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Aria’s P.o.v“This is not a game, Aria. Everyone that stays around me dies.” That was the first time I saw fear and concern in Vaughn’s eyes. “But I have nowhere else that is saver for me than here. It’s high time you start making structures that ensure the people around you do not die and I’m going nowhere.” I could see the expression on Vaughn’s face become less angry as I told him what I felt could resolve his problem. Vaughn turned to me and leaned in. “Charlotte was killed at the meeting.” I could see him battle the pain he felt within. His eyes became red the moment he said that to me. “I told her to leave but she refused. I know it was greed that brought her there but she didn’t deserve to die like that. She was the one person I trusted and could lean on after I lost my father.”I never knew a time would come when I would see a great tough man like Vaughn express so much pain. It seemed as though he wanted to tear it apart even though he wasn’t yelling. At that moment, I bega
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Aria’s P.o.vMaybe I took a little more time than expected to dress because I was happy that Vaughn was willing to go out with me. It was going to be our first time going out as a couple. I was anxious about if he would like the place o if he wouldn’t but I believed he should.I got back downstairs and ran out with so much enthusiasm. I should have noticed that there were very few guards in the living room as I ran down the stairs but I didn’t think much about it because I felt they must have gone out when they saw that Vaughn was dressed like he was leaving for somewhere.I walked out of the living room and it was clear that no one was outside. I could not find Vaughn’s vehicle, and neither did I see his guards. I felt so cold from within.In disbelief that Vaughn had left home, I returned to his room to check for him. “Vaughn, Vaughn…” I yelled just before I got there but there was no response. His room was cleared and cleaned as though I had not spoken to him in that same room minu
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Aria's P.o.v“Aria Vaughn Slade, the real Mrs Slade.” Mrs Slade seemed to be excited to hear from me. Her loud and sharp voice pierced my eardrums as she spoke.“I'm doing well ma. I think.”She hummed after I said that and asked, “Is Vaughn around? Had he done something you don't like?”I turned to Sandra who stood by the door, watched everything I was doing, and whispered, “Excuse me.”I let Sandra walk out of the door before I continued my conversation with Mrs Slade. I knew Sandra could not hurt me but I just did not want to keep looking vulnerable in front of her.“He told me he had a bad day at the meeting and I asked him if he would like to go out, so I could cheer him up, which he agreed to. I went to get dressed but before I returned, I was told that he left for an emergency.” Mrs Slade was quiet as I spoke so I continued, “I just felt bad because I thought he could have told me and left. I just returned to the same room and it was as though he vanished with his guards. He h
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Aria's P.o.v“Don't get ahead of yourself. This is just a movie.” Rose stood up and was ready to leave.“It's me, Aria. Aria Slade.” I held her arm as she stood up so she didn't walk out on me before I got the chance to properly introduce myself to her. She looked down at me, perplexed, then slowly sat back on her seat.“Aria, what on earth are you doing all by yourself, seeing a movie by this time of the night? Is Vaughn aware of this?” She seemed worried for me as if I was in the wrong place.“Why? Is there a problem with me being here? Vaughn left home yesterday, I do not know where he went or why he wasn't home but I'm not here alone. I don't think I'm allowed to be alone.” I looked at her in the face and responded.She hugged me and said, “You need to leave right now. It's not safe for you to be here or anywhere outside the vicinity of your house, especially when Vaughn is not around to protect you.” Roseline’s words began to frighten me as I felt my life must be in some sort of
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Aria’s P.o.vI stared at the meal for a while then stood up. I had no appetite for the meal and I did not feel like having anything even though it had a lovely aroma.I moved away from the chair and headed in the direction of the stairs.“Come back to the dining room and eat your meal. You don't walk out on me when I instruct you on something.”My heart shook in fear as I heard him say that. Truly, I knew that something had changed about him. I didn’t want to piss him further so I walked back to the chair, sat down, and ate my meal.Before I was done with the meal, Vaughn had gotten up from the chair and walked to the room. Immediately he left, I sighed in relief and stopped eating the potato porridge. That was the first time a meal was sweet but I still didn’t enjoy having to eat it.I instructed Sandra to call one of the maids so she could clear the table, and then I walked up to the room. I was unsure of what was going to happen and I could not understand why he suddenly decided to
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Aria's P.o.vI sat still and tried to retrace all I had said or an action I must have taken that was making Vaughn act that cold to me.I knew I couldn't complain because truly I had decided to stay here. I was ready to see it through as well but I wasn't sure if I could really handle things the way I thought I would.I walked up to the room and sat at Vaughn's drawing table, with my phone in hand. I searched on Google, “Why did my husband suddenly change his behavior towards me and how can I correct it?” it brought out several reasons and ideas I could use to correct them but I didn't think they were going to work on Vaughn. Something else must have been the matter with him.I put down the phone and jumped into the bed. “I wish I could see my sister. I miss my mum, I miss my old life, aside…” I scoffed when I remembered Liam. I wondered how he must have been doing so I picked up my phone and began to check his profile on Instagram, I saw that nothing about him had changed and he had
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Aria’s P.o.vThe more I yelled, the harder Vaughn thrusted. It felt as though he was angry at something and I was paying for it because I didn’t feel like the sex we had was of love. I cried out to him to stop that he would hurt me but he didn’t stop. He just kept on like I was just a toy.Moments later he stopped. He looked at me in the face and saw me crying, I guessed that was when he realized that he had done it too much. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do it that hard.” I felt disgusted to look at him in the face. I covered up myself with the bed cover and lay on the bed, crying. I had asked for it and I had seen the outcome of it. As I lay on his bed, I realized that I was bleeding and the blood had filled the bedcover I lay on. I felt so embarrassed especially because I thought that if he found out he might insult me that I had messed up his bed. I just laid on it till I was ready to get up later on.When I tried to stand up from the bed, I felt a sharp pain and I couldn’t close
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Aria’s P.o.vI couldn’t say the specific reason why but whatever good Vaughn was trying to do for me got me nauseated as days went by. Maybe it was because he never did them to me directly. He always sent his guards or Sandra to me to treat me nicely but was distant from me. He didn’t sleep in the house often and neither did he act like I was ever present with him.I woke up one bright Sunday morning and decided I wasn’t going to allow Vaughn to continue treating me the way he did so I decided to go against his will and I moved out of his room. He hadn’t been home two days prior so I didn’t think it mattered much to him what room I slept in.“Mrs Slade, I do not think this is a good idea. You know Mr Slade will be upset when he finds out that you did something against his will. I know these past days haven’t been the best for you but please I wish you could consider waiting for him and discussing it with him before you make this decision by yourself ma.” Sandra pleaded with me as she
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Aria’s P.o.vI didn't understand why Vaughn wouldn't let me be about what happened in the room I stayed in. I wondered why he cared and I wasn't even interested in knowing anymore because I knew that subsequently, he would go back to his act of avoiding me and treating me like I was invisible.“Stop walking away when I'm speaking to you.” He stopped on the stairs and hissed again. Vivian and Mrs Slade were in the parlor and I didn't know why Vaughn decided to cause a scene in their presence. It was clear to me that he didn't like being ignored but he could do it to me privately.I stood still after what he said, then he walked up to me and took my hand. He dragged me under the stairs and into a smaller room underneath. I never knew there was a room under the stairs.We got into the room and he locked the doors behind us. “Tell me, did he touch you?” Vaughn forced me to sit on a chair. It looked old-fashioned but I knew it was very expensive to get such old household furniture. The c
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Aria’s P.o.v“Liam! Leave me the fuck alone!” I was tired of the fact that he wouldn’t just grow up and think of how he would be a good man. Maybe he thought I was as dumb as he was and I would believe his lies. “I do not love you anymore and this is not a place to throw your words around like you’re unmannered. If Vaughn finds out about this, forget it, you’re gone”Liam scoffed. “Look Vaughn is not the one you’re supposed to marry and he isn’t interested in you as well. Can’t you see it in the way he treats you? This wedding is just for a short period and when that period is over, he will leave you with nothing.”The reality that what Liam said might be true hit me because I had not read the terms and conditions on which I got married to Vaughn. My mum and dad did and they summarized it to me. They told me I had nothing to worry about but what if it was true that I had limited time to spend with Vaughn? I paced around in the room and began to think about what Liam had said and I kn
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Aria's P.o.vSandra gazed at me like I had asked her to do something that seemed impossible to her. She walked over to the chair that was in the room and sat on it slowly. “You want me to find your sister? But she might not even be in this country.”I walked over to her and stood in front of her. “If she is no longer in this country, it's fine by me but if she is still here, I need to know where she is. I feel like there are many things I'm supposed to be looking for answers to and until I begin to make moves to find them, I will never find them.”I knew that was going to be a hard task for Sandra but I felt she could still do something about it and it could lead me somewhere. If my sister was truly in my city or the country, then maybe she knew some answers to my questions.From that moment, I wondered why my sister chose to run away in the first place. I knew she was a strong person, even stronger than I was, so there was no way she just ran away because of Vaughn's history of bein
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Aria's P.o.v.I opened one of the cupboards and took out the file from a bag that was hidden at the edge, inside the cupboard. Sandra had told me the specific place she kept it in for me.I took out the file from the bag and began to flip through the pages of the file. I could see several pictures of Vaughn and Rachel, but more than just seeing Vaughn and Rachel, I noticed that Liam was also in almost all the pictures. It was then and there that I knew that Liam was not just an outsider who maybe stumbled on something that was as going on between Vaughn and Rachel as I had thought but the three of them were working together on something.I couldn't believe that I had truly behaved irrationally because I knew I had heard Liam's voice but I didn't know why I just felt something was going on with Vaughn and Rachel alone. I didn't even think about what Liam had said that night when I saw them, my mind was just fixed on the hate I had for Rachel and my insecurities with Vaughn.I knew I ha
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Aria's P.o.vThe following morning, I woke up and walked out of my room to see Rachel and her bags in front of her room as she was speaking with Vaughn.I had had a rethink over the night about how I spoke to her and I was planning to apologize to her, then I saw the both of them talking in front of the room where she stayed.“What exactly is going on between those two?” I began to question myself. I hated how close they were seeing and I knew anything that could make the both of them that close to one another could not be for a good reason even though Rachel was pretending to be a changed person.“Good morning, Vaughn.” I walked over to them and greeted Vaughn, who did not think it was necessary to answer my greetings. Then I turned to Rachel and stretched forth my arms to her for a handshake. “I know I was a little too much last night. I didn't have to speak to you that way and I wasn't intending to. Take care of yourself and please stay away from my husband from now.” I wore a smil
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Aria's P.o.vI heard whispers as I looked over the stairs to see who it was. I wondered why of all places Liam and Rachel could choose to be promiscuous, they chose under the stairs.I walked down the stairs gently because I didn't want them to know that someone was approaching them so I could see whatever it was that they were doing.“I don't want Aria finding out about any of this. I need you both to be as discreet as possible. Can you do that for me?” I had not seen them but I had gotten down and I was very close to where they stood. I knew without a doubt that the person's voice I had heard was Vaughn's. My heart shook because I heard Rachel's voice also as she whispered. Several thoughts ran through my mind and I wondered if Rachel had finally gotten a way to break into Vaughn's and I’s relationship. I couldn't believe she could go as far as hurt me even in my matrimonial home. That felt too much for me to bear. I stood for a while like a raging lion. My hands shivered and I he
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Aria's P.o.vI felt like I was drowning as I sat on my bed and wailed. I didn't think I deserved to be treated as badly as Vaughn was treating me. I wished how I felt within me didn't matter so much to me.I had buried my face into my hands as I wailed. I didn't notice when Mrs Slade walked into the room until I felt a presence around me and finally, her hand wrapped over my shoulders. She squeezed me in and I didn't know why she liked me so much because she was always kind to me.“Don't cry about this. You know whatever Vaughn is saying shouldn't get to you anymore at this stage. You really shouldn't have brought up this matter with him, you know he has a lot on his mind and he behaved just as expected. Maybe you could have used a different approach to get your message across to him.”I raised my head and looked at her. I thought she was supposed to be on my side. I wondered why she was supporting Vaughn's terrible behavior.“I know you have a lot to say from within and there's proba
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Aria's P.o.vLiam was not pleased with how Mrs Slade yelled at him. I wasn't sure the both of them had a good relationship between themselves. Mrs Slade always complained about whatever he did.“Grandma!” Liam said intentionally to Mrs Slade to piss her off. “Can't I speak to a friend of mine who was forced to become your son's wife anymore?”Liam was rude to Mrs Slade and she didn't take it well with him either. I for one wasn't interested in anything that was going on between them so I stood up and walked my way out of them.“Aria Darling, where are you going to?” Mrs Slade turned to me. I had hoped that she wouldn't see me as I walked off because I just wanted to be away from them and all the drama that their family caused me. I was more bothered about Vaughn not being home by that time. I didn't think thought whatever fight was going on between them or cared about who was right or wrong.“I just want to lie in bed. My head aches. I think it must be the noise from last night.” I he
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Aria's P.o.vI could not stop myself as I was all out to make sure that I gave Vaughn the best head he had received. He pushed off my head after his cock got so thick and he pushed me onto the bed.I opened my thigh for him and my heart raced faster. I couldn't breathe with my mouth any longer, I opened my mouth as I waited for him to dig into me. Vaughn got to the bed and rolled me to be on top of him so I could initiate the dig myself. I was so excited but I didn't have the time to jubilate so I slowly sat on his dick and it slid into me in a painful sweet manner. I loved it. I could feel it fully in unlike whenever he was the one on me.He held on to my boobs rubbing them and then he placed his hands on my butt when I began to do in faster. Drops of sweat from my body filled his already wet skin and it began to make a flap sound.“Harder, faster…” Vaughn said in an audible murmur and I rolled on his dick then began to grind faster. I felt as though I was having the best experience
