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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

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barefaced, hair loose, wrapped in a robe that

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soft knock

, startled

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

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ly. "Well, not by me. My housekeeper

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as she sat on the bed. Daniel t

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ing his sleeves down

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MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE
MARRIED TO A STRANGER : THE BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE
“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?”
1 Chapter 1 Goodbye2 Chapter 2 Strangers Promises3 Chapter 3 The Contract4 Chapter 4 Sealing with a Ring5 Chapter 5 Everything is Strange6 Chapter 6 The Unexpected Wife7 Chapter 7 All eyes on me8 Chapter 8 Almost, Maybe, Something9 Chapter 9 Seeing Him10 Chapter 10 The Dinner Date11 Chapter 11 The Dinner With the Hastings12 Chapter 12 Cracks in the Armor13 Chapter 13 The Space Between Us14 Chapter 14 Echoes of the past15 Chapter 15 Fault Lines16 Chapter 16 shadows and Signatures17 Chapter 17 The Cost of Loyalty18 Chapter 18 Beneath the Surface19 Chapter 19 Shadows in the Open20 Chapter 20 The Taste of Truth21 Chapter 21 A War we didn't choose22 Chapter 22 The Price of Silence23 Chapter 23 Ashes and Reckoning24 Chapter 24 The thing We Carry25 Chapter 25 Ashes and Echoes26 Chapter 26 Tangled lies27 Chapter 27 Threads of Betrayal28 Chapter 28 Beneath the surface29 Chapter 29 Shadows and fire30 Chapter 30 The Madrid Gambit31 Chapter 31 The Price of war32 Chapter 32 No way out33 Chapter 33 The Judas Within34 Chapter 34 When the shadows strike35 Chapter 35 Echoes in the Fire36 Chapter 36 The Cost of Truth37 Chapter 37 Echoes in there38 Chapter 38 The Phoenix and the shadows39 Chapter 39 The Ashes and the Crown40 Chapter 40 The Tipping point41 Chapter 41 Lines in the sand42 Chapter 42 When Shadows find you43 Chapter 43 The Wolves are Watching44 Chapter 44 The Gathering storm45 Chapter 45 The Devil's welcome46 Chapter 46 Daughters of Fire47 Chapter 47 What comes after the Fire48 Chapter 48 Into the Northern Silence49 Chapter 49 When the Fire leaves Behind50 Chapter 50 Ashes and Thunder