Marrying Dante became the worse regret of my life. It was a horrible experience in the sense that not only was I married to a man that i was not in love with. I was also married to a man that was unbothered about me. Dante never cared about me, he never tried to get along with him. All he cared about was business.Dante usually left the house from morning and returned late at night. A few times, I held out hope that Dante and I would get along well, maybe we would get to know each other too but it was quite the opposite. Dante cared less.I was left all alone in this mansion during the day and my father had broken his promise, I was not allowed to go to college at all. I remained in the house, not even Alejandra nor my father had visited me for once. I felt like a captive, was that not what I was?I tried to reach my boyfriend, or should I say my ex boyfriend?. Anyways, I had tried to reach Dave a few times but he never picked my call for once. My guess was that he had seen the news a
I sighed heavily as the black SUV car pulled into a stop in front of our mansion. My bodyguard and personal butler, Mr Fernando hurried from the car just to open the door for me to step out.I flashed him a grateful smile as I slowly made my way into the large compound, my Louis Vuitton bag clutched tight my hands. I paused to halt in my steps, y eyes scanned the environment and I noticed something different, there was a red convertible parked amongst our other luxurious cars.This red convertible did not belong to us and I knew father's taste in cars, it was nothing close to this. I pointed at the car and questioned Fernando. "Did father get a new car?" I paused to suck in my teeth. "I know dad does not like cars like this."Fernando smiled and shook his head in disagreement. "The car belongs to a visitor of your father." He said. Visitor? That was another strange thing that made me feel suspicious, Dad never brought visitors home. He always treated them somewhere about because Dad w
"Tonight?" Dante beat me to it. His eyes widened in shock and his jaw dropped at the news that my father had just blurted out. What did he mean by tonight? Was i supposed to just suddenly move into the house of a man I knew nothing about asides his ruthlessness and lack of empathy?The thought alone scared me, I felt the hairs on my skin rise as I imagined living a life with Dante."Yes, tonight. I agree with Carlos. It would be best for you two to move in together immediately. After all, it makes things a lot more easier for the both of you to get to know each other better before the marriage. That way you both would know how to act well in front of the public." Dante's father said, he nodded his head in agreement.I watched how Dante's poker face turned to an angry one. He gritted his teeth and a scowl grew on his face. He hated the idea, not even as much as I did."Okay then, we will be on our way to handle other businesses. It was a nice time with you Carlos and it was lovely meet
I fastened the zipper of my black hoodie as I casted a glance at the luggages in front of me. I sighed heavily and paused to run a hand through my hair in frustration. Was i making the right choice here? I was going to pass the night at my boyfriend's place but I was definitely not going to live Dave forever.I needed a plan, I had enough money that would last me for a while but I also had a feeling that if I ended up successfully escaping, dad would still figure out a way to find me, his influence could make him achieve literally anything he set his mind to.There was no going back though. I had to do this and it was either now or never. Without wasting any-more time, I dragged my luggages out of my room and made my way into the dark hallways. Of course, guards were always lurking the premises of the mansion, 2-4-7.I needed to find a distraction, something that would get them away from the gate. I screamed loudly in distress, very loud enough for the guards to have heard me. I heard
I watched her lay on the bed besides me, her eyes were shut close and her hands remained on my chest. For some weird reason, my heart raced extremely fast at the feeling of her tiny hands on my bare skin. I had lied to her yesterday, saying she was not my type was a complete lie.Emily was beautiful. Very beautiful, she had long dark hair that fell across her shoulders, her piercing green eyes were intimidating and her lips looked extremely kissable. When I had forced that kiss on her, I felt sparks fly like electricity. I felt butterflies too and I had not felt that way in a long while.Emily was endowed too. She had a curvy figure that made me want to always hold her waist. Her fierce spirit was admirable too. Everything about Emily was beautiful. I knew her even before our marriage and I had always admired her.She slowly fluttered her eyes open, we locked gaze for a brief moment before she hastily took her hand off my chest. Emily looked down at herself and I saw her expression ch
My heart skipped a bit once I realised that it was Dave speaking on the phone. My eyes went up to Dante briefly and I but my lips.“Why are you calling me now?” I spoke to Dave on the phone despite Dante standing in front of me.His eyes turned cold as if he could tell who I was speaking to on the phone.“You didn't feel the need to tell me that you were getting married Emily and you are asking why I am calling you?!” he raised his voice on the call and I moved the phone away from my ear.“Who the fuck is that?” Dante was about to collect my phone but I moved away.“Why will you want to know that? We aren't the regular husband and wives so don't act lovey dovey with me right now.” I told him and saw a brief look of hurt on his face.“Can I ask this call first before we speak?” he didn't make a move to leave the room.“Please,” I added and he left me alone with a bang on my door.“Is that the man you married? Are you sure you aren't getting abused in there?” Dave spoke and my eyes wide
Immediately I left the room in anger, and I regretted it. Maybe I shouldn't have hit the door as hard as that and why was I even pissed about who she was on the call with?She didn't let me even take a peek. “What's troubling you? You might fall soon.” my mum said behind me and that's when I realized that I was at the top of the stairs.“Oh, it's nothing. I completely zoned out. How is dad?” He was probably in his office right now.“He left earlier back to the house. I don’t think Emily is comfortable with me being here.” She added and I frowned.“Are you sure? You both seem to be avoiding each other pretty well.” She hit my arm and laughed. “We spoke today when she was in the living room and she doesn’t look happy at all Dante.”“I know.”“She is your wife. Do something about it then.”“It's because of me that she isn't even happy mama. You know that already. She was forced into this. We were. She had her life which was cut short and now she is stuck here.”“The girl was in college
He looked like he didn’t want to and I regretted saying it immediately.“It’s fine if you don’t want to. I can go myself.” I quickly said and he frowned.“Hell no. How can I let you go alone? What time is it?”“It should be starting from 1 pm.”“Alright then. We will leave by 2.” A smile came up to my lips and I nodded slowly. He left my room and I shrugged off the odd feeling in my stomach.“What’s going on with you Emily?” I asked myself and laughed again. Wasn’t I the one just bawling my eyes out because of Dave?I went straight to bed after that.The next morning, I was woken up by a knock on my door. “Come in. Who is that?” I asked in a sleepy voice and a maid stepped inside with a tray of my breakfast.“Mr Dante asked me to bring it to you. He also said it's almost 12 and you wouldn’t want to miss what you asked him of yesterday.” She said and placed the breakfast on the table.I looked at the time on my phone and screamed. I slept in so long.“Thank you….”“Nika.” She said her
The next morning, I got up early and took my shower then went downstairs for breakfast. Dad and Andra were already eating theirs.“Good morning dad.” I said to him and he nodded his head. He had food in his mouth.“How was your night sweetie?” Maria came to me and asked before giving me my plate of food.“I couldn't sleep much. I already got used to sleeping in Dante’s house.” I chuckled and saw from the corner of eyes that Alejandra rolled her eyes.The doorbell to the house rang and I looked up. Dante wasn't supposed to come until 9:00am and it will still 8:00am. I wondered who it was.“Let me get the door.” Maria announced and walked towards it.“Are you expecting any visitor?” Dad asked Andra and I and we shook our head.“Dante is meant to pick me up so he might have come early.” I told him and he looked nervous.He knew how to talk when Dante wasn’t there. That made me almost laugh. Just as I thought, Dante walked into the house and he was looking so good.I almost felt a drool l
I reacted quickly and slapped her twice on the same spot on her cheeks. “How dare you!” I shouted at her and her hands were still at the spot I slapped her.“You keep crossing your limits. You are fabricating lies against Alvardo just to ruin my happiness. Do you hate me that much?” we were both screaming at each other faces at this point.I heard the scurrying of footsteps but we ignored it and continued shouting at eachother.“You aren't the best sister but I can't let you disgrace yourself like this hence the warning. I saw him making out with a girl in college today and you are just going to ignore that and marry him?”“Yes. That's because you are lying. Whatever I do is none of your business so don't come here trying to play a big sister when you were never one to me.” she shouted and then shut the door on my face.I saw my dad and Maria walking fast towards me and my heart started thumping. He was going to blame me for sure.“What are you doing here?” he asked right away and loo
I was shocked and knocked on the door again. Maria and I were quite close since we were children. She was like a mother to me after mum passed way but I haven't reached out to her since I got married.She opened the door again but with a deep frown. “Who are you?” she asked me.“Maria.” I gave her my baby eyes that she couldn't resist ever since I was a child.“Don't you dare play that move on me child.” she scolded me but then pulled me into a hug afterwards.“I am sorry.” I said on her shoulders.“Your forot this old woman after getting married. It isn't fair.” she said and I hugged her again.“Come one in. You look skinny. What have they been feeding you oh my gosh.” she pulled me in by my wrist and shut the door.“I always look skinny to you whenever we meet after a long time.” I laughed and took a sit by the kitchen stool.“Let me get you something to eat.”“I have missed your meals a lot. It's been hard to shift to a new life.” I told her and she smiled.“That's how it always is
“What the fuck is going on right now.” I said loudly and Ethan looked at me in confusion.“Don't tell me that's the man your sister is currently engaged to. Wasn't it just yesterday that he proposed to her?” he asked me and I face palmed myself.I told Alejandra but she wouldn't believe me. She was in love after all. “Let’s take a picture for evidence then.” he shook me to bring me out of my thoughts.I was searching for my phone in my bag and when I found it, Matilda and Alvardo were already done shoving their faces in eachother’s throat.“There is no way in hell she is going to believe me if I don't bring evidence.” I said to him and he shook his head.“I mean she is just twenty. What is she doing engaged?” he asked me and I laughed.“You know how spoilt she is. She thinks no one has a say in her life. She just started dating him last month and a ring already. I knew it was just not normal.”“Come on lets head to class.” he grabbed arm and we walked to class.“How about Bella and Ma
I went back to my room after the dinner and got a call from Alejandra. I was hesitant to pick it but I eventually did and she sounded happy.“I have great news.” she said and I waited to hear it.“You just called me randomly. Let's hear it.” I told her and then she sent me pictures. She was proposed to few hours ago. I was happy for her but didn't she just start dating this man last month?It was barely two months and the man is convinced that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her?“That's great. I am happy for you Alejandra but didn't you two just started dating last month?” I asked her to be sure.“Yes and so? Is that a problem?” she sounded annoyed.“And you are sure that you want to spend the rest of your life with him? Is he even sure about you?” I asked her. I needed to be straight forward with her because she was such a dummy when it comes to love matters. “You are in no place to question me when you got married to a man that doesn't even love you.” she attacked me l
A smile crept to my face but at first I thought I heard wrongly but he repeated it again. I thought he left his business trip.“I tried your tip on getting her gifts but I don't think she is moved by those kind of things. Also checking up on her doesn't work. She seemed annoyed by my presence.” he continued talking.They were sitted by the dining and probably thought that I was sleeping in my room.I walked back toy room making sure not to make any noise that could announce my presence. After closing the door to my room, I couldn't help but smiled broadly.I was shocked first of all at how greatly he said he felt attracted to me. I couldn't help but feel butterflies in my stomach at the thought.I felt restless while sitting on the bed. I felt like he was going to come any moment and I don't want to make it obvious that I listened to their conversation.I tried making myself busy by watching some Netflix on my computer but my door was knocked the next minute and my heart started pumpi
He looked surprised when I said that and I also suprised myself because I used my hand to close my mouth the next minute.“Are you scared of staying alone in the house? Nika is here with the two maids, drivers, gatemen, security guards, gardener and my parents are still here too.” he listed them out for me and I felt stupid.“Thats right. You can go.” I turned away and continued what I was doing while he watched me sitting on my bed.“I need to bathe.” I told him and he shrugged.“You need to leave the room.” I spelt it out.“I have seen you all and you are going naked inside the bathroom and not here right?”“It was just once. Stop saying it every time.” I facepalmed myself and he laughed.“If you want it to happen multiple times then let me know. Just say so.”“You are crazy.” I threw a sheet mask on his face and ran inside the bathroom.I took a long time in there so he would get bored and leave but after showering I realised that I forgot my towel. “Dante?” I called him name but
Ethan was already crying hysterically but I had a feeling it was going to be some good news. She touched my hand for fuck sake. She had to be alive.“Where is her guardian?” the doctor asked and Ethan stood up from the floor and went to him.“Okay I have both good and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?” the doctor asked Ethan.“The bad news please.” I replied for him and the doctor looked at me before speaking.“She has to go through another round of chemotherapy to make sure there aren't any traces of cancer in her anymore.” he said and we all nodded.“The good news is that she gained consciousness.” he finally broke a smile and Ethan shouted for joy. He fell to the ground in relief and we all laughed.Bella and Mabel also looked so relieved. “You can see her now. She wants to see you.” he said to Ethan and the other nurses came out of the room and they all left.“You freaked out Ethan. Almost gave me a heart attack.” I hit Ethan’s arm and he laughed.“I thought she was go
“You just interrupted my class. What do you want?” the lecturer asked the delivery man holding the bouquet and he looked at her in an apologetic manner.“I can wait until the class is over. Sorry for the disturbance.” he left before she could speak.The rest of the class passed by swiftly and we all made our way out of the hall to the next class.I was done for the day anyway so I didn't have to go with them. “Are you Mrs Dante?” someone said behind me and I jumped out of fright.“Sorry. I didn't mean to startle you.” he was the same delivery man who came to the lecture hall earlier.I noticed that I was getting a lot of states and the man brought the bouquet and handed it to me.“You have to sign here.” he brought out a notepad and I did so. “I haven't answered if I am Mrs Dante or not.” I mumbled.“You are. You fit the description he gave me. You are so lucky ma’am. Your husband loves you a lot.” he smiled and left.“Dante.” I groaned inside of me and wanted the ground to open up an