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MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE

Chapter 5 Everything is Strange

Word Count: 903 | Released on: 29/04/2025

: Everything

g into someone else's story, a life that didn't quite bel

Gold

hers. It sounded like someone who had grown up attending galas, not someone w

cious. Quiet. And entirely too elegant for a woman who used to fall asleep on a seco

bed with pristine white linens. A walk-in closet the size of her old living room. A

, yes. Bu

ike her n

h her. It felt surreal, being this high up, above all the noise and

or time to think. And she certainly wasn't used to luxury t

barefaced, hair loose, wrapped in a robe that

t feel li

uest. Or worse, a

soft knock

, startled

oved the jacket and rolled up the sleeves. He looked exhausted. L

up a small tray with two mugs and a plate of wha

ked. "Are

ly. "Well, not by me. My housekeeper

at tugged at her lips. "Didn't peg y

the room and placed the tray on the

as she sat on the bed. Daniel t

the quiet clinking of mugs as they sipped coc

e said finally.

brow raised. "For the

ke a business transaction

dable. "I didn't want to marry someone w

dn't want love, but you didn'

e used," he said qu

for a moment. "S

y laugh. "Th

got dumped for a we

looked. "We're two people who

"Doesn't mean we kno

uild something from it. Something cl

im, his brutal honesty. No s

rea

ocoa, the tension softening between t

itted. "The space. The quiet. I

mug on the tray.

st reassuring smile. "You

, surprised. "You

's had to survive for so long, she

rder than s

keep thinking I should be crying. Or panicking. Or r

"Sometimes surviving is th

is time, the silence wasn't unc

ing his sleeves down

k to the door, then

tur

d the cocoa. And for not making

than usual when he rep

n he wa

aring at the ceiling, her heart q

trust him

t maybe, she d

toni

people pretending they had a little

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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?”