“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 door as she stepped in the shower. Few minutes later she was now done bathing and was drying her body, her hair was still dried because she had no time to start drying her hair, so she decided not to wash it. After applying her cream and feminine products she walked into her room to wear her clothes. It was a knee length blue flory dress, her cousin made the dress specially for her and had gifted her the dress for her last birthday. It had short sleeves and a v neck line which wasn’t that low to expose her chest. She just brushed her hair and pulled in a loose bun, she had applied a little powder on her face, lipstick on her lips, mascara along her lashes and her favorite small diamonds earrings. She picked her bag and walked out of the room, she was on the fifteenth floor so it took her a while to get to the car pack, there were so many people using the elevator so she had to wait till they had all gone before she got into the elevator. Her driver was already in the car waiting for her, she opened the car door and stepped into the car, closing the door was she sat in. Her eyes moved to the rare mirror and she met his gaze, then he looked away and turned on the engine before driving off. It was a forty five minutes drive to her parents house, it was a big mansion which was surrounded by a high fence and thick iron gate, with heavy armed guys. She always wondered why her family had so much security and bodyguards, around them especially when there were in their house it was as if there was a special gold which they were protecting in their house. Ariana had asked when she was little why they were so many guards in their house but her mother said it was for security and protection because they were very important people. The big gate opened and the car was driven into the compound, and parked in the car park, “You wait here, I will out soon” Ariana said to the driver before she climbed down the car and walked to the house. The surroundings were very beautiful and neat, patches of flowers and greeneries were seen around the company. When the door opened, Ariana walked into the house, it was still as she remembered it nothing had changed at all. “Hey sweetheart”. She turned to the direction of the woman calling her, Martha who was her mother said walking towards her, dressed in a knee length pencil skirt and a peach color top, her hair was curled and pinned neatly as it well down the left side of her shoulder. Even though she wasn’t a young woman any longer she still looked beautiful and classy. “Mum”. Ariana’s lips stretched in a smile as her hands were around the older woman as they shared a comforting hug. “How have you been?” Ariana asked as she pulled away. “I have been good dear, how about you? Oh my your hair has grown longer now. You should get it trimmed”. Her mother said with a smile. “Oh Mum, it’s just a little besides I like it this way. So I’m keeping it”. She returned the smile. “Okay darling anything you say, I prepared your favorite dish come here”. Martha said as she wrapped her hand around Ariana’s arm and pulled her towards the kitchen. The kitchen was large, beautiful and neat. Her mother took a plate from the tray and moved to the pot to serve her some food. Placing the food on the table which had everything already set. “Come sir dear”. Martha offered a sweet smile and Ariana sat down with her mother beside her, it was her mother’s special spaghetti, Ariana could bet all the money she heard that her mother made the best spaghetti. It didn’t take long before Ariana began digging into the food. “This is wonderful mum, thank you”. Ariana said as she picked up a napkin from the table and wiped her lips gently. “Hey baby, how are you doing?”. Ariana raised her eyes to see her father walking towards them with a smile on his face. “Dad, I’m good”. Ariana said with a smile across her lips, David walked to him daughter giving her a hug and a kiss in her hair before he moved to his wife giving her a small kiss on the lips. “We have to tell her today David”, Martha said brushing her husband’s arm lightly. Ariana who picked on what her mother said looked up to the see sadness on both of their faces. “What is it Mum? What do you have to tell me?” The two elderly people looked at each other before turning back to Ariana. “Listen sweetheart, just know everything we do, is all for you, we have something important that we must share with you”. Her father said “I don’t understand dad, what’s going on?” Ariana said with a confused look. “You are going to have to marry Alexander Savage”. Her mother said sadly and Ariana felt her heart stop beating at that moment the words left her mother’s mouth.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
“Yes Ariana, we want to keep it on a low key too to avoid unnecessary attractions”. Carlos said flashing a smile. “I’m about to have a headache just having this conversation with you, what is low key about 300 freaking people? That’s just way too much”. Ariana said massaging her temple with her fingers. “It isn’t too much, anyways you can check the catalog so we can go check the places out” Carlos said. “Or perhaps do you prefer we check it one after the other” He asked. “Of course not, let’s just stick with the catalog, let me see it”. Ariana said as she stretched her arm to collect the catalog from Carlos, she opened it as she began to flip through the pages, it looked like halls meant to be used by the royal family. They looked so luxurious and executive, Ariana wondered why this man was wasting million of dollars to plan a wedding that wasn’t even based off on love. “All these are just too much, can’t we get something less luxurious”. Ariana asked. “No princess we c