"You really think I'm playing around?" He grounds at me through gritted teeth and he takes a step closer and I begin to move back. "I gave you a strict instruction and you disobeyed, you chose to rebel." There is about one zillion comeback running through my head, but my brain only focuses on the man whose green eyes has somehow turn into black because he's mad at me. "Do you know what happens to rebellious people?" I keep moving back until my back hit the wall and I hiss out in frustration. I swallow hard and try not to look at him, pissing him off would be a good thing when we aren't the only ones in the whole house. "Do you?!" He demands with a roar. "No, I don't. Tell me." I say, hiding the trembling of my voice as I look up at him. He takes a firm step close to stand intimately close to me, his height making me feel like a little child. "They get punished." *** The arrangement was, I get to meet her, propose to her, we get married as that would create a stronger bond d the two business associates, bringing us together as a family. Falling in love with her personal assistant was never part of the arrangement.
"Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear."
~Sarah Dessen
Taylor's POV
"Thank you very much, ma'am." I smile happily at the woman in her sixties, as she hands me the key to my hotel room.
What are you doing in a hotel when you have a house? you might ask,
Well, I'll explain much later.
The woman smiles back before she points the way. "Go through the left hall the sixth room is room sixty-nine enjoy your stay young miss."
"I will do just that," I reply, putting on my most classy smile ever. I grab my expensive-looking handbag and swing it over my shoulder before walking on.
Back to the earlier question, I'm here because the three Js strictly told me to come here and after much debate, I am here. Where am I? I am in the Five-Star hotel suite, spending our hard-earned one thousand five hundred dollars for one night. But as the Js says, price is nothing compared to success.
The three Js: Jack, Josh and Jake, also known as The Snowfall's triplet have been the backbone to all the plans and back up I need and I wouldn't have come up with one thousand five hundred dollars if they didn't help me out. Jake (The brain in the family) won three hundred dollars from the mathematics competition he did with his mate and gave me the money, Jack (The loud one in the family) and his teammate won the race between the other schools and he handed me his share of three hundred and fifty dollars, Josh (The quiet and reserved in the family) gave me his two hundred dollars and forty-four cents contributions for the summer as he planned on staying home. And I added six hundred and fifty to the money and we had a total of one thousand five hundred dollars and forty-four cents.
But mom doesn't need to know that. That's me in Jack's voice
So generally the Js had been helping me raise the money since the past two months when Jake discovered the Five-Star matchmaking scheme.
The Five-Star hotel has held the reputation of matchmaking for the past eighteen years and well the Js and I did more digging till late midnight last night and we discovered more facts about the hotel matchmaking stuff and we took our time to analyse properly not to make any costly mistake.
The matchmaking first took place on the 1st January 1997 and the second second February 1998 and the third third March 1999 and so with more digging we came to the discovery that today being the nineteenth April 2015 the matchmaking is meant to happen today but that's all we know. So I'll just settle in and wait to see how the day goes.
I with the Js have also made further plans on seducing a rich millionaire just in case the matchmaking doesn't go as great as planned.
Call us desperate but when things don't go your way, then you might as well play your way through things. That's me in Jake's voice.
I open the door and walk into the magnificent heavily beautified room and I almost squeal from excitement, I feel so girly, but I'm so gonna take a lot of selfies before checking out tomorrow.
I carefully take a seat on the bed and take off me five inches bringing me to my pitiful five feet three inches and I need to take a quick bath before moving out and seeing the rest of the massive and elegantly pleasant hotel.
I strip and entered into the towel hanging on a hanger close to the door of the bathroom. I wrap the towel around myself singing my favourite Justin Timberlake's song My love
Ain't another woman that can take your spot my-
I hum the music loudly as I step into the bathroom. If there is anything I'm proud of being, it was being a number one fan of Justin Timberlake for fourteen years. He was the first one I fan girl-ed, the first that made me cry, he always had my heart and I did dream like every humble fan that on the day he'd come to me like prince charming and propose to me and I smile brightly probably from overwhelming love will accept.
Well, that dream was crushed when he got engaged in 2011 and got married in 2012, I remember locking myself up in the room and crying over someone who didn't even know I existed. Jack still tease me for that, but I guess you never get over your first love. Justin will always have my heart.
Yeah, because
I can see us holding hands
Walking on the beach, our toes in the sand,
I can see us on the countryside
Sitting on the grass, laying side by side.
You could be my baby, let me make you my lady,
Girl, you amaze me.
Ain't gotta do nothing crazy,
See, all I want you to do is be my love.
(So don't give away) My love
(So don't give away) My love
(So don't give away)
Ain't another woman that can take your spot, my love.....
My singing is cut short when the door opens and closes again.
"Who is there," I asked, poking my head out through the door to ask. I get no reply so I guess there's no one there.
No one can be there, I'm the only one with the keys remember? I think to my worrying self.
I continue bathing and when I'm done, I wrap the towel around my small body and walk out of the bathroom. I stop when I saw a MAN lying across MY bed with his arm covering his face. His legs are scattered carelessly all over the bed like he owns it.
The image of him being happy and loving with my best friend felt like betrayal. It felt like he had launched a knife into my heart while I was struggling to breathe. How could he betray me this way? How could he betray me with my best friend? "You said you loved me." I cried out and brushed the tears running down my face away. He stared at me, and the coldness in his eyes mirrored the one his mother always had for me. "That was my greatest mistake." I felt cold. ..... Once Imela believed love was enough, but not anymore. Love was just another lie that the weak believed in to keep them from seeing the truth: that there was no place for people like them in this world.
He rose and moved towards me, my heart picking up its pace with every step he took. His hand stroked the side of my face, causing a tingle to rush through me and I shivered into his touch just like earlier. He leaned in and his breath fanned over my face, hot, weakening and mind-numbing. "You should be running, Zera." he said with a voice so raw it made me shudder against him. "The most sensible thing to do is run from someone like me." "I don't want to run." I stubborn stated, worn out with his long game. It wasn't helping anyone. He wanted me, I could see that, and I wanted him too. His nose rubbed against mine, and he moved his forehead against mine. "Oh darling, but you should. I won't be like those little boys you've been with. I won't stop when you want me to. I won't stop until I'm completely buried in your mind and soul. You will belong to me."
"Take off your clothes, I want to see the body I'd be living with for the rest of my life," he commands, moving to the other side of the room where the red armchair was. She hesitated, and that displeased him. He growled, clearly infuriated. “Do you need some kind of motivation? Because you will not get it. Take off your fucking clothes!” he thunders, making her jump and her legs shake. With shaky hands and a trembling body, she grabbed the hand of the silk gown again and dragged it down. Her eyes stayed glued to the floor, not having the audacity to look up at the alpha king across the room from her. “You’re not done yet!” *** Mia Asika had wanted only one thing for the longest time, enlightenment and the freedom to travel the world in search of it. Mia's dreams however ended the day Ariel, her beautiful and fair older sister who was betrothed to the alpha king, died the night before her marriage and she became the last resort. Hated at sight, the alpha king moved to make her union to him that of misery. Can Mia's will for survival withstand the alpha king's cold and unloving nature? Love and Chaos series Book #1 The Alpha King's Ugly Bride Book# 2 His Forbidden Mate Book #3 The Alpha King's Runaway Bride Book #4 Alpha Koz: The Abnormal Alpha
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