Chapter Four.

Seeing the frown on Mia’s face, Darren followed her gaze and saw his watch. Moments later he realised what she was thinking. “ this is a fake, I got it from a friend” he whispered beside her ears “but I usually wear it to look cool , I didn’t expect you would notice it”

Darren removed the watch and put it inside his pocket. 

“It looks real tho” Mia smiled and stepped back covering her flaming ears. 

Darren was leaning closer and she could feel his breath blowing in her ear as he spoke. 

As Mia thought about it she realised it’s normal for Darren to have a street friend who sells fake things. 

She breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment Mia had freaked out, thinking Darren had done something illegal to make money. 

She knew nothing about the man she was getting married to, except he was a poor man who was jobless. 

Darren knitted his brows. He had heard the daughter of the Thompson family had several boyfriends and hung out with different men all the time. The girl before him shyness seemed to surprise him. 

“The bridegroom is here, why hasn’t the wedding started yet?” Asked the sweet voice of a woman. 

Eva grinned and walked forward, holding her boyfriend's arm “since the bridegroom is here let me introduce my boyfriend to you,” she said deliberately raising her voice a decibel higher. 

“This is Mark Grey, the eldest son of the Grey family. We are a family. Mark and I can help you in the future.” 

Mark hurriedly lowered his eyes. It was almost as though he was too ashamed to meet Mia’s gaze, the guilt of what he had done to her kept toturing him and thought of even looking at her in the eyes made him feel extremely ashamed. 

When Mia saw Mark arrive with Eva she felt nothing. So she pretended it was their first time to meet and commented lightly, “ nice introduction, but your current boyfriend is different from the one I saw last week I wonder if you are going to be with him or not next week” 

Mark's feigned smile instantly went stiff. 

Smiling embarrassedly, Eva then shot Mia a murderous look and quickly changed the subject. “Anyways if you both are nice to us, I could talk to Mark so he could let Darren work at the Greg’s company. I’m sure they’d be willing to take him in even if he doesn’t know any technical skills, maybe he can do the chores like mopping the floor and other cleaning jobs. After all, it's better to have any kind of job than sitting around idly after getting married.”  

Mia stole a nervous glance at Darren, unexpectedly he didn’t seem to mind such insulting words, he simply broke into a warm smile and waved his hands dismissively “ no thanks, I’d like roaming around outside.” 

Without getting the reaction she expected, Eva’s face fell and she returned to her seat sulkily, dragging Mark along with her. 

Darren didn’t care about a little Girl running her lousy mouth, he knew deep down that he could make the entire Greg family bankrupt and make them work for him as cleaners. 

But he didn’t care because these were his least worries, he just wanted to finish up with the wedding as fast as possible and leave this environment. 

Soon the priest arrived and hastily finished the wedding.  

After the wedding was over, Darren and Mia send their goodbyes to the Thompsons family before heading out. 

Eva was definitely not feeling this wedding, she wanted to embrass both couples by mocking their financial situation, but she ended up getting displeased because she did not get the reaction she wanted from both couple and it pissed her off so much. 

 Meanwhile, Mia felt relieved that she was finally leaving the Thompson mansion, during her stay there since she was little she never had a peaceful moment, the mother and Daughter Trio never let her. 

Now that she was married to Darren, she knew she was now completely free from their clutches, the only thing keeping her and them now is the money Lydia promised to give her once she got married to Darren. And now she was married to Darren she would go to the Thompsons mansion to collect the money once she had settled down at her new residence with Darren. 

Darren took Mia to a small house in the suburb. 

The place was small, old and shabby but at least they had a house to return to. The house looked empty but it was neatly cleaned and hoarded only the basic necessities. 

She felt they were recent additions to the house simply because of the wedding. 

Darren was a tall,muscular man. The narrow space somehow looked smaller after he came in. 

“This is my house, make do with it,” Darren shrugged casually. He didn’t seem embarrassed in the slightest. 

“Yes it is a small house and it looks tidy, so yes it can accommodate the two of us.” 

Mia was honest. Although the house looked shabby, Darren had maintained it well. The yard looked neat and the house looked spotless, however it didn’t feel like a home, it was too empty perhaps because only Darren stayed here. 

Mia looked around, she saw that Darren had taken off his suit jacket and put it on a wooden chair. He unbuttoned his white sleeve shirt. She trailed her gaze across his body and saw the toned muscles under his shirt. It looked like he had been working out regularly. 

Mia wondered how a poor man could have this flawless skin that even the rich would do a lot of work to get, Mia could not help but admire the perfect creation of God.  

Sensing her gaze, Darren turned his gaze and met her anxious eyes. He stopped and walked towards her. “ You've had a busy day, Do you want to take your shower first?”he asked intently.