CHAPTER 5

He pulled away and caressed my cheek as he stared at me. The crowd looked at us while murmuring.

“Resume what you were doing, I'm done with my announcement.” Everyone turned their gazes away from us.

How is he controlling almost everyone here? Yoshim can not even do this. At first, I thought Rodrigo was in a gang, but after living with him these few days, I realised he was much different from Yoshim.

His voice was authoritative and intimidating. My gaze shifted to the furious Paloma, who was still looking at us.

“I know this is fake, you can't marry this slut.” “Shut up Paloma, know your place. Get the fuck off my face before I let my men drag you away.” He said angrily. “You'll regret this.” Paloma walked away.

I kept on blinking while looking at Rodrigo, I was so not used to this side of him. “Hey cousin, your wife is beautiful.” A tall-haired guy approached us.

“Hello, mamacita…” Rodrigo held the arm he wanted to shake me with. “Keep your hands to yourself or I'll cut them off.” Rodrigo freed his hand and he stepped back.

“Get away from her you have no business with her, I also have nothing to discuss with you.” He held my hand and looked at me. “Let's go princess.” He said while smiling.

I looked behind me and saw how the guy looked angry. “Why are you being so rude? They just want to talk.” “They don't have any business with you so they don't have to talk to you.

No one in this room wants to talk, they are all bloodthirsty, greedy, animals.” “Why did you kiss me?” He stopped in his tracks and turned to me.

“That was the only way I'd make them believe you were my wife, I've never kissed any girl in public before.” He resumed walking and we stopped in front of a huge brown door. He brought out a key card and opened it.

We went inside and my jaw dropped at how gorgeous the room looked. The wallpaper was floral artwork and the ceiling had a lot of decorative lights.

The bed was huge and the marble floor looked like a river. “I'm going for a meeting, don't leave the room until I return.”

I nodded. “I need you to answer me when I talk to your freckles.” I rolled my eyes at him. “Okay.” He walked closer to me. “Don't roll your eyes at me, I might punish you if you do that.”

He smiled handed me the keycard and left. I started exploring the room like a 3-year-old. Gasping at everything I saw. I got bored after some time and lay on the bed for a while.

“Ugh, when is he going to come back?” I muttered to myself.

An hour passed and I felt like I was suffocating. I took the keycard and opened the door. The place was rather quiet, which left me confused because it wasn't that late for the party to be over.

I managed to get to the ground floor and found a garden. It was so beautiful, I kept on hopping from one flower to another like a bumblebee, just admiring the flowers.

I kept on looking at the flowers, mesmerised by how pretty they looked when I heard faint footsteps behind me. I turned and saw the brown-haired guy Rodrigo was talking to earlier.

I could see mischief in his eyes. He walked closer to me with his hands behind him. I looked around and saw that the place was dead silent. “Can I help you?” I broke the awkward silence.

The corners of his lips turned into a devilish smirk as he walked closer to me. “How much did he pay you?” He seemed drunk

“What do you mean?” His brows furrowed and his forehead drew lines. “Don't fucking play dumb with me bitch, how much did he pay you to play along?

What if I told you I could pay you more for you to work with me?” What the hell is this sick bustard talking about?

“Excuse me? I don't want your filthy money.” I walked past him and came to a sudden halt when he gripped my wrist, yanking me back.

“How dare you walk out on me you fucking slut.” He said through clenched teeth. “There's no fucking way Rodrigo would marry a basic bitch.

He's just using you to get the 09 fortune.

I won't deny the fact that you are fucking hot, I guess I can have a little fun with you.

My cousin will understand, we're family after all.” He smiled at me. I tried to push him away but he held my wrists.

He pushed me and I fell into the flowers. Tears started to flow as my heart started to beat violently in my chest, not again. When will men stop using me as a sex object?

He started unbuckling his belt as he stared hungrily at me. I screamed at the top of my lungs but he just laughed. He got on top of me and started to forcefully part my legs.

I was struggling with him when he got yanked off me. I looked up and saw Rodrigo holding him like a piece of paper. He smirked at him.

“Come on cuz, lemme also have some fun. I know she's not your wife.” Rodrigo landed 3 strong blows to his face.

I gasped at the sudden violence. He coughed out blood and looked at Rodrigo in disbelief. Rodrigo looked very furious, I could see so many veins on his arm because his sleeves were rolled up.

He kept on hitting the guy until he fell. Rodrigo got on top of him about to land him more blows. “Stop Rodrigo, you'll kill him!” I screamed at him.

He stopped and immediately got up. He dug his hand into his pants and suddenly pulled out a gun. My eyes widened as if they wanted to pop out of my sockets.

He clocked the gun and pointed it at him. What is he doing? Is he willing to kill his cousin because of me?

I immediately covered my ears with my hand and looked away when I heard three gunshots.