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MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE

Author: ONLY ME

Chapter 1 Goodbye

Word Count: 1053 | Released on: 29/04/2025

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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

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

nce

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

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

ut powerful,rose from so

done. Not

eft her, but he

Gold B

ho didn't deserve it and came ou

ave her heart, it w

how yet. She d

thing wa

er story wouldn't be

be writte

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MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE

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“BLURB Gold Bennett thought she had it all, until the man she'd loved and supported through law school shattered her world. Jason, her charming, ambitious boyfriend, had promised they'd build a life together. But when a rich heiress comes into the picture, he doesn't hesitate to abandon Gold, leaving her heartbroken and lost. The man who once claimed he'd never leave her now has a new fiancée, and Gold is left to pick up the pieces of a future she had built around him.Devastated and burned by betrayal, Gold is done with love. But when a cold, calculating billionaire named Daniel Copper offers her a way out of her grief, she reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience. It's a practical solution to her pain, or so she thinks. After all, Daniel is a stranger,handsome, yes, but distant, with an air of mystery that warns her to keep her distance. He needs a wife to settle a score, and she needs a way to reclaim her life.But as the days go by, what begins as a contract quickly turns into something far more complicated. Beneath Daniel's icy exterior lies a man who has his own reasons for wanting her by his side. Despite their agreement, sparks begin to fly, and Gold finds herself drawn to him in ways she never expected. As they navigate their new life together, Gold realizes that Daniel isn't just the CEO of a billion-dollar empire, he's also carrying a past as dark and tangled as her own. And when their marriage starts to feel less like a business deal and more like something real, she's torn between what she wants and what she's afraid of.But just as their relationship begins to shift, Jason reappears, determined to win Gold back. The game of love, revenge, and trust gets more dangerous, and Gold must decide whether she can trust Daniel with her heart,or if he, too, will betray her when she least expects it.In a world where love is a battlefield and trust is fragile, will Gold's second chance at love be her salvation? Or will her past come back to haunt her when she least expects it?”