Hang On

Cherry had been in her room all day, she had been sulking in the room due to the fake marriage that her parents had arranged for her but she knew that she could not escape the marriage, after all, this had been her destiny all her life.

She was getting married to Damien Winston, but definitely not for love. Her parents did not care about her loving him or not too, she had a task to fulfill in the home of Damien Winston, she was to get rid of him one way or the other once she had become his bride.

She either had to kill him directly, paving way for his elder brother to get the position of the CEO or she had to figure out a way to get him to transfer his shares to her family.

In whatever way, she was marrying him to ruin him.

"Cherry" She heard the voice of her maid who was more like a female bodyguard to her, Diana.

Cherry however gave no response to the calls from Diana.

Even though she had been informed about this marriage three years ago by her father, and she had been preparing for it but now that it was close to happening, she felt weirdly uncomfortable.

"Cherry" she heard the deep voice of her father come from the door and she sighed softly.

"Father" she called in response and got out of bed to open the door for him to step in.

She loved her father a lot and her mother? Well, she had none but she had a step mother and a step sister.

She unlocked the door and let her father in.

"How are you feeling? Gosh! You look so weak and frail" her father was clearly worried about her health.

Cherry had not had a thing to eat or drink since the day before.

"She has not eaten anything for a day now" her body guard like maid informed her father.

"And you have been watching her?! Go and get her something to eat right now!" He ordered and she scurried out leaving just Cherry and her father in the room.

"Cherry" her father called softly, placing her hands in his.

"We have talked about this over and over again, I do not think there is reason for us to talk about it again. The Winston family is the richest in the city, we are the third richest but you know that..."

"Being anything apart from the best is never an option" Cherry completed the words of her father.

"You are so smart! We can only reach the top through the Winston's family and I know all that I have done to make sure that this marriage works out, you have to make Damien fall for you. I know how wise you are, Cherry, that is why I trust you to know how to get things through with Damien Winston. I know you are going to find a way to get him to transfer some of his shares to us" he replied.

"But what about killing him?" Cherry asked.

"You will kill him only when we have exhausted all of our options."

"I have an idea... Once you get there, try to find any sort of dirt on him, if you are able to find something on him, it would definitely make things easier for all of us" he replied her.

"I will do that, dad" Cherry replied.

"That's what I want to hear from you" he gave her a smile.

"I will go take a bath" Cherry got up from her bed.

"I would take my leave then" Her father exited the room, giving her the needed privacy.

She undressed, tied a towel around her chest and stepped into the bathroom, she decided to make use of the bathtub but just as she stepped into it, she slipped into the soapy water and hit her head against it, slipping into a state of unconsciousness immediately.

*

Lucienne had a pretty bad day at work, she had issues with a customer who would not stop ordering her around and screaming out for her.

It had taken a lot in her not to talk back at him, perhaps if she had gotten a message from Winston's Corporations, she would have screamed back at him.

"Goodbye" she gave a small bow and waved at her boss as she left for the day.

It was pretty late but it was still yet raining, she made use of the umbrella the strange man had given her that morning and began to find her way back home.

She had eaten at the restaurant and so was just going home to sleep.

She was about few minutes away from her street when she saw a familiar person across.

She panicked.

It was Lucas, her ex boyfriend and he was walking the street with another girl.

She felt her heart tighten and clench in pains. She had wasted six months loving the wrong person.

She looked towards him, perhaps to get a better view of the girl he was walking with but he suddenly looked towards her side. Lucienne panicked once more and sought to find a way to escape from him, she did not want him to see her, she did not want to see the smirk on his face as he told her how ugly and plain she was, she didn't want him to see the tears in her eyes.

She began to run through the streets, taking giant leaps until she stepped into a puddle... No, it was not a puddle, it was a sewage hole that had been left open in the rain.

With a loud scream, she slipped into it and the umbrella covered the sewage.

She struggled, holding onto the edge of the sewage hole tightly till she could struggle no more.

A tear slid down her eyes and her eyes closed as she slipped into unconsciousness.

*

Damien parked his car and stepped out of the his car. He definitely would not have alighted from the car but his umbrella had caught his attention.

He had given it to a lady at Creamy Restaurant that morning. Moving closer to the umbrella, he picked it up and ran his fingers over the words... WD, Winston Damien.

That was when he noticed human fingers holding tightly onto the edge of the sewage hole.

His brows furrowed but then he reached out and with quite a lot of effort, he pulled out the lady from the sewage.

"Hey!! Wake up!" He shook her body but there was no movement.

"Lucienne!" He slapped her cheeks, panicking when he saw her face.

With the look on his face, he definitely knew Lucienne and with that worried look that crossed his face, she definitely was special to him.

He carried her in his arms immediately and rushed her into his car, leaving the umbrella behind in his hurry to get her to the hospital.

"Lucienne, hang on please."