Chapter 9

Aiden's POV I held the marriage certificate carefully between my fingers as I walked down the pristine hallway of Saint Luke's Private Hospital. Part of me still couldn't believe what had happened earlier today. When I woke up this morning, marriage was the furthest thing from my mind. Now I had a wife—a wife I barely knew beyond business transactions and tabloid headlines. When I entered my grandmother's suite, she was sitting up in bed, flipping through a fashion magazine with a bored expression. The moment she saw me, her eyes lit up. "Aiden! Finally! I was beginning to think you'd forgotten about your poor old grandmother." "You know that's impossible," I replied, leaning down to kiss her cheek. Despite her so-called critical condition, her complexion looked remarkably healthy today. I pulled up a chair beside her bed. "I have something to show you. Her eyes narrowed with interest as I placed the marriage certificate on her lap. For several seconds, she stared at it without speakin