Varda's husband is murdered on their wedding day, she is forced into a marriage with his billionaire step brother, Stephen. As she scales through the dark secrets of her new husband, she just face the truth about her husband's true intentions. Join Varda in this bumpy ride of lies, deceit, scandals and romance.
Voir plusVarda's POV
"Yes! I want you! I want more of you!" The sound of the familiar feminine moan caused me to clutch the hem of my shirt tight and bite my lower lip to stop myself from breaking down into tears.
I leaned closer to the door with a hitched breath, my hands reached for the door knob but I struggled to pull it open. Perhaps it was because my hands were shaky or maybe it was because I was afraid to see what was on the inside.
"Oh damn it!" My fiance, Alex moaned in satisfaction. My heart began to race extremely fast as I pondered on what next to do. Even if I did barge in, what was I to say? How was I supposed to confront a man I would be getting married to the next day?
I turned around and shook my head in disagreement, I was not going to confront him. Rather, I was going to pretend like I never even heard them in the first place.
Just as I was about to take a step down the stairs, my ringing tone blared out loud startling me. Alex and Emma had paused whatever they were doing and i could now hear footsteps drawing closer to the door.
I muttered a cuss under my breath, I hastily put my phone on DND and tossed it into my pockets. Just as I was about to rush downstairs, it was too late because the door already flew open wide and Alex was standing by the door, shirtless.
"Hi babe." I forced a smile on my face, pretending like I had not just heard him moaning in satisfaction at my best friend.
"What are you doing here?" Alex snapped at me. I choked out a nervous chuckle before shrugging in response. "I just wanted to hang out with you before our wedding. You know it is going to be quite hectic tomorrow and we will not have time for each other, we will both be busy attending to guests." I said.
Alex scoffed and rolled his eyes at me. "Whatever. As you can see, or as you have heard.." he paused to open the door to his room wide, revealing my supposed best friend, Emma lying naked on Alex's bed.
Our eyes met and Emma hastily covered her face in shame. "Alex, come on! This was supposed to be a secret between the both of us." She whined.
My heart broke. I felt like I had been punched in the guts. I mean I knew it was Emma judging by the sound of her voice but seeing her lying comfortably on my own fiance's bed, it broke my heart into pieces.
I was not even mad at Alex. I mean how could I be?
My relationship with Alex had always been an open relationship, at least so he called it. Alex was a playboy, he loved changing women like they were some kind of item.
The only thing that kept me with Alex was the huge debt that my family owed his family. Alex's grandfather had borrowed my dad a huge amount of money as capital for a business. Long story cut short, dad's business flopped and as the oldest daughter, I was sold to Alexander McCall.
Alex and I only dated for five months and his grandfather's wish was that Alex marries me. I was surprised when his grandfather was able to convince him to get married. I mean Alex was the most famous billionaire playboy in the city.
"Perhaps, would you like to join us? To make it a threesome?" Alex winked at me with a huge grin plastered on his face. I clutched my fist tight and allowed the tears to roll down my cheeks. Emma was supposed to be my bridesmaid for tomorrow's wedding, how could she do this to me?
Without wasting anymore time, I turned to Alex and said. "I will see you tomorrow at the wedding."
With tears in my eyes and a aching heart, I rushed down the stairs and hastily made my way out of the mansion. My heart began to beat rapidly as I boarded a taxi to my home. I could hear my ringing tone blaring out loud but I chose to ignore it because I could already guess who the caller was. It was Emma and i was not ready to hear any stupid excuse from her.
I rubbed my temple in frustration and tried to calm myself down, in less than hour, the taxi driver pulled his cab into my driveway.
I got off the cab and handed the driver a ridiculously high amount of money without caring. All I wanted to do was sleep away my sorrows. Luckily for me, my parents were not home, I was the only one left alone to wallow in my own misery.
I spent the entire day crying my eyes out and trying to reconsider the whole marriage thing with Alexander McCall. I mean it was not like I had a choice, my parents were the one who pushed me into this mess.
The next morning came by so fast. I was woken up by my mother to get prepared for the wedding. Emma, my supposed brides maid had not showed up yet, as a matter of fact, I had a huge feeling that she was not going to show up, the guilt she felt would never let her to.
The preparations were set and just as my father was about to walk me down the aisle, a loud gunshot erupted the air causing a pandemodium to arise.
My heart raced heavily as everyone tried to get themselves to safety, the smoke in the athmosphere blurred my vision and made it difficult for me to run.
All I could hear was shouts and screams of pain accompanied by gunshot noises.
I suddenly felt a tight grip on my wrist. With fear written all over my face, I turned around to gaze at the culprit. It was Alexander dressed handsomely in a tuxedo. I sighed in relief and just as Alexander was about to say something to me, another sound of gunshot cut him halfway his sentence.
The next thing that happened was so fast and the last thing I could remember before succumbing to the darkness was Alexander's body falling flat to the floor, covered in his own pool of blood.
Varda's POV I furrowed my brows in confusion at the hefty man standing a few inches away from me. "Why me?" I asked with a small frown plastered on my face. I had already seen Stephen some minutes ago and I did not think there was more to discuss. Maybe this guy made a mistake. Stephen probably requested for Fransisca and not me.The hefty man eyed me in utter disdain before clearing his throat and saying. "Do not ask and just follow orders." He snapped at me. Without letting me say another word, he turned around and slowly began to walk away.To my uttermost surprise, Elisa followed him from behind. Oh my goodness, can I not just get a break from all of this? I am so exhausted and I need to urgently see Celine to discuss things with her before she hastily makes some weird assumptions like i already reported her to Elisa or Fransisca could even go threaten her because I know Fransisca is capable of going an extra mile just to put me to shame. She just badly wants to turn Stephen agai
Varda's POV "Just because you are the head of the maids or something does not mean you get to act like you own their opinions or something. They just work for you and that is it. I do not think you have the right to control their speech or something. That is clearly just abuse of power and you of all people knows that." I snapped at Elisa with a scowl on my face. She might not want to admit it but that was exactly what she was doing, she was abusing her power, controlling the maids and making sure they did not get to have an opinion of their own, to her it was nothing but to me, it said a lot about her. She was just like Stephen and even though she was not ready to admit that yet, I saw it in her and I bet everyone else in the mansion did too, that explained why the maids and servants were afraid of Elisa, it was because they knew that she was just like Stephen. I guessed that was why Elisa and Stephen were best of friends, they got along so well because their opinions and actions we
Varda's POVI stared at Elisa in complete silence, I waited patiently for her to give me a detailed explanation to everything that had happened during breakfast. According to her, she made it clear to me that she was not doing it to defend me and honestly, I knew she was not even lying. Elisa had no reason to defend me, she did not even like me to the extent of getting something poured over her just all in the name of defending someone like me, totally not worth it for her and I would not do the same for her too.I placed my hand on my waist and slowly accessed her features, she had a poker face on, although the wrinkles on her face were starting to become really obvious unlike before when you could barely even tell Elisa's face just by looking at her. She used to look really young and beautiful, I was not saying that she was no longer beautiful, it was just obvious now that she was older and it seemed like it was because something was stressing her out. She probably had a lot going
Varda's POV "What? What the hell are you talking about Stephen? What do you mean by Asher stays with you but I leave? I am his mother!" Fransisca was beginning to lose her shit again and I bet Stephen could tell that because of how he immediately called some of his bodyguards and in less than a minute they appeared right in front of Stephen. Stephen turned to them to bark orders. "Take her somewhere else until she cools down." He said and without wasting a second, the bodyguards rushed towards Fransisca and slowly pulled her out of the kitchen. She kept yelling and crying, it was such a horrific sight for me, talk more of Asher.Stephen turned to one of the maids. "Take him to his room and make sure he is relaxed, give him whatever he wants and do well to make him feel comfortable." Stephen ordered. The maid nodded her head in agreement and gently lifted Asher up, she held him in her arms and took him out of the kitchen. Asher must have been too dumbfounded to even say a word or mayb
Varda's POV I was still in shock at what had just happened these past few minutes. It felt like a miracle that i was supposed to get into trouble but all of a sudden, all of that changed into the opposite, Stephen was on my side, Elisa was on my side, if I was being honest all of that seemed like a dream and I was not the only one shocked by it, so was Fransisca, she had her mouth hung open the moment Stephen asked us to eat in silence and some minutes had passed by now yet she still remained shocked by it.Her next action suddenly took all of us off guard, most especially her son because he looked really startled as Fransisca slammed the table and screamed loudly. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT STEPHEN? DISMISS ME BECAUSE OF THIS BITCH?" Fransisca yelled while pulling her hair. She looked so aggressive that it actually scared the living daylight out of me. "Fransisca, you need to relax." Elisa tried to calm her down but Fransisca kept taking us by surprise with her actions, she snatched As
Varda's POV My mouth was hung open in shock at the bomb that Fransisca had just dropped from her mouth. What the hell was that? How did she even know about such a thing? Was it that Celine had snitched on me? Or wait a second, was Fransisca there? All those while when I was talking to Celine?I felt entire body freeze in fear as I tried to process all of this. A lot of questions were in my head but I was unsure of the right answer to dish out. I was already unsure of what the situation was, talk less of actually answering the questions in my head."What? What did you just say Fransisca?" Elisa spoke for me, she spoke so fast that I knew she was invested in my conversation with Fransisca. Of course she would be, Elisa was the one person who was against me and anything that had to do with me conversing or relating with the maids. Elisa hated just the thought of that, one could easily confuse that maybe she was jealous that I was talking to other servants but her meanwhile Elisa's anger
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