CHAPTER 1

**Thelma's POV:**

I sit up carefully on the bed and look at the handsome black man who lies on the bed next to me. 

We are both nàked and I can recall how we got entangled on this bed the previous night.

On my 24th birthday celebration, I am laughed at and mocked by my two closest friends, Sandra and Ella, that I'm still a virgin at 24-years-old. They laugh at me in front of all the guests in the club where they have hosted this birthday bash for me. 

I am pained upon seeing how stupid I appear before them, so I run away to get drunk and to forget my sorrows and bullies there. However, a man in a black suit interrupts me. 

"Hello miss," he says, leaning next to me in front of the bartender.

I look back at the man's face, my eyes filled with tears and wonder who he is? What he wants from me? But I am too sorrowful to listen to him.

He grabs the bottle from my hands, and swiftly pulls me up on my feet to follow him outside of the clubroom, and I get puzzled to be dragged out by a total stranger.

"Who are you? Let me go!!" I scream, as I don a red dress that perfectly accentuates my figure, with my black shoes.

I'm the only daughter of my billionaire parents, and the patrons in the bar don't care to interfere as they are rather absent-minded, drinking from their different glasses.

"Calm down miss, I don't mean any harm," the man in a black suit whispers to me, and I become puzzled, staring at his face, and shocked to realize he looks much older than me. Like a middle-aged man probably in his 40s or above that age group.

I have never fantasized about having an affair with an old man deemed fit to be my uncle's age-mate, and I struggle to pull my hands away from his hold. 

"Calm down miss, I don't mean any harm," the man repeats, as he hastily whisks me out of the clubroom and to a corner less noisy. 

"If you don't mean any harm then release my hand at once! Let go of my hand now," I order him, angry, and he sighs. Quickly turning to face me, he says, "Look miss, I really need your help on something, and I don't mind paying you heavily for this job, because I think that you're the best lady suitable for the job."

"What job?" I ask him straightforwardly, my sharp blue eyes searching his dark face to know if he is lying to me.

I wonder if he is a boss, or a manservant here in City B. As only the billionaire families live here, and can afford the luxurious lifestyle. I wonder what help the man in a black tailored suit standing before me needs from me.

I'm a fair-in-complexion young lady. I have a pointed nose, sparkling blue eyes and the man says, "Look miss. I know that you don't know me. But I see you when you rush in there and I can understand that you're heartbroken."

"So what do you need me for?" I ask him straightforwardly and he releases my left hand that he has dragged me with and says, "I want you to accompany me to spend a night with my boss."

"Your what?" I ask him in utmost disbelief and in shock as I look at him horrified.

I'm the daughter of the richest man in City B. So how can this man be offering me such a useless task?

Well, I already look so heartbroken by my two best friends' insults and ridiculing me in front of the others, and I hear him say, "I will pay you heavily miss, but please come with me first, as we don't have much time to delay here."

I want to protest with him. 

First, I don't know this man.

Secondly, I haven't gone out with a stranger before as I'm usually heavily guarded by my father's security men always.

As my dad doesn't easily allow me out of his sight and even in the event hall that I have used to celebrate my birthday too. My dad's security men are there and guarding everywhere outside, where my friends and I are previously celebrating my birthday in the private hall session of the luxurious hotel that I have paid for, before they laugh at me in front of our colleagues.

I think it best to follow the elderly man outside as he looks so responsible and like an honest man too from his looks and calm his body, and also I really want to lose my virginity to avoid my friends or anyone else laughing at me again.

My father wants to trade me off for marriage to a top billionaire's son, but he hasn't yet found the right match for me, that meets with his requirements of the type of groom that he wants to marry me, and I'm still single and in no relationship too at my age.

I silently follow the old man outside to the car park, and we get into the front seat of his car as the old man starts the car engine and drives out of the luxurious hotel, and I can see two masculine guards seated at the back seat of the car too in silence. As I sit at the second front seat with the old man driving, I stare out through the window to receive fresh air on my pretty face.

We arrive at a magnificent white building and I wonder who owns the powerful mansion that stands in front of me. As I marvel at the exterior view of the exquisite building, and I hear the old man say to me politely, "Step down miss." 

"Okay," I reply, as I remember that I haven't even asked the old man for his name.

I gulp and step down from the car and he says to me, "Come with me miss."

I follow the old man silently into the magnificent powerful building that stands at my viewing as the building looks so powerful like my father's mansion too. And I can see some stationed guards around that stand guarding the magnificent building premises, and we walk into the living room.

"Welcome home Sir Adam," three maids greet the old man first that has brought me into the mansion. They bow respectfully to me and greet me while I wave my left hand in dismissal at them. I can see Sir Adam looks surprised by my action but he quickly says to me, "Come with me again miss." 

Sir Adam and I both walk upstairs to the second floor as the house is a two-story building. Sir Adam pauses first at a door entrance and speaks to me, "My boss is inside in his room. Please wait here miss, let me first attend to him."

"Okay," I say, as I am scared and curious at the same time to know who is the boss of the magnificent building.

Is he my father's age-mate or a young handsome man like my size?

I am scared and at the same time curious, as I admire the artistic painting on the wall, as the paint is of ancient warriors and historical times. I stand nervously and admiring the beautiful view of the second floor lounge. Later, Sir Adam steps out from the room door behind my back, and he says to me, "Come inside miss."

I gulp and follow Sir Adam into the sitting room, and I almost freak out as I can feel all the air in my body rise up in fret, at the cold air conditioning blowing on my fair skin. As the sitting room is white, with white painting on the wall as it seems like everything in the sitting room is invisible and almost transparent. From the white couch, to the white wall paint and to the white curtains, white television, white divider, white ceiling. Everywhere is freaking white and I hear Sir Adam say to me, "Look miss, just do whatever my boss asks you to do okay as I've drugged him to have sex with you."

"What!!" My eyes widen in shock at the revelation, and I quickly tell Sir Adam, "I'm not a prostitute sir," I say, in case that's what Sir Adam thinks of me when he sees me rush into the clubbing area of the hotel and he replies,

"I know miss, just go in there and you will meet with my boss. I promise to pay you heavily as discussed, and I will take you back home to wherever you're going too safely too."

"Is this a joke? Pay me how much?" I ask Sir Adam inquisitively, as I'm not broke and I'm a billionaire's daughter too, as I own a black card.

So how much does Sir Adam think that he could pay me?

"1 million dollars," he says and I chuckle.

"I'm worth more than that sir... And I cannot go in there, I'm scared..." I reply, as I am afraid of who is the man in the bedroom that Sir Adam wants me to meet with.

"Please Miss," Sir Adam begs me, and I reply, "Call me Thelma," as I don't want to mention my last name. At the mention of Sebastian... it is easy for anyone in City B to know who my father is, being that my family is among the top richest in City B.

"Okay Miss Thelma but we cannot continue to delay my boss, so just name how much that you want and I will speak to my old master about it," Sir Adam says.

"Your old master? Who's that?" I ask Sir Adam, but just then I hear a deep male masculine voice ask from within the room door in front of us, "Who's there??"

I freeze as the voice sounds so powerful and very commanding.

"Please go in there miss Thelma... I will be outside waiting for you," Sir Adam says to me, and he immediately sneaks out from the sitting room door, and shuts the door closed on me. Before I can utter any more words to him, and leaving me standing alone in the white sitting room.