MiaI stood by the car, waving at my family. I watched as the maids parked my luggage into the car that my father's family had brought with them. The trunk was large enough to contain a full closet and I rolled my eyes at the car. It was as if they had anticipated my going with them that same day and I was annoyed with myself that I was playing too easily into their game. I wanted to turn back and say I wasn't going again just to hold on to my pride.As if Jack knew what I was thinking of, he shook his head at me. I sighed. He was right. I shouldn't drag this for too long. After all, I had frustrated them a bit and they knew that it wasn't easy for them to get me to move with them.After I had agreed to accept the inheritance, they had asked me to come with them, see what I was to get so they could start the process of transfer of inheritance.They had told me that I would be back within a week and that was why I had gone with them. A week wasn't that long if I found something to keep
MiaI jumped the moment I heard my phone ring. It could be no one else but the boys. I had been waiting for their calls for ages and I was glad that they had finally made it through. They should have called an hour ago. The past one hour had been full of agony though I had tried to keep myself busy by arranging my stuff."Hi," I breathed into the phone.Jack chuckled at my breathlessness. "Did you run to the phone?"I rolled my eyes, angry at myself for giving him a reason to tease me. "As if I would do that. I didn't. I was having some exercise to keep myself busy. My phone was right with me when you called." I lied.I knew I was lying but they weren't here to call me out on it. It wasn't like they knew what I was doing before the call came through. Jack was already insufferable, I wasn't about to give him a reason to feel himself. He was going to tease me for ages. That was not going to happen. I wasn't going to give him that chance."How are you?" Quinn asked.I knew what he was as
MiaMum was wrong. I wasn't about to get new friends, I only succeeded in getting new enemies. I was also wrong. It wasn't about to become interesting. Rather, it became hell for me. I didn't think that I was going to get a warm welcome when we were coming here but I didn't think that I was going to get an hostile welcome as well.The only thing mum was right about was that they were my cousins; cousins who hated me with a passion without knowing me.While I was on the call with mum, they had been looking at me like I was a product on the shelf, set there for their appraisal. Immediately I ended the call with mum, they looked up at me and their eyes were filled with an intense hatred that I took a step back unconsciously. I didn't know what brought that on but I didn't have to wonder for long as they informed me pretty quickly on why they didn't like me."So, you are the new baroness." One of them sneered."Excuse you!" I reacted, hating their tone."Oh! She is already acting like one
MiaIt wasn't just dinner. It was everything. It was all the meals. I didn't think I was going to be able to eat with those snobs. I wondered who the snobs should be. By all standards, it should be me. I was the family of the late baron, even though I never knew him but that didn't matter. I was the new baroness and if I signed to taking charge of the inheritance, I was going to have to pay their father his salary. What was their problem? They had to have one if they believed that they could do whatever they wished and go scot-free.Maybe they thought they had a say in the house because they had lived longer here. I remembered their saying that they knew everywhere in the house. They were having a power trip and trying to show me that I would need their help for a tour of the house if needed. I wondered if they were also being rude because they thought I could be bullied as I was their age mate even though I was the new baroness.They were silly if they thought that was how it worked.
MiaIt was coronation day. I was as nervous as shit. I couldn't keep calm. I knew that it wasn't happening until ten in the morning but I had woken up since five. The maids wouldn't be around until eight to get me ready but I wished they were here already. I couldn't sit still as I wondered what the day was going to be like and being alone wasn't helping matters, it was driving me crazy.I brushed my teeth, had my bath and did my hair even though I didn't have to. I did just about anything to keep myself busy and not think of the day before me. Oh! I was scared. I was scared shitless. I couldn't do this. How would I walk before the crowd? What would they think of me? Would they wonder who I was, where I came from and what I've been doing with my life that they didn't know of me all this while? Would they smile as the title was being conferred on me and truly mean it? Or would they be like rude fake cousins that I had had to avoid until now?I turned as I heard a knock on the door and
ScorpioI wasn't named Scorpio at birth. It was a nickname but had loved it more than my name that I stopped answering to my own name that everyone around me had finally started calling me with the nickname instead of my name.How wouldn't they when I didn't answer anyone unless they called me Scorpio? I had forced them into accepting my new Identity and I loved it. My real name was Anthony but I had always felt it didn't suit me. It didn't suit my personality at all and I was glad when I was finally able to change it.It wasn't a deliberate change but it had been welcome all the same. It had been years ago when I had been a teenager, when I was still a young prince and not yet the ruler of the clan.I had been playing with my friends and we had been trying to run to know who is stronger among all of us by running around. It had been agreed that the winner would get to share my space with me.I didn't know why I was always the prize but this time I didn't mind. Why? Because I wasn't g
MiaIt was good to be back home. I had become the baroness and had also set some structures in place that wouldn't make me be there all the time. As hard as it had been, I had finally found people that I could trust to work for me over there and send reports to me.I couldn't live there forever as much as mum, Durian and Sloan wanted me to. They wanted me to get married there to another titled man and make babies for the throne, to keep the title alive in the alive. I was sorry to disappoint them but I had already gotten my mate and even though we would be making babies, they wouldn't be living there as well. They would also rule from afar as their mother was currently about to do.Even if I wasn't in a relationship, I didn't think I wanted that kind of life that the only reason I was going to be with a man was to give birth to kids who would carry on the throne and title of being a baron or baroness.Giving birth to kids only to ensure a continuation of the family line was a burden I
MiaDamn. Shit. Fuck. All three rolled into one and it wouldn't still have been enough for the emotions running through me. I felt guilt, annoyance and more guilt thrumming in my veins. We shouldn't have been too tired. We should have checked the letter.We had all slept off the moment we got to our rooms and didn't wake up for hours. Even the food that had been made for us had to be warmed up before we could eat it as it had gotten cold while we were still sleeping.John had finally come back home, told us he went for a drive as he was bored at home and we had all eaten dinner. We had then remembered the letter and it was then that we had gotten the shock that we hadn't been expecting.The messenger who had brought the letter had been right. We hadn't needed to think long about who had brought it. Even though it had not been addressed at the outer part, we had known who sent it the moment we opened the letter."From your once crazy fanged friends." Quinn had read out as soon as he op