When Storm Meets Hail

When Storm Meets Hail

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When Samantha Hall meets Lucas Storm at the Water Gardens on that fateful night, she realizes that she wants more than the contract marriage he has to offer her, but she knows that entering into the billionaire’s life would not be a very easy task. Lucas Storm has a lot on his mind - his younger brother is about to take over the company he has labored to build, and the only way he can save it is by showing his father he is responsible and settling down. That is when he meets the beautiful and easy going Samantha. But with deep feelings of love threatening to get in the way of their contract and an age old family feud for the billion dollar company, Lucas is thrown into a dilemma - he has to choose between Samantha and the company Would he lose it all and follow his heart or risk trying to get them both? Find out

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SAMANTHA’S POV

The sound of my phone beep jolted me out of my reverie and I stared at the screen. It was a text from Lucas. He was going to be at the restaurant in ten minutes. I readjusted my blouse quickly and removed the band from my hair, allowing it fall freely across my shoulders. I was not at all concerned about my looks. It was not like how I looked mattered to him anyways. All we needed to do was get to a mutual agreement.

I stared at the table across. Two men on leather jackets were having an intense conversation over a barely touched bottle of whiskey. I quickly averted my gaze before either of them could catch me staring and my mind drifted away to more important things – like why Lucas had chosen such an exquisite location for our meeting. I wondered how much he had paid for the reservation at the Water Gardens and I hoped that he came sooner because time was ticking away and money was counting. The Water Gardens was the most exquisite park in the whole of New Jersey and if the thirty minutes reservation he had paid for elapsed before he came, I would be walked out and he would be forced to pay another five hundred dollars for another thirty minutes. I stared at the silver plated watch on my hand. It was twenty minutes past eight already and we had barely ten minutes left.

“Ten minutes would not be enough to finalize the deal,” I muttered to myself.

I heaved a deep breath and decided to take the bold step. I walked up to the cashier’s counter at the far end of the garden and I gently tapped on the counter to alert her of my presence. The cashier took one quick disinterested look at me and continued what she was doing.

“I would like to make a thirty minute reservation,” I grunted, producing a five hundred dollar bill from my purse and placing it on the counter.

She stared up at me again and glanced across at where I had been sitting.

“Where exactly would you like to have reserved?” she asked glaring hard at me.

I could sense the sarcasm in her voice and I spun around quickly to find out that a couple were already sitting down there.

“Shit!” I cursed. “Excuse me.”

She flicked the five hundred dollar bill from the table with her index finger and I caught it before it could fly away. I walked up to the couple at the table and flashed them a smile. They didn’t seem to be excited about the fact that I had interrupted their conversation and they stared at me, probably wondering what I wanted.

“If you don’t mind, I have this seat reserved already,” I said as politely as I could.

“We met it empty,” the lady replied. “Reserved seats aren’t usually empty.”

I sighed and produced the ticket from my purse and I held it up for the both of them to see.

“Eight to eight thirty,” the man grunted and stared at the clock at the center of the garden. “You have barely three minutes left. Run along already. We’re busy here.”

My face turned bright red with anger immediately and I barely resisted the urge to kick him in the groin. Even if I had a minute left, it was my time. I paid for it and I deserved to use it.

“You met this table empty just because I had to make another reservation!” I said, my voice, a tad higher than normal. “My date was running late and I had to…”

“You’re disturbing us young lady,” the man eyed me. “If you can’t find another table, then go somewhere else for your date!”

I fumed and raged, and just as I was about to allow hell break lose, I felt a cold hand wrap around my wrist. I spun around in shock and our eyes met.

His eyes were dark, cold and calculating and I felt like in the few seconds he stared me down, he had seen through my very being. I attempted to wriggle free from his grip but he held on to me firmly.

“What is the problem here?” he asked. “Why do you harass the good lady?”

I cringed at the sound of his voice. It was rich and exotic and it had a foreign accent to it. Spanish perhaps?

“You shouldn’t go about poking your nose in other people’s businesses,” the man on the table said and stood up.

They were face to face now and I could sense the tension in the air. I really hoped a fight didn’t ensue because I doubted that the stranger who was standing up for me could match with the burly brute that had taken my table.

“What if I told you it was my business?” my guardian angel asked, staring the other man down.

“Enough guys!” I cried. “I would just wait for my date. He would get me another table when he comes.”

“He wouldn’t,” my guardian angel replied. “He paid for this table.”

I stared at him for the better part of a minute before it hit me.

“You…you’re Lucas Storm?”

“Samantha Hail,” he smiled at me.

“Fucking weirdo!” the burly man grunted and threw a punch at Lucas. “Who still goes on blind dates?”

“I do,” Lucas replied, catching his hand midair. “And the next time you harass my woman..” He twisted the brute's hand in one quick movement and he cried, probably feeling his arm begin to pull out of the socket.

“I promise I won’t trouble her again!” the man yelled. “Please.”

Lucas released his grip on his hand and shoved the man away roughly. He staggered and fell on the floor of the garden and Lucas sat down on the chair.

“You can excuse us now,” he smiled at the lady.

She stood up immediately and doubled over to help her partner who was still groaning on the floor and Lucas ushered me to her seat. I sat down carefully. The events of the last few minutes were hazy in my memory and I wondered if he would do the same to me if I stepped out of line. As though he was reading my mind, he chuckled lightly.

“Forgive my brutish and ungentlemanly behavior,” he started. “That was a very much avoidable scene. I would learn to control my anger for the time our contract would last.”

His words jolted me, and I remembered the reason we were sitting there in the first place – our contract. I nodded in understanding.

“I’ve not yet agreed to the contract,” I mouthed. “That was why I called for this meeting. I needed to be clear on certain terms.”

“I’ve got everything here,” he announced, producing a carefully folded piece of paper from his breast pocket. “Listen attentively while I read my terms to you. I would hear yours as well before we can come to an agreement.”

“Fine by me.” I looked up to see that the cashier was standing behind Lucas and when he noticed my eyes were no longer fixed on him, he turned around quickly.

“Senorita!” he smiled and kissed her hand. “Didn’t know you’d started taking the night shift.”

She pouted her lips at him and with the help of the bright chandelier light hanging above us, I could clearly make out her facial features. She was a blonde beauty.

“Your father won’t be happy when he hears about this, Lucas,” she said. Her hands worked their way across his chest and down his lower abdomen and I frowned and looked away.

“Wouldn’t be a first time,” he laughed. “He’s never happy with anything I do. That is why he wants to rob me of my right, my inheritance, what I’ve worked for all my life…”

His hands balled into fists as he spoke and I could sense the anger and pain in his voice. I knew the story all too well. His father, Javier Hernandez was a multi billionaire and the owner of the biggest automobile company in the whole of Europe, Java Automobiles. Lucas was his first son and had worked hand in hand with him since he was eighteen. He was thirty now and he had slowly started to lose favour in the eyes of his father. Javier had hinted on handing the company over to his second son, Andres, citing his reason as the fact that Lucas had refused to get married and was going to squander his wealth. Lucas, not wanting to lose out on what he had worked for had presented his girlfriend, Audrey to his father as his fiancé and his father had bluntly rejected her. She was an ordinary cashier, and worse still worked in one of his establishments. There was no way he was going to bless such a union. As such, Lucas had switched quickly to his back up plan. He had found me on an online charity site and after finding out that I had a Masters degree in Sociology, he had sent me his proposal – a six month contract marriage, and after his father signed the documents to hand over the company to him, the contract would be off. Then he could continue whoring around with Audrey, whom he had no plans to marry yet, with the assurance that he was going to inherit the company. I would get fifteen million dollars for my role for the six months. It was a perfect plan for Lucas and when I agreed to meet him at the garden to finalize the deal, he had been overjoyed. He was finally going to get his life back.

“So she is the one?” Audrey eyed me.

“Yeah,” Lucas nodded. “She’s perfect for the role. Intelligent. You know how much my dad likes intelligent ladies…”

“Yeah remind me that I dropped out of college,” Audrey rolled her eyes.

“I don’t care, senorita,” Lucas said in a low whisper. “You’re perfect for me. We just need to deceive the old fool for six months. Everything would be back to normal after then.”

Audrey seemed to be reassured by his words and she kissed him full on the lips before turning to face me. “He’s damn hot and it’s six months. Try not to get too attached.”

I nodded and watched as she laughed and walked away and as soon as she was out of sight, Lucas turned back to face me.

“Ready to hear my terms?” he asked.

I nodded again and watched as he opened the paper with shaky hands and dropped it on the table before us.

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SAMANTHA’S POV
The sound of my phone beep jolted me out of my reverie and I stared at the screen. It was a text from Lucas. He was going to be at the restaurant in ten minutes. I readjusted my blouse quickly and removed the band from my hair, allowing it fall freely across my shoulders. I was not at all concerned about my looks. It was not like how I looked mattered to him anyways. All we needed to do was get to a mutual agreement. I stared at the table across. Two men on leather jackets were having an intense conversation over a barely touched bottle of whiskey. I quickly averted my gaze before either of them could catch me staring and my mind drifted away to more important things – like why Lucas had chosen such an exquisite location for our meeting. I wondered how much he had paid for the reservation at the Water Gardens and I hoped that he came sooner because time was ticking away and money was counting. The Water Gardens was the most exquisite park in the whole of New Jersey and if the thirty
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LUCAS’ POV
“Damn Audrey!”That was the only thing in my mind as I opened the paper that contained our contract agreement. She always chose the wrong time to tell the world that we were dating. I could feel my hands begin to vibrate and I sighed. Once again, I had forgotten to take my medication.I dropped the paper on the table before us and looked up to make sure that she was listening. Her deep blue eyes were still fixed on me and I smiled. She was very attentive. My father would love that.“Sleeping arrangements first,” I announced. “My sleep is very important to me.”She smiled and I continued immediately.“On regular nights, you would sleep in my room and I would sleep in the living room,” I said. “On not so regular nights, we could share the bed.”“Not so regular nights?” she asked, her eyebrows arched at me.“Would get to that later,” I frowned.I wondered if she was surprised, surprised that the son of one of the richest men in America couldn’t afford a house with two rooms. She didn’t s
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SAMANTHA’S POV
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, not even daring to stop for as much as a second until I got to my house. I opened the door and slumped on the chair immediately. My heart was beating in my chest and I struggled to calm my breathing down. The image of the two men begging for their lives before he had silenced them were still very fresh in my memory and the very fact that he even had a gun on him all the while made me shudder. Who was Lucas Storm? Why did he keep a gun with him? Who were the men that had attempted to kill him? Why did they make such a daring attempt at a public place? Tons of questions flooded through my mind and I knew that no matter what, I wouldn’t be able to answer as much as a single one of them. I did a quick sign of the cross and thanked mother Mary for giving me the courage to run away from him. He was too dangerous for me. I heard the sound of a phone ring from a distance and I turned around quickly, searching for my own phone. It was not in the
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SAMANTHA’S POV
"I don't want to see him again," I said to Valerie. "If I want to stay alive, I need to stay as far away from him as possible."Valerie looked at me with concern. "Do you think he's dangerous?""I don't know," I replied. "But I can't take that chance. The worst could happen if I meet up with him again."Valerie nodded, understanding the fear in my voice. "I agree, we need to be cautious. Maybe we should go to the police and report what happened."I shook my head. "No, I don't want to involve the police. I just want to forget this ever happened and move on with my life.""But what if he really is a bad guy?" Valerie asked."I know what I saw," I said firmly. "He might have claimed self-defense, but I don't believe it. I think he's a bad guy and I don't want to be associated with him in any way."Valerie placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry, we'll figure this out. I'm here for you, Samantha. We'll get through this together."I knew I could count on Valerie to support me
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LUCAS’ POV
I didn't expect such rude behavior from my secretary and to my guest! The audacity!! I thought to myself."What's going on here?" I asked in a cold tone, addressing my secretary. He looked up and stammered, clearly caught off guard."I...I was just joking with her, boss," he said weakly, as if that could excuse his behavior.I could feel my blood boiling at his words. "Joking? Is that what you call it?" I said, my temper rising. "You spoke to my guest in such an unprofessional manner, and you think that's a joke? You should be ashamed of yourself."My secretary was taken aback by my outburst, but I wasn't finished yet. "I didn't hire you to harass my guests," I continued, my tone still cold. "I hired you to work for me in running this company, and if you can't do that without being disrespectful, then I suggest you find employment elsewhere."As I confronted my secretary on his unprofessional behavior towards Samantha, I couldn't believe my ears when she spoke up in her defense, "He
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LUCAS’ POV
"What the hell are you doing here, Andres?" I demanded, my voice tinged with anger. After everything that had happened, Andres had the audacity to come in and stir up trouble, the nerves to show up in my presence.Andres smirked. "Last time I checked this establishment was owned by my father, I don't see anything wrong with being in my father's company," he said, his tone dripping with sarcasm, and worse, how he emphasized on "my father"... Son of a bitch!I gritted my teeth. "Cut the crap, Andres. You know damn well why I fired the secretary.""Enlighten me, then," Andres said, crossing his arms over his chest.I took a deep breath, trying to keep my anger in check. "The secretary embarrassed Samantha, insulted me, and then didn't even mean the apology he made to her. That's why I fired him."Andres raised an eyebrow. "Oh, I see. So you fired him because he embarrassed your little girlfriend and insulted your delicate ego? How very noble of you, Lucas."I felt my anger rising again.
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LUCAS’ POV
I quickly sprang into action, holding Andres' hand midair and pulled Samantha away from harm's way. I could feel the anger and frustration boiling up inside of me, but I managed to keep a calm facade on the outside."Not. One. More. Move," I growled, my eyes locked on him.Andres tried to struggle against my grip, but I held firm. "Let go of me, Lucas. You don't know what you're doing.""Oh, I know exactly what I'm doing," I replied, my voice dripping with disdain."I'm stopping you from making a huge mistake, because I swear with everything I have if your finger touches her… then by God, I'll damn the consequences and kill you,"We stared at each other for what felt like an eternity, the tension in the room almost palpable. Finally, Andres relented, lowering his hand and stepping back."You're not worth it, Lucas," he spat. "None of this is worth it."He sneered at me, pulling his arm out of my grasp. "You always were the weak one, Lucas. You don't have what it takes to lead this com
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LUCAS’ POV
"Holy cow!" Valerie's scream and jump took me aback. I didn't expect such a reaction from her. It was my first time seeing her, but I recognized her from the pictures Samantha had shown me. She was a beautiful young lady with long black hair, a slim body and an infectious smile.Valerie started talking so fast I could barely keep up with her. "Oh my goodness, Lucas! I can't believe it's you. Samantha told me so much about you, but she never mentioned your last name. I didn't realize it was Hernandez. Wow, what a small world!"I smiled at her and replied, "Yes, it is. It's nice to finally meet you…,""Valerie, the name's Valerie," she replied and stretched her hands for a handshake.I reached out and took her hands in mine, "Nice to meet you Valerie," I said."The pleasure is mine,"She continued, "I can't believe Samantha didn't tell me the truth. She said you were just a normal dude she went out on a date with, never knew it was Lucas Hernandez!"I looked at Samantha, who was standin
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SAMANTHA’S POV
I was sitting in the living room, scrolling through my emails when Valerie walked in. She was wearing an apron and I could smell something delicious coming from the kitchen."Hey, what are you making?" I asked, looking up at her."Chicken alfredo," she replied with a smile. "I know it's your favorite."I grinned, feeling my mouth water at the thought of the creamy pasta dish. "Thanks, Val. You're the best."Valerie chuckled and walked over to the couch, sitting down next to me. "So, have you heard from Lucas yet?" she asked, her tone casual.I tensed up at the mention of his name, feeling a mix of anxiety and excitement. "No, not yet," I said, trying to keep my voice steady.Valerie raised an eyebrow, her eyes scanning my face. "It's been over a week since you signed the contract marriage with him. Don't you think he should have called by now?"I shrugged, trying to hide the disappointment in my expression. "I don't know. Maybe he's just busy."Valerie shook her head, her expression d
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SAMANTHA’S POV
I hesitated for a moment when I saw Lucas's name on my phone screen. Part of me wanted to let it ring, to let the call go to voicemail and avoid whatever conversation was to come. But another part of me, the part that had been missing him since the last time we spoke, urged me to answer.Finally, I gave in and answered the call, trying to sound casual even though my heart was racing. "Hello, Lucas.". I watched with hidden amusement as Valerie quickly dropped the plate on the sink and rushed to the living room. She stood beside me curiousity sputtered on her face, she mimed "I'm sorry," and I rolled my eyes at her… Valerie was a handful."Samantha, how are you?" His voice came through the phone, smooth and unbothered… heck he was supposed to call me, I'm not his wife I know but he would present me to the public and most importantly his father, courtesy demand he called at least!"You're going overboard with this Samantha," I thought to myself."I'm good, thanks. How about you?"s"I'm d
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