Prologue

Author's Pov

Love, what was that? She never knew, she never experienced it in her whole life except for the love her family showered on her, but the one which she craved to experience by her partner never was granted to her, she had only one boyfriend her whole life, in her high school when she was pursuing her degree. He was a weird guy who seemed to be in love with her only until he proposed her, afterwards he started showing less and less interest. 

Until she finally realised why he was with her. He belonged to a well settled family, one of the richest to be precise and she knew he wasn't after her title of being a storm but he was after her body. He made a bet with his friends to sleep with the girl who was rumored to have no boyfriend or night stands, she got to know it after Xander Storm, her father threatened to run his car over him if he hurt his daughter which made the little scary guy run away but on the day of their break up he confessed about the bet ruining her faith and belief in relationships.

Liliana never tried to get into another relationship, she badly wished to be recognized as just Liliana and not some conquest or a daughter and sister of Xander and Alexander Storm. That was the main reason why she started as an artist with her only first name Liliana. No one knew about her real identity except for her friends. 

But today while fidgeting her fingers she felt a wave of worry and nervousness engulfing her as she stared at her face in the mirror. She never realised she could fall in love until he came in her life, she always thought it was just an attraction but after knowing him, spending time with him and getting so close to him she finally realised what she felt for him. She was badly in love with him.

Brushing her dark green dress, she smiled before getting out of the room, it was his favourite color, she was a bit nervous and sad that it wasn't him who initiated the confession but no worries, that ice cold proud man would find it hard to confess yet she wanted to try it. These feelings she had grown were too much, they had became too close and the last few days with him she was sure he shared the same feelings as her.

She walked towards his room, gulping down she raised her hand to knock but paused when it slightly went forward revealing a familiar back to her. Her body froze, her eyes widened steadily when the two familiar and most precious people to her were standing there glued to each other like they were waiting for this moment. The man she was in love with and the woman she considered her sister.

He was hugging her waist and pressing her hips against the table behind her as he played with her loose curl, "I told you I never lose a challenge," His familiar deep voice echoed in her ears like a sharp burning rod being shoved in them, for a second she wished for the man to be someone else but no it was him. She could never go wrong when it came to his voice.

The woman chuckled, before palming his shoulders, "Right, you won, I am jealous, extremely jealous and mad at you being with someone else," He smirked leaning his face closer to hers. 

"Even if it cost you, your years long friendship?" Liliana felt several sharp knives being struck at her throat when her ten years long friend simply waved her hand rolling her eyes.

"She's just someone I prefer keeping beside me, ordinary face, body and no name of her own except for her father's, she is no match to me that's why I never minded her being my friend, but I do mind you going after her just to win the stupid challenge I offered." Liliana felt like a tub of cold water was shoved over her head, she felt a chill down her spine at her friend's cruel words.

She suddenly leaned closer to the man Liliana thought was her destiny before mumbling softly, "Tell me, you haven't fallen in love with her? You stayed with her longer than all the previous girls." This made the man laugh out loud as he shook his head like she had cracked a terrible joke.

"Love? And her? I only used her to get you back and see it worked!" And the strength in Lily's knees weakened, she closed her eyes feeling tears rapidly flowing on her cheeks.

All his affectionate words, those beautiful moments they spend together, the trust and love she had build thinking that she had finally found her charming Prince was actually the result of his lies. Their whole nameless relationship was build on his lies, her stupid assumptions and her naivety. For the first time in her life she actually accepted that her brother, mother and father were always right, she was naive, too easy to fool. 

She learned the lesson the hard way.

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This wasn't the beginning of the story, it was just the glimpse of the story you will be reading further.

This is the spin off of two books, Billionaire's Infatuation and Intoxicated Vengeance, containing Cyril Sokolov and Liliana Storm's story. 

I won't be setting any schedule for now, after the end of Intoxicated Vengeance, I will make this book's updates occasionally.

Till the next adios