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THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 22. SECRET RAGE
~ASH Anger rose in me as I watched Ruby stare at my brother with star crossed eyes. I had to stifle the urge to smash Ethan's face on the steering wheel, to pluck his eyes out, to do anything to stop Ruby from staring at him like he was her world. I gritted my teeth and endured the rising rage. When we got home, I alighted and I gave an excuse of attending a meeting. I doubted that they heard me. They were too bust holding hands and playing love. I've never wanted to kill Ethan so much like I did in that moment. So I left them and walked to the side door that led into the kitchen. My room was on the topmost floor, and I heard them still muttering in the sitting room as I went up. I tried meditating, thinking about things that made me happy. But my thoughts started straying back to Ruby, and how she looked at my brother. She had never stared at me like that before. She always glared at me with anger, disgust, rage, indifference. But never that way. I wanted her
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 23. HER JOURNAL
~RUBY I woke up to a silent, serene morning. There was no loud ringtone distributing my sleep which made me wonder for a moment if something was wrong with Ella. She hadn't called me for a while now. And her number was not reachable. Knowing my impulsive, erratic baby, she was probably too busy with work. Yeah. That must be it. I yawned and was about to roll to the other side of the bed when I noticed a warm body beside me. I whirled around, surprise making my jaw drop when I saw Ethan, snoring slightly. Ethan. On the bed with me. I remembered last night, and how our lovemaking had been so different from what I was used to. And now, he was on the bed with me, when I was expecting to wake up alone as usual. I snuggled close to my husband. He snaked his arm around my waist and pulled me closer, breathing my hair in deeply. This was new. Strange. Unexpected. But I liked it. I decided to stop comparing how different it was, how the contrast was so sharp, s
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 24. ANOTHER FIGHT
~RUBY Ash’s eyes was full to the brim with fire. Rage rippled across his body as he glared at me, fists forming by his side. I swallowed and lowered my hand. As annoyed as hell he might have been, I wasn't going to let him take the journal from me. I knew that I was supposed to say something, anything, to explain my presence in this room that seemed to have been kept as a shrine. A reminder, of whoever this Xena was. "What. The. Hell. Are. You. Doing. Here?" He asked again, stalking closer to me. His gait was slow and steady, with fisted hands by his side. In all the times I'd seen Ash angry, he had never been this mad before. "I...I...I was," I gulped, fear preventing the words from coming out. He looked as though he wanted to strangle me. Or even swallow me. I was not going to let that happen, so I swallowed the lump of fear and started talking. "You know. This is a very large house and when I woke up I was so hungry. I was going to come to the kitchen to ge
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 25. A COMPETITOR
~ETHAN The drive to the company took less than two hours, and I was in work way before my formal resumption time. Not that I care about that though. All I'm after is the growth of my company. As I walked through the doors, I noted satisfactorily, the delight of the customers, wives of filthy rich men who had nothing to do but spend extravagant amounts on jewelry. Our jewelry, especially. We knew our audience, and we were known to provide excellent work for them. I nodded to myself as I made my way to the elevator. All the buyers seemed happy. Satisfied. Except for... a frown creased my forehead as I noticed a young, stunning beautiful lady staring at an emerald necklace with a scowl. Taking sharp strides, I got to the spot and the attendant that was seeing to the woman cowered slightly. "Is there a problem, ma'am?" I smoothly stepped in front of her, blocking her view of that dumbass assistant. "Oh," her voice fluttered for a moment as she stared up at me, and
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 26. THE PECULIAR LAWYER
~RUBY Despite Ethan's reassurance, I was still so damn worried about Ella. And now that I think about it, it's been so damn long, so so long that we spoke. Was it twenty four hours? Forty eight? I can't believe it took me this long to notice. Ella could not go a day without calling me. Hell, she called me more that anyone else. Sometimes even five times if she's feeling particularly mischievous. I didn't realise how much I was used to it until now. My heart had caved in completely, and it felt as though someone set fire to me lungs. I could not breathe. 'Calm down. Just follow Ethan's instructions. Ella is okay. She is totally fine. Stop panicking and just call her agency,' I muttered to myself as I took a deep breathe. I dialed Ella's agency contact, and when nobody was picking after the third ring, my panic increased tenfold. Oh God. OhGodohGodohGod! Maybe someone kidnapped the entire agency. Maybe there had been an accident. But if it was an accident,
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 27. CUT OFF
~ASH I stared at the painting, longer than I should have. What came over me? Why did I end up drawing Ruby instead of Xena? The plan was to paint Xena. I made a vow to never draw anything else. Anyone else. Anyone except Xena. And I had failed at that. I felt so disgusted and angry at myself for being such a fool. For allowing myself to get so distracted enough by the she devil my brother married that I drew her instead. I took a deep breathe. It's okay. It's fine. I could just draw another one and pretend this one never happened. I closed my eyes and tried to conjure image of Xena, the shape of her eyes, the slope of her jaw. I gasped softly as I opened my eyes. I was beginning to forget what she looked like. The images that came into my head was grainy and unclear, as if I was looking at her through a badly fractured camera lenses. 'I'm sorry, Xena. I...I don't know what you look like anymore,' I whispered painfully. I felt the need to apologise. I jus
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 28. LOSING MY MIND
~RUBY I didn't look back as I stormed away from Ash, anger pounding in my bones. He thought he would just apologise for being shitty to me and I'd just laugh it off and be nice and friendly to him? Ah. As if. He was the worse jerk ever, even worse than my high school crush who turned out to be a bully. I would never, ever forgive him for hurting me. I don't care what Ethan thinks is best, as long as Ash doesn't care about my feelings, I certainly would not care about his. And he had the audacity to look sincere! Like he actually wanted to apologise. The nerve! An apology can never solve our enmity. To hell with him and whatever crawled up his ass. I opened the bedroom door and collapsed on the bed, still heaving with anger. I wanted to strangle him. Oh. I wanted to strangle him so bad. I thought back to how small and pathetic I sounded when he was gripping me, crushing my bones beneath his fingers and suddenly, I had the urge to make him suffer.
THE TWIN BILLIONAIRES’ BRIDE 29. SEDUCING MY HUSBAND
~RUBY But nothing happened! I opened my eyes and was about to start whining when Ethan suddenly gripped my waist, lifted me up and threw me on the bed. I gasped at the swift action as my body bounced on the bed. But I didn't get the chance to protest when he started tickling me. "Ethan! Stop! Stop tickling me," I squealed as laughter bubbled out of me. His eyes were shining with mischief and he didn't stop. "You cheater. I told you to kiss me," I was screaming now, laughing uncontrollably. "At least you're laughing now. Which is a very welcomed contrast to the look on your face when I walked in," he replied, as his hands assaulted my neck, my armpits, underneath my knees. He knew all my ticklish spots, and took unfair advantage of them. I squirmed as I laughing, trying to block his hands when— due to the way I was moving around— his hands landed on my breasts. The air in the room changed immediately. His blue eyes burned into mine, and the room felt hot. The
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