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CHAPTER 4

                    Ximena's POV

"I agreed to Marry Him."

She looked at me like I had horns growing in my head.

"Ximena, you agreed to marry a total stranger?" Mia asked finally finding her words.

"Look the offer sounded too good to be true, I couldn't let it slip off my hands, besides it's a contract marriage, it doesn't really hold much ground, it's not like I'm pregnant."

"You signed your common sense away because I don't see how this sounds attractive to you."

Mia was my childhood best friend, we had lost touch when she moved out and on getting to Mexico, she was the first person I saw and we had rekindled our friendship.

"I know but this is my chance to have the last laugh and I can't even start explaining how this would lift my modeling career."

"Listen Ximena, you have doing this without this man, you singlehandedly built your career to this stage and I'm very sure there's more you can do without this man, why can't you see it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about but it wasn't easy for me to get here, why should I reject an easier way to achieve better?"

She sighed in frustration, I knew I was being stubborn but I had a lot to achieve with the White Horse attached to my name.

"Is this about your Career or about Dean?"

The name stung my heart, I felt a sudden wave of anger Washing through me.

"This is more than just Dean." I said.

She knew I was lying.

"Come on, you locked yourself inside your room feeding your eyes with body development exercises online, completely changed your diet because you wanted to get back at this man who is probably still on the honeymoon phase with the person he left you for. Can't you see this man has moved on and doesn't care?"

"He wouldn't still care if you put on this whole show, he knows what he left and you don't have to constantly remind him, move on girl." She added

She was right, I knew she was but I wasn't ready to back down, I want him to see what he was missing and I didn't care if my desire for revenge would land me in an ocean, I had picked it and I would stick to it.

"It's too late." I said and started walking away from her, I have had enough of her lectures already.

"Do you know anything about this Man aside the fact that he's a billionaire?"

"What's there to know? We spent the whole night together and he didn't harm me. The only thing is for me not to get pregnant and I can enjoy the benefits without necessarily being tied to him, I'm on the pills, I've been on it for the longest time, trust me."

"I'm honestly trying to but you're leaving me with nothing to work with, this man is merciless when it comes to his dealing. He treats everything like a business deal and no matter how you dig deep you can't find nothing on him even when you know there's something there. I fear for your safety Xim, you have so much to lose if this goes wrong."

"I appreciate your worry Mia but I'll be fine, I promise."

I left there, unsure of what to say, I had already ended the conversation by leaving and she knew me to well to raise it up again.

I laid down on my bed, my mind went back to him,Jason, with his beautiful eyes and his commanding voice.

The night we shared together and how he worshipped my body, no matter how I tried, I couldn't get that feeling off my mind.

Did I even know anything about this man? It didn't matter, we'll all be fine at the end of the day.

I brought out my phone and went to check Dean's I*******m page, I had been doing this for the longest time. He had uploaded more pictures of his trip to Zanzibar with his wife.

She smiled so much that it made me envy her, I had been waiting for their relationship to end, but they had proved Me wrong.

I made sure to check all his pictures without accidentally clicking the like button, he was supposed to be blocked but I needed more reasons to be angry.

                         ~•~

               *A week Later*

"Ximena"

I heard Mia shout my name from the living room, I stood up from where I was sitting in my bathroom and made my way outside.

"Why do you look so tired? Shoots?" She asked dropping her bag.

"I heard you calling my name, what's wrong?" I asked sitting close to her.

"It's Jason."

"What about him?" I asked already Angry.

"I found something about him and it'll shock you."

"I told you to leave this topic alone, you can't change my mind but you still went ahead to dig into him." I said yelling at her.

"Ximena, I had to because I didn't want you going through what you have passed through again. Girl, you really have to leave that man alone."

I covered my face with my hands, I had a lot going through my head and this was the list of my issue.

"His last name is Hansen, doesn't it ring a bell?" She said clicking her fingers.

I scoffed.

"People answer the same last name all the time, why does this have to be different?" I asked tired of of the discussion.

"He's Dean's elder brother, they share the same father. His father left him and his mother to marry his secretary, Dean's mum. He managed to survive with the help of the the owners of the White group after he lost his Mum, they had no child, so they adopted him and gave him everything. Ximena, please get out of there before you regret it."

My body tensed.

"No, that can be." I sad trying to wrap my head around what I had just been told.

Dean and Jason are brothers? Why didn't I notice any similarities between them?

"What have I gotten myself into?"

"It's not to late, you can tell him you're no longer interested."

"If all you've said about him is through, then he'll destroy me even before I start. I got into a contract marriage with him." I said tearfully.

"Contracts get broken all the time, yours will not be the first, End this sham and move on from whatever has to do with Hansen, one has done a damage, two would kill you, Ximena please." She begged, holding my hands.

My body was shaking, my hands too, I couldn't control myself, my heart was pumping so hard that I could feel bubbles in my chest region.

"It's more complicated than that." I said as tears streamed down my eyes.

"What else? Did you take money from hi

m? We can take a loan from the bank."

"No, it's not that." I said looking at her.

"Then what?"

"I'm pregnant.”