Chapter 4

Aaron’ POV

The drive home after the wedding was silent and calm, I looked over at Lois and saw that she was more relaxed than she was at the wedding. I felt relieved. I know that she hated me, which isn’t entirely my fault, but it's still my fault. My friends were jerks to her in high school, and I couldn’t do anything about it.

I wanted to buty hands were tied. She was an easy target to bully's in high school, so she was bullied. I hated her bully's so much, but there was nothing i could do to them, and it pained me so much till date.

You might be wondering why I stayed friends with bully's even though I hated them so much.

Their dads were all strong investors in my dads, and they were all strong investors in my company at that time, so I couldn’t do anything to provoke them. Not that it is an excuse, she was my betrothed and I could have done something, but I didn’t because I was trying to keep my company together.

My father forced me to be friend's with them and even forced me to invite them to my wedding, which I know would be really disrespectful to Lois.

I felt ashamed, I have always had a crush on her. I felt there was no need to express my feelings to her since we would eventually get married, and i knew she was never going to accept my feelings. Here we are, married, and I feel utterly disgusted with myself, ashamed to even look her in the eyes.

We arrived at the mansion her parents picked out, and my parents were relieved that they didn’t have to go through this stress when her parents offered. The house was tall and simple, nothing extra, just appropriate and enough.

‘Here is the contract’ Lois said as she handed a brown envelope to me immediatelywe entered the house. I was shocked and perplexed. A contract? Was she being for real right now?.

I know she hated me, but was this not too much , we could literally talk about what we wanted and what we didn't want.

‘Contract?’, ‘Why would we need a contract as a married couple’ I blurted out with a shocked expression. I looked down at the envelope and brought out the content to read. We were not allowed to stay in the same room according to the contract, we only interact when we have a social gathering, we can’t kiss in public no matter what, and all sort of rubbish I gave no consent to.

‘This is not a love marriage, so some boundary’s needed to be set’ she said, and I was marvelled.

‘We are to stay seperate rooms?’ I asked to confirm again, and to be super sure, she is not messing with me. She looked at me coldly, and I realized she was actually being so serious right now.

‘Read the rest of the contract, sign it, and know your place. My room will be upstairs while yours will be downstairs and I must not see you there’ she said with a cold tone and immediately left for her room. I respected her wishes and didn't say anything further.

Damn, she must really hate me. I sat down on the couch and pondered on how things would be now. I was the CEO of my company, but I could still lose it all within a second.

For me to have full control of the company my wife needed to produce a child, a boy or a girl, my father doesn’t mind as far as there is an heir/heiress comes from me. I have a year to meet these conditions, or I lose the company completely to my cousin.

My wife now isn’t exactly making it easy for me, not like that is all I want from her, but I really can’t lose that company. I really can’t. I worked so hard for it and I would lose myself if I lost it all.

Minutes later, Lois came downstairs, violating her own contract on the first night. She looked a little bit embarrassed and entered the nearest room she could find. I let out a short laugh.

She was hilarious, fascinating, and cute. I guess that is why I have always liked her. She had always been shy and quiet, but now she was the complete opposite, and I liked that. She had long black hair in high school and wore glasses and braces. After high school, she didn’t talk to me for years, until recently, after the marriage had been finalized.

I was shocked to see her. Her long black hair became a short red hair, which suited her and completely changed her look from the quiet nerd girl to the most popular girl. I guess the hair theory is real.

She wasn’t wearing braces anymore or glasses and boy that made her so attractive. I wanted to confront her and ask for forgiveness, but she was always so protective, didn’t let me in. She never wanted to know what I had to say. I must say I really felt hurt by that, but I couldn’t blame her. It was all my fault, after all.

I was feeling tired and decided to go to bed, I went upstairs and realized there was no room in sight, not a single one. I went downstairs, and it was the same thing, I had no choice but to enter the room in which Lois was.

She laid quietly and peacefully facing her back towards me. I entered the bathroom quietly and took a quick shower, not wanting to disturb her. After I finished, I quietly laid beside her and slowly drifted into dreamland.

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‘Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ a loud screamed jolted me from my sleep. I woke up to see it was Lois, and she was looking at me angrily.

What now, I thought to myself.