“$10,000” Ariana’s eyes almost bulged out of its socket as she heard the figure he called. “What the hell?” She said
“I am joking, calm down. I will take any amount you pay me” He said watching her with amusement. “Oh, you must sure be a joker, what if I decide to pay you $100?” Ariana asked “We both know, you won’t what to do that, and I know you worth more than that” He answered. “Yes I am worth more than that, so how about we start from $4,000” She asked, wanting to read the man’s expression but he kept a blank expression. “We can work with that for now miss” Aiden said, his arms now crossed on his chest. “Okay, do we have a deal?” She asked, extending her hand forward for a handshake. He felt his eyes move from her face to her slender hand and then back to her face, “Deal” He said taking her hand into a handshake. His grip was strong but not strong enough to crush her hand, he was gentle in a way. She pulled away after she noticed they just stared at each other holding hands. “And there’s one rule I have amongst my staffs, keep personal things away from work” She said causing the man to nod in a agreement. “Where is the car key?” Aiden asked, looking at her. Placing the key from the table she tossed it towards him. “Lora will give you some documents to sign when you leave here, please ensure to sign them” She said looking at him. “Okay ma’am, I will see you later” With that, he stood up and walked out the office. The need to talk to someone just came to her and she immediately opened her laptop and FaceTimed her friend, after two rings she picked up, her blonde hair was messy as she appeared in front of the screen, she had a sleeveless blue shirt one and it was pretty obvious she had just woken up. “Ari, what the hell girl? It’s like 4am” April complained as she ran her hands in her hair to make it presentable. “So sorry for calling so early but it’s actually 10am here” Ariana said smiling “Yeah yeah, whatever. What’s up? You look happy, have you gotten yourself a sexy boyfriend?” She asked causing Ariana to roll her eyes. “God April, what is you and a sexy boyfriends? And no what will be doing with a sexy boyfriend? You know I have no time fo that” Ariana explained. “We need to take you to church on Sunday Ari, you have to be delivered, learn from me so find yourself a sexy boyfriend and keep him till you’re bored” April said proudly. “Do not let Scott here that, what do you mean by bored? You are married idiot it’s a life time argument” Ariana advised. “Coming from the unmarried marriage counselor, who can’t find herself a boyfriend soon.” April mocked. “Whatever April, by the way where is scott?” Ariana asked. “Scott had emergency call yesterday so he had to rush to the hospital and I have been alone since last night” She said faking a sad face. “Get out of here” They both laughed. “Please give Scott some breathing space, why don’t you go out? Shopping? Restaurant? Spa?” Ariana suggested. “Well, it’s still so early, I will think about it in the morning. So what’s up? How’s work?” April asked. “Work is all good, LA is boring as usual” Ariana said “Sweetheart, LA isn’t boring, you are boring. Wear a slutty dress, go to a 5 star club and shake some ass. Then you will thank me later” April said again proudly “How did you get married to Scott again?” Ariana asked and April laughed. “Just forget about that, you know I will never do,” “Yeah yeah, you know know what I am done with you, stay single for the rest of your life. But just know I will drag you face down on the floor when I see you” April threatened. “Then I will sue your ass, just try me” Ariana smiled. “Sweetheart, it seems you have forgotten i am a family full of lawyers and attorneys, so you don’t stand any chance” April smirked. “I am sorry your highness, forgive me poor ass” Ariana pleaded playfully. “You are forgiven, so what’s going on with you?” April asked. “Everything is going good, Dane left some days ago for personal business now I had to employ another one today” “ oh really? Poor Ari but tell me you didn’t hire an old looking butler as a driver” She asked her friend. “ No I didn’t, it’s actually a young man.” Ariana stayed with her fingers tapping the table “Now please tell me he is good looking,” April begged with her hands joined together. “Well, he is okay, not bad at all” Ariana said, with a smile. “How sad, but I can’t judge your ratings, I would have to see him for my self then I will conclude, because I know you been used to seeing boring men so you might not know what’s interesting” She winked at her friend. “Whatever April, I have a meeting in thirty minutes as dad’s office, I need to be on the way” Ariana announced “Alright sweetheart, I will call you later, it’s almost 5am. You owe me $10,000 for cutting my beauty sleep short” April frowned at her friend. “$10,000? You damned thief! Be quick with your honeymoon and get your pretty ass back to LA” Ariana said “Oh isn’t this lovely? You miss me? I miss you too sweetheart,” April smiled sweetly. “Of course I miss you, no one to help me cook now I have to go out and pay for food” “Not me thinking you genuinely miss me, but it’s because of my food. Go learn to cook idiot, have a lovely day. Bye.” April said blowing kisses to Ariana through the screeen. “Have a nice day April,” Ariana returned the kisses and ended the call, now she was feeling better , with that she gathered her things placing them in the bag at the walked outside her office.Her car was parked waiting for her at the front of the building, she walked elegantly and climbed into her car, her eyes met Aiden’s eyes from the side mirror. “Did you receive the location from Lora?” Ariana asked her new driver. “Yes ma’am” He answered, and the car zoomed off, in an hour time they got to their destination the drive was smooth, Ariana was impressed, he was indeed an experienced driver. Who was careful with traffic lights and speeding. A three story restaurant came in view as the car parked, it was one of her mother’s many restaurants. This particular restaurant was the most expensive because it dealt with international dishes, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Spanish. A 5 star restaurant with 5 star food. “Do you want me to wait for you here?” Aiden asked without looking at her. “Yes, I don’t have strength for father’s questions” She answered and climbed down the car. The security opened the door of the restaurant as sh
Ariana had got to her house and had freshened up, wearing a pair of her favorite blue pajamas. She sat down on her sofa facing the large window in her house. This was a very normal routine for her because she had nothing else to do, than drink her exotic red wine and look at the busy streets of LA. Her long black hair was in packed in a messy bun, she grabbed her glass again to take her drink when she heard her phone ring. She groaned and lazily turned around to grab her house. It was a private number, a frown appeared across her brows, who called her with a private number she asked herself. Hesitating for a moment she finally decided to pick the call. “Hello” She said with the phone on her ear, but she received no reply which was strange, “Hello, who is on the line” she repeated but the result was the same. No reply from the other end. And suddenly the call was ended from the other end. “That was strange”. She said to herself but anyways she wasn’t gonna think ab
She had arrived to the office, climbing down the car she moved towards the building. Her workers greeted as she walked past them. She replied them normally as she headed to her office. Entering her office she slumped on her onto her chair, running her hand through her hair. Her meeting was about to start in twenty minutes with the CEO of another importing company. She looked at herself in the mirror and adjusted her shirt, even though she had no makeup on she looked quite the same, many people had once told her she even looked better without makeup. Her phone vibrated in her table, walking over the table she connected her AirPods to her ears and picked the call, it was her mother. “Hey mum”. Annabelle said, flipping through the files in front of her. “Sweetheart, how are you doing?”. Her mother voice came from the receiver. “Yes mum, I am doing fine, although I had a weird dream yesterday but it felt so real. I don’t understand anything anymore”. She explained to her m
Aiden fumed in anger, his eyes were on the corpse which laid on the floor, the man had dared to place a tracking chip inside him car. Aiden opened the door of the car, he had easily seen the tracker, pulled it out he dropped in on the floor and crushed it with his shoes. Running his hand through his thick black hair he cursed silently, he pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed a number. “Hey boss”, The person said from the receiver in a calm voice. “Carlos, send the boys to come clean up this mess. It seems Rodrigo have decided to play dirty. He sent one of his men to place a fucking chip in my car”. Aiden said between his teeth. “That bloody idiot, we will look into the it. And I’m sending the boys now”. Carlos said, as sounds of keyboard was heard from his background “Good”. Aiden pulled the phone away from his ear and ended the call. With a sigh, he pulled the door open to enter his car. He started the engine and zoomed off. It was 1:45pm, and Alexander ha
She was done from work, after an exhausted day all she wanted to do is to soak herself in a hot tub. She had just gotten into a hotel in the city, she had chosen a random hotel because she didn’t want to handle any formalities for now. All she need was space and fresh air to breath. Opening the door with her key card, she steeped into the room closing the door behind her, the room was painted all white. It wasn’t her usual expensive looking room but it was moderate enough for her, she began to pull off her clothes one by one, she walked into the bathroom and filled the tub with warm water, pouring the vanilla soap into the water. She watched it as it filled to the top, turning it off she stepped into the tub fully naked dipping herself in the water, a sigh of relaxation escaped her lips as the body touched the warm water. She rested her head as she enjoyed the feel of the water on her skin. The soap also smelt so good. Closing her eyes, she gently tapped her feet in the tub
Ariana stilled looking at the man in front of her, he was so close to her, his hands placed on the table locking her between in arms. Even with the dark glasses, Ariana could still feel his strong gaze on her, his face not holding any emotions. It was difficult to know what he was thinking or even feeling at this moment. There was something about the way this man smelt and looked that got her mesmerized, as much as she wanted to look away and yell at this man for getting in her personal space her brain didn’t just cooperate with her. Aiden just stared at her, not making any movement. Dingg!!! Ariana’s phone rang breaking the trance between them, Ariana cleared her throat as she looked away to where her phone was lying. Aiden too looked away taking steps backwards to let her move to her phone. She walked to the table and grabbed her phone placing it in her ears. “Oh, Alright. Thank you Lora have a wonderful night”. Ariana said calm even though her heart was still racing. Placi
“Hmm, I can only guess he must be filthy rich,”. April said “And what makes you think the buyer is a he? I thought you knew nothing about it”. Ariana asked. “Of course it would be a he, which normal woman buys a freaking casino. Only men make such stupid and risky decision”. April explained,” Anyways Ari, I had to go make coffee before my husband wakes up”. April added. “Look who’s doing wifey duties, oh my gosh I am so jealous”. Ariana said teasing her friend. “Whatever weirdo, have a nice day. Bye.”, “Bye”. Ariana answered before hanging up the call. Looking at the clock it was now thirty minutes past six. She heard to prepare for her visit, picking her cup and empty pack of cookies she walked to the kitchen, throwing the empty pack into the trash can, she gave her cup a little rinse and placed it back on the table. She headed to her restroom for a bath after taking all her clothes off and changing into her robe. Turning on the shower, she placed the robe on the
Ariana couldn’t believe what she had just heard ears, could it be that she had heard wrongly. Never in her life have she heard her parents say anything about marriage to her and definitely have not suggested someone for her to marry. She would have said they were trying to prank her but by the look on their faces she highly doubted that and it wasn’t even April first. She opened her mouth to speak but she couldn’t form any words, her lips just shut close as they opened. She saw the worry and sadness in her parents eyes, swallowing the big lump in her throat she decided to say something. “You are joking right? Aren’t you? Mum? Dad?”. Ariana said as she looked between her mother and father, but her father gave her little nod telling her he was serious. “We are sorry sweetheart, this is very serious. And the decision had been made already”. Martha said lowly, her voice filled sadness. The pain in Ariana’s eyes turned to anger, she felt her fists clutched tightly as she raised
Ariana opened her eyes to see her surroundings covered in smoke, she kept hearing a buzzing sound in her ears. A dry cough that escaped her lips as she slowly stood up to her feet. “Come on lets go, can you walk?” She heard someone say from behind her. She turned to look as who it was “Let’s go, the car is waiting for us”. Alexander said placing his hand around her waist before lifting her up. Three men dressed in all black rushed towards them, from the way they behaved Ariana could tell they were working for Alexander. “Don’t worry, I will carry her, so check my car” He said and headed towards the car, he placed her gently on the back seat of the car and sat beside her. “Are you both good?” Carlos asked turning his head to look at them at the back seat. “Yes we are good, she’s still in shock she will be good” Alexander said looking at Ariana who was resting her head on his shoulder. “Alright, I will be taking us to the penthouse it’s the closed to this place”. Ca
A/N: This chapter is supposed to come before chapter 24 which was honeymoon, I made a mistake while uploading, ****** Ariana felt her heart drop to her stomach, her eyes couldn’t believe what it was seeing at this moment. This had be some kind of joke or something, she opened her mouth to talk but no words formed from her mouth. The man in front of her just stared at her, he had no emotions on his face. “We are gathered here today to witness the joining of this wonderful man and woman”. The priest said with a smile, “please bring the rings here”,the priest added, a little girl came to their side with a small pillow in her hand where the rings laid. “Alexander Savage, do you take Ariana Smith as your lawful wedded wife, promise to hold and to love, in sickness and in health till death do you part”. The priest asked looking at him. Alexander’s eyes were on her when picked the ring from the pillow, pulled her hand forward and slipped the ring into her fourth finger. “I do”. H
Ariana was very much confused, she had never seen Alexander look so alert before he always had this calm demeanor and now he was like a totally different person. “We don’t have much time, walk fast Ariana”. He said without looking at her as he hold onto her hand tightly. When they finally got to the car, he entered the car and shut the door lock, pulling the seat belt over him he started the engine of the car. “Use the belt”. He said again without looking at her. She immediately did as she was told and watched him in silence, she had a million and one questions running in her head but she decided to just let him be for the moment because it clearly did look like a time for questions and answers. “Carl, I want you to track a car for me RV-441, do it now I will tell you everything when I get her to a safe place”. He said as he placed his earbuds into his ears. Ariana opened her mouth to speak but she stopped herself and just stared at him, she was beyond surprised how
Ariana’s breath hitched after hearing those words leave his mouth, this man was just unbelievable they were talking about something serious and here he was talking about...oh lord she to herself, she would have slapped her face with her hand but she couldn’t because this man was holding her arms. “Get off from me”. She said between her teeth. “No I won’t, you have to promise me that you would never such a thing like that again”. Alexander said. Ariana almost laughed at this man, so he was jealous she said to herself. “Why would I do that Alex? Besides you can do as you please I won’t be stopping you, I swear”. She smirked at him. He just stared at her still holding her hands in place. “You are going to be punished Ariana, you are being a very naughty girl right now”. He said so calmly. “Get off my Alex before I make you”. She grinned at him. Amusement flashed in his eyes, “Oh really? Then do it, make me Ariana” He smirked at her, he wondered what she would do to
When she was done with her work, she found the driver waiting for her and she entered the car with a sigh, she had a good day even if she was still bored at work, she was probably going to have a more boring day at home. She came out the car and walked into the house, she asked about Alexander from one of the security men and she was told he had gone out to do something. After taking a refreshing shower, she walked out of the restroom and changed into a loose shirt and black shorts. she quickly blow dried her hair and walked out of the room. Her eyes nearly went wide like saucers when she saw Alexander walk down the stairs of the other wing of the house with a woman by his side, the woman wore a short revealing black dress and had heavy makeup on her face. Ariana felt her heart squeeze in pain and for some reasons she felt jealousy flow through her. What was this man doing with that woman and who was she? She asked herself. She walked forward to them to make sure
Her neck had a love bite that was big and dark and it was a big spot. A frown popped up on her forehead and she narrowed her eyes, grabbing her powder from her bag and began to apply the power on her neck. Slowly covering the hickey on her neck, she pulled her hair to cover the spot on her neck. The silence in the room was so awkward she didn’t know what to say, “I will go get you coffee”. Lora said and walked out of the office. Thankfully Arianna was able to release the breath she didn’t know she was holding. She cursed at Alexander again for doing something as shameful as that, just then her phone rang and it was here mother who was calling . “Hey mum, how are you doing”. Ariana asked in a soft voice. “I’m good sweetheart, how are you doing?” She answered from the recover. “I am good Mum, how’s is father doing? How is everything there? How is the business going over there?” Ariana asked. “Everything is fine sweetheart we are all doing well and the business is going
It was the next morning and Ariana has already dressed in a beautiful black knee length dress, she was running a comb through her hair, as she circled her watch she was still on track. Picking her bag from the bed she walked out of the room to meet Alexander leaning on the wall with a cup of coffee in his hand. “You’re leaving already?” He asked. Ariana wanted to roll her eyes at this man, wasn’t it obvious from how she looked. “Yes I am” she gave him a small smile, and began to head out of the house. “Hey, come back here”. Alexander said making her stop in her steps, what did he want now? She asked herself. “Yes”, she slowly turned around to him. “Aren’t you forgetting anything?” He asked a smirk appearing across her face. “No I am not”. Ariana said almost immediately as she had double checked everything before she was leaving. “You sure? Won’t I get a goodbye kiss?” Alex’s smirked increased as he saw the surprised look at her face. “Seriously? There’s no on
Ariana who was listening to their conversation from behind the door cracked it open and walked into the living room, even though she was eavesdropping she couldn’t quite pick on everything they said. “Who was that? Is there any problem?” She walked up to him and asked him. “Just some thorns in my feet, it’s nothing you should be worried about I’ve handled the situation”. He replied. “Oh Alright, I wanted to ask you if I could resume work tomorrow, I’ve been away for a while and there’s nothing here to do so I will be bored.” Ariana rubbed her palms together as she spoke. It took a while before Alexander answered, “Sure you can but you have to listen to me, if you are going to leave this house you will have bodyguards with you at all times, and I meant it Ariana.” He said stressing each word. “Why would I do that? That’s going to be weird why would I have bodyguards following me when i am not some kind of princess or something like that”. Ariana raised her hands in the air. “I’m
Ariana could only nod her head because she knew her words would fail her at this point, “Good girl, come have lunch”. She heard him say before he let go of her thigh and walked out of the bathroom, Ariana let out the breath she didn’t know she was hiding. This man surely knew how to make her go crazy, after calming her heart and body, she walked out of the bathroom to see a tray sitting on the table waiting for her. She felt his gaze on her as she walked over to sit, avoiding his piercing gaze she began to eat her food in silence, After she was done it’s off she decided she was already feeling sleepy so she decided go rest her eyes before they got to their destination. Carlos also joined them in the plane, but He was already fast asleep on the chair Ariana walked to where the bed was and jumped on it, you didn’t take her long before she fell asleep. The next thing she heard was the pilot announcing that they were about to land, so Ariana walked back to sit down as she fastened her