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.
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"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 POVEveyone? What the hell did my mother mean by everyone? What was she talking about? "Mum..." Just as I was about to confront her, she pushed the front door open and rushed into the living room. "Everyone, Varda is home!" I could hear her voice echo from inside. I muttered a cuss under my breath. Who else did my parents invite over to the house? What the hell was actually going on? I needed to speak to Stephen urgently, what was his plan? Why was he always one step ahead of me? It was like he could predict my every move and my goodness, it was so annoying. I could not even tell what he was up to this time. Why had he told them about my plan to come home? What else was in store for me? I sighed heavily in frustration, there was only one way to find out.I stepped into the living room and just as i had expected, there were a crowd of people in the living room. Balloons were hung around, as a matter of fact there was so much decoration for something that was as basic as me co
Varda's POVI spent most of the drive back home staring through the car window like an excited five year old going for a car trip with her parents. I felt so free, it was the air was different from the one in the mansion. Here felt better, it made me feel more alive than ever. Seeing people going back and forth, people living their normal lives made me feel happy. It made me feel like for once in my life, I was not the main character of the story, I was not the centre of attraction, I could blend in.As the car to my home drew closer, I could feel my heartbeat rise extremely fast, my palms were sweaty and i felt anxiety overwhelm me.My parents had no idea that I was coming back home, I could not help but wonder what their reaction would be like. Would they be happy to see me? Disappointed? Would they even be home? Did they still even stay at the house? What if they had moved or something? I started to feel really stupid for coming home, I should have probably just rented an hotel for
Varda's POV I spent a few more minutes thinking about everything and everyone. Well mostly about Elisa, my thoughts were suddenly interrupted by one of Stephen's bodyguards who reminded me that the driver was waiting outside of the mansion for me.I hastily showered and changed into clean clothes. Afterwards, I grabbed my backpacks and stepped out of the room.The hallways were crowded with maids and I could feel their eyes on me. I bet they were dying to know what was going on, I could see the written all over their faces, they made it so obvious, even with the whispering noises.I adjusted the straps of my backpack tight, my eyes scanned through the hallways, searching for a glimpse of Stephen but there was no sight of him. I hoped to at least see him before leaving, for reasons not even I could explain. It felt like I was just badly yearning for his presence.I shrugged off the though as I stepped out of the mansion. Speak of the actual devil, Stephen was standing close to a blac
Varda's POVElisa walked towards my bed with a poker face, her eyes roam the room as if searching for something. Her eyes eventually settle on the small space in the my backpack where I had stuffed the piece of paper Celine gave me earlier."You probably want to keep that well so you do not lose it." Elisa pointed at the paper. I hastily clutched the backpack tight because I felt uncomfortable knowing that Elisa had her eyes on it. Did that mean she heard all of my conversation with Celine? Well, there was nothing she could do to me, I was leaving the mansion today and not even her could stop me. I was just a little bit worried about Celine because I was afraid she would get bullied by Elisa for helping me. I just hoped in my heart that Stephen would watch over her just like I had instructed him to. Plus I believed he would because he offered to help with her daughter's hospital bills. I was slowly beginning to trust Stephen regardless of the fact that I knew it was dangerous. Stephe
Varda's POVToday was finally the day I looked forward to. The day that I would be stepping out of this mansion. It felt like a dream to be honest, I never saw this coming, I was still skeptical about leaving the mansion because I was afraid that Stephen would change his mind. Or maybe I was afraid of leaving the mansion and coming back to find it in ruins. I was not even sure what reason as to why Stephen had granted my request to leave the mansion, that was enough reason to leave me anxious, plus the whole fight Fransisca made things worse.She was going to leave the mansion too and I was going to return back as Asher's mother, the thought of that alone sent chills down my spine but there was nothing I could do to convince Stephen to change his mind, not even Elisa could success in doing that, talk less of me.I understood where Stephen's concern was obviously coming from but it still felt like a lot of weight on me. I had barely even taken care of myself enough, then Asher? I still
Varda's POV"I have a list of places in mind. Florence is a tough girl, tougher than she looks. There are a lot of places she could be at but I will do my best to gather more information from the maids and with that, I could make a list for you to tonight since you are leaving the mansion tomorrow." Celine explained. I released a heavy sigh of relief and pulled Celine into a tight hug, taking her off guard. "You are the best Celine, thank you so so much." I said squeezing myself into her arms. Celine only chuckled in response but sooner than later, our hug was interrupted with a familiar voice."I see you two are getting along very well." Elisa's voice rang out loud. Celine and i broke free from our hug hastily and while Celine kept quiet, I rose up to speak. "Celine was just keeping me company, do you have a problem with that?" I snapped at her."Celine, do you not have work to do or is keeping Varda company going to pay you?" Elisa snapped at Celine a harsh tone.I scoffed at Elisa
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