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 she walked towards where her father was seated, it was his usual spot when he had meetings to hold. “Father” She said with a smile, her father stood up to wrap his arms around her, Her father was in his early fifties, he had a grey designers suit, his black hair with now patches of white hair was styled neatly giving him the professional look. “How are you doing princess?” David, who was her father asked. “I am fine father, how about you?”Ariana asked her father. “I am good, forgive me, Allen Travis this is my daughter I am sure you have known about that, Ariana this is Allen Travis, the CEO of A&T cooperation. He has the biggest shipping company in America.” Her father said proudly. “Hey Mr Allen Travis” Ariana turned to the man who she didn’t know was sitting opposite her father, he had dirty blonde hair playing messy on his head, he had a sky blue suit on, the top buttons of his shirt was opened, showing his hard toned chest. Deep blue eyes, pointed nose and thin lips. Two golden chains sat on his neck. “Miss Ariana, it is a pleasure to meet you in person” Allen said flashing her a smile. “The pleasure is mine Mr Allen,” She returned the smile to him just because her dad was watching and she didn’t want to appear rude. “You two should talk, I will be back I need to get something” Her father said giving her a light kiss of the forehead. “Mr Allen, forgive me I have an important meeting to attend to, my daughter here will keep you company” David said with a smile and walked away. Ariana grabbed a chair, sitting opposite the young man feeling the man eyes watched her ever move. “So Mr Allen, what business do you have with my father?” Ariana asked “Just normal business, he wants to invest in my business” Allen simply replied. “Hmm, alright then, that’s good for both of you” Ariana replied and her eyes moved to the window. “So Miss Ariana, tell me about yourself, I want to know you better” Allen asked “That won’t be necessary Mr Allen...” “please call me Allen” He interrupted her. “Okay Allen, you have business with my father and not me, why am I even here?” She asked to no one in particular. “Your father wants you to get involved, don’t you see it? That’s why he invited you here” He said with a smile. “Involved with who? I can’t see anyone” Sh said turning her head to the crowd pretending to look for someone, she watched as the smile on the man’s face fell. “Involved with me Miss Ariana” He said and his jaw was working. “Oh... well I’m sorry to disappoint you Mr Allen, but I am not interested, so you should take your interest some where else” She said now a smile flashing on her face. “How interesting Miss Ariana, I love a feisty woman. I guess I have to chase you” He said resting his back on the chair. “Then it seems you have a lot of spare time on your hands, i suggest you should do charity or something because this whole nonsense won’t work on me” She spoke confidently. “So confident, I also love confident women. I know your kind playing hard to get but at the end you will get lost in my sheets” His smile widened. Instead of getting angry at his words, she found it funny. What a stupid man she said to herself. “Then you should learn to work with real woman, not whores Mr Allen, it’s a pity with all the good looks you have nothing upstairs, I wonder how you run your business or do you have a pawn you use to make decisions. Huh?” Pleased with the reaction she was getting from him she decided to hold her tongue a bit. His eyes darkened, fists clutched tightly as his gaze on her grew intensely. “You should watch how you use your words Ariana” “Why? Don’t tell me you’re getting hurt with my words I am just starting the truth but yeah I remember now, people say the truth is always difficult to digest in” Ariana said with a proud look. “I will teach you how to use your words properly, you talk to a man with respect” His words low and filled with rage. “Man?,” she scoffed, “show me when the man walks in,and respect is earned and deserved, you however deserve nothing less than respect, just know that my father is no longer interested in doing business with a loser like you, please don’t show up in front of us again, it was nice meeting you again Mr Allen. Do have a lovely day” Ariana raises from her chair, turned around and walked out of the restaurant, she heard her mini selves in her head cheering out for her. Her heels echoed after her as she walked, the security opened the door for her and she headed towards her car, “Should we get going?” Aiden asked, looking at her from the front mirror. “Yes, I’m going home now” Her face bright with a smile. Aiden only smirked seeing her expression and he drove out from the car park and headed onto the highway.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
A staring competition had started between Ariana and her parents. She desperately needed answers because she couldn’t understand why this strange man had decided to ask to marry her out of all things he could possibly ask for. Her mother sighed. “Alexander savage is a multi billionaire”. Martha said. “So?” Ariana raised her brow at her mother, her mother had mentioned him being a multi billionaire as if it was supposed to explain why he was suddenly interested in marrying her. “Mum what if he is a billionaire, why does he want to get married to me?” She asked. “Ariana we don’t know why, he just gave us an opinion. All we know is he is a powerful man”. Her father explained. “So tell me dad, have you met this man? What does he look like?” Ariana asked, her eyes widened as she saw her father look away. It didn’t take long for Ariana to understand why his sudden change of position. “For Christ sake dad!!!” Ariana said and then tucked in her hair hardly as she paced in the di