his drunken state

it didn't mean he couldn't find his

ut he chased them away angrily and continued on his way, he

he bed but he was too drunk to ques