Prologue-Marry Him Please.

Marry Him… Please.

Karissa's POV. 

      *******At Mr. Leo's House****

With my back turned against my sister and my gaze fixed persistently outside the window, I clenched my fingers on the curtain in her room as I tried listening to what information she was trying to pass to me.

"He is a billionaire, Karissa and I'm sure he'll take care of you while you take my place. Besides, it's not as though I would let you stay with him for more than three months Karissa, just Three months, I beg" she pleaded with a gentle but determined tone.

"Marry him and Seduce him into loving you Karissa, that's all I ask of you. Just take my place please!" She made an imploring request without thinking twice.

"I can't,  Kristina and that's final!" I refuted with a cold tone as I was getting uncomfortable staying close to her.

She came closer to where I was standing and with a sad smile, she uttered her request repeatedly. 

"Just this time… You have to help me Karissa, you need to help me take care of him please. Just make him ….." My sister Kristina was going to say when I immediately chirped in rudely.

" Can you just stop please. Here I was thinking you called me home because you loved and missed me Kristina " I sobbed as I felt a tear threatening to roll off my eye.

"But no, I was just imagining things. You made me come back home just so you could please your heart desires! I am not marrying anyone on your behalf and that's final!!" I pronounced without any hint of humour on my face.

I wasn't going to care about what she wanted, I wasn't going to give any ears to her sad tone, all I just wished for was to live a life and I couldn't do that if I agreed to her proposal.

Her pleadings became more intense than I had expected, she wanted me to get married to her betrothed leaving my sweet single hood life, leaving my life goals because of her.

"Please, I love him" she sobbed silently behind me. She wanted pity and that was something I could do but, I just had to try my best to block my emotions from getting to me.

I got hacked off, hearing her whimper close to me, I had to make her see reasons, I had to make her understand that she could just refuse the proposal and my dad won't move an inch.

She was his best daughter and he did everything for her. So declining a betrothed request wasn't going to cause an issue for her.

"What should I do? Reject his proposal? This is a fucking one life time event and I can't miss it because of your advise. Look at me, Karissa, do I look like someone the billionaire will fall in love with? You are way much better Karissa. " she let out with a pinch of anger accompanying her response to my suggestions. 

"Then how the fuck do you expect me to act like you sister?. You know what I'm like, I am nothing close to you. I am rude, I hate being trampled upon, I hate…." I paused for a second, trying to catch my breath and avoiding my dad from hearing me yell at his favourite daughter, my twin.

"I don't even know the so-called betrothed you are getting married to for crying out loud!!" I responded in a harsh tone as I just couldn't place my fingers on the right words to say to make her stop requesting the impossible. 

"Don't do this to me Karissa, you will get to know him the minute I explain everything to you. Please,  just do this for me, I promise to repay you back Karissa" She said softly but I still couldn't agree with her.

It was my life we were talking about here. Why couldn't she just get married to him then they work out their relationship, why must she need me to help her? Why can't she just leave me out of the picture? 

I hesitated for a second as I looked at her with my hands folded on each other reluctantly. 

"You might see me as the wicked sister Karissa, you might call me all names but please, just do this for me" She gripped my dress as she stared into my eyes from her seat, pleading with a sincere heart.

At least that was what I felt she had as she pleaded with me.

"I can't do this Kristina.. I can't give up my goals in life because of a man and besides I'm ill, I might just die before the wedding Kristina" I blurted out as I squatted before her.

I tried making her see reasons with me but seeing how she left my dress, I pitied her, but not enough to accept the deal.

I heaved a soft sigh before standing up to my feet and was going to leave her room for mine when out of nowhere, she said it, she used it against me which wasn't fair.

"You caused this, Karissa. You are the reason for my predicaments, you are the reason why I am in this chair. I hope you didn't forget your promise to me back then??" She said without a sonant breath as she glared at me from where she was sitting.

I turned to her direction, only to be welcomed by an evil smirk on her face at that moment.  

Seeing how serious she was, I recalled what I had said to her, I remembered the promises I made to her back then after the accident. 

'I caused this,' I said inwardly with a sad look on my face. I felt weaker and couldn't defend myself anymore.

She was going to use my promises against me once again and that wasn't fair. A tear rolled down my eyes as I stared at her looking like an evil mistress.

I never believed my sister was this wicked, she needed me to marry a man I do not know or love because of her selfish desires.

She had requested I seduced him into loving me and staying with him till she got to her feet.

I wasn't sure what she felt I was but one thing was for sure, I wasn't the kind to fall in love or make a man love me.

But seeing how she had used my emotions against me, I just couldn't back out now, I couldn't decline her wish. My emotions had gotten the best part of me and that was all she needed to make me accept her proposal. 

"Are you willing to do it Karissa or you wish to see me kill myself because of you?" She turned around her wheelchair and rolled it towards the window with the wheels coming to a stop.

"Trust me Karissa, it would be like you've never ever wished or desired my existence seeing that I'm our father's favourite and not you" She divulged what she had in mind, which pulled me off my feet.

"What do you want Kristina?" I questioned through my gritted teeth in anger.

"Easy, Karissa. Marry the billionaire in my place, after all we are identical twins and no one would notice a thing"

"Stay with him for just three months,till I'm able to walk and I promise, I'll come running to my man" She faced me this time as she negotiated her silly ideas with me.

I couldn't resist, I loved her so much to lose her because of my dreams and she knew that. I had to accept, I had to agree to her terms but one thing was sure, I wouldn't love him or make him love me because I wasn't as weak as she was.

"Fine Kristina, I'll do it. But after three months, if you don't get better, I'll be forced to end the marriage and don't try my patience on that!" 

I asserted and furiously, without waiting for her to say a single word to me, I dashed out of her room.

I was going to marry a ruthless billionaire because of my sister and her silly blackmail. It was for the best though at least I would stop her from dying and also find money to cure my illness.

I thought to myself before heading for the park.