Zara's POVA loud gasp filled with shock left Tania's lips. She widened her eyes and broke out hysterically, “What did you say?”I knew as per the contract, it was strictly forbidden to disclose our relationship to anyone in the public. Our marriage was a secret between Xander and my families. But Tania's scornfulness, her snobbish attitude was going way too high and all this while I had been silent but no more. She should know her real place.I curled my lips into a smirk and said with a full swing of snobbish appeal, “Yes, you heard me right.”I slowed down and said with emphasis, “He is my husband and not your boyfriend, my dear Tania.”Tania's fallen apart mouth got together to grit her teeth harshly.Through her gritted teeth, she hissed, “Not even in your fucking dreams, Zara. He is my boyfriend.”I darkly chuckled, “You are dreaming, Tania.”I raised my hand and stroked her cheek, as I rolled out venomous words in sweetness, “How can he be your boyfriend when he is my husband?”

Zara's POVMy heart drummed fiercely when his sturdy, icy fingers played with my waist, holding me intact on his lap.“You have never been so good to cook all this for serving me. I am sure something is off.” He said, squinting his eyes at me.His lips etched on a dark smirk as he taunted me, “A wife who is absent on her wedding night means she despises her husband a lot. I am sure you have poisoned all this good food!”What?! I was genuinely grateful and this was what he would think about all of this?!I felt the bad urge to roll my eyes but I held back. Whatever I had done for him was in good faith because he helped me when nobody could have helped me.His suspicion changed into shock when he saw a wide smile marking my lips.“You are my husband, Xander. Why would I poison your food?” I said sweetly before detaching my gaze from him to the contents on the table.Still seated on his lap, I corked the wine bottle open and poured them in two glasses.I handed him one wine glass, and sa

Zara's POVMy breath hitched in my throat when I found my towel slipping away, bundling at Xander's feet.I immediately shot my head up to see Xander glancing down at my body. His face was filled with darkness and his eyes were brimming with lust, his whole body was stiff and so close to mine. Here I was shaking convulsively and my husband stood frozen, not even flinching a bit on seeing what just happened.I WAS STANDING NAKED, NOT A SINGLE PIECE OF CLOTH COVERING MY BODY.“Aha!”I let out a breathless cry before covering my body with my hands. My cry and my attempt to cover my body drew Xander's attention, and he glanced at my face filled with redness as I had never really stripped myself by my own or accidentally in front of a man.What made my blood run cold was an evil smirk tantalizing on his lips. My heart was in my mouth when I saw his eyes yet again changing into red color. How was this possible?Before I could think about his eyes, he looked down at my crossed arms.Smirking

Zara's POVTICK TICK TICK TICK!Keeping the comb on the dressing table, I stretched my hand to shut the buzzing alarm clock.Unlike the usual days, I made sure to keep an early hour alarm clock. However, the thought of my mother undergoing surgery had me awake at 5:00 AM, one hour before the alarm.I gave a final glance at myself in the mirror. Grabbing a red scarf, along with my purse, I went downstairs to have my breakfast.After keeping my purse and scarf on the sofa chair of the living room, I went toward the dining table. My hastily moving feet stopped abruptly when I saw a hefty man with his back facing me on the dining table.“Xander? Xander would usually have breakfast early and leave for the office earlier but he was having breakfast.” I thought to myself.I had always found myself alone on the dining table for breakfast but this was the first time seeing my husband having breakfast.My feet didn't budge to move. Just a glimpse of Xander's presence reiterated last night's tho

Zara's POVNervously, my eyes gaped into Xander's hot body that was slowly getting exposed when he unbuttoned his shirt more. But after three buttons, he stopped abruptly.“Do you want me to go all the way down?” His frosty words made me jittery and I immediately shot my head up, my eyes filled with awkwardness.His gaze was as cold as ice. Keeping the blazer on the couch, Xander said, “Let's have dinner.”Xander walked up to the table and so did I. Both of us took our seats, and I saw Xander silently picking up the lids, and filling the plate with some food.I did the same. Alertly, I was biting the food down. Again there was a wave of silence. So, was Xander really not going to do anything to me?We were done with our dinner and all this while my gaze was on Xander but he didn't look at me even for once. I was such a fool to think Xander wanted to do ‘something’ to me. How did I forget that he was the one to slap the divorce papers right in my face after our wedding night?I looked