I was hit with a sense of Deja Vú as I sat opposite Davian again. The silence was maddening and the only sound was the clinking of our cutlery or rather his as he ate while my eyes wouldn't move from his passive expression. This man kept surprising me each day and today was not an exception.Davian hasn't bothered to look at me since he started eating making me jog back my memories to clarify if he had been the one to invite me out for lunch and not the other way around.“Is the food not to your taste?” Davian suddenly spoke up, disrupting my thoughts as my eyes met his in a short stare down.My eyes glanced back at my untouched plate before they were on him again. “I’m surprised you called me out for lunch. It’s unlike you” I said instead because I still hadn't figured out why he asked to eat lunch together and hadn't said a word to me since we arrived at another high end restaurant.“I had something to discuss and I didn't want to do it over the phone” He said before picking up his
I let out a shaky breath as I exited the building. My eyes caught sight of my outfit in the glass doors and I resisted the urge to smoothen the invisible crease in my white dress because I knew he was watching. I could feel his eyes on me without seeing him. After I walked out on Davian last night, I thought he would end our agreement because someone like him would have limits and it was the second time I walked out on him but it wasn't my fault. He needed to know how to keep his unsolicited opinions to himself.I couldn't hide my surprise when I received a text before I even got into my car to get ready to meet his parents. Just like the rumours, he didn't waste time in getting things done.I liked that about him but it didn't mean my emotions did. I was a nervous mess behind the perfect facade and flawless makeup. I was going to be meeting his parents for the first time and I needed to impress them enough that they'd allow me into their family. I knew how these things work as a mem
“Miss Thompson?” Someone nudged me gently and I was pulled out of my thoughts. I glanced towards the designer, sending her an apologetic smile which she brushed off. “What do you think? You’ve been staring in the mirror for quite some time now” She gestured towards the wedding gown I was currently wearing and I glanced back at the mirror, meeting Davian’s eyes. He kept surprising me every day with his actions and if I didn’t know who he really was, I would mistake him for a gentleman with the way he had been treating me the entire day. First, he insisted we go wedding gown shopping with Harvey and Ira who was the wedding planner Isabelle had hired to help plan the wedding with Harvey and now he wanted to be here like every doting fiancée to help me pick the perfect gown.My head was spinning with the amount of weirdness to his behaviour and I didn’t like the way my heart raced as his eyes swept over the outfit. It was the seventh gown I was trying on and he didn’t look a bit fazed b
THIRD PERSON’S POVTHE THOMPSON MANSION…Blair’s eyes were red with anger as she stared at the article on her phone. She didn’t want to believe what she was seeing. The picture of Davian leaning over that woman intimately made her blood boil with rage. Her source had told her Davian had no relationship with any women because he was too busy with work to date so how come the man was now wedding shopping with a woman?Davian was supposed to be hers. She wanted him and she always got what she wanted but for the first time, something she wanted was slipping through her fingers. She ground her teeth and tightened her hold on the phone to the extent that it would have crushed if it was a light material.She had lowered herself just to get Davian to look at her but he wouldn’t even glance at her for even a minute. She kept putting herself in his point of view but somehow, he was the only man she couldn’t get and also the one she wanted the most. The frustration and anger she felt was overw
When I was younger, I always dreamt of my wedding. While my wedding to Silas wasn't the most glamorous, it was a special and happy day for me because I thought I was getting married to the man who would stand by me for the rest of our lives but I could not have been more wrong.Now here I was again, hoping to be joined in holy matrimony and bounded by vows to a man who was going to help me destroy the same man I got married to ten years ago who was supposed to bring me happiness but brought unfathomable pain to me instead.I didn't want to judge love based on my experience but I couldn't help but think it was all a fantasy, nothing short of a cruel reality. Love didn't exist. What existed was a farce where people like me who were gullible were drawn in and used before being tossed aside when our value diminished.I stared at my reflection in the mirror and I had to admit, Vera delivered as she promised. The dress was breathtaking. The weight of my gown was a constant reminder that it
DAVIAN'S POV"Congratulations, brother. Who knew you would finally tie the knot" My best friend, Ricardo, clasped my shoulder in a firm grip as his lips stretched in a mocking smirk.Ricardo and I have been friends longer than I can remember. We grew up globes alert but our families had close ties with each other which forced us to be in each other's spaces. With the world we lived in, close friends were rare but we would take a bullet for the other.Ricardo was also unaware that this was an arranged marriage and it wasn't because I couldn't trust him to keep my secret but he wouldn't let me hear the end of it when he found out which was why I didn't send him an invitation but the bastard knew everything."Shut the fuck up bastard and wipe that sarcastic smirk off your face. You look like a smug bastard" I hissed and his grin widened. "I must have saved a country in my previous life because Davian Grey just called me a bastard twice" He mocked and I shook my head. He was impossible.
AUTHOR'S POV.This had to be a joke. A fucking nightmare. Because there was no way she was seeing Maliah wrapped in Davian's arms in a custom-made wedding dress and ring glistening under the light.Blair’s hands trembled by her side, unable to form into fists as her vision became blurry but not with tears. With rage and fear. Maliah was back like her mother feared. She dragged her hands through her hair, messing it up and gripping the strands tightly until it felt like they were going to rip from her head. She had to think. No. She didn't need to think about shit. This was a dream and she was going to wake up soon. There was no way Maliah appeared from thin air and got married to the man she desperately wanted for herself. The wedding itself looked like something out of a fantasy. The same fantasy land she lived in when she bragged endlessly while she was younger about the very same wedding showing on the television screen but this one was better and smelt like filthy wealth. In a
I could feel Davian’s gaze on my back as we finally entered the apartment we would be staying here in the Maldives for the duration of our so-called honeymoon.The frown on my face hadn't disappeared since we boarded the private plane and it wasn't going anywhere soon. We had kept to ourselves during the entire flight and the atmosphere had been tense.I didn't want to be here, in another country alone with him but I needed to see what it was he had here that I would be interested in as he bragged at the wedding venue.“I need a drink” I announced immediately. I dropped my bag and myself on the white couch and let out a relieved sigh as I kicked the heels off my feet.We didn't know who managed to leak out details but the paps had been waiting for us at the airport. Luckily, we used a private entrance and hangar so we dealt with none of them but it was still unnerving how easily they could get our details.Davian said nothing but shrugged off his jacket before heading for the stocked