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 about it, having ton of things to do tomorrow she needed quality sleep. With that she grabbed her phone and headed to her bed, placing the phone on the bed stand she climbed into her bed and slept peacefully. It was a few day later and things had been going smoothly, she was still getting used to her new driver who was insanely handsome even though she tried to deny that fact. It was Friday and she had just finished her dinner at a 5 star restaurant in town. After taking a hot shower, she climbed into her bed and drifted off into a sweet slumber. And suddenly she heard a sharp sound coming from her living room. She opened her eyes slowly, they were still very heavy with sleep but she still managed to keep them opened. She turned to her alarm clock and it was just 25 minutes after three. What the hell made that noise? She wondered. Maybe it was her cat. Finally pulling herself, she stood up from the bed and walked to the sitting room. Her eyes roamed around the room looking for what had made that noise but she found nothing out of place. As she was about to turn around to go back into her room, muddy footprints caught her attention. And her eyes widened, what the hell, she said to herself. She followed the footsteps and it stopped inside her door of her store room. What the hell? She said to herself again. Grabbing the lamp beside her she walked close to the door. “Who the hell is there?” She asked but she received no reply. “I said who the hell is there? Get the hell out of my house” she said almost shouting. And then the door moved, opened almost immediately in a swift motion. A man was standing in front of her with a gun in his hand, he was quite tall, wearing a black hoodie and a black mask. It happened all to sudden for Ariana to even register what had happened. She wasn’t in any way expecting a full grown man with a freaking gun. “Put the lamp down girl” The man said with a thick Russian accent. His brown eyes burning with rage and anger. “Who are you? And what the hell are you doing in my house” She was now beginning to panic, the man standing in front of her didn’t look friendly. “I am the one to ask the question here, get away from there and sit on the chair” He ordered his voice leaking of patience. “I...”, “Now, go sit on the chair bitch” The man shouted shattering her mirror with the gun. Ariana could only move to sit on the chair silently as she watched the man ran through her stuffs as if he was looking for something. He kept throwing glances at her time to time as he searched for something. “Where is it? I know you kept it somewhere. Where is it?” He asked wiping his nose with his sleeves and pointing the gun at her. “What are you talking about? I don’t know what IT is?” Ariana said plainly. “The flash drive, I want the flash drive and don’t you dare act smart with me because I will blow your brains out” He threatened. “What flash are you talking about? I don’t know what you’re talking about?” She said “Do not fucking play with me bitch, tell m where it is now” He shouted, now pressing the cold metal on her temple. “I swear on my life, I don’t know what you are talking about” Ariana pressed her lips into a thin line trying to stop her lips from trembling. “Fucking Christ, I will blow your brains out if you don’t tell me what I want to hear” He presses the gun harder on her temple, just then the door opened and other man walked inside dressed like the other man. All in black. They both spoke in a language Ariana had no idea of. Rico who was the name of the guy who just entered walked towards her and grabbed a handful of her hair pulling it forcefully to face him. “Tell us what we want to know and we might be kind enough to let you go” He said Into her ears, his accent not as strong as his fellows own. “I__swea___i don’t know anything” Ariana managed to say as she felt strong pain on her head, like he was about to pull her hair off her scalp he pulled harder and Ariana let out a scream. “Tell me bitch where is the fucking flash drive?, we don’t have time to play around” His face only few inches away from hers and she could smell the thick smell of alcohol. She tried pulling her hair away from his hand but his grip was so strong, that she only winced in pain.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
“I am a generous man so I will give you 24 hours to convince your daughter to marry me. Or else...I will take her by force, Goodbye in laws and have a wonderful day”. With that Alexander hung up the call pushing the phone into the back pocket of his trousers. “Tiger, What do you think you’re doing? Threatening a family for a girl, come on. This isn’t even worth your time.” Carlos said, as he walked towards the chair and sat down. “I know but I want her, she has been in my mind since I saw her, so I want her and what other way to do that than have her marry me”. Alexander said, picking up a glass of wine and taking a sip. “But man, why her? You can have any woman you want here so why all the stress, and beside we can just bring her here to you”. Carlos suggested. “I can do that but I won’t, I want her to willingly agree to me. And no I don’t want those ugly strippers. I need something new, she’s beautiful and has a nice ass. She’s a feisty and interesting woman who won’t