During the wedding their family had a truce, all for Clara’s sake. Celine declared a ceasefire and said hello to her parents. Took a few pictures with her sister like they were one happy family, even though underneath, there was tension every time Nathan Jacobs, her father, glared at Max. If she did not like him now, she knows that whatever she does will never please him. So she concentrated on having a good time with Max instead.
They were slow dancing to the music, Celine’s arms wrapped around Max’s neck while he had his arms around her waist. ‘I keep on telling your dad and anybody that would listen that I would marry you someday, but I never asked if you would want to marry me? I don’t see myself with anyone else other than you in my life forever, and my heart breaks every time your parents say no to me, but I would like to ask you, anyway. Celine Marie Jacobs, would you m
‘Let’s go to Vegas and get married.’ Celine blurted while she lay on the sun lounger with her eyes closed.Max looks at her disbelievingly. ‘What?!?’ She opened her eyes, surprised by his tone.‘Let’s get married. I figured my dad would never agree to us getting married. He will just keep trying to find someone, and I will keep saying no.’ she shrugged as she gauged Max’s reaction. She wondered if he would say no.‘To eliminate all the drama. Let’s do it. So he can’t say no.’ She sat up and stared at him directly.‘I’m… I’m not disagreeing with you. The idea passed through my mind, and I was going to ask you about it. It’s just weird that you said it first.
The wedding was simple, with no fanfare, and a cute little old lady playing the piano. But you could feel that the atmosphere surrounding their group was full of promise and of love.Sebastian rented a limo to usher them around town, from the hotel to shops to get her dress, the license office, and the chapel. Celine felt like a celebrity as she alighted from her carriage.Celine was happy that Clara volunteered to come with them to Vegas. She was confident this is what she wanted to do, but she still felt a bit scared that the consequences of her actions would be catastrophic once her parents learned about her marriage. But she shook her head and dispelled that thought as she let the excitement from the people around her take over and have Max’s love overpower every doubt she had in her mind.Celine bought a
Max folded the belt in half and pulled it taut, making that awful whipping sound that always meant you were getting punished. Celine swallowed the lump in her throat as she looked at her husband’s face. ‘What are you doing with that belt?’ she asked nervously.‘Before I tell you what this is for. I want you to strip,’ he said while leering at her body, pulling at the belt again.‘Everything?’ she asked while she slid the sleeves of her dress down her arms, exposing her naked breasts. ‘No bra, I see. No wonder I could see your perky nipples through your dress earlier. There’s punishment for that.’‘What? I can’t wear one underneath the dress. It would ruin the look,’ she defended as the dress slid down to her feet. He shrugged. ‘We&rs
Monday morning saw the newlyweds back at the office, bright and early. Max had a presentation coming up, and the impromptu vacation they had in Hawaii had set him back. He needed to work double-time just to prepare for his pitch.Celine decided to stay since Sebastian was in town anyway, so she would return to work when she was ready. She hung out with her sister and lounged in her room all day, sleeping when she felt tired. Right now, she had happiness written all over her face as she interrupted Max for some attention.‘Husband, I think you have been working so hard all day. I think you need a break,’ she drawls while removing his tie. She was straddling his lap with her legs folded on the side of his swivel chair. Max moaned and closed his eyes as he felt her rubbing her body against his. The woman was insatiable. He gave in and made love t
In Max’s office, the siblings, Clara, Max, and Jeremy, together with Celine and Sebastian, were sitting on one side. While Tory and Nathan sat across from them, not close together because Nathan was still carrying a grudge, but on the same side of the couch so the kids could see their expressions. Security was summoned earlier to defuse the situation, and the group of men who responded followed everyone into Max’s office to make sure they were available if needed. They were protective when it came to their employers and were ready to jump in. ‘You guys can leave. We can take it from here.’ Clara said dismissively to the guards. She did not want them gossiping about Max’s family because of what they will hear today. They were trustworthy, but since she did not know how sensitive the information would be, she wanted to grant Max his privacy. ‘I would rather one of us stay,’ the guard who had a baseball cap on stepped forward and replied in an insistent tone. Clara looked at him quizz
She was 17 and in no way developed as a woman, so it was easy for him to look the other way. Plus, her face was caked with too much makeup, making her look like a donut covered with too much sugar. This was fine with him because the more reason he didn't need to look at her, meant he was clear of any sins, and he badly needed this job. Victoria tried her best to seduce him, but everything was fruitless. She was a client and a stepping stone he would use to be good at his job. If Andrew could manage this pint-size, demanding princess, then he could manage anything the security business would throw at him and his life. It was just one step toward achieving his goals. Five years, he gave himself that much time to save up and become somebody. When she couldn’t get him to pay attention to her, she turned to partying and her friends. This was more work for him because she kept disappearing at these so-called parties, leaving with her friends, that it became a game. How successful they woul
Victoria was ready to fall in love and to show her parents that she was serious about her life, she is now dating what they classify as a ‘normal guy.’ He was a regular guy from a middle-class family, the son of a soap manufacturing plant owner, very ambitious and driven. From the get-go the guy impressed her father, so he allowed them to be in a relationship. But he didn’t really love her, he wanted to be with her for business purposes only, having her in their family meant they would have the financial backing of her father’s bank to bankroll their business so they could push forward to upgrading their systems into the 21st century. The bank was hesitant to give them a bigger loan because they were not coming up with new innovations for their soap brand. Andrew overhears the guy talking to his friend that she was not putting out and was holding out on him. And because he was getting desperate to get the money to save their business, he planned to create a scandal, by drugging her an
After her first major heartbreak, Tory got inspired to come up with her own clothing line. Ever since design school, she’s been designing her own clothes anyway. Why not make them mainstream and sell them to whoever wants the clothes? Her friends had been supportive of her and worn several of her dresses to their parties, so she knew that these women were not joking when they said they liked it. They liked it enough to be caught dead in it, so that was a good sign.At home, they patted her head and said, ‘That’s nice, sweetie,’ when she told her family about her plans, but nothing was stopping her. Tory would not let their lackluster approval bring her down. The only people who were genuinely happy for her were her nanny, the maids she always talked to, and her bodyguard.She plunged herself into her designs. Drawing, erasing, re-d
Peace had returned to their household, and everything felt right. Celine and Max traveled back and forth between San Diego and San Jose since Celine reconciled with her parents, and Max was getting to know his parents better. They were having fun riding Sebastian’s plane all the time. It was the perk of knowing a billionaire and being closely related to one. What they had really wasn’t a terrible deal, having 2 houses and a place to stay wherever they were. They didn’t even need to pack any outfits since there had closets full of clothes in both locations. The thing is, they couldn’t decide which place to choose, where to stay and which one to leave, and the more the couple got together, the more they wanted to settle somewhere, where it was just them, so they both agreed that Celine would join Clara’s company, SST and Max would find them a house to settle in, something they could call their own. Max was the first to separate from their group, but Celine did not want to live too far
‘I feel nervous as hell. We’ve done this a hundred times before, yet I feel like it’s our first time.’ Celine had been in the bathroom for the last half hour since the reception ended. She couldn’t enjoy the party because she kept thinking of what might happen tonight, resulting in frayed nerves and an empty stomach.Celine hesitantly left the bathroom. She knew prolonging the inevitable would only result in disaster. But the minute she walked into their honeymoon suite, the smell of fries and burgers invaded her senses.‘Hey babe, I ordered room service.’ Max greeted as he arranged the plates on the coffee table in front of the TV, as they always did when they were still dating and binge-watched one of their shows. ‘I saw you touched none of your food, so I ordered us some burger and fries. I figured
‘Do you know what really shocked me, aside from Raffy being my abductor? Is that when I woke up after he abducted me, his butler declared dad was on the phone.’‘Why was Raffy calling you dad?’‘I wanted to tell him you were in town because he kept calling the past few weeks and wanted to know when he could visit.’‘He said you approved of him as your son-in-law? How could you do that to me? You sold me to the devil, and he saw that as an excuse to do what he wanted with me.’ she looked at her father accusingly. Celine was so mad that her father had something to do with Raffy, thinking they had welcomed him into the family when Max was not.Celine and Clara’s parents, Nathan and Emelia Jacobs insisted on visiting afte
It took an hour for the couple to arrive at Sebastian’s house, and to expedite their travel, they were escorted by the motorcycle brigade to navigate and clear the traffic. Otherwise, with the congestion in the city it would have taken them a few hours to get home. By the time they got home, both sets of parents were present together with their siblings. ‘Max–’ ‘Celine–’ ‘We’re so–’ ‘You’re here!’ ‘I’m glad–’ ‘Are you–’ They all yelled excitedly, but Max ignored them and carried Celine directly to the bedroom. She tucked her head in his neck when she expressed she did not want to see anyone. And because she was more important than everybody else, he closed the door and drew her a bath. He wanted to help her relax and scrub all the terrible memories away. Get her clean so she could feel like herself again.Celine clung to him like a lost child would his mother, not wanting her husband to leave her even for one second. ‘Turn on the lights, please. They kept me in darkness most of the
Raffy laughed out loud as he watched the cops breaking into his mansion and finding nothing. ‘You idiots will never find me.’ He left his butler at the mansion to deal with the authorities as a taunt. He knew Max was more resilient than any regular husband, and could track him down faster than the police or the FBI could, so he had to take measures to cover his tracks.The house he was hiding in was purchased for the sole purpose of keeping his victims, like Celine. It wasn’t recorded in any of his financial books, or any of his aliases, and he figured it would take time before they find him, enough to carry out his plans and have sex with Celine. If she doesn’t cooperate, who knows what might happen? He might just do what he threatened her with, and tie her to the bed. He shook his head, remembering how the other women reciprocated his affection.
Celine pulled off all the pictures from the wall, every single one of them, and tore them up into little bits and pieces to satisfy her anger. The last piece that pushed her over the edge was a naked picture of her as she slept, with a hand squeezing her breast. She knows that Raffy probably had copies everywhere, but with Jeremy and Max’s help, they could erase all this embarrassing information from every computer, phone, and tablet Raffy might have them saved in.‘I’m so screwed.’ She cried while scrubbing her face with both hands. ‘Max will hate me for this. Fuck! Now I have to do what Raffy says or he’ll leak the pictures out. Oh, I don’t care. Fuck him! I won’t do anything I don’t want.’ she debated as she paced around the bedroom.‘Why do these assholes have to follow me all
‘Sebastian Colfer! Explain to me who this woman is with my sister?’ Clara barges into her husband’s office, at the same time, the security guard speaks. ‘Sir, there’s a person downstairs claiming his girlfriend never showed up to their date yesterday, and her phone shows she’s still in the building. We called her department, and they said she left early yesterday. What should I do?’‘Search the entire building and see if you can find her phone. Check the parking lot and see if her car is still downstairs. Maybe she ran away with another guy, who knows.’ Sebastian answered.‘What is it, sweetie? I did not get what you were asking.’ he focused on Clara and her laptop.‘This woman was in the elevator yesterday with my sister before she disapp
Celine lies back in bed and curses. ‘How am I going to get out of here if I don’t have clothes?’ So she started exploring Raffy’s bedroom, hoping to find something more decent to wear, when she noticed the pictures on the wall. ‘Fucking pervert!’ she exclaims.There she was, splattered on every surface of the room. Different sizes and images of her. One had her laughing, the other brushing her hair away from her face, and another of her eating. What bothered her more were the pictures of her in different states of undress. In one she was in a bath towel, another in her underwear, while the others had every outfit she has donned in the past year. She even had one in the lingerie she was wearing right now. The pose reminded her about that night she wanted to send Max a naughty video, to which he ended abruptly.
‘Yeah, but my sister, Clara, came… and I needed... You know what, it’s not important. I came by to get my car downstairs. I left it in the building.’‘Hey, tell me, isn’t the boss dating your sister? Is it true that they got married?’ she whispered while getting closer to Celine.‘Yeah, they did. It was a lovely ceremony. I helped plan it.’‘That’s a big ring you have on your finger. Rumor has it that you’re married as well.’‘Can you keep a secret? I got married in Vegas last weekend. Eeekkk…’ Celine said excitedly.May squealed, ‘Omg, are you serious? That is so unexpected. We knew you were dating but didn’t know it