All Chapters of A Substitute Bride for the Billionaire: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Iris was going through some files and making notes of some last-minute changes when the telecom on her table began to ring. With her eyes still scanning the files, she reached to pick up the call absentmindedly thinking it was Hailey calling her for the millionth time that morning.“Hailey, I’m busy. What do you want again?” She practically whined into the receiver while she signed the document and picked up another one.“Are you busy” She shrieked and almost threw her phone away when Luca’s deep baritone came through the phone. She wasn’t expecting him to be the one on the other end of the phone.“Luca” Her eyes fluttered close with embarrassment and she could practically see the amusement swirling in his eyes even though he was not in front of her. “I was a little bit startled. I thought it was Hailey calling”“Are you busy? I need you in my office now. There is something we need to discuss urgently” The corner of her eyes crinkled in confusion“Why don’t you just tell me over the p

Iris groaned as her eyes fluttered open. She hasn’t opened her eyes yet but she felt better than she did before she went to sleep. The bed held a fierce competition to hers back at home. It was so warm and it moved as well.Her eyes flew open and she was met with the sight of skin and she flew back in panic. She had been lying on Luca with her face tucked into his neck. Her cheeks burned with humiliation and she shamefully looked up to see Luca watching her.His face was blank and there was no way to tell what he was thinking. She cussed herself internally for sleeping so carelessly when she was sharing a bed with someone and she bet she made him uncomfortable the entire time but why didn’t he wake her up to adjust?“Luca, I...I...I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…” She stuttered as she tried to say something.He shrugged and got off the bed and Iris saw the drool on his shirt which made her feel more humiliated “It doesn’t matter. You should shower and come down for lunch. We missed breakf

“Iris, dear. I have something for you” Iris took a pause from packing her bags when she heard a knock on their bedroom door and Evelyn’s voice followed shortly. She walked over to the door and pulled it open instead of calling for her to come in. She saw Evelyn standing there with a wide smile on her face and she was holding what looked like a jewellery box in her hand. “You don’t have to knock, Mom” Iris said to her and opened the door wider so she could come in. Luca exited the closet and looked surprised to see his mother in their room. His eyes went to the box in her hand and a flash of recognition passed his eyes but he said nothing and instead walked over to the bed to take his phone and was about to walk out of the room when his mother stopped him. “Luca, wait. I want you to be here when I give this to her” Evelyn requested with a soft smile before focusing her gaze on a confused “Come, dear. Take a seat with me” Evelyn called to Iris after she took a seat on the couch in t

Iris grabbed her phone immediately she woke up to check the time. Luca wasn’t back at the penthouse by the time she went to sleep. He had been in and out of the place so much the previous day that she was finding it hard to believe that he was really there.Since she was easily bored, it didn’t take her minutes to feel like ripping her hair from her skull. She had tried everything to keep herself company from calling Alanna and Hailey. The two girls met through voice call since Iris decided to do a group call so the two people who meant a lot to her could be friends.It had been pure chaos. Hailey and Alanna clicked immediately and took over the call, almost leaving her out of the conversations at times, forgetting that the only reason they met was because of her but she didn’t mind. She was just glad that the two friends she had could become friends as well.After the call ended, she had tried to watch a movie but none caught her attention for long so she spent the rest of the day an

They got back to the hotel pretty late and Iris was dead tired yet the only thing she could think about was how Luca kept acting the entire night. After the episode with his partner he had not left her side but that wasn’t what lingered in her mind as she stood in the room, trying to undress.It was the little touches, the whispers and the caresses from Luca that made her unstable. She couldn’t get the gentle way he held her around her waist even though they were sitting close to each other out of her head.“Are you having difficulties with that?” Luca’s voice came from the door and she turned around, startled to see Luca leaning against her door, watching her with hooded eyes that made her shiver involuntarily.She had been lost in thoughts about the night that she didn’t hear when her door opened and since her hand was laying idle on her small button on her neck to take off her clothes, he must have assumed it was because she was having difficulties.“No. It’s just a button…” She st