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She mumbled loud enough for him to hear. “Seems like people think the worst of both of us.”
His eyes glazed over as he stopped the car in front of the mansion. They both got out of the car as a man came rushing over to park the car in the garage. Ava stepped onto the enormous front porch that reminded her of the porches in British period dramas.
“Your new home,” Benjamin murmured and before Ava could answer he had already walked in.
She was about to follow him, but the moment she heard Lucy’s voice complain about the moving boxes in the hallway her body automatically turned around again. It would be better for her nerves to take a little stroll in the garden first.
Her feet stopped in front of a white statue holding a baby. She had always loved this statue, as it had been her mother’s favorite. Silently, she stared up into the woman’s face. Memories of those dark days came up when the cancer had hit her family hard. Her world shook. It’d started with a simple diagnosis that left plenty of hope at first, but things escalated from there; within months, the cancer had literally invaded every organ of her mother’s kind-hearted body. Ava shivered at the memory. Those last days had been the hardest for her mother; a once vibrant and energetic woman was now knocked down by cancer, unable to eat, move, or even smile.
She let the memory fade and rubbed her eyes before the tears would win. At least she could save her dad. At first, he was straight out against this whole sham marriage. He said no money could buy love, talked about the holy bond of marriage, blah blah blah. But when Ava was fighting him hard over it, he suddenly took a long deep look at her, almost as if he was gazing into the farthest corners of her soul. Then all the sudden he was on board. Not one word did he say against it ever since.
“I will make it through these six months like a true champ...” she whispered to herself as she turned to face her new life as a billionaire’s wife—and all the headaches that would come with it.
