CHAPTER 135JAMES.I wouldn't have been this worried if I didn't get her text that looked to be in distress, it was hardly twenty minutes that she walked out when suddenly I got a notification on my phone beeping in an emergency.She had been complaining about having weird calls and texts and it was Marcus' idea that we set the safety app up, so we would be able to track ourselves.I was still on the phone talking to Marcus and telling him about the sudden appearance of my mother when the notification came in.As I made my way down the stairs, as fast as I could an awful squeak cut through theair and somehow settled under my skin.I made my way out and saw that she was nowhere around the garage.My phone beeped again with a live location this time, slowly I could see the red round indicator moving away and hitting the main road.At first I thought she might have been going with my mother to heaven knows where,but looking around I saw her purse laying in the ground. My heart skipped ma
CHAPTER 1JAMES'S POVIT WAS Worse than I'd expected.I watched as well-suited men and women trooped in and out, all wanting the same thing I was there for.I could easily be one of the top business tycoons on Wall Street, but deals like this were what made me the billionaire I am today.While everything that had to do with my life was built on piles of money, I’d always been able to say not everything was that balanced as well.My life was like a myriad built from the mirage of everything you want to see.A billionaire, Thirty-two and counting, yet no woman had touched me recently. There was all sense with why I could have my pick of beautiful women with that, but that part of my life had been touched deeply enough for any attachment to last beyond sex and u meaningful pleasure.Maybe I had become too cynical about my experiences in life, but trusting a woman enough to make a relationship was not something I was so keen on.The receptionist walked toward where I was, her heels echoi
CHAPTER 2IRENE'S POVHe was one hell of a fine man!Part of my mind kept buzzing over the man who just walked in a moment ago, and even as I tried concentrating on something different from mere looking at him, I couldn't.He was handsome in every sense, I decided— staring down from his beautiful face to his breathtaking physique, sending embers of his alpha male aura through my nerves as my femalehormones were leaping around in a frenzy of attraction for him.I’d caught a glimpse of him strolling in through the door and decided he was the right distraction that was needed at this point.When he’d settled on the chair not far away from where I was, it took a lot to resist the impulse to showcase to him my interest.He was the right thing I required at that point, the missing puzzle in my life at that moment.The truth was, considering how desperate I am, I would have totally gone for anyone who walked through that door.Here I was at Twenty-five, sitting still at the spot of waiting
CHAPTER 3IRENE'S POVOne could easily get attracted to James Fraser without knowing, as merely seeing alone erased whatever thought I had about Nathaniel away from my mind.What I found the most intriguing about his appearance, however, was that despite his look being all smoke and fire, he didn't try to take advantage of it.There were some weird things about him, however, something I can wrap my fingers about, but can only see when I look into his eyes.After turning down his request to drive me home, I made my way out quickly to get a cab before his presence did more harm to my heart than good.At the doorstep I found a package from an anonymous person, I opened my door before walking in, wondering who had sent the black dress and wine.My phone buzzed with a new notification.Wear that tomorrowIt was a brief message with James' name written boldly underneath it.I padded into the bathroom, hoping I would wash away all the anxiety I was feeling about the next day.The warm water
CHAPTER 4.IRENE'S POVCOULD IT BE LOVE, lust or everything that was in between these two?Could it just be unfitting passion?My mind was filled with an array of thoughts, lots of thoughts that I could feel filling the blank spaces of my heart.My mind was darkness and l was nothing but a craft made from it, taking the form of whatever it chooses.I was married quite alright but to a stranger, that became more strange aa the days trickled byI didn't know how to qualify what I felt for him. All I was aware about was the attraction budding inside of me at how attractive he was.How can I love a man I know nothing about, loving him with so much more complications than the blissfulness it came with.It didn't take too long to know we do not fit into each other's life, the moment I had walked through the hallway of his penthouse.The moment I had taken a left turn Into his bedroom, I knew immediately that I did not fit into the life of this man, I just had to adapt to it.Adaptation its
CHAPTER 5IRENE'S POVI froze, my heartbeats slowing like they’d been moulded and dropped against the ground making shattering noises.I shouldn't feel this way right? Since I wasn't tied down to the contract.That wasn't the case here, I felt every pain that came with having your heart broken and the fact was I didn't know why.Maybe it was because deep down I demanded a kind of loyalty from him, I expected that he treated me justly the way I had with over over the last one month.I stood there at a spot, I could feel every pain that came from my heart and soul as my body quaked.One hand clutched my chest, perhaps you stop my heart from fall right through chest, the other muffling my lips from actually screaming out his name.The anger and disappointment were like a leash around me that kept me from taking another step.My breath stopped for a minute, and when it started again I felt the need to leave that spot, I couldn't do it anyone.As I turned, I bumped into a vase that had be
CHAPTER 6IRENE'S POVI WAS stupid enough to do any of this but certainly not this.The last time I had made a decision drunk was over four years ago and it had ended up with a scar deep in my heart nothing could get it offYet this man, something about him felt so alluring all I wanted that moment was to kiss him.It was a war between the right and wrong.A tug-of-war between temptation and common sense.I could feel all the will of common Sense slip slowly out of me in my drunken state and just when I thought I would bury my lips into his and kiss him amidst the heavy rock and roll music my phone rang.I stared down at my phone, then at the caller…rolling my eyes at both."Someone important?" He asked.I could see the impatience in his eyes as well, he wanted to get over the kiss and as much as I would have loved to kiss him back that moment I couldn't.In a way I felt James' eyes all over, he couldn't be here or he wouldn't be calling but still it felt kind of Weird."Yes." I answ
CHAPTER 7JAMES POVI wasn't sure of how to deal with everything as it looked new to me —This whole marriage situation.An intuition played in the back of my mind, sending a wave of uncertainty through me. I thought of possible ways everything could go bad and it numbered too much.Kathy had left soon after Irene stomped off, at first I had been shocked seeing her standing there before it registered in my mind that at the end we were actually married.I had called her name after a few while but that was it—I returned soon enough to Katherine who was adjusting her dress with a smirk on her face.It looked like she got what she wanted already, and I stupidly fell for her the snare she laid.In a way I had done what I felt was unthinkable—I had paraded my mistress right before my wife—contract or none.It left in me a feeling demanding to be made fact.What if she decides to pull out of all this…I couldn't help thinking to myself.At the end it turned out to look like I'd be the one t