CHRISTY:A shiver ran down my throat seeing how Everette looked at me. “When we meet, I will look at you like you're the most beautiful woman on earth. My eyes would only be on you,” I remembered he said that when we were still in the virtual world which I replied with a laughing emoticon.Back then, I felt how much he desired me. Or maybe it was only part of his plan so that I would fall for him even if we had not seen each other face to face. Everette's pupils dilated as desire washed over his eyes, something I was not expecting.“I'm not even beautiful…I'm fat,” I replied back then.“Sizes don't matter to me. I am after a woman's heart,” Everette replied which made me sigh on my bed and the desire to be with him shot up. Poppy might not know it, but my weight and curves had been one of my insecurities as the words of my Mom kept on ringing in my head whenever I looked at the mirror. However, no one had managed to find out about it, since I was able to hide it well. But seeing E
CHRISTY:When no one was able to say anything, it was Everette who broke the silence. He cleared his throat and said, “Everyone. I wanted you to meet my wife. You haven’t met her earlier, but here she is.”His Mother looked at me from head to foot and her eyes were back at my face again. Something was telling me that I should be wary of this woman. Plus the fact that she had not forgotten what I had done to his son. Seeing my mother-in-law was like seeing Mom. She was like Mom who never was happy with anything I did. Everette's mother was disappointed. All of Everette’s family were. If they were not, why would they fail to come to our wedding?Does it matter? It was only a marriage out of paying your parent’s debt, right? Whatever they will think is none of my concern. All I had to do was wait until Everette would be the one to divorce me. “You did not tell me we have our visitor,” I commented, trying to act cool even if my hands were already cold.“We want to surprise our son an
CHRISTY:Everette gave me a blank look. “How do you pay me? How can your family pay me?” he asked. “Mom was always against it from the beginning. But I still pushed through the wedding.”The question was why? Why was he persistent in marrying me? I would not call it obsession. Everette Watson was never obsessed with me. It was something else which I could not pinpoint. “You don't have the answer? I knew it.”“You ask how could I pay you?” Shrugging off and starting digging the foods on the table, I muttered, “I will find someone who is richer than you. Maybe open another account in Swiped and—”A low growl escaped his lips. “There will be no divorce in this marriage. You will stay with me until I get tired of you. Until I will dispose of you,” he said, cutting off my words. So, the only thing that I could do was do anything that would make him divorce me.“You will get tired of me.” I will make sure of it and then I will toss him away. I would be free. The corner of his lips lifte
CHRISTY:The phone almost slipped on my hands. Did Poppy know? How? Except for Raven, no one knows about my instant marriage. Who told her? I tried to whack my brain and remember who might be the one who told her, but no name came into my mind. I did not believe it was Everette's secretary. “Are you planning on denying it, Christy?” Poppy asked, sounding disappointed on the other line. “I thought we were sisters. No secrets between us.”My mouth opened and closed until I found myself saying, “W-Who told you?” I mumbled. Poppy was not the type who would say still without knowing what she wanted. She will get to the bottom of this. “The business world is small. My husband told me. It turned out Sebastian and Everette Watson, your husband, are also sharing the same circle of friends.”Are Everette and Sebastian friends?What was surprising about that? Everette seemed the friendly type. What I was surprised about was that Sebastian had friends. That man thought anything that would no
CHRISTY:Honeymoon?“Are you kidding me?” I asked and watched how his pupils dilated. “No, no, no, Everette. If you're going to touch a single strand of my hair, you will regret it for the rest of your life. You hear me?”His face fell.“I have needs,” he pointed out.“And you have your fingers. Use them if you must. I've been using it for quite some time now.”I froze when I realized what I had said and Everette was looking at me with an amused expression.“You were touching yourself?”My heart jumped and looked for words to answer him.“I did not say that. You were hearing things.”I was about to run away from him to stop him from questioning me, but he blocked the door. “I never told you that you can go out, Tina.”“You're not going to force me to give myself to you.”He looked offended. “I never said I'm going to force you. If you don't, I won't. I'm not the type to force myself on women. They were the ones who were giving themselves.”I clicked my tongues together. “I'm not askin
CHRISTY:As much as I hated the feeling, seeing Mom’s presence at my wedding despite hating me that much was enough for me to be happy. How funny was it that I was after her validations? I never learned. I was the same child who wanted her Momma's love. “You choose a civil wedding. That's not the kind of wedding I had in mind for my only daughter.”Acting as if she cared for me. Acting like she treated me like her own child. “There is nothing wrong with that,” I mumbled to myself and looked at the sky. “Any type of wedding is fine as long as the law accepts it. As long as I now bore the Watson family name. One of the most influential families in the country and on top of that, my husband is a billionaire and CEO.”“We want a church wedding. The traditional one.”Will there come a time when she will finally accept me and my brother? I hope it will come sooner.“You never attended church,” I commented. I was not also a frequent attendee, but I believed that an Almighty was being. Th
CHRISTY:Instead of directly answering Everette, I muttered, “I don’t need you right now or any moment in my life.”I shifted my attention towards the darkness and closed my eyes. I still had no plans of entering the house any moment from now. I wanted to cool down my head so that I could sleep directly the moment I hit my bed. I felt him dragging something. Maybe a chair. There were vacant ones a little meters away.“Go away, Everette. I want to be alone.”“You need company.”“I will be the one to tell you that. Shoo.”“It’s not always good to be independent. You need others in your life, Tina,” he reminded. “I don't need anyone,” I insisted.My brother ran away. My parents did not know how to share their affections so I was forced to do everything on my own. “No. You're mistaken.”Irritation kicked in. Opening my eyes, I saw him put two chairs between us and the bottle was on the top of it. It was brandy and my mouth automatically watered at the sight. I need something to make m
CHRISTY:My dear husband was looking at me as if I had grown horns. “What's wrong?” he asked. He continued watching me until I got hold of myself while wiping the tears from the corner of my eyes. "You're definitely drunk," I commented grabbed the bottle from him, and took a sip which I regretted by the way. It had been a long time since I got drunk and the brandy felt like the first time I had tasted my alcohol. The strong taste of the alcohol was like an acid in my throat making me cough. “Easy. I can grab something lighter. I have a lot of ladies drinking inside.”“I don't need it.”I shivered as I could feel the remnants of the brandy in my throat. I made a mental note not to drink again. Besides, if I got drunk, I did not trust Everette around me. "What part was I wrong earlier?" he asked. “Why did you laugh? I don't get it.”Dang. I needed water, but I was too lazy to enter the house. "The part where not all men did is not after sex? Like hello? I've been with countles