THE SHOOT

Vivian stood in front of the mirror, her hair in loose curls, and her sculptured body in a ruby red gown that would make any passer by stop and look at her one more time.

"Vivian, where are you, we're going to be late...." That was the last thing he said before he got mesmerised by the beauty, which was Vivian.

"Ugh, shut your pineapple hole, I'm dressed already." She said, looking up to see Adrian looking more handsome than ever. "Are we going, or are you going to keep looking at me like that?"

"I'm just wondering how someone could ruin such an expensive dress." He said with a frown.

"Just like how I keep wondering how you ruined my entire life in a day." She walked past him and through the door.

Vivian wondered how Adrian kept acting like such a jackass. He didn't even consider any of his family's feelings when he married her.

Then she remembered he didn't have any family apart from his sister, who was in college halfway across the country. It was featured in over all the newspaper articles when Adrian's parents died 10 years ago in a plane crash.

Vivian was in middle school then. I'm trying her best to make it through the day without getting detention. She got home and met her mum, helping her dad bake. They were singing happily.

"I'm home." Vivian said as she dropped her bagpack in front of the door and ran to the kitchen.

"Hey, lovebug." Her mum said as she put the cake in the oven.

"How was your day, love?" Her dad added.

"It was alright." She shrugged.

"Turn up the volume on the TV." Vivian's mum said as she washed her hands.

Vivian turned the volume up, and the news reporter was giving the news.

"Billioniare Alexander Stone and His wife, Tabatha Stone , died in a plane crash alongside 30 others. Their will has officially been found Alexander's bedroom. All his properties have been given to his first and only son, Adrian Stone...." The reporter said.

Vivian stopped listening, and she wondered how it would have felt losing a parent, thoughtless of losing all two. She didn't know that her mum was never going to come back home two years later after she came back from school.

Vivian snapped out of her painful memories as Adrian entered the car.

He was on his phone throughout the car ride, and Vivian, whom she could possibly call. She knew no one apart from Stacy and her dad.

She was going to talk to Stacy as soon as she got a little privacy in her hands.

"We're here." Adrian said as soon as the car pulled over.

"I knew that." Vivian scoffed.

"Did you, though?" There was this amusement plastered on his face.

"If I didn't, would I have said it?" She asked sarcasticly.

"You are full of surprises, Vivian Cross." He said.

"Don't call me that." She fumed as they walked into the studio building.

"Lighten up, sweetheart." He said, following behind her.

"How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me that?" She spun around dramatically.

"Do you really want me to answer that question??" He said, staring her down.

"You wouldn't dare. This is a public place." She smiled.

"Wanna bet?" He said, holding her waist.

"Bet." She said.

He pulled her to what seemed to be a toilet.

"Private enough for you?" He said with a smirk.

"Anyone could just walk in here." She said as feeling the adrenaline rush through her veins.

"There's something called a lock, sweetheart, but to keep things interesting, amma leave the door open." He smiled.

He rolled up her dress with his hands.

"I wanted to finger fuck your brains out....." His hands were on her thighs. "But...., I voted against it. I don't want you to look distorted in the pictures."He pulled her dress down.

"Coward." She said as she walked out, hoping he would pull her back for some weird reason.

He didn't.

"You don't need to pretend you don't want this Vivian, You don't want me." Adrian said.

"I'm not pretending." She kept walking.

"Then why are you not talking to me face to face. Why are you walking away?" He said.

"Because I am already sick and tired of you. And this is just the first day.' She turned around to face him.

"That's the point...., me making your life miserable." He said.

she laughed, then moved closer.

"The only point you are making is my point. You are a total gunch. You can't even make a woman happy, thoughtless of keeping a wife. You couldn't even get a wife, so you literally threatened me into marrying you." She fumed. "I don't even know where my dad is."

"He's in Dubai with the billion dollars I sealed the deal with." Adruan smiled.

"Wow, so you bought me for a billion dollars?"

"Exactly, I was ripped off. You aren't worth that much." He scoffed.

"Then return me, get a refund." She said with a frown as she moved closer to him.

The stare between them was intense. Adrian's eyes looked like he was ready to devour Vivian in any way he could. And Vivian stared up at him, daring him to do what was in his head. He held unto her waist in a form of sheer possession.

Then, a woman with a clipboard approached them.

"Sorry, Mr. Cross and Mrs. Cross, your shoot." She smiled.

"Oh yes." Adrian said, releasing her.

"Our shoot." Vivian said with a smile.

They were led to an amazing shooting room.

"Please sit, Mr. Cross." The photographer said.

Adrian sat down with his legs wide apart, and his first two buttons undone.

"Now sit on his lap, Mrs. Cross." The photographer instructed.

They looked at each other for about a minute before Vivian obliged.

"Now look into each other's eyes." The photographer said.

They did. Burning into each other's souls.

"Excellent."