Richard’s POV
The next morning came just like every other day, normal and nothing unusual other than the fact that I got to wake up to a beautiful face.
After taking a shower and having my breakfast with mom, Vanessa and our daughter, I made my way to dad’s office that was in town.
He was in the middle of a press conference when I got there.
Richard’s POVVanessa said yes! She was ready to be coronated with me as the Queen. Even though it took much persuasion and begging and arguments, she still ended up saying yes. I was thrilled and grateful she had said yes.I watched as my whole family prepare for the coronation day, different clothes were brought in and Vanessa was getting too tired from picking a cloth for herself and also for Racheal from the thousands of clothes being brought to our place.
The silence that followed the last word said by the person on the other side of the line gave hint on what was about to happen- rage and whoever stays on line of vision will feel the heat.Richard dropped the phone and slammed it on the wall out of annoyance. His mother had managed to get on his nerves this time around and he was too afraid to admit she was successful on ruining his good day. Now things will have to go dangerous.“Sir, is everything alright ?” His secretary of a year entered into his office when she heard the noise.“Did I ask you to come in?” He demanded in a raised voice.“I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to invade on your privacy. I heard the noise and wanted to check if it was not break in or something terrible happened to you” she explained“Without my permission?” He inquired.“Do I need your permission for such issue, I thought that’s part of my job sir” She fired back at him and he as taken aback for a minute, the secretary he hired and has known for a while never
After the little but yet not little encounter I had with my boss today, I drag myself to the cafe that was directly opposite the office to meet Dae, my roommate turned best friend for lunch. I met Dae when I first got a job in New York. I didn’t have anywhere to stay and she offered me one when we were introduced to each other by a mutual friend.We’ve also had our own fair share of crazy stuffs like the one you wrote down and call bucket list, yeah, we’re currently on that one too. But now that I’ve been fired from work, I guess I should start looking for work rather that trying to fulfill bucket list wishes.“Girlfriend, what's next on our bucket list?” I'm seated in the restaurant directly opposite my office and all the while I've been staring at the skyscraper that is too weird to go back into.Dae, my best friend of three years was sitting next to me holding her tablet while ticking off the goals we've managed to attain these past few weeks.We started the bucket list two months b
This chapter is supposedly to be before the second chapter Richard’s POV“You know that will never be possible, Tiffany. Not while I'm still alive will I marry a girl that is yours or any other person's choice. Trust me on that, woman”I've never been in a relationship, not after what happened to one of my friends in school that made me hate the word love so much. If I end up being a relationship today, it won't be a love affair, it'll all be about business and money.After graduating from Imperial university in Mexico with a degree in Business administration and top of my class too, I came back to London to develop my own business while moving away from the family's web. Being a descendent of the Amaan”s has a lot of strings attached and if you don't get yourself out of their web soon, you'll end up dying in it.My life was arranged for me since I was a kid, following their ambitions and dreams for me, but after graduating college, I broke off every contact I had with them.Now, they
Vanessa’s POV¶ They tell me everybody’s fifty minutes in a different time zone.And since I had it at the moment, you're the one I wanna shine my light one…….¶…..I like you girl in particular¶Dae kept on singing on and on to the music playing on her phone while the events of yesterday kept on playing in my head. It's just morning and my boss will be here anytime soon. I just want to fade away and never come back.“Can you just shut up for five minutes and let the Major Lazer music rest?” I screamed at her.“You can't pass aggression at me just because things are not working out fine. Moreover, I didn’t ask for you to be in that position ” she replied while she switched off the music.“You're my best friend, you should share in my sorrow and pain” I feigned crying and expected her to come and console me but no, the girl kept glaring at me as if I just wished her grandparents dead.“What stupid sorrow are you even talking about?, just because your boss asked you to be his girlfriend f
Richard’s POV“Good evening Tiffany” I picked up the phone, used my shoulder to hold it to my ear while I try to fix the buttons on my shirt.“Good evening son, how was your day?” I removed the phone from my ear to look at the caller again, hoping It was a wrong person.“Cut the pretence off Tiffany, go straight to the point. What do you want?” I demanded. Growing up, Tiffany made it clear that she doesn’t have the time for a child and I maybe nice to every person in the world but not to Tiffany.“I’m trying to be nice here, Richard and give me some respect too, young man” she replied angrily“I’ll try, now, what&hel
Vanessa's POV“Love is not a word in my son's dictionary, so don't give me that part my dear one” his mom said while keeping an angry look on her son.The whole energy I got ever since we arrived here is all mostly negative and the positive ones only came from Richard’s father. The Arab king and that has totally made me realize the more trouble I've gotten myself into.By tomorrow, I'm very sure more than 30 people will be after my story, wanting to know if I'm fit for the throne not knowing I was forced into this pile of shit. Richard’s mom is not making the issue easy for me, maybe she thinks I’m one of those gold diggers who would probably be after their wealth.I looked over at the mother with a forced smile and lay under my breath.“I don't know what you're talking about, but I love Richard a lot” with all the glares coming from most people at that table, the fear was starting to creep in. These people are too powerful for my type of person. I've always avoided this type of cliqu
Vanessa’s POVMy mom once told me she was seventeen when she met my father who was just a year older than her then.They had met at a friend's birthday party and the two had ended up being cat and rat, fighting and arguing over unnecessary things, even never agreeing on one thing until it was time for my father to move to another country entirely for his university education.That was when the two of them realized they were made for each other. Love, as she had said can be found in the strangest of all places.I've always hoped to find my prince charming in the most romantic way but with what my boss AKA worst nightmare just told me, I think I'm bound to never know love. Who cursed me with someone this horrible?“I just said something important and I need your reply, are you even listening, Vanessa?” He flipped his hand in front of my face to get my attention.“Yeah, I can hear you and honestly I don't know what to say to you but I can bet I’ll scratch your eyes out if you repeat that