Chapter 3

The morning sunlight hit my face and managed to wake me up from a deep sleep, but I was interrupted by a headache that was like a hammer blow to my skull. I grimaced and closed my eyes tightly.

“Take your medicine and then shower and have breakfast.” The familiar male voice made me lift my face and stare at the source of the voice. My eyes widened as I saw Sean drinking from a tumbler.

The man wore a light grey sleeveless shirt with sweatpants; the sight of me unconsciously made me swallow and lick my lips. After a split second, I opened my mouth.

“Sean? What are you doing in-“

I cast my gaze around the room and realized that this wasn’t my room. Luckily, I hadn’t finished your sentence about wanting to claim this room. Then, I hurriedly checked my clothes, and I was again wide-eyed with surprise. Instantly, I pulled the blanket to cover my body more and felt embarrassed. I’m only wearing underwear under this blanket.

“What happened last night? Did we do it?” My gaze returned to Sean with a feeling of anxiety and worry. I waited for him to answer me, but he just stayed silent and took off his shirt.

“Stop! What are you trying to do?” I yelled at him to stop undressing, then covered my face with my hands and turned away. I felt the mattress around me move, and I peeked out from between my fingers.

I held my breath at the sight of Sean’s sexy and irresistible upper body, making me instantly embarrassed and reluctant to remove my hands from my face.

“Put your clothes on, Sean!” I ordered Sean with a warning intonation.

“Why? You should be happy to be able to get a beautiful free spectacle. Think of it as payment for the incredible thing that happened last night.” Sean made me instantly dare to remove my hands from my face and look at him.

“So, last night we did it? No, you can’t be serious, you must be lying, right?!” I was getting worried and scared. I must not be that reckless, having a one-night stand with a guy and giving up my virginity.

Sean looked at me with a cold gaze with his flat face. My face seemed to turn red from that gaze; his golden eyes were so warm.

“You want me to reject your offer when you started to open everything in front of me last night? As a man of course I won’t refuse it, Ariana.” Sean smiled with a smile that made me shudder and feel ashamed; I looked away and felt angry with myself.

“Get ready, darling, let’s have breakfast together, or do you want to take a shower with me?” Sean’s offer made me turn to him again and stare at him with a sharp gaze as if I wanted to give him a hard time right now. Sean chuckled at my reaction, not showing the slightest fear of my threatening mode. Sean then left me alone in his room to shower and get dressed.

When I finished showering, I found a new outfit on the bed. It was a white dress with a short tutu skirt at the bottom that fell below my knees. The sleeves of the dress covered my arms halfway up my hands, and there was a hole to insert my thumb so that I looked like I was wearing half gloves.

This dress was so elegant and when I saw the price, I covered my mouth with my hand while wide-eyed. It is the most expensive dress I’ve ever worn in my life. I don’t really like wasting money on clothes and stuff. My exposed shoulders make me look quite sexy but elegant in this dress.

I walked out of Sean’s room while observing the spacious room that was the living room. I approached Sean, who was sitting on one of the couches, focusing on something on his tablet.

“Hi, thanks for the shirt, I like it.” I stood up with a nervous gesture but tried to smile and cover my embarrassment. Sean lifted his gaze from the tablet and observed me for a moment in silence, which made me even more nervous. His gaze turned intense as if his honey-coloured neutrals were lit up.

Sean put down the tablet and stood up from his seat without removing his gaze from me. I reflexively took a small step back as Sean cut the distance between us, but he managed to grab my waist and push my nape, and his lips kissed mine. I was surprised by this kiss, but when Sean slipped his tongue into my mouth and teased my tongue, I welcomed him to kiss me back.

Sean’s touch on my bare shoulder made me shiver from the unfamiliar sensation that washed over me like an electric shock of status centred on my groin. My stomach seemed to be inhabited by millions of butterflies in flight at the moment as our kiss intensified.

Sean’s land moved from my shoulder to trace the curves of my body until he embraced me and carried me to the sofa he was sitting on earlier and made me lie under his body. Sean brought his hand to the bottom of the dress I was wearing and caressed his fingertips on the surface of my panties.

The movement made me wide-eyed instantly, and I tried to push Sean to stop our increasingly intense activities.

“Stop! No! This is wrong, I don’t want to do it anymore.” I also took the opportunity to speak up and stop our current intense struggle. Admittedly, this activity had raised my arousal, but I managed to realize it when Sean caressed my core down there.

“Doing what?” Sean asked with his gaze still looking possessed by a thick sensuality. I swallowed because right now, this man’s appearance was so sexy in my eyes.

“You said that we fucked last night.” I recalled Sean’s confession a few hours ago.

“I wish you’d let me, but you just took off your clothes and climbed into bed and fell asleep. I have no interest in making love with a drunk woman, you were like the undead last night.” Sean revealed a smirk that made me widen my eyes in surprise.

“You-“

The sound of the doorbell cut off my swearing sentence. Sean shifted his gaze to the top of my head without changing his position.

“Sean, I’ve been calling you since yesterday but you’re not answering my calls.” A woman looked exasperated while looking at Sean. Then the woman stopped a few steps away from me and Sean and looked at me and Sean in turn.

“Did you sleep with the hired woman again?” That question instantly made me angry, and then I quickly looked at Sean and slapped the man.

“If you want to think of this marriage as a game between us, don’t ever expect me to accept this marriage.” I said that while looking at Sean with anger that seemed to want to explode my body.

“What? You want to get married? What about me? I’m the woman who knows you best. You should have refused the marriage that your parents tried to arrange, you forgot that I’m the only woman who’s been there for you all this time.”

The strange woman who was with us here made me even angrier, and I thought I was being played.

Sean exhaled loudly and looked angry.

“Listen, Atika. You have nothing to do with this. It’s best not to try to meddle in my family’s affairs. We’re done.” Sean stared at the woman with a threatening look.

“So you’ll accept the marriage? We’re even planning to build a business and improve our lives” The woman looked pleading. I couldn’t take any more of this drama and exhaled loudly, so Sean and the woman turned to me.

“Whatever your problems are, I don’t want to care about this marriage anymore.” I left Sean’s apartment.

“You won’t be able to run away from this marriage, Ariana, because I want you more than you know.” Sean’s words stopped me in my tracks and made me furrow my brows. The man sounded like a terrifying dominant.