Anna woke up to the clanging of pots and pans. She stretched. She can’t remember the last time that she slept so well. She squinted her eyes and looked around. She could still still hear things going on in the kitchen and she really was in the presidential suite that took up an entire floor in the Ritz Carlton. That meant that what had happened with Munya and her mother had really happened. Anna sighs and gets out of bed. This hadn’t been the way that she wanted to move out of her mother’s house, but it was what it was.
In the kitchen there is a blonde woman wearing a chef’s hat preparing a meal. Anna looks at her for a moment. She’s quite beautiful. Anna keeps asking why when there are pretty girls all over the place, she would be one of those chosen to be this guy’s fake wife….
The blonde chef turns around and
Anna was woken up by movement in her room. She rubbed her eyes thinking that it was Chef Anna with her nine o’clock breakfast but it was Sophia. Sophia smiled at her and apologized for waking her up. She had an evening dress on a hanger.“Henry has arrived and will see you in the evening at Nobu,” She explains to Anna. Anna looks at the evening dress.“Who will I be wearing?” Anna asks with a yawn.“This is a simple Valentino dress,” Sophia tells her. Anna nods and falls back into the bed“You’re paintings are excellent by the way,” Sophia tells her as she leaves. She’s gone before Anna can respond. Anna tries not to panic too much about meeting Henry by checking her application with iTalki. It’s been approved. Now she can determine how much she will charge per hour. She
Chef Anna turned up as usual to make breakfast for Anna at eight. Anna didn’t say hi or good morning so she assumed that Anna was asleep. What happened last night must have exhausted her. Anna makes her hash browns with various side dishes and goes to her room with her push tray.“Good morning,” Chef Anna says cheerfully. There’s no response but Chef Anna can hear heavy breathing from the bed. Chef Anna walks over to her bed and finds Anna shaking and shivering in bed breathing heavily. Chef Anna checks Anna’s temperature and Anna is burning up.“Oh god,” Chef Anna exclaims and rushes to the hotel phone and calls reception. As soon as reception hears that their guest is sick they call for a doctor and inform Sophia. Sophia rushes over and finds Chef Anna trying to warm Anna up who seems perpetually cold and giving her m
Sophia felt genuinely angry at Henry. Seeing Anna cry that she didn’t want to return to Zimbabwe even though she was half-delirious broke her heart. She knew that Henry needed access to his trust fund but exploiting a disadvantaged girl from a third-world country was taking it a bit too far in her opinion!Sophia drove to the house that Henry was at and found him deep into typing. She slammed down the top of his Macbook and glared at him.“What have I done now?” He asks her with a groan.“You’re taking advantage of an innocent girl,” Sophia tells him.“A girl on Seeking Arrangements is barely innocent,” he tells her. Sophia rolls her eyes.“And a man that
“Would you want to be my contract wife?” Henry asked her bluntly. Anna looked at him in shock. This was not what she had been expecting as she was getting discharged. She had been prepared to be taken to the airport.“Why me?” She asked Henry quite bluntly. Henry shrugged.“I need someone that can stick strictly business when it comes to being my wife,” Henry tells her solemnly. “And that makes it easy for me to stick to business. Since I’m in no way attracted to you and you are decently educated and exposed I thought that you would be a good fit. But you will have to go through some etiquette and deportment so that you don’t em…”Sophia discreetly steps on Henry’s foot and he sucks in his breath.
Anna coughed as she ate her breakfast. She was tired of having soup. She had checked herself out the night before. She had lost a lot of weight because she wasn’t able to eat solid food for a while. The good news was that she had shed the pounds that she had been trying to lose for years, but she had shed more than she would have planned to. Anna naturally had a big bum, but now when she sat down she could feel the bones on her butt because she had lost so much weight and her cheeks which were usually very plump and cute were nearly gone.“Can I have something more after the soup,” she asks Nurse Mary. Nurse Mary smiles at her.“Sure, just need to make sure that you’ve warmed up your stomach first,” she explains to Anna. “So you have to finish your soup,” Anna sighs and takes another spoonful of her sp
“High society is extremely judgmental and harsh. You need to know the rules of conduct to be accepted into society. And society doesn’t accept people easily,” Sophia tells Anna. Anna has just signed the revised marriage contract and has been given a card that contains the entire amount for the entire year. It works out to be about three thousand pounds per year. Anna had forgotten that in these parts of the world, they didn’t deal with United States dollars, they dealt with the Great British pound. Now that all that had been settled the contract and money, but now Sophia was taking her etiquette and manners.“Did you ever go to an etiquette school when you were young?” Sophia asks Anna. Anna shakes her head. “Do you know anything about etiquette and deportment? I mean your father did work with embassies and foreign CEOs,”
Anna sighs and gets into the Mercedes Benz. After three hours she had eventually settled on the thousand-pound purple and pink floral dress. Well, Henry had gotten frustrated and told her just to wear this one and throw the first one within his reach at her. She looked beautiful. Sophia had advised her not to wear too much makeup which was a contrast to when she met Henry. Sophia said that putting too much makeup would make her look like an Instagram how. That would make his grandfather suspicious that she was being paid. Anna ended up not putting on any makeup at all. Her hand was feeling too shaky. She wondered if she would be even able to eat at this rate. She tucked in her stomach and pulled her shoulders back.“You’re going to meet your fiancé’s grandfather, not audition for America’s Next Top Model,” Sophia tells her. Anna exhales and feels tears sting her eyes. O
“You must have some fucking good luck. Were your ancestors saints or something? Or your father?” Sophia says in disbelief the next day. Anna rubs her eyes. She just woke up. “Henry’s grandfather loves you, I can’t believe it, especially after how you ate last night. Instead of casting you aside, he’s arranged that you be taken to finishing school. Did you bring some form of voodoo from Africa or something?”Anna just stares at Sophia. “C’mon, we have to start wedding preparations. Henry’s grandfather will be returning to Australia next Monday and will be there for at least three months so we’re having a small ceremony on Friday. Henry spun it that you guys wanted to marry because you don’t want to have sex before marriage,”Anna laughs. She’s realized that she’s perf
The end of the Kylie saga is the beginning of a mundane marital life for Anna. Easing into the role of being Mrs.Henry Alexander Miller came softly but swiftly. The Kylie drama and how she handled it had made her rather popular in society. The ladies, many who had wayward children (the result of letting nannies and au pairs raise their children instead of being active parents), had been impressed that Anna had reconciled Kylie and her father. Kylie was now in university in France and getting her life straight. No one would have expected that to be a cheat code. That made Anna one of them…those that weren’t over-examined and judged, the ones that naturally fit in. Soon Anna was invited to many events and parties, most of which she didn’t attend but was always treated like a valued guest when she chose to appear. Besides that moving between Hertfordshire and London was routine that she had gotten used to. After one year…she was
Oscar’s warning was right. Henry enters his London apartment the next week to find that one of his new neighbors is Kylie. She ‘casually’ bumps into him Monday morning as he’s about to enter his apartment. Henry can tell that she wasn’t expecting him to be with his wife. Kylie’s big smile suddenly vanished.“Good morning Mr.Miller,” Kylie says. Henry sighed. He was not one of those pedophiles who got turned on when a much younger woman called him Mr. The fact that he was old enough for her to warrant her using that term with him should have been a red flag for her.“Didn’t know you lived in these apartments Kylie,” Henry says with a raised eyebrow. Kylie smiles at him.“I just moved in and it was a total surprise to find out you lived here
Kylie had her eye on Henry. The twenty-one-year-old socialite realized that she wouldn’t be able to get him the usual way. A husband with a hundred million pound trust fund was a very hefty and comfortable living. Enough to fund her shopping habit that her father had cruelly cut her off from. He had blocked off all her credit cards after she had spent about one million dollars on a shopping spree in New York. The money that she made off her fashion blog was nowhere near enough to be able to afford the things that she wanted.The first step though would be to move close to Henry’s apartment in London. According to a maid that she had paid off who had recently started working at Henry’s apartment in town, Henry lived one week in Hertfordshire and another week in London. When he had stayed in London he had been alone. That would be Kylie’s golden opportunity. After all, all was f
Oscar made them breakfast. Breakfast burritos. He had used to make them whenever Henry had slept over at their house before Henry had stopped coming over. Anna takes a bite out of hers.“These are delicious!” She exclaims. Henry forces a smile.“Yeah, they’re great. Thanks, Oscar” Henry says while also thinking that she hadn’t appreciated his barbecue quite as much as these breakfast burritos.“Well I need to get going,” Oscar says. “Thanks for hosting me last night. I should return the favor soon. See you guys!’ And with that, he is off. He drives his Alfa Romeo away while they wave goodbye.****The moment that he arrives at his penthouse in Kensi
Anna and Oscar seem to get along well. They started talking about gaming and soon discovered that they both played Genshin Impact which must be some cult or something Henry thinks because since then they had been talking non-stop and joined together to play the game. It was just like Oscar to become instant friends with someone. Oscar and Anna have an instant rapport that irks him. Anna never beams at him the way that she was beamed at Oscar. But then again Oscar had taken time to talk to her and get to know her over the barbecue that Henry had made…so Henry had instigated this sudden friendship. He sighs, he just had to resign himself to the fact that Oscar would always be the favored one in any situation.They end up playing the game into the night. That irritated Henry. He shouldn’t be, it was none of his business. Anna hadn’t seemed like the type of person who connected with a
Henry was really into it tonight, Anna was sure she would break in half and not really in a bad way.“Fuck Henry!” she screamed at the top of her lungs as he made her orgasm again. He places her down on her back from his lap and began to rummage around in the side closet. He was taking something out of his packaging.“What’s that,” Anna asks him. Henry shows her. It dawns on her. “A clitoral vibrator? I haven’t seen one that looks like that before,” Henry laughs.“It’s a butt plug,” Henry tells her. Anna’s eyes widen.“I knew that men liked it there and that’s where their G-spot is…” she begins.“I thought that you mig
The Somersets owned a house in the elite neighborhood of Chelsea in London. It was known that every millionaire in London lived here or in Kensington. Their house had a gate and guard in the front. Something that only the elite could afford in London. There were cars parked up and down the street.“When shall I pick you up, sir?” The driver asks.“We’ll contact you an hour before we want to leave,” Henry tells the driver. Anna takes a deep breath. This is one of the defining moments of her life. What will determine how she will be treated for the next five years of her life by society? She’s wearing a pastel blue dress that gives enough cleavage to indicate that she’s a modern woman, but is modest enough to suggest that she’s not a whore. That’s the dress that Sophia had burst into their room excitedly
Anna was with Sophia preparing for the dinner with the Somerset family. It was almost like a debutant ball. Sophia was choosing her dress for her. This was pivotal, Anna was being introduced into society. She was now representing the House of McArthur, which Anna didn’t understand because Henry’s surname was Miller, not McArthur.“This is way too tight,” Anna complains as Sophia tries to put her in a very slender red dress.“Red goes great with your skin tone. We could try putting you in a corset,” Sophia says.“And then I spend the entire time uncomfortable with my guts squished?”Anna moans.“Well it might help you not get too engrossed in your food,” Sophia says. “ I cannot stress…”
Sex with Henry was good to Anna’s surprise. Not the same as the steamy, passionate sex that she had had with Munya but it came with the perk that Henry was not having an extramarital affair with her. She felt much more relaxed after a week in the Maldives. Even though she was also teaching English non-stop to try and earn money. So far she had more than five hundred pounds. Money that she earned by herself. That felt good. Like she had some control of her life back. What she needed now was her bank account to receive the money. Or she could just use PayPal for now until her spousal visa comes through and she could open her bank account. There were plenty of places that accepted PayPal as a viable payment option. She could survive for now. She had a UK number and a valid passport. If anything happened, she would have a “disappear bag” like Gloria Pritchett from ‘Modern Family’. Anna used to spend hours watching ‘Mode