Maria's POV
A week later...
It's been a week since everything has happened. And I was right; he was going to take his pain away by screaming at me.
I've resigned to sleeping on the couch for now on because I do plan on getting out of here and going to med school. Planning just takes a bit of time, especially when you're trapped in a mansion over-seen by guards and your evil "husband".
I've just woken up from yet another awful sleep on the couch and am now heading into the kitchen for some cereal. It's like this everyday: wake up, get myself some cheerios and coffee,
When I enter the kitchen Luke is standing at the island, his lean muscular body leaning against the island, talking on the phone. From what it sounds like, it must be his father.
Heading into the kitchen, I begin to open and close the cabinets a few times as I try and search for a bowl. But, even as quiet as I try to be, I guess Luke still gets pissed off.
He whips around and immediately hangs up from his call. "What the hell makes you think you can just be that fucking loud while I'm on the phone with someone IMPORTANT." He yells across from across the room. He sighs, "but I guess you wouldn't know what important means because you are so far from that."
Taking a deep breath, I set my bowl down before leaving the kitchen in the calmest manner possible. As I'm walking out, Luke calls out to me, "oh, and by the way! Our parents are coming over in a few days; they wanna know when the heirs coming."
I instantly stop dead in my tracks.
They want a fucking heir now!? Like hell my virgin ass will sleep with Luke. I've been told you should have your first time with someone you love, and I hate that bastard.
Fuck this fucking life.
With the shake of my head, I continue my way up to the bedroom with my any appetite I had for a breakfast now long, long gone. It had snow stormed outside last night and no ones shovelled the drive way yet, so I guess is should do it myself.
I pull my big bag of all my winter clothing and unzip it. I put on a parka, ski pants, tuque, and some gloves before heading out again.
When I get outside, I head over to the shed, grabbing a shovel and begin to shovel out the long, agonizing driveway.
I hadn't realized how big the driveway was until I had only shovelled 5 times. "I can do this." I encourage myself, taking a long deep breath and continue to have the shovel into the thick fresh snow.
After about possibly hours of shovelling I hear the front door open. It's Luke, of course.
"What are you doing out here Maria? It's freezing, get inside!"
I sigh out and continue shovelling, ignoring his antics to try and get me inside. For what reason? I can't think of anything that would possibly benefit him in getting me inside.
Yea, I'm freezing my ass off so much I can barely feel my literal ass. But no, I am not giving in to that dingus's requests. I shall not answer to that ass-wipe.
Suddenly, out of no where, I feel the impact of a snowball hit my ass. I turn around, dropping the shovel and see Luke tossing a snowball up and down, ready to throw another one at me.
Then, BAM! One at my face.
Oh he's dead.
"Hmm.. looks like someone used to play baseball..." I say gathering up some snow. This time, I'VE got an ice chunk.
"Yeah, amongst many others." His words are lined with pride. "What about you, Princess? Did you major in snow shovelling or something?"
Wow, he's that guy. Good looks with all the girls at his feet and does every sport possible. Then there's me: the girl who couldn't catch a ball in gym or even do a push-up to save her life.
"Well... I didn't do sports- in fact, I couldn't even do a push-up in gym. I was the girl who got the highest academics award each and every year since grade 7, didn't do any sports and spent my extra time in the book store." I explain. "I also had braces and acne all throughout high school was never kissed and only had one friend, Dana. And now she's gone away with her boyfriend."
Luke tucks his hands into his pockets and looks at me with pity and disappointment clear in those eyes of his.
Now I've got him.
I gather up a snowball and hail it directly at his nose.
With a grunt in response, he laughs and comes barrelling towards me.
I scream out as he picks me up and tosses me over his shoulder. He then begins to walk towards the snow pile I made with all the shovelling.
"No, no, no Luke please! I'm sorr-." And just before I can finish my sentence, I've collided with the snow once again.
Luke's POV
She screeches and laughs as I throw her off my shoulder into the powdery, fresh snow. Her tuque falls off and all her dark brown reddish hair scattered out on the white snow.
She giggles as I smile down at her. God, she looks do damn beautiful with those bright green eyes, smile and her dark hair that glows in the snow.
Then that's when I notice her normally blush, pink lips were turning a pale blue. I take her hands in mine and pull her up from the snow, cupping her head in my hands and examined her cold, pale face.
She's frozen solid!
She gripps my jacket and leans into me. "L-Luke..." she gasps, trying to shield herself from the oncoming wind. "I-I'm really cold." She says to me, her teeth chattering.
"How long have you been out here for?" I ask concerned.
"I don't know.. hours I think."
I sigh out and pick her up, cradling her in my strong arms and beginning towards the house in a stride.
I carry her inside then, I sit her down on a couch in front of a fire place. "Alright, take off your jacket and stuff while I make a fire." I tell her, bending down in front of the fire place and igniting a flame to a piece of paper before throwing it into the wood.
After that, I retrieve a blanket for Maria and take a seat down on the couch. I keep a little distance between the two of us since we are still practically strangers to each other.
Maria curls up underneath the blanket, still very cold. "You want some tea?" I ask her as I am getting up once again. She nods so I head into the kitchen and get some tea for her.
I come back and give her some green tea in a mug then sat down next to her.
Fuck this distancing thing. She's cold and needs some warming up.
I place my hand behind her back pull her into me and on my lap to help warm her up. She doesn't even protest. All she does is rest that pretty head of hers on my chest and close her eyes.
She stops shivering and soon falls asleep in my arms.
3 days later...Maria's POVA few days have passed and both Luke and I still aren't quite friendly with each other even after that whole snowstorm storm thing.I still sleep on the couch because I'm pretty sure he's still sleeping with other women since he leaves at 8 each night and comes home at 1. Then, there's moaning.I head into the foyer and notice both my parents standing at the door speaking with Luke."Ahh Maria." My mother says as though she's trying to cover up the fact she was likely just talking about me. "Why don't you get us some drinks and meet us in the dinning hall alright, Dear?" She tells with that fake-ass smile.I return the smile and head into the kitchen to get the drinks.After retrieving some wine and cider, setting them on the table, I try and go ahead and head back to my own business to let them all speak.But my mother speaks up once again, "Sit down, Maria.." she orders, tapping her fingers on the
Warning: Explicit and sexual content in this chapter. Read at your own risk.Luke's POVI put the car into park in front of my club and get out of my Range Rover. My bouncers instantly open the door for me. As I enter, I see Bethany and Cody at the bar talking.God, they flirt so much.I walk up to them and order a scotch. "So, which hotel are you two hooking up in tonight?" I say as I swish my drink around in the glass.Bethany rolls her eyes and kisses Cody."We wanted to stay at your hotel tonight. Maybe get the penthouse." Cody tells me as he takes Bethany's hand and I laugh.I chuckle "No can do, Sir. The wife and I are staying there tonight."They both frown. "Why didn't you bring Maria?" Bethany asks curiously, as though she was planning on becoming friends with her, even after her and I were caught in bed together."Doesn't behave properly," I say and finish my drink, then order another."She's your wife,
Luke's POVI watch peacefully Maria as she rests her head on my bare chest.God, I can't get over how beautiful she is.I stroked her dark brown, soft hair as she drifted off into an awaited sleep.I will protect her at all costs, and if any man even dare think about her, I will claw his eyes out with his own fingernails.And with that, I fall asleep.Maria's POVThe next morning...I wake up and sit up straight up in bed, my body immediately tensing with sheer panic and regret.As soon as I even move myself to get off of the bed, there's abrupt pain to my lower region as I do so. I look over beside me and see Luke laying there, asleep.We're both naked. What have I done..I scramble out of bed and quickly pull on my black lingerie and a hoodie, then scurry down to the kitchen.Without a second of a doubt and my mind still racing from what I just witnessed, I begin to prepare some breakfast in a hast
I wake up in daze the next morning; the first thing I see is Luke up and packing his bag furiously, his clothes flying every which direction."What's going on?" I ask, sitting up and stretching my arms. I look down at the bed and smile, remembering how we fell asleep last night.His eyes dart into mine, then to my nakedness at which he shakes his head at. "We are leaving today. Pack your bags I'm leaving in an hour with, or without you." He grunts as he goes to the bathroom.I sigh and get out of bed, pulling my towel from the floor and covering myself. "0 to 100 real fast." I shake my head in sadness. Why is he like this?I go to the closet and pull all the new clothes I bought off the hangers and stuff them into a suitcase. Luke walks into the closet and sees what I'm doing."What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He yells out. His foot steps quickly follow after, matching the anger in his voice.I roll my eyes. "I'm packing.""
2 months later..Maria's POVIt's been 2 months, 2 months of this. And It's been nothing but hell and burning hands.I've been cleaning the house every day for 2 MONTHS! Every day I get up at 4 am and start to clean this huge ass mansion all by myself. It usually takes me up to 18 hours every day, but at the start, it took me 20 hours. So 4 hours of sleep is the maximum I get everyday.Now it's Tuesday, February 5th at 4:00 am and I'm just getting myself out of bed. Recently, I've been feeling quite Ill. Every morning I wake up and a wave of nausea hits me like a truck, sometimes leaving me puking until I'm completely empty or pass out. I don't know if I'm pregnant; I had hoped to try and find out today, but there's no way of doing that without having Luke find out.If you're wondering, no, I don't sleep in the same room as Luke anymore, I sleep in the maids quarters. I mean, I'm not complaining or anything, it's a lot nicer than I thought it to be
Maria's POVThe shock of those few words has my body completely frozen in place. I reach down and touch my belly, now feeling the obvious weight gain.I stare at the redhead doctor, with my jaw dropped."Oh god...." I gasp covering my mouth with my hand. I lean back in bed. "oh god no..."Tears started to form in my eyes and I brought my knees to my chest. How could I have let this happen? Why did I have to give into temptation and spread my legs for that son-of-a-bitch.I feel a hand reach out and brush against my skin. "Maria.. are you alright?" Luke asked putting a hand on my shoulder.I look over to him then, back to dr. Montgomery who's now talking. "Maria, I need you to lay down so we can check on your ba-,"Before she could finish the word, "baby" I get out of bed and bolt down that hall in a matter of seconds.If there was one thing I was good at, it was running. So that's what I do.I run out of the double doors
The next morning at 8 am.Maria's POVI wake up startled this morning from hearing and abruptly loud snore let out of Luke. My head is resting on his chest and the remainder of our naked bodies are tangled together after the long night last night.I prop myself up, my breasts pressed against his chest and my hand stroking his sharp jaw. I place a kiss on his lips, murmuring, "good morning, Baby."His eyes flutter open, revealing his ocean blue orbs and he smiles. "Good morning, Bellissima." He returns the gesture with twice the passion, pulling my leg over him so that I straddle him.A shiver runs down my back at the feel of his bulge underneath my core.Sitting up, he pulls me even closer to him and begins grinding against me. "How did you sleep?" he asks as though what he's doing should have no affect on me.I bite down on my lip, trying to suppress a moan building up in me. I clench my legs together, trying to compose myself again.
Luke's POVAs soon as I arrive back from the warehouse, I immediately sense that something was off. Rather, someone isn't here.I toss my leather jacket onto my office chair, but as I do so, I catch a glance of the computer screen. I get closer to the screen and see the bold words of: WAREHOUSE MEETING TONIGHT. An email that was only for me to see, but unluckily showed up here on this very computer Maria just so happened to be using."For fuck sakes," I groan and grab my jacket again, pulling it over me. I check the load on my gun before running back out to my truck.Soon, I pull up to the warehouse again, noticing Maria's rover a few blocks before.Thank god it's still there. What the hell would I do if I lost her?I shift the truck into park and turn it off as I make my way out in a hurry. "Maria!" I yell out, approaching the warehouse door and swinging it open with ease. "Where the hell are you, Maria?! I know you're in here."I ta