AnnieQuin

To Champagne Gold, life was always like a fast-moving truck with no brakes and a drunk driver, one she couldn't avoid.

At the age of five, she lost her parents in a helicopter crash. Life after that was one problem to another but she held on... until her grandfather passed away as well.

With his death came the loss of her position of CEO and her hard-earned shares. As if that was not enough, she was served with divorce papers and the revelation of her husband's adultery with her cousin.

Dealt with one too many blows, Champagne sought to end it all. Perhaps she could be reincarnated or whisked away to another world like the books she read before, but that was not to be. Instead, a mysterious man entered her life.

"Rather than escape like a coward, I can give you the power and resources to carry out your revenge. I have but one condition―marry me."

Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge

I look up at the small wooden clock and it's just fifteen minutes to midnight. Fifteen minutes to Christmas.

When I remember my Christmas celebration for the past years, it was always lonely, unless I spent it with Mary and her family.

"Rowan was not Christian," I finally break the silence between us, "so I believed that's why he never agreed to celebrate it with me." I continue talking while staring at the dancing flames in the hearth.

"Now that I think about it, he was probably spending the day with Alicia, don't you think?" I turn my head and stare at him with a fake smile. I let out a soft chuckle before turning my head back to the hearth.

"After my parents died, I moved in with my aunt. Since apart from grandpa, she was my only living relative. And I guess for me that was when Christmas and birthdays stopped."

37. Duke's present.