"Mr Bryant, Miss Cassidy is here," With respect, Jacob reported to Xavier Bryant. Xavier took the glass of wine in his hand and looking into it he asked him in a calm tone, "What was her reaction when you told her that I would be here soon?"A little bit surprised, Jacob knew his boss was never interested in a woman's reactions but now… he was quite astonished though. "She seemed like… she didn't expect it and she didn't want to… uhmm…""I see." Instead of getting angry, Xavier smirked. Jacob didn't expect it though. He thought he would surely be angry or he wouldn't care…There were all kinds of men around at the party so women were. Amyra never met them before, she saw some of them on the television and some of them in magazines or the news to be said.Sigh!It had been half an hour since she was here. But none said anything to her, instead, she was standing in some place alone. She could see them from there but none could see her.Before vanishing into the crowd, Jacob told her t
"James…" Amyra mumbled, her feet moving along with her curiosity as her eyes followed the man she once recognised as her fiance.No, she was not wrong. It was him. She couldn't help but keep walking towards the crowd.In the middle of the couple's dancing, what was he doing?'It's…' there was the couple. She saw James with a woman, his hands were wrapped around her waist like a leech as he kept her body quite close to his. They were so lost in each other, dancing like there was no tomorrow.But how was it possible even? James said he loved her and even in future he would only love her then why was he dancing with a woman at the party as if they were a couple? James has always been caring and a good boyfriend but tonight, what colour he was showing... Amyra couldn't believe her eyes. Certainly, something hit her head. What has the world known about her? She was curious to know what Mr Bryant did so people didn't talk about her. The world couldn't be bought nor her close people, it w
Droplets of rain dribbled on the street from the sky, clouds were still rumbling, and there were not many people around to be seen.In the rain, her clothes were drenching wet when she was sauntering on the road as she had nowhere to go. Well, it had happened to her before too but at that time she at least was not so heartbroken. Her high stilettos were in one hand while she was glancing at the sky with a sad smile.She didn't know how far she had come, she had been running and running and then she came to stop herself as she couldn't run anymore. "Fool, ain't I? Since I was young, I have always been made a fool. I always thought no, why would the people I trust make a fool out of me but every time… every time I was wrong. Someone framed me up and I had to find out that my sc*mbag fiancé cheated on me with my friend. O, Lord!" Amyra had no reminiscing about how loud she was before whenever she became frustrated but for sure she was the loudest this time. Her heart was hurting and he
"Mr Bryant, something… something happened." Ezra was short of breathing, he ran here as fast as he could. Xavier just put on his wedding suit, he was all ready."What's wrong?" Swivelling around he asked so in a relaxed tone. Ezra looked so freaked out, he sauntered forward and confessed, "Miss… Miss Cassidy is missing.""What?" Both Xavier and Jacob were astonished. Jacob just came back to check on Xavier to see if he was ready but as he heard Ezra, he was super surprised. To give in to the fact that she ran away from the wedding…"Kim said Miss Cassidy told her that she wanted to get some fresh air so Kim and everyone left the room. But for nearly thirty minutes passed, she didn't open the door. When Kim went inside, she… ""She what?" Xavier asked so in a stiff tone.Ezra gobbled and countered in a haste, "She found Miss Cassidy gone.""Rubbish. Didn't I tell you to strengthen the security? How can she escape then?""We are searching for her. I…"Ezra stopped talking as Xavier rai
"Boss, your bride is hiding here." One of Xavier's men showed him a tab where he could see a location. Seeing it the corners of his lips curled into a smile. "My little bride is quite smart I see…"Everybody looked surprised as they heard him. He didn't seem to be angry at all unlike sometimes before he saw her, his face was all in five shades of a beast. 'Where are they going all of a sudden?' Amyra saw all the guards heading to different directions. She had been hiding in a corner for quite a while but the guards were strictly guarding the way.Strange! They were no longer doing it now. A golden opportunity for her escape!Even thinking of it gave her a happy feeling. Waiting for them to clear the road, she watched them from her hiding spot and then she looked around. 'Anyway, it's a golden chance for me. I can just leave now. Huhu!'Thinking so she walked towards the door, pretending to stay as calm as she could.Amyra successfully escaped the guards. She ran out of the main doo
The main door was slowly opening and her heart commenced beating faster, she had been grasping onto the wedding bouquet tightly with both her hands as she took a deep, trying to lessen her nervousness.As the door opened, everybody's eyes went to the bride. Looking up, her eyes fixated straight to her groom. Xavier was standing at the right of the altar and glancing at her.Amyra looked down and unhurriedly started walking. This was giving her a different feeling, past ones. She imagined this with James before, their wedding day was also fixed. She imagined walking to the altar for him, she thought it before but now… when she was walking on the altar with her wedding bouquet in her hand her eyes caught on the front seats where unfamiliar people were sitting. For a moment she saw her parents sitting on the chairs. They were looking at her and smiling, Amyra also smiled at them. Gradually, tears were falling down her eyes and she stopped walking. How could she be happy? She thought on
“Kim? Kim?” Xavier called her name in a super disgruntled tone twice.Kim hurriedly ran into his room as fast as she could, pausing for a moment as she panted. Xavier never liked late ones so people knew the rules here, they wouldn’t be late if they loved their lives.“Yes, Mr Bryant?”Seeing Kim he ordered her in a stiff tone, “Bring me green tea.”“Eh? At this time?”“Why? Can’t I drink it now? Do I need to have a specific time for that?”Kim quickly bowed her head and in a frightened tone of voice uttered, “No, I didn’t mean that. I wanted to sa…”Xavier didn’t wait for her to finish her line, instead, to shut her up he hit his strong hand on the table and Kim understood it. Walking out of the room she dabbed her chest, she was merely holding onto her breath. It almost freaked her out. Nobody wants to get under his wrath.As Kim left, Xavier in his study room loosened his necktie irritatedly, then taking it off he started unbuttoning his shirt while murmuring angrily, “That woman
"Where am I going?" The make-up artist just did her make-up when Amyra peeked at Xavier who was sitting on the chair and had his eyes closed."To meet my family." He responded to her."Ohh." Letting out a sigh she looked calm as he answered her. But then she abruptly stood up, "You said your family? Wait, you mean we are going to..."Xavier opened his eyes and glimpsed at her, "Right." She bit her lips and tried staying calm. She read about his family members before but suddenly hearing that she was going to meet them Amyra got apprehensive. It was his family after all. She never met them before. Who knew what was awaiting her?Thinking that she still had time as she wanted to run to her room to review, he held her hand. "We will be late if we don't leave now.""But..."Xavier's sharp gaze cut her petition off.Letting out a sigh she stared down, "Fine. Let's go."In the car Amyra had only been looking at the street from the car window, it was such a mesmerising view. She always like
'Will I get killed for real?' Amyra looked around. Zenaya's people captured her when she tried to escape here. She didn't have her phone with her, so there was no way she could call for help. "Shoot her!" Zenaya ordered her people. Allen was nowhere to be seen and there were all Zenaya's people. Who could possibly come to help her? Just as they were about to do it suddenly a familiar voice from the dark spoke up. "Nobody should touch even her hair or I will kill you all." Amyra saw Allen walking towards her. Though she hated him, right now, he was the most suitable choice for her to escape from them. With a big smile lingering with her lips she quickly ran to Allen and hid behind him as if he was her protective shield. "Allen, she wants to kill me." Allen glared at Amyra worriedly and then at Zenaya angrily. "What did you do to her?" "I..." "Allen, she said she wanted me to sign on paper and after that, she would have killed me." Thankfully Xavier told her everything or it w
"Where are you going?" Seeing Xavier, she turned around. Amyra just cut the call with Allen, she wondered if he heard the conversation. She stood firm. "When did you come back?" "A while ago." He answered and walked into her room. 'Seems he didn't hear us. It's all good then.' Amyra put on a smile and took a deep breath in. Xavier walked to her and let out, "I've reserved seats for us in a movie theatre. I understood I couldn't give you much time so... Let's go, babe." He extended his hand towards her, asking for her hand. "Theatre?" Amyra looked away. There was no way she could go somewhere else tonight. "Yes, why? You don't like it?" "Uhmm... Actually... I don't feel like..." "What's wrong? Babe. You don't feel good? Is something wrong?" He worriedly looked at her. Amyra smiled at him cheekily and turned away from him. As if she couldn't just lie while standing face-to-face with him. "Babe?" "Actually I have something more important to do so I won't be..." She asserted. H
The Next Morning Amyra just finished taking a shower. Chloe made an appointment with a gynaecologist for Amyra and she was going to meet her today. She decided no matter what she would keep the child. And since she found him not liable she decided she wouldn't tell him anything about her unborn child, let it stay the way things were. After getting ready as she opened the door she was stunned. She was astounded to see Xavier sleeping outside her room. "Hey, get up." She told him. Xavier didn't move an inch let alone wake up. "Why is he sleeping here when he has his room? Silly man." She squatted to wake him up. She called out for him again, "Xavier, wake up. It's already past ten in the morning." No response! "Mr and Mrs Bryant..." Seeing them a worker asserted so. Amyra let out a sigh and touched his arm to pull him up. "Xa... What's wrong with him?" Quickly touching his forehead Amyra let out worriedly, "Please help me to take him to my room." The worker helped to carry Xa
A month later Things seemed to be going well. One month passed and nobody tried harming her again. And Xavier's men caught some men who helped to reach Zenaya more. 'Today is an important day, I am going to graduate hehe.' Looking at the mirror she smiled and then walked out of her room. She with a smile looked at everyone when they greeted her with a good morning. Amyra pulled the chair to sit on and the opposite of her she saw him. Xavier also pulled the chair for himself to sit on it.Upon seeing him she remembered many things such as the way he had been treating her these past few days. He told her that he would probably not be able to give her more time and she said ok, when he came back from work she already fell asleep. As if they were getting more distant day by day. Seeing Amyra turn around Xavier quickly let out, "I don't bite. Sit down." Amyra looked at the chair, she was reluctant to listen to him. Then thinking of something she sat on the chair. It was not like they
The Next Morning Keeping his eyes shut, Xavier unhurriedly scurried around. He lazily lengthened his hand and as he touched a woman's head he quickly opened his eyes. His expression showed he was flabbergasted. Staring at the back of the woman's head he remembered about last night then a big smile played on his lips. He moved close to her and then placed a kiss on her forehead. By his touch, Amyra gradually opened her eyes. She with half-opened eyes looked at Xavier who was also looking at her. Amyra hastily sat on the bed as she saw him grinning at her. "Good morning." He sat next to her and grinned at her. Amyra's expression immediately changed when she remembered what just happened last night. She didn't smile seeing him glimmering at her. Instead, she just ran to the bathroom while wrapping the cover around her body somehow. "Amy..." He was left unheard. Standing against the bathroom door Amyra covered her mouth with her hands. Tears fell down to her eyes and she sat on th
Opening the door Amyra ran to the room. It was all dark in the room, the clouds growling got it more disastrous. As if the night wanted to slaughter someone."The lights are gone. I need to find him as soon as possible." Turning on the torch in her phone Amyra looked around. "Xavier, it's me Amyra. Where are you?" Thankfully, she got to be here before the weather started getting bad. "Xavier, can you hear me? Can you tell me where you are?" She clamoured for him for the second time but she could only hear her voice getting back to her. Jacob told her which hotel Xavier was staying at so she could be here faster. The more clouds were screeching outside, the more she started feeling sceptical. "Xa..." Suddenly she impeded sauntering as her eyes snagged on the timid figure. Xavier was sitting in a corner of the room. His face immersed within his knees and he was quivering in fear. Her heart agonised the way she saw him, he looked so dreadful. She ran to him and sitting on the floor s
"Mrs Bryant, run!" Sam's blood-curdling scream echoed in the whole room. "But I can't just leave you here like this...." "Don't worry about me, please run away from here. Please, I beg you." "I... I'm sorry." Amyra started running as fast as she could without looking back. She could hear the sound of gunshots and fight. Thankfully she saw people were following the car she was in when she looked at the rear view mirror of the car or she couldn't imagine what would happen if they were to reach Xavier.Sam protected her and fought them with his men but in that process, he got hurt. She didn't want to leave him alone but she couldn't stay as he begged her to leave. "Hold on, Sam. I will get someone to help you, please don't give up!" "Catch her! Remember we must kill her today no matter what!" Amyra heard the people running after her. She got to hurt her leg but right now, saving herself from them was the most important thing. As she was running, suddenly two guys stood before her
'Has he gone mad? Because of him, now everyone calls me Xavier's Bride in school. Before it was peaceful at school, but because of him now it's ruined...' Annoyed Amyra sauntered upstairs. She was so damn weary coming back from school. The whole day was exhausting especially because Xavier let everyone see that he was her husband. Letting out a sigh she walked into her room, closed the door and put her bag on the couch. Taking off her clothes she wrapped a towel around her body, put her hair in a messy bun and walked to the bathroom. "Ahhhhh!" Suddenly she started shrieking. Seeing her screaming Xavier hastily covered her mouth with his hand. Pulling her inside the bathroom he pushed her against the wall. Amyra had no idea that he would be inside. She saw water dripping from his hair, he was in his white bathrobe and looked like he just took a shower. She saw him like this before but every time she felt like looking at him again and again. He gradually let her hand go and then s
The Next Morning 'He probably left last night after I fell asleep, or maybe it was in the early morning... He probably was just trying to play me again or it can be that he went back to his girlfriend, Layla...' Sigh! Putting on the bathrobe, Amyra sauntered out of the bathroom, her hair wrapped messily with a white towel when full of thoughts tinkering in her mind. 'Well, it's not like he has to say anything to anyone. We're not related anyway, soon we... We will be separated... ' She put her skirt on and then tied her hair up in a ponytail. Putting on some lip balm she pulled her bag that was placed on the table. Amyra had something important to do in school today so she decided she would miss breakfast at home if only it could be called her home anymore. Tsk! Tsk! When she was on her way downstairs, she saw Kim. She was probably talking to her daughter or someone. Amyra remembered what Xavier told her the last time. Could she take revenge on her? She suffered so much because