I FELL IN LOVE WITH MY SECRET BILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD

Waking up to the sounds of a piano playing somewhere in the middle of an ocean has become my normal waking up routine ever since I chose to escape from reality. My fantasy dream has become my new reality because I chose to escape with the man that I fell in love with, no matter how many trials and tribulations we have come across together, I still stood by him against my family, and he did the same with me. It is euphoric how far we’ve come, but we are happy with our path – at least for now.I was twenty-two when I met my husband. It is really funny because I was very angry at him for replacing my bodyguard and at the same time I had a crush on him, but he kept it professional because he never mixed business with pleasure and kept his life very private, but that didn’t last for long when I crawled under his skin. I had a crush on him, and I kept it a secret for a long time before I finally confessed it to him. He wasn’t a man of many words then, and even now, I still don’t know much a

PAULAI am walking out of the fabric store, pushing the cart with all my items inside it while I am on a call with my boyfriend of one and a half year, whom my parents dislike so much. He is a biker, a rockstar bandleader with implausible tattoos all over his body, even on his face. His name is Bruce, but everyone else calls him by his stage name, Dungeon Dragon and he has a criminal record. He got his stage name from prison; that is why my parents hate him.I connect my Airpods to my phone so that I don’t have to hold my phone against my ear while I am walking, pushing my cart to the parking lot.“What happened?” He asks.“Well, I had an argument with my parents,”“Was the argument about me?” Well, most of the arguments I had with my parents were about him and for once today, it is not about him.“Not everything is about you, you know Amour?”He chuckles.“That’s a relief, love. You should have told me that you needed to get out, I would have come and fetched you to like, Netflix and

PAULAFLASHBACK“Hey, babe. I am sorry to call you this late, but my phone ran out of battery. How was your gig?” I asked.“Fine, what do you want, Paula?” He rudely asked. He sounds drunk too.“Uhm, did I call you at your bad time?”“No, Paulita, this is a perfect time, but unfortunately I am busy,”“It’s 2 AM, what are you busy with, Bruce? I just want to talk to you?”“Celebrating, Señorita!” He laughs and starts singing one of his songs. “You could have been here too to join the party, but you chose to ignore me the whole fuckin’ night!” He yells, making the person that he is with giggle. The laugh is off a woman that I don’t recognise. Is he only with a woman, I mean, I know that there is a woman in their band, but she sounds more like a man. Who could this one be?“Who is with you, Bruce, are you with a woman alone?” I ask in a firm tone.“What if I am, baby? As I said, I am quite busy. If there is anything else, call my manager.”He hangs up on me. He was utterly disrespectful

PAULAI swear everything has consequences. The alcohol I drank last night is out here, playing in my body, reminding me how reckless I was last night. I regret drowning my sorrows in alcohol like I did last night because I feel so sick right now. I am up, sitting on my bed, thinking about what I did to Sergio. Oh, boy; how am I going to face him from now onward? I should have never kissed him, nor let my emotions take control of me.I pull myself out of bed, heading to the bathroom to brush my teeth and do my morning face routine. I tie my hair messy, walking out of my bedroom. When I reach the last staircase, I find my whole family having a meeting, as if I am the one that they were waiting for to arrive. When I say my whole, I am including all three brothers I have.Oh, oh… no one looks pleased to see me.“Sit down!” Luka, my eldest brother commands. He knows very well that I am scared of him more than our dad. I am even scared to tell him that my head is spinning from last night.I

SERGIO“Where is the truck, Benito?” Petro, Paula’s father wrathfully asks the man standing in front of him.It is after midnight and I am in my basement, watching everything that is happening in Petro’s office from my laptop.“I promise, boss, I don’t know. Please don’t fire me,” Benito clasps his hands together, pleading to his boss.“Fuck, Benito! Out of all the trucks, you fucking lost that one! Do you know how much everything that was in there costs, idiot? How did you lose the truck?” What was in the truck; I need to know how you are making money, Petro. I am concerned about how your truck business can make so much money in three months.“I stopped for a smoke near Repsol and went into the shop at the gas station, but when I got out, someone was driving the truck. I tried running after it, but it eventually increases its speed and left a big gap between us, that was when I knew that I was never going to get to it, so I called you, but you said I should not report it to the polic