Finally, after a while of coaxing, Elle’s tears ceased their flow. She slowly broke away from the warmth that was Jason and raised her head to stare at him. She gave him a grateful stare. “Thank you.” “Don’t mention, Elle. You know that I’ll do anything for you. If you ask me to jump off a bridge, I will.” Her eyes widened. It was the same man that she’d spoken cutely to the other day, the same man she threw out of her car and humiliated. Yet he was the only one there for her when everyone else had vacated her. “Do you really mean that?” She stared at him with teary eyes. It was the first time she actually felt that she meant something to someone. It was the first time anyone had whispered such words into her ears. Never before had she had anyone hold her so close that it felt like home. Yet she couldn’t stand the thought of being with him. If she wasn’t so sad and needed comfort, she would have chased him out of the house already or worse exposed him to her father. But she neede
From the moment Anna got married to her husband, she knew that her life was going to become easier. She knew that her life would become better, especially in the part of her revenge schemes. And she was right, her life did become better, much better than she expected.She had the people that she loved around her and there were no longer any fake people around her. There was no one who pretended to love her but then turned around and stabbed her in the back just like Jason, Elle and Sylvia. No more negative people. There was only Caspian, Dali, and her brother, Elias. She was surrounded by genuine people who liked her for real. After the whole incident that played out, Dali and Elias had insisted on taking her somewhere fun to get the day’s situation out of her mind. They took her to fun places and at the end of the day, they all ended up having dinner in a fancy restaurant.It was both pleasing and scary. On one hand, she couldn’t believe that she was back in time, that she wasn’t in
Fucking gorgeous,” he breathed. In a swift motion, he lay in the bed and grabbed her on top of him, his big body spread out beneath her. “We don’t have to fuck. You’ll grind on my tongue won’t you?”Anna’s eyes popped wide and her face morphed in a bright shade of red. She didn’t know what was happening to her but she wanted it. He was right. They didn’t have to have sex for her to feel good. She didn’t know what got to her but she wanted to nod so bad, she wanted to listen to every command of his, her body wanted to. She shook her head, trying to form a coherent word in her head. “Th…that is dirty,” she disagreed. “It’s not going to be when I plunge my tongue into you.”“You’ll call it a mistake when we’re done.”“Nothing is a mistake with you. Not even the first time.”She blushed. Does that mean that he didn’t mean what he said after the night they first had sex? That it wasn’t really a mistake that day as he made her believe? But what if this time would be called a mistake too?
The smell of fresh pancakes, warm and buttery woke Anna up the next morning. Her eyes slowly fluttered open to stare at the high ceiling of her room. She slowly sat up on her bed, her hair falling around her face. She slapped a hand on her mouth as the event of the previous day played in her head. No, she didn’t want to think about it. She didn’t want to think of the fact that she sat on…. Goodness! It was embarrassing to her. “I can’t think about it, I can’t.” Chanting that to herself, she stood up from the bed. Her room still smelled very much like him, her bed especially. His manly cologne still filled the air around her room and she found herself sniffing to imprint the scent in her head. After their time the previous night, Caspian had left immediately even before she could come down from high.As he said, he was only going to make her sleep because the moment he left, her eyes closed from exhaustion and she traveled to dreamland. But the problem was how she was going to face
At exactly three thirty pm in the afternoon, Anna walked into the cooking class hall. Her eyes trailed around the room of prestigious elite women, searching for a particular brown-haired woman. Well, her mother-in-law had decided to dye her hair brown so it would look a bit similar to her. As she walked deeper into the hall, she noticed the eyes of some women turn to her, their gaze judgy. Mrs Riordan had texted her the location of the place a while ago, expressing her excitement for their cooking lessons. She didn’t want to disappoint the woman so she had no choice but to show up. It was a way of getting the incidents that happened the previous day out of her head. Spending time with her jovial mother-in-law would do the job. Just like Mrs. Riordan had told her, the elite women weren’t really there for cooking lessons, they were attending the cooking class to gossip about other people and pass information like women usually do. She knew it was right when they began murmuring about
“Watch how you speak to my daughter. I will not have you speaking bulshit about her, do you hear me?” Her voice raised. Mrs Sara rolled her eyes, her fingers twirling her hair slowly. The women glared daggers at each other and they looked like they were about to fight.“What? We told the truth. The Riordan's daughter-in-law is simply incapable. It’s no new news.”“It has occurred to me that you do not like your position in the elite women’s society anymore.” Mrs Riordan took it to a different dimension. No one messed with the Riordans and went free. “Do not forget who the president of the group is. I can strip you off your title with a snap of my finger.”Sara shivered yet she managed to mask her expression. “You can do that without the permission of the other women.”“And who says they’ll support you? Don’t…”Anna wrapped her hands around her Mother-in-law’s palms, stopping her from completing her words. She would have loved to enjoy the drama unfold more but the more Sara spoke, th
“I’m so proud of you my dear. You’re the best,” Mrs Riordan complimented, her hands wrapped around Anna as they made their way out of the building. “You proved to them that the Riordan shouldn’t be messed with. I’m delighted.”Anna giggled. “Of course, Mother. It was easy putting them in their places.” Super easy putting her enemies in their places these days. If they wanted to defeat her, they would have to bring a much better opponent, someone who was way stronger. “Mother would be so excited when she hears this. I can’t wait to give her the news.”They both walked out of the building to the parking lot where their cars were parked. Before Anna could break away from her mother-in-law and get into her car, the woman stopped her. “Anna, dear.”She turned. “Mother.”“Would you be able to come with me to the mansion for a while? I have something for you. It won’t take too long.”Anna frowned. “Mother, I’m in pain to refuse you but it’s a little too late.” It was past twilight already
Anna sprang up from the couch, facing the man in the wheelchair before her. Ethan raised his hand forward and peeled his glasses off his eyes to access the woman before him, his eyes darkening as the seconds passed. He shook his head. “Good evening, Mr,” Anna greeted, her eyes scanning the man before her. It was the first time that she was standing face to face with him ever since she got married to Caspian. Since he wasn’t close to Caspian, they barely crossed paths. She’d seen him before but it was only from a distance. Seeing him this close, she couldn’t help but access his features. He was handsome, the Riordan’s genes working perfectly in him. Like Caspian, his eyes were ocean blue, just a little darker. His hair was dyed dirty blonde and his skin shade was a bit pale. Well chiseled jaw and a perfectly ridged nose with eyes that glared daggers at her. A frown settled on her face when the man threw his head back and burst into laughter. His roar of laughter reverberated in the