CHAPTER 15–– THE ENGAGEMENT

 

“What the hell do you mean by engagement?!” I shouted and stared at the document that my dear boss placed in front of me and looked at him as i pushed the documents away.

“Amy, it’s just a fake engagement, we can still break––”

“Shut up! Before I agreed to become your fake fiancée with no engagement, it was still fine as even if we break up, it’ll be easy for my parents to accept but now, this, this is practically a knife that will be stabbing right at their heart. When we will get engaged, your parents and mine will meet, new relations will bloom and what then? Tell them that sorry we can’t be together anymore, let’s break it off! Are you crazy?!” I felt like this was something I wanted to shout for a while. Sophia relied on me and teased me about things that I can never do because of the guy in front of me.

“Your sister trusted me to make you happy, they were all happy and I was cheating them… cheating them! Are you even listening, Mr. Alexeev?” Alexander held my hand as I shouted at him.

“I know but I really––”

“Why are you so hell bent on hurting them? Why?” Alexander looked at me and pulled me close to him and finally broke anything that was becoming warm, was forming a softness for him.

“Can you pay a million to me? You can’t. So, do what I tell you to, be a good girl and sign, now!” he shouted, and I shook my head as he held my face and said “Do it, Amelia Carter. You never had an option, it’s all on me.”

“Think about this again, Alex. Please.” I said but Alexander kept looking at me and said, “You don’t have any money, do you?”

I signed the papers, and he took them away and sat right next to me and held my shoulder as he said “We both need this right now. You need the money, and I need space. Amy, I am sorry but let me tell you, it’s all on me, every hurt is mine here. I’ll make sure to make your life go back to what it was if we ever break up. I promise you.” What ‘ever breakup’? Let us be in a relationship before at least.

“I really don’t want to hurt Sophia or Victoria, they were so nice to me. They have been so nice and I––” he shook his head and said “You are thinking too much, we won’t hurt anyone. Our breakup won’t affect anyone at all.”

“Okay?” he looked at me and I nodded my head.

Finally, after the whole sequence we both saw how we were holding each other, and I moved away from him while he suddenly pulled me towards him to kiss my forehead and wipe my tears like a good fiancé.

“We are going to take care of each other, got it.” Alexander said and then said, “Mom’s here.”

“Amelia, what happened to you?” she said as soon as she saw my face and Alexander let me go as she pulled me into her embrace.

It was warm and sweet.

She touched my head and said “Alex said something to you? Don’t listen to this idiot, he is just not worth feeling sad over.”

“It’s not me, she got emotional thinking what if the engagement didn’t work out well and she ends up hurting you and the family. Talk to her, mom. Tell her what she is thinking is stupid, even if we don’t work out well, then also we will never hurt our families, no?” the innocence on his face could make any woman swoon and his mother believed anything and everything he said.

“Of course, we will disown him but never you, my dear. Amelia, feelings are the variables that keeps your relation going, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try to get into one just because of the variables. Whether the relation kept going is never the matter but whether you lived happily through it. And I think Amelia knows how to live her life with the pretty smile she always had going on, no?” I nodded at her while she gave me a side hug and then Alexander came by my side and kissed my forehead again.

“I understand.” I said and she smiled.

“Are you forgetting something to say to me?” Alexander said and smiled at me.

The sarcasm in his voice could be heard from miles away.

“What?” I said and he tightened the arm around my shoulder to make me lean towards him.

“Forget it.” He said and let my shoulders go but held me close again to kiss my head.

“What are doing, kissing my head again and again?” I said as I finally moved away from him.

“I kind of like this look on you.” Alexander said as he stood behind me and I looked at him turning my head.

“What look?” I said as I tried to correct the desk which was already nicely stacked with things in ordered manner.

“This nice, blushing and red face that shows how much you are trying to not make me realize what you are feeling.” I stopped dead when the door opened again and his sister, Sophia entered with a cranky face, and she made a face far crankier as she looked at who entered behind her.

“Alexander, what the hell did you do to make him divorce me?!”

And well, he never knew nothing, his acting even made my heart race today.

And well, he never knew nothing, his acting even made my heart race today.

Fucking actor with a very fuckable face and by God, the day I hit his nice face isn't very far. 

"Well, what's happening here now?" I said and the ex-girlfriend glared at me so hard, a lesser woman might have fallen into hell but damn, I don't care anymore.