Ariana stilled looking at the man in front of her, he was so close to her, his hands placed on the table locking her between in arms. Even with the dark glasses, Ariana could still feel his strong gaze on her, his face not holding any emotions. It was difficult to know what he was thinking or even feeling at this moment.
There was something about the way this man smelt and looked that got her mesmerized, as much as she wanted to look away and yell at this man for getting in her personal space her brain didn’t just cooperate with her. Aiden just stared at her, not making any movement. Dingg!!! Ariana’s phone rang breaking the trance between them, Ariana cleared her throat as she looked away to where her phone was lying. Aiden too looked away taking steps backwards to let her move to her phone. She walked to the table and grabbed her phone placing it in her ears. “Oh, Alright. Thank you Lora have a wonderful night”. Ariana said calm even though her heart was still racing. Placing the phone back on the table she took a deep breath before she turned back to the man. “Lora had made the transfer”. She said with a smile. “Okay”, Aiden nodded as he headed towards the door, Ariana walking behind him. They walked in silence, “I will be in the next room if you need anything just call”. Aiden said, before he stepped out of the room. “Alright, thank you and good night”. Ariana said but he was already walking away, what a weirdo. Ariana said to herself and closed the door. She had booked a room for him in the hotel, since he was her driver and she was in mood to drive, she had his stay in the hotel because she had somewhere to be the next morning, she would definitely run late if she waited for him to arrive from his house to the hotel in the morning. She wore her blue pajamas, fixed her hair in two braids. She didn’t like her hair moving on her face as she slept, so she preferred to fix it in a braid to keep it away from her face. Climbing into her big bed she scrolled through her phone for a while before her eyes were already giving up. Placing her phone in the cupboard. She tucked herself in her big blanket and laid her head on the soft pillow, it only took few seconds for sleep to overtake her. Meanwhile in Aiden’s room, he was wearing his black trousers and nothing more. His broad arms moved as he lifted the cigarette to his lips, taking a deep drew. His chair was facing the large window in his room, his eyes roamed the view of the city. His phone buzzed and he placed it in his ear. “Get to work”. His deep voice echoed in the room as he threw the phone onto the bed, the thick smoke from the cigarette escaped his thin lips at his eyes darkened. Ariana opened her eyes, rubbing it with the back of her palm, she was still so sleepy, stretching her arm to the night stand, she turned on her phone to look at the time and it was 6:00am on the dot. Wonderful she said to herself, she was supposed to be out of here by seven so basically she still had an hour to lazy around. Yawning loudly, she stood up from her bed and walked to the restroom. Her hair was now all over the place, it looked like a squirrel had a fight on her hair. She smoothened it with her fingers, looking at herself in the mirror, she sighed. After a while she was done brushing and was now wiping her face with a small towel. Normally the hotel served breakfast by 7:00am, so she would just have coffee and a pack of cookies which was kept in the cupboard by the hotel management. She walked back to the kitchen where she placed a cup to pour herself a cup of coffee, picking the pack of cookies she walked to the living room and sat down placing the cup on the table and the cookies on her lap. And just then her phone began ringing, picking the call she placed the call on speaker. “Why the hell are you calling me this early?” Ariana said with a smile, as she faked vexing. “Oh my goodness, you ungrateful girl. Do you know how many times you’ve woken me up from my beauty dreams to tell me about nothing important?”. Her friend said almost screaming from the receiver. “You are too loud April, I am pretty sure your neighbors are going to sue your ass one day”. Ariana said and she heard her friend laugh. “Whatever Ari, my husband and I discussed about something yesterday and guess what?” April said in excitement. “How am I supposed to guess? I don’t even know what we are talking about here?” Ariana said as she threw a piece of cookies in her mouth “You are so boring, go get a boyfriend Ariana so you would be less boring”. April spoke. “Do we always have to talk about this? Just let it out already.” Ariana said almost begging. “Whatever, Anyways my husband agreed to let me visit you next week.” April said happily. “Oh my gosh!! That’s wonderful news April after so long”. Joy filling Ariana’s voice. “I know right. I can’t wait to see you, we definitely gonna have a lot of fun. We partying all night long till we get your ass a boyfriend”. April said playfully. “Arghhh, please April, no parties and besides you’re married now, so behave yourself”. Ariana advised “And who said married woman couldn’t have fun and party, no body Ari, so don’t worry about it. Bills on me.” “Of course, I won’t waste my money on parties on drinks”. Ariana said munching on the cookies “And yeah, I heard the nighttime casino was bought yesterday, but no one knows who the buyer is”. April said now sounding serious. “Oh really, isn’t that like the biggest casino in town?” Ariana couldn’t help but wonder who had that much money to buy the casino, the casino had always been owned by joint partners, but now been bought by a person. That person must be filthy rich.“Hmm, I can only guess he must be filthy rich,”. April said “And what makes you think the buyer is a he? I thought you knew nothing about it”. Ariana asked. “Of course it would be a he, which normal woman buys a freaking casino. Only men make such stupid and risky decision”. April explained,” Anyways Ari, I had to go make coffee before my husband wakes up”. April added. “Look who’s doing wifey duties, oh my gosh I am so jealous”. Ariana said teasing her friend. “Whatever weirdo, have a nice day. Bye.”, “Bye”. Ariana answered before hanging up the call. Looking at the clock it was now thirty minutes past six. She heard to prepare for her visit, picking her cup and empty pack of cookies she walked to the kitchen, throwing the empty pack into the trash can, she gave her cup a little rinse and placed it back on the table. She headed to her restroom for a bath after taking all her clothes off and changing into her robe. Turning on the shower, she placed the robe on the
Ariana couldn’t believe what she had just heard ears, could it be that she had heard wrongly. Never in her life have she heard her parents say anything about marriage to her and definitely have not suggested someone for her to marry. She would have said they were trying to prank her but by the look on their faces she highly doubted that and it wasn’t even April first. She opened her mouth to speak but she couldn’t form any words, her lips just shut close as they opened. She saw the worry and sadness in her parents eyes, swallowing the big lump in her throat she decided to say something. “You are joking right? Aren’t you? Mum? Dad?”. Ariana said as she looked between her mother and father, but her father gave her little nod telling her he was serious. “We are sorry sweetheart, this is very serious. And the decision had been made already”. Martha said lowly, her voice filled sadness. The pain in Ariana’s eyes turned to anger, she felt her fists clutched tightly as she raised
A staring competition had started between Ariana and her parents. She desperately needed answers because she couldn’t understand why this strange man had decided to ask to marry her out of all things he could possibly ask for. Her mother sighed. “Alexander savage is a multi billionaire”. Martha said. “So?” Ariana raised her brow at her mother, her mother had mentioned him being a multi billionaire as if it was supposed to explain why he was suddenly interested in marrying her. “Mum what if he is a billionaire, why does he want to get married to me?” She asked. “Ariana we don’t know why, he just gave us an opinion. All we know is he is a powerful man”. Her father explained. “So tell me dad, have you met this man? What does he look like?” Ariana asked, her eyes widened as she saw her father look away. It didn’t take long for Ariana to understand why his sudden change of position. “For Christ sake dad!!!” Ariana said and then tucked in her hair hardly as she paced in the di
“I am a generous man so I will give you 24 hours to convince your daughter to marry me. Or else...I will take her by force, Goodbye in laws and have a wonderful day”. With that Alexander hung up the call pushing the phone into the back pocket of his trousers. “Tiger, What do you think you’re doing? Threatening a family for a girl, come on. This isn’t even worth your time.” Carlos said, as he walked towards the chair and sat down. “I know but I want her, she has been in my mind since I saw her, so I want her and what other way to do that than have her marry me”. Alexander said, picking up a glass of wine and taking a sip. “But man, why her? You can have any woman you want here so why all the stress, and beside we can just bring her here to you”. Carlos suggested. “I can do that but I won’t, I want her to willingly agree to me. And no I don’t want those ugly strippers. I need something new, she’s beautiful and has a nice ass. She’s a feisty and interesting woman who won’t
Again, Alexander had left them speechless. And just like Carlos, he enjoyed seeing the expression on their faces. How dare this man offer him his bitch of a daughter for marriage? Even though Alexander hadn’t seen her in a long while since she left to study abroad, he knew what she was doing. He heard news from his men over there of how she gave herself to different men of different ages and sizes just for fun, because he was a hundred percent sure she didn’t do it for money because she had loads of it to last her a lifetime. “If there’s nothing more to discuss, you can take your leave now”. He added. “You have to re consider Alex, you yourself is no different from her. You have also had a lot of women in your bed so who are you to judge her?” Lopez said as his anger was beginning to peep through. “Don’t put words in my mouth Lopez, I never judged her. I was just simply telling you my qualities in a wife. So please leave, I’m beginning to have an upset stomach just seeing
Ariana walked into the small cafe, as her eyes scanned through the place and then she finally found him. The man she was looking for,Jake. "Hey Jake". She grabbed a chair and sat down, Jake had a big coat, brown messy hair and big glasses on although Ariana guessed it was for medical purposes. "Hey Ariana, this is what you asked for". Jake pulled a large envelope from his bag and handed it over to her, Ariana collected it with shaky hands, she just hoped she won't be disappointed, she desperately prayed that her parent were mistaken about the whole situation. Taking a deep breath, she opened the envelope and pulled a white file out, her eyes scanned through the content of the file and she felt her heart shatter into a million pieces, what had gone wrong? And how did her parents get into such a huge debt? She asked herself. The total amount they were supposed to pay back were billions of dollars, and they were supposed to pay back in the next fourteen days. Who made sure a heartl
Martha and her husband had now finally decided to call Alexander after their conversation with their daughter, Martha wondered what made her daughter change her mind and agree to marry this man after she was so angry when they told her of the idea. David pulled out his phone and dialed Alexander’s number. After a ring Alexander picked up, it was as if he was waiting for David to call. “That was fast, it was as if you were waiting for our call”. David said between his teeth. “Don’t flatter yourself David, I just happened to be close to my phone when you called, and I wondered why you were calling me. So tell me,why are you calling me David?” Alexander asked with a bored tone David raised his eyes to look at his wife, and she gave his an nod, after taking a deep breath he spoke. “Ariana has agreed to marry you”. The other side of the phone went silent. “Did you hear me?” David said, after not hearing any response from the man on the other end. “I am not deaf David, I hear
It was a new day and the family were having their breakfast When they heard a knock at the door,Ariana’s father stood up to go check who was at the door. He opened the door and saw two guys standing in front of the door, David looked at them from head to toe wondering who they were, they looked like lawyers because they were holding a file and they both had neat black suits on. “who are you?”David asked looking at them. “Good morning Mr. David, I am Carlos and this is Eric my lawyer, and I will sent by Mr Alexander. He sent me here to make preparations for the wedding.” Carlos said, looking at the man as he spoke. David just looked at him for a moment before pushing the door wide open for them to enter. “Come in”. David said, the men entered the room and he closed the door behind them. “Sit down,I will be right back”. David said to the guys as he went to the dinning room to call him wife and daughter. “Martha, Ari lets go. Alexander men are here, let’s hear what they want