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Pinky swear

Author: Faith_Writes
last update Last Updated: 2024-02-29 20:53:55

“You know him?!” Adil asked turning to look at me, I nodded slowly my gaze still fixed on Enzo as he approached us.

“Kind of,” I added in a whisper, immediately Enzo got to where we were his smile deepened as he stared at me.

“Meant to be, is it not?!” He muttered his gaze fixed on me, as we stared at each other, Adil cleared his throat in an attempt to stop the intense staring, Enzo’s smile suddenly changed to a taunting one as he turned to look at Adil.

“How does she look?! Does she look beautiful in the dress I chose for her?!” He asked, Adil’s eyes dimmed as he stared at him, I could feel anger oozing out of his members.

“I know you to be emotionless about a lot of things, but leaving your wife to shop for her wedding dress alone?! That’s the peak!” He added, Adil’s nose flared and he suddenly step forward and closed the distance between them.

“You have no right to speak to me like that! And stay the hell away from my wife,” Adil growled,

“Ohh, you actually don’t feed me, so you have no right to tell me what to do,” Enzo replied sharply and before Adil could reply, he walked past us and towards their grandfather in greeting.

“We’re done here! !” Adil muttered as he grabbed my hands and pulled me out.

Later in the night ….

I could not stop thinking about all the drama that happened today with Adil’s family, they didn’t seem like a family, especially the energy between Adil and his mother it seemed quite strained and a little toxic, and between all of his mother smile, I could see underlying and strange emotions.

I exhaled deeply as I packed my hair up with a plastic band, all has been said and done, I actually have no business with his family and private life, I’ve done my end of the bargain, marry him and be his wife, now it’s time to go back to my reality, as a matter of fact I have a whole lot of thinking to do, his family issue should bother me less.

-“ I expect you to perform your duty to me as a wife,”- His voice resounded in my head again, earlier when he showed me to my room, he said to hurry up and get changed, what was that supposed to mean?!

I hope he wasn’t asking for a wedding night from me, because that would definitely be impossible, I get that he is a goddess in human form and any lady would be willing to throw herself at him, I wasn’t any lady and I wouldn’t sleep with a stranger for anything in this world.

I peeled off the face mask from my face as I pushed the chair I was seated on backwards, I better let him know my stand now, and clear up the air once and for all, I exhaled deeply and began to make my way towards his room.

His room was just opposite my room and as I stepped out, I placed a small knock on his door, there wasn’t any reply, I grabbed the door knob and pushed it open, I gingerly stepped into his room with cautionary footsteps as I closed the door behind me, as I walked further into the room I realized he wasn’t any where there, just as I turned around to leave a shiny necklace on the table caught my attention, it was like a couples necklace and only half of the pendant was his, it looked very shiny and expensive, I don’t know what it was but I felt my legs drew close to it, I gently picked it up and stared at it, something about it was endearing to me and it warmed my heart to stare at, who had the other half ?! If he has a significant other, why then did he choose to marry me on contract.

“What are you doing?!” I heard his voice boom behind me, I turned sharply in shock to look at him and the necklace dropped from my hands as a result of the shock, my jaw dropped as I thought of possible excuses to give after he had clearly told me to respect his space, he slowly looked down at the necklace that had just dropped from my hand and looked up at me, as my eyes met his face my head suddenly began to bang, and it came again, that throbbing headache, accompanied with a feeling of Dejavu, trying to get a grip on myself I took slow unsteady step backwards but the pain got worse, and the next thing I knew, my legs gave way and everything blacked out completely.

Next Day,

7:00am …..

*”You make me happy”*

*”I have become a better person because of you”*

*” I love you, and I promise, I’ll keep on loving you till the end of time”*

My eyes slowly went open, it wasn’t the first time I was having a dream like this, a very strange guy confessing his feelings to me and It felt so real, sometimes I hear my voice confessing love to this strange person also, but his face is never clear or visible in this dreams, my eyes dimmed as I stared at the ceiling above, this wasn’t my house, this place is quite unfamiliar, I panicked but I was too weak to do anything, where the hell was I ?! I thought as I slowly turned my head, immediately I did that my gaze fell on - Adil, he was leaning on the dressing table his hands folded across his chest. I felt a sudden surge of energy and I sat up immediately reality and everything that happened prior starting to rush back into my head.

Fuck! I’m married!

“What were you doing in my room yesterday!” He asked immediately he noticed I was awake, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head discreetly as I pulled up the duvet to my body, not even to ask me if I was okay?! That was the first question that mattered to him?! I looked up at him and he had this stone cold expression in his eyes,

“I-I-Iam s-sorry ….,” I stuttered incoherently trying to pick my words carefully, as it was, he was the one helping my life and my mother’s life more importantly, I can’t afford to mess it up, I needed to play cool even when I am being extremely pissed off, without even letting me finish my statement, he stood up with a loud exhale and adjusted his shirt.

“I think I should lay down the rules again more clearly this time,” he began his gaze not leaving my face, but I cowered and looked away staring at my feet as he spoke.

“I don’t want you snooping around my belongings, especially my room, you can’t at any point come in there,”

“I don’t need you asking questions about everything you see! You don’t understand it?! Forget about it, especially around my family, I won’t be entertaining any questions!”

“Once we’re at home please let’s try our best to stay out of each other’s business but I expect you to be a wife to me in public,”

“Lastly, there shouldn’t be any strings attached and you cannot at anytime back out of this contract until the two years contract span is done!” He concluded, i nodded slowly as my grip on the duvet around my body tightened, the things we actually do for the people we care about!

“Also you should know, …” before he could complete my sentence the door bursted open and a little girl about five years old appeared at the door, she stared between Adil and I, her gaze zeroed on me and the next thing I heard threw me off balance.

“Tehilla your Mama is back home!”

That came as a rude shock to both me and even the girl, her grip on the door slowly loosened as she stared at me, I looked up at Adil my eyes begging for Explanation but the only message I got from his dark grey orbs staring at me was to play along.

She slowly began to take small steps towards me, I pulled the duvet away from my body as I gently stood up from the bed and squatted to her height as soon as she got to me.

She was putting on a necklace and it was the other half of the necklace I saw in his room yesterday, she is definitely his daughter!

“Dada said you went on a trip, why did you leave without me,” she muttered, her voice low and delicate as she stared at me in my eyes, I suddenly felt guilty for something I didn’t even have the slightest idea about.

The look in her eyes broke my spirit and even if I didn’t want to, I didn’t have any choice, the look in her eyes was too mature for a girl her age, she looked like she had searched for her mother her entire life, I know how it feels to have a mother who barely had your time, I know the thought of not having a mother at all would be worse.

I stretched out my hands and pulled her to myself,

“Mama is very sorry for leaving you, Mama needed to work to make you comfortable, but I’m back now,”

“You won’t leave me again?!”

“I won’t baby, Mama is here to stay,” I muttered in reply and she slowly walked into my arms, she wrapped her tiny hands around me and laid her head on my shoulders.

“Please don’t leave me again,” she muttered and my heart broke, both at the thought that she had lived without a mother probably all her life and also at the thought that I was actually lying to her, both about being her mother and about being with her forever.

“I won’t,” I replied softly, she gently disengaged from the hug and held out her pinky finger to me.

“Pinky swear?!” She asked in her tiny voice, I slowly looked up at Adil, wondering why he decided to lie to his daughter this way, he might have been trying to not hurt her, but at the long run she definitely would end up hurt at the deceit.

I looked back down at her and my lips stretched in a small smile as I wrapped my pinky fingers around her.

“Pinky swear!”

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