All Chapters of The Billionaire’s Pretend Fiancée : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Trouble on the first day

Sofie’s POV I walked into the venue for my first class of the day with slight anxiety brewing inside me as I tightly clasped my tote bag.Heaving a deep breath to calm my nerves, I quietly stepped into the hall while doing my best to avoid drawing too much attention to myself.Thankfully, the inhabitants of the hall seemed not to notice me as I walked to the middle of the room to take a seat. “Did you hear that we are getting a new professor for the semester? They said he's nothing but bad news.” A feminine voice to my right drifted into my ears, and I tilted my head sideways to see who it belonged to. It belonged to a pretty girl whose blonde hair was cut into a bob, she grinned at me, and I managed to dart a small smile at her, although some parts of her sentence still confused me.“I recently transferred here, so I don't really understand what you just said.” I uttered, to which she nodded, outstretching her hand.“I reckoned. I'm sorry for assuming. By the way, I'm Katie Perez.”
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Talk to me

Roman’s POV "Hey, baby." I said as Sofie walked into the study with a wan smile caressing her face."Hi. How was work?" She asked, standing with her back against the desk, and her hand tracing lines down my face."Work was work. How did your first day back at college go? Did you have fun?" I asked, standing up to wrap my arms around her waist.She averted her gaze from me to stare at the bookshelf behind me, "Yeah, I did. Let's talk about something else. Something unrelated to school or education or professors and whatnot." She rambled out, hazel eyes restlessly darting around like she was being chased.I could see pure, unadulterated fear twinkling in her eyes as she unknowingly clutched tightly to my shirt.Something was clearly up because I knew and has witnessed first-hand how Sofie had been so excited in the car this morning."Baby, are you okay?" I asked, lacing my hands through hers. She smiled; a false, weary grin that didn't quite crease her eyes and nodded."You know I may
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The unexpected visitor

Sofie’s POV I nervously twirled the engagement ring around my left ring finger as I stared at the professor on the podium. She was saying something about a group project but my mind couldn't really decipher anything at that moment. It was filled with thoughts and regretful memories of how I had fucked everything up the previous evening. If only I hadn't gone to Roman's study or initiated the stupid kiss, then he'd never have known about this mess. I knew Roman and I knew he'd never sit back and wait for me to tell him about Cornelius. He'd probably kill Cornelius if he found out that he was the bastard that gave me the hickey and I didn't want that. I just wanted to peacefully graduate without drama but it seemed the universe was clearly against serenity being in my life. I wondered if Cornelius had survived that hit. It wasn't like I cared if anything had happened to him, he deserved it anyway for even attempting to molest a woman. I just didn't want to be tagged a murderer
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Realization

Roman’s POV "Would your friend like to have some tea, sir?" A middle-aged man who I had never met in any of my numerous visits to New York state college asked me with a smile. I glanced backward at Nathan, who was standing motionlessly behind me with an expressionless face, and beckoned him to answer the question. He shook his head in negation at the man, and the man nodded as he went back to his seat. I darted an investigative look at the man's bandaged head as I inwardly wondered why he wasn't resting in the hospital and was instead walking about and working. Earlier, he had introduced himself to me and explained that he was manning the chancellor's office, pending the time she got back from an official trip. Currently, I was in Sofie's school on a mission; to find who the fearless perpetrator was. The fucking bastard who had left a hickey for me to see on my fiancée. I had no idea why I was so sure the person was from the school but my guts were never wrong, so I knew I co
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Scared

Sofie's POVAs Nathan and I walked through the crowded hallway to the car, I felt innumerable pairs of eyes fixed on me with various mumblings of incoherent words trailing after me.I clutched my hands into fists as I willed my legs, which had suddenly become as heavy as lead to carry me to the car. The nervousness and trepidation sizzling within me at that moment was inexplicable.Momentarily, I turned back as my heart tinged with fear for the umpteenth time since I had walked out of the chancellor's office that day.God, I just hoped the man didn't feed Roman lies about me or worse still, Roman wasn't doing anything mortifying to the man.I mean I knew he totally deserved all the horrible things in life for forcing himself on me, but I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself or with the gruesome thought that Roman really did something horrible to him.Calm down, Sofie. You are probably overthinking everything, it's not like he knows Cornelius is the molester, so why are you worr
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Mortification

Roman's POVI stifled a smile as I watched Sofie go through a whirlwind of emotions in just a couple of seconds.She was really entertaining."Y-You don't mean it." She whispered, shaking her head, horror evident in her face."I don't mean what?" I prodded, feeling my composure wilter as time went by.Even Nathan was staring at me though the rear-view mirror with an unreadable expression as I casually placed my hand on Sofie's exposed thigh; her dress has rolled up and her soft, porcelain skin was now left on exhibition."Roman, what did you to him? Is he still alive at least?" She asked, worry prominent in her tone.I felt anger bristle within me for a moment at her concerned tone; why was she so worried about the perverted bastard?I was starting to regret not gunning him down when I had the opportunity to.Yeah, you read it correctly. I didn't kill Cornelius after all and it was not because I was scared of the consequence but because I didn't want Sofie to become ostracized by the
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Overbearing

Sofie's POV"Good morning, Sof." Katie grinned, as I plopped down beside her and set my tote bag on the table.I mirrored her grin, "Morning, Katie." "So, I heard something. Apparently, that bastard Cornelius is quitting. I was so shocked when my boyfriend gave me the news, I mean what could have pushed him to do that?" I feigned cluelessness as I brought out my writing paraphernalia, "Right, but isn't that good news? I mean a sex offender who clearly shouldn't be loitering around and molesting women is going faraway from us.""Yeah, I know. I'm just worried for the girls at his new job, what if he tries to do that to one of them? I heard one of the third year girls saying something about how he used to threaten the female students at his former schools to have sex with him and if they refused, he'd make them repeat that year. That man is a pervert that can never change. I honestly just hope he goes to prison, I'll be less worried if that happened." Katie rambled out, concern waftin
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Lust or love?

Roman's POV"Here you go, sir. These are the minutes of the last meeting with H and R technology, sir." Nathan explained, placing a pile of paperwork on the conference desk.I nodded, "Alright. When will they get here by the way? It's almost thirty minutes past the stipulated time of the meeting, haven't they heard about punctuality or do they think I have nothing else to do with my time?" I gruffed, reaching for a piece of paperwork to skim through pending the time the people I was scheduled to meet with decided to arrive.I was already beyond pissed that I had wasted thirty minutes of my precious time waiting for an incompetent company.If it wasn't because of Nana who had begged me to consider them because the Herreras were longtime friends of hers, and also business partners with GV group of companies when she was still president, I wouldn't have bothered to show up to the convergence.After the patriarch and founder of the company died some years ago, the company went from grace
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What is wrong with me?

Sofie's POVI groaned as I felt the strange yet agonizing tug at the pit of my belly. It felt as if someone was punching the inside of my stomach, and a battalion of soldier ants were also nipping and chewing on my guts.I wondered what the cause of this terrible stomach ache could be as I rolled over to the other side of the bed, which was thankfully vacant, as Roman had left for work earlier that morning."Oh, fuck!" I grunted, feeling something bitter and heavy clog my throat as I laid on my belly while inhaling lungfuls of cold air to calm my raging system.Could it be something I ate? I thought, caressing my belly but touching my stomach only made everything worse as bile hitched my throat, and almost forced itself out of my mouth, on the bed.With immediate speed, I dragged myself out of bed to the bathroom and emptied my guts into the toilet bowl.The more I puked, the more the ache intensified, and it badly scared me because I had never gotten that sort of horrible stomach ach
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Confession

Roman's POV"Nathan, come to my office right now." I said into the intercom as I swiped through my phone for 'gift ideas for a love confession' but unfortunately, I was yet to find one that was classy, and appealing enough to my tastes.I didn't want to do the traditional flowers, chocolates and a love poem, I wanted to do something unique but I was confused as to where to start from.I had never done anything like this before in my life, so everything just seemed strange and perplexing.Fuck, I couldn't believe I was about to ask my assistant for ideas about confessing my feelings to my love.Nathan sauntered in, moments later, "You called for me, sir." He said and I nodded.Fuck it, I would just ask Damien."I don't have any engagements left for today, right?" I asked, and he nodded."Yes, sir. Although the representative from H and R technology asked to meet with you tomorrow, I told her that you have a prior engagement, so you will be unavailable." He explained."Alright, then. Yo
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