“I do not need you to love me.” He rebuts coldly. “I need you to marry me.” “I do not want to, Mr Bolt.” I reiterate in case the stubborn asshole hadn’t understood my view on the subject. “I believe you think you have a choice in the matter.” He smiles wolfishly. “Marry me or I’ll let those wolves have a field day with tearing your company from your hands.” “I would rather take my chances with them than you.” He smirks, stepping close enough that his sandalwood scent wraps me in a cloud I wasn’t eager to escape. “Marriage to me wouldn’t be so bad as you well know it.” He smirked running an eye up and down my body. “I’ll keep your days busy with clients and your nights very warm.” *** Maria Belluci had lived a rather peaceful life as the daughter of one of London’s elite businessmen but she had her carefully organized life torn away from her when she found her half-sister in bed with her fiancé a few weeks before their wedding. Distraught, she had a one-night stand with the famed billionaire CEO Sebastian Bolt and left before he could wake up. She decided to leave her family, who had sided with her half-sister and everything associated with them, behind to start over, but her story was far from over as this gripping tale of passion, desire, and betrayal spun her into the arms of Sebastian again. Would they overcome all odds stacked against them or would their romance shatter under the weight of adversity?
View MoreWelcoming The Darkness Maria's POV Hours had passed in the company of Richard and Cassandra. I was tired, hungry and worried, very worried because of Nathan. I knew that Helena would have picked him up from school because she was listed as the only other person who could do that but then something was not right. Richard looked unstable. He looked as if he was not alright mentally and I fear that he would do something irrational. He had been having a heated argument with Cassandra for a while now, but I have no idea what they were going on about. Just as I was about to lean my head backwards, I heard him shout. “I will do whatever I want to do and your bloody opinion does not matter.” Cassandra held his elbow, trying to stop him. “You can't do that, Richard. You could get us arrested.” ‘No, I would get the world rid of the pest called Maria. That's what I would do, besides, who's going to call the police? One eyed Maria?” He asked with a mocking smile on his face.
Finding Maria Sebastian's PoV I was in a virtual meeting and in the process of finalizing a deal with one of the top companies in Russia when I received Maria's message. A picture even accompanied it and I saw that she had taken the ring off. I sent her a text asking where she was but I didn't get any reply and it was starting to irk me. After a while, I realized that I couldn't concentrate in the meeting anymore so I texted one of my senior executives to take over, and share a believable excuse about why I had to leave the meeting. “What the hell is going with you now, Maria?” I asked myself and then dialed her phone but she didn't answer the phone. I called her numerous times but she didn't answer nor call me back. I thought that she was avoiding me and was starting to become restless. Seeing that there was nothing much I could do, I sent the message to Keith and he called me immediately. “Are you sure she was the one who sent that message, Seb?” “That was her ph
Shattered Bliss Maria's POV It had been two weeks since Sebastian proposed again and those two weeks had been nothing but blissful. Sebastian and I spent almost every free time we had together which was not enough time and so I looked forward to marrying him already. We made our first appointment with the wedding planner last week and since that time we have fully entered wedding planning mode. The next step was Nathan. Sebastian indicated that he would love to spend more time with Nathan, just to get to know him and each time he talked about that, I would always think about the day that I would tell him that Nathan was his son. After careful consideration and discussion with Helena, I decided to tell him on our first lunch together with Nathan which was two days away. “Have a great day at school today, baby. Mommy loves you so much.” I whispered in Nathan's ear when we arrived at his school. “Nathan loves mommy so much.” He mimicked me and pecked my cheeks as I smile
Cupid Operation Helena's POV I rushed to the door as soon as I heard the knock because I knew that it was Maria. “For someone who was hesitant to stay behind last night, you sure look like you enjoyed the night you spent at his house.” Maria smiled shyly and placed her hands over her mouth. “Helena, you are one crazy bitch.” “Yes I am!” I replied, please with myself and then I gasped loudly when I saw the ring on her finger and covered my mouth to prevent myself from screaming loudly. I did not want to scare Nathan. “No way!” I half whispered and pointed at her hands. “Is that what I think it is?” Maria nodded excitedly and said. “Yes, Lena. It is what you think it is. Sebastian proposed properly last night.” I jumped up happily while clapping and then wrapped my arms around her bosom and carried her up. “I am soooo happy for you and Sebastian. You have to tell me what happened. I need the tiniest detail, Maria.” “Urghh, Maria, I am tired. I need my bed.” She complai
Marry Me Properly Sebastian's PoV I took in the lively chat and warm atmosphere around me as I watched everyone interact. The joy I felt about finally finding my mother cannot be matched and I was even more happy as I watched the interactions between Maria and my mother. They behaved more like mother and daughter than acquaintances but I was also a little bit saddened by Maria’s actions. I was shocked when Helena came to my office and told me about Maria’s company. I thought she was joking at first and later found it hard to believe because Maria gave me the impression that everything was fine in her company even after I asked her numerous times. Immediately after Helena told me everything, I called my private investigator for an urgent job which caused so much money but I didn’t care about that, I was more hurt by the degree of chaos we found out and the fact that Maria didn’t tell me anything about it. Helena tried to defend her and said that she may not have known ab
Dinner With The Bolts Maria's POV “I need a vacation, Helena. I need to go away for a whole month. The events of the past weeks have been so crazy, my head ached a bit.” Helena laughed as we entered her car to head to Sebastian’s house for dinner. “I am here for all the drama. It has been a wild ride. Clubbing and multiple boyfriends didn’t give me this much excitement.” “I am glad that my life is entertaining you. It gives me joy to know that.” I replied sarcastically and playfully rolled my eyes. After meeting his mother at the stakeholders’ meeting in my company, Sebastian and Aiva had stayed back in the room and talked for a long time. Later that day, he invited Helena and I to dinner with his family. I couldn’t believe that Aiva was Sebastian’s mother that he had been looking for and I also couldn’t believe that the Bolts were the family that Aiva talked about with so much longing. “I can’t believe that you met Sebastian’s mother and was even friends with her fo
Evil Intention Turned Sour Maria’s POV After my meeting with Aiva at the Fiction Nook, we went from one meeting to the next and because of that, I wasn’t home much. Surprisingly, I didn’t see much of Helena that weekend and her phone was busy. It was Monday morning and the meeting would commence in a few hours, and from the information I gathered, they were poised to take my position as CEO from me. I smiled and replied to the greetings and compliments from my staff as I made my way to my office. I could see the questions and subtle confusion on some of their faces, but I believe that the staff meeting that would be held at the end of today’s meeting will clarify a lot of things for them. My personal assistant joined me on the way to my office and when I stepped in, I went straight to the bathroom to have some pep talk with myself and admired myall-white outfit, which was deliberately chosen because I told myself that after today, there will be newness and a breath of fresh
Saving Maria Maria’s POV “I received your text last night. How did you know that I was the one in need of a white knight?” I asked her with an emotionless tone. I had to thread carefully because I had made too many moves where my company was concerned that had led to a backlash. “You are not famous, Maria; but you are also not a nobody. After our last discussion, I did my own findings about you and realized that you were the one having corporate troubles.” “Your message indicated that you would be my white knight but I could pay back in my time and terms. Why? We’ve only just met so why do you want to help me?” She sighed deeply as if remembering something that happened previously, then she said. “Let’s just say that I encountered something similar in the hands of my husband. If you don’t act fast and smart, everything you own will be taken away from you, mishandled by people who know nothing about your vision, and then tossed back to you in shattered pieces with nothing lef
Road To The White Knight Maria’s POV It was Saturday morning but I wasn't relaxing somewhere like I would normally do, instead I was in my home office conducting an in-depth research on each of the stakeholders in my company. My staff had done all of that before but I decided to do it again, to see if there were details that they missed. After my last meeting with Aiva, I realized that I became unusually fearless. All anxiety about a group of people taking my company away from me seemed to have vanished into thin air. I knew that I made a mistake somehow and still haven't discovered where I made the mistake or who was the mastermind behind the shady operations of the stakeholders. A notification on my computer screen caught my attention and I smiled. The smile stretched my face until it became a full laugh, and after a while, I stopped and simply said. “As expected.” A knock on my door distracted me from reading the mail a second time and Helena strolled in with a cu
THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL Maria's POV "Will you marry me, Miss Belluci?" The question has me eyeing the man before me as if he had grown two heads over the past half hour he had been in my office. If anyone had told me my perfectly boring morning would take the route it had now I would have called them insane. I had woken up in a good mood, earlier than usual because I wanted to drop my son off at his kindergarten before heading to work for a meeting that would essentially change my company for good not expecting to be interrupted by the last person I had expected to see. Sebastian Bolt. Even his name sounded attractive. He was the CEO of Bolt Industries who had hounded me with proposals to buy my company despite my continuous refusals. He had come to apparently convince me in person but soon changed his proposal. "What happened to buying my company?" I asked stepping away from him. I couldn't help but wonder if he remembered me from that night five years ago when I had ...
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