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Marriage of Deception Lauren
Meeting wedding planners and nodding my head at everything Celine said was my least preferred thing to do, but doing that same stuff right before one of my important meetings was helping my anger to burst at any moment. I needed to seal the deal this time, which I failed to do the last three times I had the same meeting in this same hotel. It was an essential project that my company craved to do. More than that, it was the pressure of my father. And that was making everything insufferable for me.According to him, after my reunion with Celine, I was a different person, not the same one that I used to be. There was nothing I could say to that question, as I didn’t recognize myself when I stood in front of the mirror after Lauren left. My father got an opportunity to blame Celine, and he was using that like a dream. He didn’t care what other people would think about him, he just did the stuff that he thought was right. Dissing Celine in front of the crowd was one of them.“You are makin
Marriage of Deception Lauren
This man didn’t change a bit. The man who was my husband and the one who was my boss were two different people, and today I was sure about his dual personality. The two months I spent with him and his wife was different in every way. First and foremost, he was kind, sweet, caring, attentive, and all the other stuff you could think he was, but now he wasn’t. During these two years, he chewed some poisonous insects, which was the source of his ruthless, cruel, and cold behavior toward me.Did he really think I was going to work for him again in this life after what I went through in those three years? God, he was delusional, wasn’t he? He was the worst boss in this entire world and anyone who wanted to work with him for a second time after walking down the fiery path would be a fool, and I didn’t wish to be that person.I didn’t care what he did. If he was getting married to his ex-girlfriend, well, good for him, and if he wasn’t because his wife refused to be his wedding planner, then
Marriage of Deception Gavin
“Where are you going this early in the morning?” Celine asked me when I was getting ready at 6 in the morning.When I awoke to begin my day, she was sound asleep in her bed. She was still in the same position when I came back from the shower. For a second, there was no movement in the bed. I felt she was dead. It wasn’t Celine that was lying in the bed; instead, it was a corpse, but that was just wishful thinking from my side. It was the sound of my phone that stirred her up from her snooze.“I have a meeting,” I replied to her question while fastening my tie.It was only half true, and I had no intention of telling her the entire thing.“I am on my way to meet our wedding planner, who is also my ex-wife.”The moment Celine got to know who Lauren was, she was going to do something that would be tough for me or anyone to manage. Celine was easier to handle after the news of her pregnancy, but I should have taken advantage of this gentle personality as one poke was enough to wake up the
Marriage of Deception Lauren
Spending my entire morning with Gavin and telling a few little lies was supposed to be enough for the day. However, that wasn’t the case here. Dorthy called to ask if I had begun working on the wedding or what I was thinking of starting the work since the wedding was fifteen days away now. She asked me if I needed an assistant or additional help and if she could send some of our staff here to help me. She was being helpful, trying her best to look after me, yet none of her words or attitude seemed genuine to me. Following the argument I had with her just last night, along with the arrogance and harsh words she uttered to me, that woman lost my respect the second those expressions came out of her mouth.She was my boss, and I would work for her, but there wouldn’t be any emotional feelings attached to her. Previously, I envisioned her as my mentor, a boss bitch woman who was malicious, yet I believed there was a gentle side to her. There was none. All she knew was money and fame. She d
Marriage of Deception Gavin
She was married. The ring on her finger that I thought was just a show wasn’t a show, actually; it was the symbol of her being with another man. Or should I say the ring was evidence of her being the wife of whatever stupid man he was? It was the latter one, of course.Also, there was a baby. Their baby, Lauren, and her fucking husband’s baby. She had already moved on in life, enjoying her happily ever after in a foreign country, where I was pinning over her like a fool. I was a moron for falling in love with that woman. I kept her alive in my memories even after she left me, vanished in the dark with no answers. There were so many questions I wanted to ask her, but it looked like I did not need them anymore since she wasn’t mine anymore. There was another man in her life who apparently had the title “husband,” which was once mine.While she was already in a different phase in her life, I confessed my love to her. Fucking great. She was probably laughing about this with her new husban
Marriage of Deception Lauren
“Joy is doing just fine,” Caleb told me after I checked my daughter from head to toe a hundred times. She was obviously doing fine since Celeb was with her, whom I trusted most in this cruel world at that moment.“I have no doubt about that.” I sighed. “I am changing her nappies. She peed on them.”“Don’t lie, Lauren, darling.” He walked a few steps to reach me and pulled me from the bed into his arms. “I can read you.” His hand gently caressed my cheeks while his eyes were on my lips, but the most horrifying part was his lips and their intention.He kept biting his lip while looking at mine. I recognized the shadow that shielded his blue eyes with a dark coating; it was lust, the one that I had witnessed enough in my life to identify even before the man who was going through his fully wrapped him in this sin.Things were just going down as Caleb’s hand reached the lower part of my body. Everything was clear when he touched my ass, along with a forceful squeeze that hurt me. Perhaps a
Marriage of Deception Gavin
There were a thousand other occasions for me to join Celine whenever she went to see our wedding planner to have a serious discussion about our wedding arrangements. Each time she requested me to accompany her on this fucking journey, I did my best to avoid this phrase, no matter what came to my mouth. I just muttered that to her, didn’t care if that made sense or not. Celine also barely nagged me about such things, knowing my agreeing to marry her was already a miracle that she didn’t expect to happen, at least in this life. She was over the moon with this, so nagging me with anything related to the wedding wasn’t in her plan.I was content with this arrangement. The last thing I wanted to happen to me was to plan this marriage with the woman who was the antagonist of my life. Even though Celine was carrying my baby inside her, the feeling that I felt for her was still the same. There was no change in that category. I regarded her disgust two years ago, and it is still in my heart fo
Marriage of Deception Gavin
Celine hadn’t come back for a long time. She was busy with her phone with one of her many friends. The fun part was that, for the first time, I liked this habit of hers. Celine spent a good chunk of time on her phone, which sometimes made me curious about what she was really doing, but at that instant, I was praying for her success due to the infinite time she provided me with Lauren. While I was cherry walking with my wife, Lauren, on the other hand, wasn’t so much. She was becoming irritated by the question I kept asking, which she had been ignoring for half an hour. However, if she thought I was just going to give up, she was a fool to think so.I had enough patience in me. All thanks to this fucking world that prepared me strong enough to wait for people until they gave up. If you rewind the time, you see that there were very few moments where I gave up on something. Actually, there were none. Whether it was those old fat jerks who sat in my conference room wearing expensive suits
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Five Years LaterLaurenIt was Joy’s seventh birthday. The party that Gavin threw for his dear daughter was supposed to be a kid’s birthday party, but after cutting the cake, this blast turned out to be a boardroom meeting. Gavin was sitting with his friends, clients, investors, and business partners whose children were the same age as my daughter or a little older than her. The chocolate cake was lying on the coffee table ahead of these adult men, but they were more interested in talking about the stock market than the party that was going on.I was sitting with a bunch of the mothers from Joy’s school. It was regular mom-concerned talk, which I was getting used to, but surely needed enough time to get into the gossip that they were passing. Every time I sat with them, the only thing I heard them talking about was a teacher who got pregnant before marriage or a parent who was fighting behind closed doors. The mothers called this get-together “about the children” each time they invite
Marriage of Deception Gavin
I was sitting in my office when Lily informed me that the guest of the day was already waiting for me in our waiting room. On the bright side, Knox accepted my invitation, which I sent to him through a text that Dean and I created last night by wasting thirty minutes of our precious time.“It has to be a minimal text with some unadorned words,” I told Dean when we sat down in my penthouse living room, squeezing the burner phone in our hands.Everything we wrote felt fake until the last text we typed, which somehow sounded formal enough to send to Knox.“Astor Empire’s CEO would like to have a cup of coffee with you tomorrow at his office. Please be in the Astor building at sharp 4.”It was such lame and childish stuff to forward to someone whom you would like to meet. The moment Dean typed this nonsense, the one word that came out of our mouths was the same word Archimedes said upon a significant discovery in the Physis world.“Eureka,” we both said at the same time, reading what was
Marriage of Deception Gavin
“Alright. I understand everything you are saying. But why would Knox go after you? There is no logic behind that. I assumed he felt betrayed when he realized you moved ahead in life while he was serving his sentence for a murder he committed earlier in his life. That wasn’t in your hand. I mean, it was his crime, and the law gave him a suitable punishment, I believe. At present, he is dating your older sister, or more like he is using her to get revenge on you.” I sighed. “My question here is, what revenge? You didn’t do anything wrong with him, right? Then why was he after your life like a mad dog?” I sat on the near couch while Lauren was still standing in the bathroom doorway with her hands together, just like a criminal.“I did play the foul game that night,” she whispered.“How?” I asked. “I don’t see any foul play in your tale.”“Do you know why Knox went to prison?”“Yes, for a murder that he committed.”“Whose murder? Who was that man? Do you know that man?”“No.” I shook my h
Marriage of Deception Lauren
Eleven Years AgoThe environment of our house was never healthy. There was always something happening, and most of the time, it was my father who was screaming at the top of his lungs. After breaking up with Knox, I took another job just so I could come home when every one of the members of this house was deep in sleep. Hearing those arguments every single day was so annoying that sometimes I wandered around the town, just to escape from the ear-piercing competition that my parents loved to do at night.My time at Knox was my pathway to abscond from the toxic atmosphere of my home. If I ever sat down and thought about Knox, including the feelings I had for him, I was pretty sure I had nothing for that guy in my heart. You could say, I toyed with him, using him to get away from home for some time. I was aware of what Knox was thinking all the time, but the feeling that I felt for him was after he threatened me to be with him.Of course, I was missing him. I was thinking about him now a
Marriage of Deception Lauren
I was in the bathroom treating the wound that Knox and my sister caused me yesterday. Everything else was in my body, which I could easily bury with my clothes, but the one punch that Ashlee gifted me right in my face was giving me hell. I tried makeup, foundation, and concealer, but nothing was working. Instead, the redness was turning into brown shades, which was making it obvious. I had a flight to catch in just a few hours, and here I was making my face presentable.When I first saw Ashlee with Knox, I smelled the fishiness there. In which world would there be such a weird coincidence where your older sister was dating your ex-convicted boyfriend without knowing about each other? I doubt this was a plan that they both plotted together to take revenge on me. They both undoubtedly harbored a bitter grudge against me.I was in the corner of the convenience store when Knox grabbed me by the cap of my hoodie and threw me into the dark alley. Before I could realize anything, a hard slap
Marriage of Deception Gavin
“This is the information you asked for.” Jonathan gently slammed the brown file ahead of me.“I asked you for this at least two weeks ago. You are giving me this right now.” I collected the file from the desk, and without opening it, locked it in the drawer. “What happened to your skills? Did it dry out?”“You wish, brother-in-law.” Jonathan smiled as he fell into the chair ahead of us. “I hope you are aware of the fact that I am not a detective or anyone who is with law enforcement. I did my best with what little I had. So be grateful for that.”“Did Sarah know anything about this?”“About what?”“That I called you and asked for help or the favor I asked from you.”It wouldn’t be a great deal if Sarah got the idea that I was reaching out to her husband. Of course, I could ask for help from Jonathan, but if my little sister found out about all this, there would be another drama from her I couldn’t afford at this moment. Sarah lived for drama, which is why she chose Hollywood as her ca
Marriage of Deception Lauren
Eleven Years AgoMy mother never liked Knox. During the time I was dating him, although it started with a threat, however, over time we both became inseparable. My family was aware of the twenty-two-year-old boy I was dating, but they never approved of my choice. While my mother stayed quiet the first few times Knox visited our house for dinner or picked me up, it was my father whose anger flew over the bridge every time he saw Knox. Dad hated him so much that one time he kicked Knox out of our house.It was during Thanksgiving. Knox wanted to spend that time with me alone in his warehouse, but it was my mother who made it clear that if I didn’t stay for Thanksgiving dinner, I wouldn’t be allowed to return home. So, I convinced Knox to spend time with me at my parent’s house, which he refused several times. It was my endless nagging that forced him to change his mind. He didn’t change his damn mind, he just lost the game of a nag that I was playing with him at that moment.The next da
Marriage of Deception Lauren
Twelve Years AgoI blocked Knox from my life with a perfect plan which I thought was solid. I changed the schedules of all the part-time jobs I had at that time. The school was what I began to give importance to more than anything in my life at that point. The main reason for that was to improve my grades. By the next exam, I was back on top, the top girl in the school with 98% marks in all the subjects, which put a smile on my mum’s face, and seeing her being proud felt worth all the sleepless nights I spent studying.Knox didn’t cross his path with me for the next six months. After I left his house and came back to mine, he followed me everywhere I went. From my school to my workplace, he was standing outside every place I went. It was embarrassing when people whispered about seeing the notorious boy of the town waiting for me every single day for a week straight. I was already the weirdo in the eyes of my classmates, and seeing me with Knox, the notorious boy of the town, was only
Marriage of Deception Lauren
Twelve Years LaterOver the next week, Knox and I fell into a routine that wasn’t doing good for any of us. While he didn’t have a job, I was doing whatever I could with the given situation. I was going to school, but there wasn’t a single time when I was doing homework or assignments that I needed to submit to the finals. Even my grades were going down, which was terrifying. My teachers were worried about my future. The straight-A student was getting a B, and a C wasn’t a piece of good news for anyone. The three jobs that I had thankfully stayed with me due to Knox’s constant visits to my workplace painted me red in the eyes of my employer. One evening, Teddy, my convenience store owner, pulled me aside and asked me what I was doing with that boy.“He is a friend,” I replied.“He doesn’t look like someone with whom you spend time,” he said, frowning.“Looks aren’t everything, Teddy. You can’t judge a person based solely on the tattoos on their hands,” I said, smiling.“So, you are
