Isabella POV
So today was a rough day. Really rough! I love my job but sometimes it has its moments. My name is Isabella Ricci. I am 5’7 and curvy. I am not your model type. I have curves in all the right places. I have long brown hair and hazel eyes. I have a very hot boyfriend. He is 5’11. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and a great body. I own my own house and am very independent. My boyfriend is the VP for his dad’s accounting firm. He is well off as well and own a huge mansion. I am the daughter of Marco Ricci. My dad started his company a year after graduating college. It was small at first but now it is one of the biggest technology gaming company in the world. I love my dad. He is amazing. My mother works with him as well as she had helped him start the company. My parents love each other so much and it is the type of love I strive for. I have been with my boyfriend for a year. He is amazing and such a gentlemen. He is willing to wait for me til marriage. I know it’s old fashioned, but my mom did the same thing and my parents love for each other is so strong. I want that. I am currently working with my father to take over the business when he retires. I love my job. We create the most amazing games and devices. People all over the world use them and I love seeing people enjoying things that I create and design. Why the rough day? Well one of my programs keeps glitching and I am trying to fix it. It is now 8 pm and I think I should call it a day. I had told my boyfriend I can meet him for a late dinner and told him I will meet him at his place. I know he said 10 but I am so done with today. Plus his house is only 20 minutes away. I get in my car, my beautiful Audi. I love my car. I drive towards my boyfriends place. I park my car in his drive way and start heading towards the entrance. Surprisingly the door is opened a bit. Maybe he left it open for me. I head inside and call out to him. This house is so big. Maybe he is getting ready in his room since he did not hear me. I walk up the stairs and head towards his room. I hear weird noises coming from the room. I quietly open the door to surprise him but I am the one surprised. I see my boyfriend in bed with his assistant. So cliche. I just stand there. I don’t even know what to say. We are not at the love stage yet. I mean we only see each other once or twice because of our busy schedules. But we talk everyday. I don’t even know what to feel right now because I am just numb and shocked. All of the sudden the assistant sees me and gasp. Then Matteo turns around and sees where she is looking. Once he sees me gets off her. “Sofia, honey, it’s not what it looks like. She means nothing to me. I love you. Please believe me. I only want you. “ “Well that’s nice but I no longer want you. I don’t share and I no longer care. You guys have yourself a good night. “ I walk out while he is shouting my name and trying to follow me out but he has to get dressed, and I use the opportunity to walk out and get in my car to leave. I can’t believe I fell for his bullshit. I thought he was different and that maybe I can fall in love with him. Well I will not cry over it. I drive to my house. The first thing I do is call my parents. They are my best friends. I love them and share everything with them. I tell them what I walked into tonight and to say my dad was upset was an understatement. He wanted to go to Matteo’s house and kill him. I just told him he is not worth it. My mom told not to stress over it. She said “you will meet the one you can’t live without. There will be a spark, and you will only be able to think about him. That is how I knew that Matteo was not the one for you, honey.” I knew what she meant. Because at the moment I don’t even feel the betrayal. I feel nothing. I end the call after wishing them a good night. My dad reminded me of the important meeting we will be having tomorrow with his best friend. I told him I wouldn’t miss it. My dad has been best friends with Miguel Lopez his whole life. They grew up together and both started their respective companies at the same time. My mother Loretta has been best friends with Miguel’s wife Eliza since high school. They have a a son named Alexander, Alex for short. We grew up together and were close. Our birthday is actually on the same day. But when we got to college he became a huge player and I didn’t like to hang out with the friends he had. I mean his best friends were a different story. They were not players. Actually they are married. They always treated me with respect and were very different than Alex. Their girlfriends at the time now wives are still my friends and they are amazing. But Alex, well he thinks he is too young for marriage. We still talk but not like we used too. We tried to be in a relationship and I actually thought that that could be it. I felt the spark. Then the summer after high school graduation, he said we are better as friends and he wanted to experience life in college. I was heartbroken but maybe it was not meant to be. Maybe we were too young. It took me a year to be able to even speak to him again. But he had changed. Things change and we grew apart. I do miss him sometimes because he was my best friend. His sister Elise and are still pretty close. She is actually coming over tonight after I texted her what happened. She is the sister I always wanted but never had. My mom couldn’t have anymore children after I was born. I look at my phone and have over 30 missed calls and over 50 text messages from Matteo. I read some of the messages and I am disgusted. I can’t believe he thinks that I should forgive him because apparently it was only a one time thing and she came over and seduced him. Please! I am Not a fool. He even said he he needs and he knew that I would not give it to him so he was just getting it out of his system so he can be faithful once we marry. Is he serious! Then he even said we can be a powerful couple once we take over our families companies. And there you have it folks. The real reason he wants me back. Money! I thought he was different but he is just like everyone that wants to be with me. It’s always about my family’s money and power. The doorbell rings taking me out of my thoughts and I go open the door. “Hi Elise”Alex POV I am Alex. I am a playboy. I am ruthless and mostly heartless, as people say. Nevermind their words. Even if the rumors are true, they don't know the past and so being told, they can't understand the present nor the future. I had a great life since I was born. I have amazing parents and never needed anything. My life seemed perfect, but I always felt that even if I had all the things I wanted and needed, there was a whole world out there that I was missing out on. I wanted to experience life without being held back. My parents always wanted us to be successful and study. My father would tell me that what I felt I wanted is not the type of life that o would want to live. What would he know though. He married my mother straight out of high school. So did my dad’s best friend. They had their wives through college and actually shared an apartment together. Once they graduated college they both started their companies. So they really never experienced the things that I wan
Bella POV "Hi Elise" "Hey Bella, I am sorry for what happened. I cant believe he would do something like that. I though he was one of the rare ones you know?" "Yeah, so did I. I mean I did not love him, I cared for him, and was hoping with time I could love him, but he just really screwed up his chances. You should read all the messages he sent me." "I want to read the messages" I pass Elise my phone. It takes her about 15 minutes to read through all the messages. Her facial expressions while reading the messages made me laugh so loud. I cant always count on her to make me laugh. Elise and I were close, but after everything happened with her brother her and I became inseprable. She was there to hold me while I cried my eyes out. I know I can trust her because she never told her brother how I really felt after what happened. We basically do everything together. I absolutly adore her. She is the sister I never had, but always wanted. “I can’t believe he said half of thes
Alex POV I woke up this morning with my alarm screaming at me. After Elise left last night I called one of my usual hook ups to come over. I needed a great release. I look to the side and see she is still here. What is she still doing here. She should know better than to be here the next morning. I get up and go to the restroom and take care of business. Once I come back out of the bathroom, I see that she is no longer here. Good! I get dressed and head towards the kitchen. When I get to the kitchen I see that Michelle is still here and sitting drinkling coffee like she owns the place. This is just getting out of hand. "What are you still doing here?" I say "Babe, I thought we can have breakfast together and maybe a morning pick me up since I know you are going to be out of town this weekend." She says "How do you know I am going to be out of town this weekend?" "Your phone had an alert while you where in the bathroom and say a text from your brother-in-law reminding you
Friday is finally here and I am about to leave the office and go straight to the airport. Elise is already waiting for me downstairs so I am so ready to relax. I have had such a long week. From Matteo cheating, that was Wednesday, then Thursday I had the meeting with My dad and Uncle Miguel. I love them both so much. Alex was there but we really didn’t talk outside of business and the plans we had for Vegas. I found out this morning that they will actually be in the same hotel as us. Surprisingly, their Suite will be right next to us as well. I think that more than likely had to do with John, Elise fiancé. He just wants to be close to her. They are goals. Elise and John have such a strong bond and love for each other. They both graduated high school and stayed together through college. She finished college last year and so did he. She is a year younger than her brother and I. John is the romantic one. He plans these elaborate dates and surprises her all the time. The way he loo
Alex POV We are in Vegas and I want to use this opportunity to talk to Bella. I miss my best friend so much. She was my go to person and I didn’t think that me wanting to have freedom from everyone will cause this separation. There’s things she doesn’t know. I am well aware of my fault in this. I also know that she stopped being my friend because she lost her respect for me. I think that was the toughest blow of all. I mean we really only dated for 3 months. But we were still acting like best friends. I do know something happened to her that summer. But I don’t think anyone noticed. I have also wondered why she was not married by now. According to the life she had planned she wanted to get married right after college graduation. She did go out with a few people while on college but they never went passed the first date. I always wondered why. I know some of her dates and they said that when they asked her out for a second date, she would tell them that it was best if they were jus
Bella POV After Alex left, I was feeling, you know what, I have no idea what I was feeling. It was like a mixture of numbness, shock, hurt, happiness, anger. I mean we never had to stop being friends. He was the one that wanted freedom. He just didn’t want me. He wanted me as a friend but not as a girlfriend. The day he broke it off with me, I was heartbroken. I mean I had fallen in love with him. I thought he felt the same way and I was planning on telling him. We also had a road trip planned for the summer and that just went out the window because he wanted to have his freedom already. It was like he had changed. Like a flip of a switch. I did not know what else to do but be a friend and be supportive while I was breaking inside. I got away from him as soon as possible and went up to my room. I feel on the floor and started crying. A couple of minutes later Elise had walked in and saw me on the floor. She automatically closed the door and came over and hugged me. She as
THIRD PERSON POV FLASHBACK The four friends went out to enjoy their night out. John and Elise are having the time of their lives. It has been a while since they were able to go out and enjoy themselves without the worry of work and life. This weekend and this night is what they have been wanting to do for a while now. They drink without a worry in the world and dance away in the club. They are floating on clouds. They are too drunk. John is not a lightweight and did not have many drinks yet he feels like something is off. Why is he so drunk? Alex is thinking the same thing. He is having a lot of fun. He has not been able to do something like this since college, but now he is doing it with Bella. It just feels right. He should have never pushed her away. This is something he should have done with his best friend and discover who they were together. He messed that up because of his messed up mind and the horrible memory of the reason why he had to end it. Tonight though
Alex POV I wake up to someone screaming. Wait, is that Bella? I open my eyes and see her pacing the room. I start to think back at what happened last night. I rub my hands on my face when I feel something on my hand. I look at my hand and see a ring. Then everything starts coming back to me. The strip, the club, the chapel. Oh my goodness, I got married. That was not a part of my weekend plans. Bella continues pacing up and down. I get up from my bed, and walk over to her. She looks terrified. “Bella, calm down and look at me.” I say while huggin her close. “Calm down are you crazy, we got married last night Alex! MARRIED! I was supposed to marry the love of my life. Someone who loves me as I love him. Not …” She doesn’t finish her sentence. I don’t know why but my chest felt tighter at that moment. I know we were not in love but this can work. “I know I was there too. Weirdly though I remember everything. I usually barely remember anything that happened the pre