There was a slight display of stubbornness between Iris and Alex about where Iris should rest after the kidnapping.Iris was strong-willed and adamant that she returned to her home and let her friends warmly tend to her bruises.She was arguing with him when Sebastian’s men drove her. At first, those men followed Alex’s instructions, and they went in the direction of Alex’s penthouse. But she was livid and stubbornly against the idea. Iris even trashed in the car like a petulant child.“Either you take me back to my place, or I will jump out of this car!” she threatened the driver.The big guy did not like the threat but agreed and rerouted to Iris’ place. Rose and Elena only looked at each other when Iris acted
ALEXANDERHe couldn’t fucking believe it when Iris nodded in a small gesture.She said yes?!“You can’t retract your words, Iris!” he locked her words, and he wouldn’t let her take back her approval.He did not get her time to react because he took her mouth fiercely and poured his gratitude for her to let her know he was ecstatic with the decision.His kisses turned into a heavy make-out, and he couldn’t contain his desire to take her right here. Alex caressed and touched her soft body and took her tops and bottoms, leaving only the bra and panty.“Let’s get these things off,” in a few seconds, a
Alex won the debate with Iris about a bodyguard who now shadowed her 24 hours, seven days a week. He said no more catfights with Julianne nor kidnapping by his father. He had had enough, and he did not want to compromise for her safety. Of course, at first, Iris refused his idea. She thought that was a backward idea, and it felt stifling to have someone put an eye on her for every move. But that morning in her store, Sebastian backed him up and said she needed extra precautions. He finally won her, and he was a bit relieved and left Iris in her store and let her work as usual after the series of unfortunate events she had because of his insistence to make her his wife. “Can you close earlier, babe? I need you to come to the office. Sheila will pick you up later,” he said before he returned to the office and had a serious talk with his father. And also had to devise a mature plan with Sebastian to collect evidence more quickly on his father's involvement in the murder case that his
IRISShe spent the day in the store with a messy head. So much stuff was running inside her mind, and one of the biggest issues that took up her thought was about her accepting the marriage proposal from Alex last night.Maybe she was still shaken up about the last major event, which was the kidnapping by Alexander's father.Call her foolish, but she thought everything that Alex had offered to her last night made sense.Why would she suffer between the father and son war and the feud between the two conglomerate families - The Browning and The Ruthford family. She was a total stranger that coincidentally stumbled upon their orbit and had been pulled into this chaos ever since. But now she bore the consequences because Alexander Roman Browning laid his eyes on her that night. Her day came as a distraction. She was working on autopilot. She smiled when the customers came and let her muscle memories handle her baking process from start to finish. She even miscalculated the change for tw
She and Sheila only needed one hour–to pack her clothes and other essential toiletries into her suitcases. She also loaded her mixers and cake utensils into the car. When Sheila said she could buy the newest and state-of-the-art utensils for her spare tools in the penthouse, Iris politely declined.“Oh, your loss, girl!” Sheila replied with exasperation.It was so weird when she arrived in the grand and luxurious building, where the top floor was where she would live from now on.The team of concierges also greeted her in front of the receptionist's desk. They helped her and Sheila into the private lift that brought her to the penthouse.The situation in the penthouse was the same as she was here last time. Pristine, luxurious ye
ALEXANDERIris had difficulty adjusting to her life and integrating it into his. Alex should have known that. But this was one thing that he didn’t think through, and it made him feel like a fucker. Seeing how shy his fiancee was to put her stuff in this room spoke a lot. She was not a gold digger who took every opportunity to trap him, and two–she was the kind of person who made people like him become a lucky bastard because she would be his. If he believed in luck, this was his most significant luck yet. “Don’t be silly!” Iris interjected when he demanded her to repeat his words. He couldn’t stop his grin, “No, I am quite serious. Repeat after me,” he insisted. But Iris shook her head cutely. “Stop it!” she instead pinched his waist, and Alex just laughed while he brought Iris back into the bed. Lying down with her caged below him. She gazed at him full of trust, and it made him hard. He wondered how he could be so lucky like this!“Your life is going to change, and please bear
“What did you say?” Iris whispered. She stared at him with a confused expression on her beautiful face. “You heard me,” he replied to her. He waited for her to acknowledge their mutual attraction and stop denying their apparent connection. A string pulled their hearts into each other, even though they only met briefly. “You fall for me?” she was still in denial and kept repeating the words as if Alex would change his mind and retract his comments. “But we didn’t know each other well! How could you fall for me without knowing who I am?” Iris threw a valid question, but fuck if Alex knew the answer. He just felt right when he was with Iris. He could give no other proper explanation to justify his obsession with Iris. "I thought you were dreaming of a fairytale love story, babe? Isn't falling hard for you one of the checkboxes to tick for a fairytale?" He teased this woman. He reached for her wispy baby hairs and pulled them back in place. She was only opening and closing her mouth
IRISShe played her half day in a daze. The day she started weird and hot with Alex as a ‘real’ couple. They fought about her feeling that she couldn’t shake since Alex slid the pear-shaped diamond ring into her finger.Her dominant feeling right now was how she felt like she was a bought woman. However cleverly Alex phrased or convinced her that their relationship was not like that right now because it had progressed into a real marriage without a scam.And when she expressed her insecurity and the feeling out loud, it met resistance from Alex. He vehemently refused to label their relationship as like that.After that, when it came to the prenup discussion, she also heard the absurd things put into clauses by Alex. All were favorable to her, and she felt she did not deserve the luxury Alex offered her. So, when Alex threatened to triple the offer, Iris decided to keep her mouth shut, and she would find a way later to deflect the deal, especially about his generous compensation.When