“You are going to display fireworks for my win,” She smiled brightly, throwing her hands up in the air, can’t she get any louder? Kayden shook his head, with the understanding that she was drunk at the moment. A loud bang in the distance, suddenly there was chaos, and the atmosphere changed, the projectiles ricocheting one after the other, and colorful lights filled the black sky of the night. Crystal raised her hands dramatically, like a child, in an attempt to feel the debris of the fireworks. Kayden felt a sudden vibration from the pocket of his coat, he slipped his left hand into it and fumbled for the phone, he glanced at the caller ID, it was Doctor Miguel and immediately he knew he needed to answer the call in private. “Crystal, Crystal,” he called out softly but crystal only turned within a split seconds and continued gazing at the beautiful lit sky because she was so engrossed with the fireworks display making her not to pay attention to what was happening around her. “I w
Just as Kayden said, someone was coming for them, but he didn’t mention he was asking a helicopter to pick them up, and instead of an eight-hour journey, it only took them an hour and thirty minutes to get them to the hospital. Crystal couldn’t be any more grateful than she already is now, during the journey Kayden didn’t stop holding her hands, to show his support and concern. It was very surprising… “Doctor Miguel,” Kayden called as they approached the averagely old man who was discussing with a female assistant, The man glanced at them and his face softened immediately as he walked up to them. “Kayden, I apologize for calling you so suddenly, but I had no other way to reach Mrs. Smith.” He apologized as he extended his hands for a handshake, which Kayden took immediately. “You called the right person; you need not worry.” He withdrew his hand and slipped it back into his pocket. “Is everything okay? Is my mother okay? Can I see her?” Crystal asked a little bit impatient, and th
Birds were singing outside the window, and even though Crystal was a bit distant in her sleep, she could hear them. She turned to her other side, sunlight flashed on her face and she shut her eyes even tighter. A small but sharp pain builds in her head, and she whimpers softly.“Are you awake?” She heard Kayden’s voice and her eyes fluttered open immediately; he was sitting on the edge of her bed and he was dressed in his pajamas, his blond hair casually tousled over his eyes and his bedroom eyes stared down at her with no emotion in them.“K-K-Kayden,” she stuttered as she sat up abruptly, She winced slightly because it was a bad idea, getting up so suddenly when she had signs of a migraine. “Why are you here?”“You don’t remember?” He asked and almost immediately the door opened and Petra came in, holding a tray in hand, her weary eyes fell on Crystal and she smiled.“Good morning, Mrs. Smith.” She said as she hurriedly walked to her side, she laid the tray on the small table an
“Crystal come down from there!” Cassandra yelled, she woke up so early in the morning just to find Crystal standing on paper boxes, staring outside the window. “It’s dangerous.” Cassandra pulled her sister down with enough carefulness, and they both fell to the ground, Crystal landing on her sister.“You could fall from there, these are paper boxes, they can’t hold your weight.” Cassandra was still engrossed in her explanation when she noticed tears in her sister’s eyes. “What is it? Why are you crying?”“I think Dad is going on a business trip again.” She squeaked wiping her eyes, Cassandra got up and peeped out of the window, standing on the paper boxes that Crystal once stood on, there was a van outside and they were moving a lot of things. Their parents didn’t say anything about moving out of this place, because they were moving most of the major kinds of stuff. The carton was carved in and Cassandra fell hitting her back on the wooden floor.“Are you okay?” Crystal squeaked as
“I’m glad to see, you two are doing so well,” Randy said with an unsure look on his face, his eyes fleeting side by side. “It is quite disturbing how you were able to get my contact number, have you been stalking me?”“No, we won’t do something like that,” Cassandra answered instead and Crystal reached for the small tea cup in front of her. “Especially to some like you.”Randy cleared his throat and adjusted himself in his seat, he took his teacup and sipped from it as well. “I don’t have much time, tell me why you wanted to see me, I have to return home to my family.” He glanced at his wristwatch, it was an hour after his closing time, and his wife must be so worried now.“How can you shamelessly sit in front of your adult daughters and brag about your family?” Crystal asked with a plain look on her face.“Daughters he abandoned.” Cassandra corrected; disappointment gleamed in their eyes.“So, now what do you want?” Randy asked with a small shrug. “Do you want revenge for what happen
It has been weeks since Cabin Dante, Crystal’s mother died, it has taken quite a toll on her, sometimes she finds it hard to believe that her mother is no more. Sometimes, she would pray that her mother gets better without even realizing that she has no one to wait for anymore. It was more painful than she imagined, she felt empty and without objective, she wanted to live in the previous days, the days when she was still younger. It wasn’t quite hard to wake up from that dream, and open her eyes to her current nightmare.“What are you thinking about?” Paige asked, as she sat down on the next chair to her, she noticed that Crystal had been looking out the window for a while now and she wasn’t concentrating with work. Her eyes pried into the tablet and she noticed that she wasn’t working on any of her designs, the drawing seemed to be that of a person and a familiar one too.“Mother,” Crystal confessed, as she raised her hands tiredly to continue to finish up the art. “I have been tryin
“Why is he angry?” she asked herself as she unpacked her bags, Kayden left the room slamming the door with a loud thud, he said it was a vacation to relax but he didn’t look relaxed even in the slightest. “That’s none of my business.” Her phone beeped and she glanced at it, it was a message from Paige, and she smiled. “Did you arrive already?” with some heart emojis “Yes, we did,” she replied immediately. “I just saw Mr. Smith coming out, where are you?” She sighed. “I am in the room, I am so tired, and I would like to get some sleep.” “Alright then.” “Call me when you wake up.” “Okie.” She finished unpacking her bags and she headed straight to the bathroom to take her shower, Kayden got angry and left, why did he tell her to go on a date with Sebastian? Isn’t that considered cheating? She wouldn’t mind if he asked her on a date instead, a small smile touched her lips. “What the hell am I thinking?” she whispered to herself but it didn’t stop her from chuckling at her si
“What do you want?” she asked him as soon as she got to the pool area, she made sure to not meet his eyes, she was still embarrassed from earlier. “I would like you to hurry up because I would like to go have some sleep.”“Are you trying to get some sleep or you are drawing something perverted again?” He teased and she frowned, she was about to say something when Paige rushed towards her.“Crystal,” she said as she beamed a smile. “I thought you wouldn’t come.”And in an instant, they pulled her along towards the poolside, Kayden stopped what he was doing and somehow, he found himself watching her, his eyes following her every movement, even though the rest of the ladies were in the pool playing with water and were swimming, Crystal went to the other end of the pool and sat at the edge of the pool and she soaked her feet in the water, she seemed very uninterested in whatever was going on, for her to sit so far from the others, she also wasn't interested in swimming.Just for the sake
Alright! *drops pen* This is a special shoutout to everyone who turned the pages over, this is my first book (the first one I ever took seriously lol) and I'm glad it's not that bad. *hehe* Thank you so much for reading, commenting, venting your concerns, voting, and supporting "My Contract Marriage." Your opinions were appreciated and valued and it was just enough for me to go on as a writer. Y'all are my special babies and I won't forget this beautiful ride. Will it have a sequel? Probably. I hope to write more books in the future, so please stay tuned. My favorite character in the book is Sebastian, hehe, you should see more of him in the sequel (If I ever take my life seriously *hehe*). Thanks once again for supporting this book and staying with me through its rough times. xoxo
“Would it be a surprise if I told you?” He teased, pulling some stubborn strands of her hair away from her face and feeling up the soft skin of her face with his long thin fingers.“Don’t you think this is too much?” She asked, staring in the distance, her feelings overwhelming her. “It’s too much for me.”“I don’t think it’s enough.” He answered, and Crystal looked around once more. “Not enough?” she asked herself internally, what did he mean by it isn’t enough? She pinched the insides of her palms, hoping she would wake up from the unreal dream.“You deserve to have this and more. This is not enough for someone like you.”“But why?” it was still unbelievable. This building was worth millions, yet she couldn’t understand why Kayden thought she was worthy to have something of the sort. “I don’t know how to pay Mrs. Darling back, nor do I know how did I ever deserve to get such a gift?”“You don’t have to pay her back, however, you can also pay her back by doing exceptionally good in
Kayden glanced at Crystal who was staring outside the window with a rather unhappy look on her face, he was concerned because she had not spoken a word to him since the beginning of the ride, and he couldn’t help but feel that she was either angry or sad.“What’s making the birthday girl so sad?” He quizzed with a teasing smile as he controlled the steering wheel professionally, but Crystal didn’t glance back at him as much, which was even more suspicious.“It’s nothing.” She muttered and even after some seconds passed, she was still staring outside, yeah, she was mad at him, but what did he do? He had no clue what he had done wrong. Is she mad he was celebrating her birthday?That didn’t seem to be the case, she was just fine a few seconds ago, what could be the problem? He glanced back at her worriedly. “Did I do something wrong?” He guessed but she didn’t reply to him. “Crystal?”“No, you didn’t,” her response resembled that of a doll with missing batteries and Kayden’s eyebrows
"Are we not going to work?" Crystal asked as she climbed the stairs and headed towards the dining area. She noticed that Kayden, who was usually dressed by this time, was sitting at the dining table in his pajamas, drinking his morning coffee. Crystal glanced at her wristwatch and realized that it was way past their usual resumption time. She quickly opened her calendar app to confirm that today was not a weekend or a public holiday.They were already late, because even though she tried to get him out of bed, he wanted to cuddle a bit more, and she also couldn’t resist his charms.Instead of their usual breakfast foods, Petra and the other maids arranged the table with sweets, scones, and a baked turkey.“What?” she asked curiously. “Is this for Thanksgiving or something?”Crystal sat down on the chair next to Kayden. “Do you not know what day today is?” Petra asked, taking the words right out of Kayden’s mouth.“No, is something going on today?” She asked him curiously, and Kayden c
The sounds of birds chirping filled Crystal’s ears, she turned to the other side of the bed, her hands instinctively reaching for the pillows to block her ears; she turned away again, and this time it was the sunlight that was in her sight, she picked the other pillow to shield her eyes.Suddenly, she was pulled against a sturdy chest, the skin of which was smooth and enticing. She snuggled closer to him, relishing in the comfort from the heat his body radiated.It felt like she was floating on a cloud, she opened one of her eyes to observe his beautiful face, Kayden’s eyes were closed as he slept peacefully, and for a moment she wished time stopped so she could remain like this forever.It was peaceful.“I can’t sleep properly if you keep fiddling about the bed.” He murmured against her ears, smoldering her cheeks with kisses even though he was still half asleep.“I think it's morning though.” She noticed returning the small kisses to him as well, placing her head against his chest a
“I told you I am fine.” Sebastian scolded Lorenza, his mother because she had been complaining about his health ever since she got to the hospital. She cried about thirty minutes before he was able to convince her that he wasn’t going to die.“What do you think I am going to do if you had died?” The door opened and Crystal ambled inside with a tray of food in her hands, for the three days he had been here, Crystal hadn’t left the hospital. “How do you think I will survive?”“Mom, I told you that I wouldn’t die from such a shallow stab wound… It would be laughable.” Sebastian muttered and Crystal scrunched up her nose in disgust, as she neared the bed.“I told you not to speak like that again.” Crystal scolded glaring down at him, he used the same words Kayden used when she was worried about him. “What part of your death would be comical to us?”“I am pretty sure some people would find it funny, especially Kayden.” Sebastian pouted “That’s no way a man should die.” Lorenza rolle
Crystal’s eyes fluttered open when she heard a pained growl that came from Jake, when her eyes opened, he was on the ground, with Sebastian’s heavy boots placed against Jake’s head.“Crystal!” She turned in the other direction, and she saw Kayden heading toward her in fast strides, he pulled her as he got down on one knee and his silver eyes narrowed when he noticed her busted lips and swollen eyes. He reached for her face and caressed her in his palms, she felt fresh tears well up in her eyes, and his frown deepened when he noticed the narrow cut on her neck, it was terrible, even though shallow.Kayden didn’t want to imagine what would have happened to her if they got there any second later, the bastard had a knife to her delicate throat, as though she was a piece of vegetable, why would someone be so evil?“I-I’m sorry,” she whispered and his frown deepened, for what reason is she apologizing? “Kayden…” She reached for him and pulled him into a hug, he noticed that she was tre
Trigger WarningThis chapter contains some violence, please read it at your discretion.Crystal thought to herself, she had to clarify the misunderstanding, probably this anonymous sender was planning to send those gifts to someone else and there must have been a mix-up in the addresses… She wasn’t close with any middle-aged man, so why did he keep sending her letters and gifts? She was only lucky Kayden had moved her out of his office, he would be so worried by now, that’s why she would meet with this old man and tell him to stop. She was able to get out of the company and proceed to the parking lot without being noticed by anyone; at least not anyone close enough to follow her.She stood out in the open, her eyes met by the very bright lights of the underground parking lots, that almost blinded her. She stood there rigidly in one spot for about a minute or two, unsure of what to do or where to go, and there was no one in sight too.The letter didn’t give much details, it simpl
Sunlight creeps into the bedroom from the slightly opened blinds in the room, warming up Crystal’s face, she stirred being disturbed by the light. She felt something heavy on her waist and she glanced up to be met by a pair of silver eyes staring intently at her.“Hic…” she gasped softly when she realized she had been sleeping against Kayden’s chest, she could hear his heart beating in slow steady rhythms, he pulled her closer with a smug satisfaction on his face, his heavy arms on her back.“Good morning,” He murmured his voice still husky with sleep, Crystal flushed red from his seductive bedroom voice, and unable to form words, she nodded at him. “Did you sleep well?”“Y-yes,” she answered with a slight tremble in her voice, it was unbelievable, who would have thought that one day she and Kayden; would be lying down in her bed, naked and tangled underneath the sheets? “How long have you been awake?”“For a while now,” He confessed and he reached to feel the soft skin of her fac