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.
Lihat lebih banyakVarda'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 gazed at myself in the mirror, my hair was neatly packed into a ponytail and i could not ignore the fact that my eyes looked really tired, I looked extremely overwhelmed and that was the simple truth, I guessed that i could lie about how I was feeling but my looks could never lie. I sighed heavily and forced a small smile on my face. I had encouraged myself to continue with my plan and just let things flow however it decided to. There was no backing out of this and I had promised myself to be smart about things, even if I were to ever get into trouble, I would find a way out of it, that was the promise i made to myself.I made a short spin in front of the mirror in my white flay skirt and my pink corset top. I walked out of my room with a newfound confidence as I slowly made my way towards the dining hall.I halted in my steps right in front of the dining hall door when I heard indistinct chattering noise. I recognized one of the voices to be that of Fransisca. "Serious
Varda's POV I scoffed at her and shook my head in disbelief. Was she fucking kidding me right now? Was that some sort of threat? Elisa was clearly passing her boundaries and I swear on my life that she was driving me insane, I meant it was already enough that I happened to be angry at myself, now she just came here and made things worse by deepening the anger I was feeling. "Is that a threat?" I cocked my head to the right and raised a brow at her. My goodness, she had the audacity to actually tell me that. If anyone thought deep about it, Elisa was also a maid, whether she was head of the maids or not did not really matter to me, what mattered the most was that she was still serving people so why the hell was Stephen treating her so well? Why did he treat her so equal to himself? I just found that pretty hard to explain honestly. It was the way Stephen treated her that made and shapened her into an annoying person, she had the guts because she knew Stephen had her back."Those are
Varda's POV "Are you sure you are willing to do anything to save you from getting into trouble with Elisa and Stephen?" I snapped at her. She raised her head up to gaze at me and i watched a confused look grow on her face. She furrowed her brows in confusion at me and she had stopped crying. I bet she could already tell that i wanted something from her, she could probably even be thinking as far as assuming that I set her up just because I needed her help, she could see herself as a target when meanwhile all of this just happened to be a coincidence that would most likely favour my plan."I-I I-I do-not..." She stuttered. The maid paused to clear her throat before continuing. "I-i d-o n-ot understand wh-at y-ou mea-n." She continued to stutter in fear. I was about to reply her but I slowly heard footsteps alongside shuffling noises and that was when it suddenly clicked to me that this was not a good look for either me nor the maid. It would be suspicious if someone saw the maid knee
Varda's POVI had just caught a thief and that was perfect! Yes, I said it was perfect because the thief happened to be a maid, one that I could certainly use to my advantage. I watched her drop the jewelry box in her hand and fall to her knees with tears rushing down her cheek. I hated what I was about to do, I really hated it but sadly, I got no other choice. I had to do it for the sake of survival. I had to do it because that would be the only way to manipulate her into doing my own biddings, that would be the only way to get her under my command, yes it sounded selfish but was that not how everyone else in this mansion were? Selfish? Self-centered? Bitter? Every single person here was only after their own means of survival regardless of how the cost of that could affect other people around them. Take Fransisca for example, she wanted me gone from the mansion not because she actually cared or gave a shit about my freedom but it was because she wanted to have Stephen for herself, sh
Varda's POV I stepped into my room hastily and slammed the door in Fransisca's face. I heard her scream really loud and bang the door but I turned a deaf ear to all of that. Seriously, Fransisca was a nut job, I really wondered where Stephen had seen her in the first place, it was so unfortunate for him that she had to actually bear him a child, it meant that she was stuck with him for life.I sighed heavily and threw myself on my bed. Fransisca had stopped throwing a tantrum, it was quiet now and I guessed that she had left the entrance of my room. Probably off somewhere to confront Stephen about it. I on the other hand needed to draft out my plan and make it perfect. I had a week to myself, a week to make things fucking right, there was no way in hell that I was going to just let that opportunity pass away because I would probably never be getting that opportunity ever again.I sighed heavily and rubbed my temple. Things I needed to do while away from the mansion was to firstly fi
Varda's POVWhy did Fransisca make it seem like I had just told her some sort of abomination? The surprised look on her face scared me. I felt like she was going to bring it up with Stephen and if she did Stephen could possibly change his mind or maybe even do worse. I rubbed the back of my neck in frustration as I watched Fransisca's mouth hang open in shock. I hated how I always felt like I was stepping on the tiger's toes whenever I did anything at all. I hated not having freedom, I felt like a total idiot because then I was no different from the servants around the mansion.I was also like them, I had to rethink every of my actions before actually commencing with them because I had the feeling that if I tried anything stupid, I would get into trouble or the consequences would be very huge, probably above my control. Stephen implemented that rule, he made every fucking body feel that way and I hated it, I wished there was something I could do to stop it but there was nothing, Step
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