Chapter 6

With nothing else left to cling on to in the presence of his son Virginia left without any sound. She was rather eager to leave the place since she could very well understand that there was nothing in there for her. Moreover Oberon knew that she must be more than interested in finding out the worth of the necklace that she had received this morning from the father of her son. Be it in his death, she always would want to know how much she was worth to him. It might sound cheap and crappy but that did not mean that Virginia Credence did not know how to sum up the profit that she made from each connection she made. It was the rule of business world, if you take something from someone you must always remember the price.

Now that Oberon was left to himself again, he started thinking about what was written in the letter and how it would be the best to get to the end line of what he wanted without giving up too much in return. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He did not have names, backgrounds, connections or any further information at all to go on.

The only method to get to know his bloodline was to fulfill the demands of his dead father. That was the only guaranteed route to see them, to meet them and make their acquaintance…he had brothers and he had sisters and whatever might happen he knew that he had to meet them.

There was no chance in hell that he was going to forego the chance of meeting the only family he had. It might seem odd but he had always wanted some kind of connection in the world except what he earned and that meant only one thing, that he had to fulfill the terms and conditions of the will and he had to be willingly sacrificed in the altar of marriage.

What was the trick in this? What was exactly the trick to have a family without sacrificing everything that he had built from scratch?

There was no trick and he knew that in his heart. There was only one thing that could hold a family together except the ties of the blood. And that was love. But Oberon was not sure that he was willing to pay a price that high for something so trivial. He had always kept his heart protected and now he knew that it would be almost impossible to come out of the hard shell of granite that he had created around that particular organ.

If he did have to have a family and that too with a child then he needed to get a wife, as soon as possible and there was only one woman that his mind kept drifting to. But what if she did not agree?

It had been a year since he had seen her and he had no clue as well if she was back in the country. Oberon knew that he would do the right by her and she would also do the right by him. After all they had been working in tandem with each other since so long…so desperately long that thinking about her brought back the sexual tension in his body.

It was possible…yes…it was definitely possible that he could draw out a legal agreement in order to protect her if they had to dissolve the marriage or even when it came to the custody of their child. But for that he had to first talk to her. He needed to get in touch with her.

Rhonda Curtin was not like any other woman that he knew or he came in contact with on a regular basis. She was definitely nothing like his mother and he was going to be eternally grateful for that fact.

Oberon knew that she did not want anything from him, nothing at all. She had everything that she needed and most definitely she had everything she wanted but despite of Oberon being the most eligible bachelors of the country Rhonda was the one woman who would never jump at the chance of marrying.

There were scores of women who would almost do anything for that particular chance of being his wife, and he knew that they were readily available but the only problem was that he did not want them. He did not want to do anything with them at all.

Oberon Hunter was a man who was clear about his choices and he knew that he wanted Rhonda Curtin as his wife.

And he was going to be what she wanted her man to be. He did not believe in love and fairy tales since he had been in for a rude shock since his very childhood that he did not even want to think about that sappy nonsense. He was logical and he knew that Rhonda was too. So he was going to give her a business proposal wrapped in the package of a fairy tale. And that was the only way that this might work. He needed a wife and a child and he knew that she was the only woman from whom he wanted a child.

Oberon was never the kind of man like his father who had left his children without the identity of their father all over the world. He was never going to play that kind of sick joke with his child, no matter what.

The big question was, would she be interested in forging a life in partnership with him given the incentive of having a family and child together? Despite of having a business relation with him would she be even inclined to think that a personal and intimate relationship between them might work in the same way so good in both their cases. If she did not see reason then Oberon might have to put on his legendary Hunter charm which no woman seemed to be able to resist till date.