Anna stared at Dylan and he stared back at her, Anna read the look on his face and as much as he tried to remain indifferent, Anna could see in his eyes that he was scared, which made her think that he needed this contract just as much as she did. “What if I was backing out of the agreement?” Anna asked him, she wasn't though, but she wanted to get a reaction out of him, crack the cold exterior that he had put on since yesterday. “Then I wouldn't fault, it's your choice,” Dylan told her but deep down he was hoping that she wouldn't change her mind. Seeing that her plan didn't work, Anna released a huge sigh and rested back against her seat. “I'm not going back on the agreement, we had a deal and you have more than left up to your end of it,” Anna told Dylan. Anna couldn't see it but her words made Dylan's heart rate come down. “Good, so why haven't you told her?” Dylan asked Anna again. “Daddy, are you and mummy fighting?” Emma asked as she looked at t
Anna ran into her room and locked the door behind her. She was such a fool, believing for one second that she they could be a family. She wouldn't be making that mistake again, she was going to fulfill her end of the deal and be the wife that Dylan wanted and then when the contract was over, she would leave. But apart from him acting cold towards her today, there was something different about him, the way he called her by her full name, there were only three people that ever called her Anastasia and those were her parents and her childhood friend Dylan. That's who he reminded her of this night, but there's no way that the both if them could be the same person, her friend was kind and loving and Dylan was the complete opposite. It took her a while, but she finally got control of her emotions, she left her room to go check on Emma. When she entered Emma's room, the lights were off except for her barbie night light. Her baby girl was asleep on the bed and next to her was
The next few hours flew by, after Anna ran out of Dylan's room, she played with Emma until the hair and makeup people came. They set up in her room and it took about two hours to style her hair and finish her makeup. Anna looked at herself in the mirror and she couldn't recognize the person staring back at her, it looked like her, but she was glowing. The makeup wasn't too much, it just highlighted all her features. “So, do you like it?” The makeup artist asked her. “I love it, thank you,” Anna told him. “You look beautiful mama,” Emma told her mother. “Well thank you, sweet girl, you look very beautiful too, like a princess,” Anna told her daughter who had a huge smile on her face, the hairstylist had also done her hair and she put in butterfly clips and flowers in it and she was also wearing her flower girl dress, she couldn't wait to put it on and Anna couldn't say no to her, she just hoped that she wouldn't get it stained before the wedding. There
Anna walked downstairs and Emma was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs with her baskets of flowers in her hand. “I'm going to go out first and then Emma will follow, once you hear the violins, that's your cue to come out,” Lucas told her and then he left. Anna took Emma's hand and then they both walked to the double doors that led to the garden. When Lucas walked out, Anna waited a few minutes and then she turned to Emma. “That's your cue baby girl.” She told Emma and then Emma left, sprinkling flowers as she went. Anna waited a few more minutes and then she heard the sound of the violins playing the bridal march she took a deep breath and stepped out into the garden. When she stepped out the first thing her eyes saw were the photographers and videographers at the one end of the garden and she started getting nervous all over again, the flashes from the cameras were too much. She turned around to the other side of the garden and that's when sh
James was at his office, he had a huge smile on his face like the cat that ate the canary. Everything was going as planned, the last time he spoke to his guy, he told him that he had infiltrated the team that was working on the high blood pressure drug at Kings Pharmaceutical and he said he would have the formula before the end of the week. Everything was looking up for him. His intercom in his office buzzed. “Sir, Mr. Patrick is here to see you,” Liam informed him. “Really, I wasn't expecting him,” James said, wondering why he would come to his office without informing him. “Send him in,” James instructed Liam and then a few minutes later, Mr. Patrick walked into James' office. James stood up from behind his desk to greet him. “Mr. Patrick, I wasn't expecting to see you till the end of the week.” He told him as he stretched out his hand to shake him. Mr. Patrick took his hand and returned the handshake. “Yes, I know that sir, but this was an emergency an
Dylan walked back to his office and locked the door behind him, he went straight to the side table where he kept his alcohol and poured himself a glass of bourbon, he downed it in one go and then poured himself another glass. The phone call he got had just ruined his mood, it was from his COO in London, he informed him that somehow his brother was able to get a meeting with his board of directors. His phone started ringing, he looked down and saw that the caller ID was from Lucas. He picked it up and put it on speaker. “Sir, we have a problem,” Lucas said. “I already know Lucas, my COO in London just called me. How exactly was he able to get a meeting? Did he get his hands on the will?” Dylan asked Lucas. “I don't think so sir, I've gotten no news about that from my source,” Lucas said. “Then what could it possibly be, he needs a good reason before the board would even agree to an emergency meeting, so what is it?” Dylan voiced out his question.
The next day Anna woke up by six am to get ready for their flight to London. She was in an irritable mood because she didn't sleep well at night and it was all because of Dylan. She walked to Emma's room to get her ready first, Anna knew that her daughter wasn't an early riser so she made sure she took a shower the night before so that when it was time for them to leave, she would just have to put on her clothes. Anna entered the room and just like she predicted, her little girl was still asleep, she had thrown off her blanket from her body and it was on the floor. She knelt by the bed and tapped Emma's hand. Emma frowned her face, not ready to wake up. “Come on sweet girl, it's time to wake up, remember we're going on an adventure today,” Anna told her daughter, then Emma slowly opened her eyes. “Morning mama.” She greeted Anna with a sleepy voice. “Hey sweet girl, how'd you sleep?” Anna asked her as she caressed her head and moved her hair awa
Anna just stared at the phone, allowing it to ring until the call eventually cut off. “Anastasia, are you all right?” Dylan asked her. The question finally snapped her out of the haze that she was in. “Yeah, I'm sorry about the mess.” Anna apologised to him and then she was about to clean up the coffee on the ground but Dylan stopped her. “Leave it, the maid will handle it, we're already running behind, we need to get to the airport.” Dylan stood up and Anna grabbed her phone from the kitchen Island and followed behind him. They entered the car and Dylan strapped Emma to her car seat and they were off to the airport. From what Dylan knew about Anna's parents, they were always close and she was especially close with her mother, he had no idea what happened between them that caused such a rift. “This isn't the road to the airport,” Anna told Dylan when she noticed they were going the wrong way. “We're not going to the airport. We're going to a p