CHAPTER FOUR.

EPISODE FOUR.

JENNA'S POV.

My lips brushed the soft surface of Ryker's and he pulled away immediately as if I repulsed him.

His eyes widened in shock and looked around to see if anyone was looking but it's just the camera man who's taken a good shot of us from the corner he was hiding waving at me.

Goddamnit.

"Did you just try to kiss me?" Ryker whispered, his tone dangerously low and excruciating.

"This is what I meant when I said you won't be able to get rid of me that easily." I scoffed in a badgering tone, trying to keep my voice coherent but it's hard to because I just kissed my sister's husband, Ryker, the man I've hated all my life.

"What? You just kissed me at your sister's funeral? How low can you sink?"

"Low enough that I'm ready to do anything to keep my parents' company alive." I snapped back at him, holding my real intentions at the tip of my tongue.

Because he won't definitely give into it if he learnt that my actual aim is to get Arlene away from him.

"You're pulling the same card your sister did with me? That trick is not going to work for me, Jenna. Don't you dare try it."

"We're going to pretend not to know that you're the one who actually tricked my sister into that sham marriage?"

Ryker's face clouded with confusion, he opened his mouth to say a word but clamped it shut again,

"I said it earlier and I will say it again, I don't want to have anything to do with you."

"Then watch me publicize the picture of us kissing each other at your late wife's thanksgiving service." I threatened nodding towards the cameraman who's leaving already.

You're bluffing, Jenna." He scoffed in a disbelieving tone and stared at me like I'm some maniac.

I don't know where that came from either, but I just don't want Ryker to have the best laugh out of this situation.

"Are you going to risk it just to see if I'm bluffing or not?" I fold my arms and move closer to his long frame.

"What do you want exactly?" He finally said and I almost let out a huge sigh of relief but I'm going to save it for when I finally achieve my aim.

"I want to continue the contract my sister wasn't able to finish." I offered.

"Wait, if I actually get that right, that means, you want to be my..."

"Yes, your wife, Ryker. And there's no way out of this unless you want everyone to know that the marriage between you and Lana was a sham marriage."

"What are you getting from this?" Ryker's expression turned colder, his voice dripped with disdain.

"Guess?" I shrugged and it did nothing but piss him off.

"I won't be here to listen to more of the bullshit you have to say." Ryker shook his head and walked out of me immediately.

I watched Ryker leave in anger and all I could feel was satisfaction, I nipped him in the bud, all I have to do is wait till something triggers him and he comes back running to me again.

He will definitely fall for this plan, Ryker is obsessed with having a perfect image, and having a kid with no mother figure in her life is something that he doesn't want.

I returned to my parents' house after having a little moment with Lana, apologizing to her for doing such a dirty act in her presence. I didn't respect her enough, and it broke me.

Who would have thought I'd forced the almighty Ryker to kiss me? I don't want to even be in the same room with him.

Walking in, Mom and Dad are seated with glasses of wine in their hands.

"Well, how did it go?" Mom turned to me with anticipation etched in her expression.

I shrugged nonchalantly, because as much as the meeting ended in a positive note, I don't feel proud of what I did. "I think it went well, we just have to wait for him to give in to my threats."

"I know you won't disappoint me." Dad begrudging tone surfaced in the room, I almost forgot this pudgy man even existed.

He nodded in satisfaction and picked his phone up.

I shook my head tiredly and sauntered towards upstairs to have a rest.

"I guess you're not patient enough to wait for him to give in before releasing the picture." 

"What?" I turned to Dad who was busy scrolling through his phone and scoffed.

"The pictures are circulating over the internet. Did you..."I didn't let him complete his sentence before snatching the phone from him.

My eyes widened at the loved up picture of I and Ryker kissing in the church.

"Who did this? Mom did you..."

"What the hell are you talking about? You know I did nothing." She cut me off in a tone hinged with disbelief.

"Our leverage just got ruined. Mom, this is the thing I had on him and it's been released!" I screamed.

Fear surmounts me and I feel my chest tightened immediately.

Fuck. Ryker would definitely bit my head off because of this. I ruined everything for him.

I would never have released this pictures even if he didn't give into my request.

"Jesus Christ, Jenna. You can't even do one thing right." Mom bitched angrily.

Suddenly, My phone started buzzing in my pocket and I almost jumped out of my skin.

I slid it out and it's Ryker calling.

"He's calling." I mumbled, biting my lips angrily.

"Pick the fucking calls." Mom urged, glaring at me.

Fearfully, I swiped at the green icon."I swear to God, I didn't...."

"Meet me in my house right now." He growled, the line went off immediately.

I shut my eyes in anger, terribly pissed off at the turn out of things. 

Did we have another audience aside from the man I hired to take pictures of us?

Or did he choose to leak it himself?

My plans just went down the drain which means Ryker is having the upper hand and the marriage isn't happening anymore.

Sighing in frustration, I picked up my bag and stormed out of the house, damning whatever my parents had to say or how much they're going to blame me.

The ride to the house was painfully fast and I'm unprepared, luckily, it's his private villa and the press will not be there to bite my head off.

I was just caught kissing my dead sister's husband, there's no way I'm getting out of this easily.

The house was eerily quiet as usual until I entered, shattered glasses were all over the floor and Ryker is at the corner fuming in anger.

"I swear to God, Ryker. I know...."

He snapped towards me the moment he heard my voice and glared at me.

"Bullshit! Jenna, Bullshit! Because you threatened me not up to an hour and now, the pictures are all over the internet!" His ravaging tone sliced through the room and I almost turned into a puddle.

Gosh, he's so commanding.

"But..."

"Mom!" A tiny voice erupted from the stairs, I followed Ryker's angry and shocked gaze towards the direction where it came from and surprisingly it was Arlene, smiling at me like we've known each other for years.

"Uhm...I..."

Her tiny legs scurried off the surface of the ground and in a split second, she was all over my arms kissing me.

What?