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Aria’s P.o.vI stared at the meal for a while then stood up. I had no appetite for the meal and I did not feel like having anything even though it had a lovely aroma.I moved away from the chair and headed in the direction of the stairs.“Come back to the dining room and eat your meal. You don't walk out on me when I instruct you on something.”My heart shook in fear as I heard him say that. Truly, I knew that something had changed about him. I didn’t want to piss him further so I walked back to the chair, sat down, and ate my meal.Before I was done with the meal, Vaughn had gotten up from the chair and walked to the room. Immediately he left, I sighed in relief and stopped eating the potato porridge. That was the first time a meal was sweet but I still didn’t enjoy having to eat it.I instructed Sandra to call one of the maids so she could clear the table, and then I walked up to the room. I was unsure of what was going to happen and I could not understand why he suddenly decided to
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Aria's P.o.vI sat still and tried to retrace all I had said or an action I must have taken that was making Vaughn act that cold to me.I knew I couldn't complain because truly I had decided to stay here. I was ready to see it through as well but I wasn't sure if I could really handle things the way I thought I would.I walked up to the room and sat at Vaughn's drawing table, with my phone in hand. I searched on Google, “Why did my husband suddenly change his behavior towards me and how can I correct it?” it brought out several reasons and ideas I could use to correct them but I didn't think they were going to work on Vaughn. Something else must have been the matter with him.I put down the phone and jumped into the bed. “I wish I could see my sister. I miss my mum, I miss my old life, aside…” I scoffed when I remembered Liam. I wondered how he must have been doing so I picked up my phone and began to check his profile on Instagram, I saw that nothing about him had changed and he had
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Aria’s P.o.vThe more I yelled, the harder Vaughn thrusted. It felt as though he was angry at something and I was paying for it because I didn’t feel like the sex we had was of love. I cried out to him to stop that he would hurt me but he didn’t stop. He just kept on like I was just a toy.Moments later he stopped. He looked at me in the face and saw me crying, I guessed that was when he realized that he had done it too much. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do it that hard.” I felt disgusted to look at him in the face. I covered up myself with the bed cover and lay on the bed, crying. I had asked for it and I had seen the outcome of it. As I lay on his bed, I realized that I was bleeding and the blood had filled the bedcover I lay on. I felt so embarrassed especially because I thought that if he found out he might insult me that I had messed up his bed. I just laid on it till I was ready to get up later on.When I tried to stand up from the bed, I felt a sharp pain and I couldn’t close
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Aria’s P.o.vI couldn’t say the specific reason why but whatever good Vaughn was trying to do for me got me nauseated as days went by. Maybe it was because he never did them to me directly. He always sent his guards or Sandra to me to treat me nicely but was distant from me. He didn’t sleep in the house often and neither did he act like I was ever present with him.I woke up one bright Sunday morning and decided I wasn’t going to allow Vaughn to continue treating me the way he did so I decided to go against his will and I moved out of his room. He hadn’t been home two days prior so I didn’t think it mattered much to him what room I slept in.“Mrs Slade, I do not think this is a good idea. You know Mr Slade will be upset when he finds out that you did something against his will. I know these past days haven’t been the best for you but please I wish you could consider waiting for him and discussing it with him before you make this decision by yourself ma.” Sandra pleaded with me as she
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Aria’s P.o.vI watched Vaughn walk away after allowing me to stress so hard as though I had done something wrong. The moment he stepped out of my room and shut the door behind him, I began to yell and lament to myself about how I felt like killing him and how I should have just strangled him as he stood right in front of me.I sat down tired of the best to rest for a while before I continued because I knew there was nothing I could do to him. “He shouldn’t be this hard to get married to a billionaire, should it?” I asked myself as I got up to continue what I was doing and get it done in time.I began to pull the dressing table by myself. It was quite bigger than me and was heavy because the mirror was attached to it and had a cupboard part where I placed my makeup things. I finally dragged it to the door. I used my hand to dry the sweat on my forehead before I opened the door so I could pull it out. Vaughn’s face was so close to mine as I opened the door. I didn’t know how long he ha
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Aria’s P.o.vI had goosebumps all over my hand and neck as Vaughn tried to have his way. I was supposed to stop him but I just couldn’t because I wanted it more than I didn’t want it. My body could not resist how hot Vaughn was so I let him have his way.Vaughn took me and turned the shower on to cleanse the soap off my body. As the water flowed down my skin, he massaged my body with his hand and it made me feel so calm. He pulled me close to himself and began to kiss me passionately. His lips were soft and juicy in my mouth. He began to kiss every part of my body, my face, my neck, and back to my lips. I didn’t know how we were going to do it while the water was raining on us but I knew since Vaughn was in charge, he would find a way around that.I kept enjoying the sweet romance that Vaughn decided to let me get to see. Then, he raised me from my thigh, with my back resting on the wall. He turned off the water with his left hand and placed his head on my boobs. More than that I coul
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Aria’s P.o.vI gazed at Vaughn for a while before I decided to take the drug from him. I knew what I meant to him at that point and it made me feel so pained. I took the water, threw the drug into my mouth, and gulped the water down with it without making any complaints, then I laid back on the bed.Vaughn ignored my cold behavior and went on to do whatever he needed to do that night but I slept off.The following morning, I woke up to a loud music playing outside. I didn’t know where in particular the sound was coming from but I knew it was inside the house.As I tried to get up, I felt my head spin like I was going to fall. I normally don’t feel that way before so I wondered what must be the cause of why I felt my head spinning then I remembered I had taken a drug that I did not even know the name of.I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, and had my bath. Then I wore a lovely gown and went down out to see what celebration or party was going on.The first face I saw as I walked d
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Aria’s P.o.vI raised my eyes up to see who it was who not only walked in late but had an irrelevant way of walking that caught our attention. It was Rachel, my cousin.“Rachel? This cannot be a good day. What on earth is she doing here?” I said to myself internally. I was offended to see her and the moment I laid my eyes on her, everything about her disgusted me.Rachel was the last person I expected to see that day. She was in no way family with The Slade’s and I thought she and Liam had ended their dirty relationship. It wasn’t even as though they made the relationship between them public so I still couldn’t grasp the reason why she was present.“Ah, Rachel…” Vaughn smiled and greeted her warmly as she walked in. I was shocked to know that they knew themselves. “I have been expecting you. I thought you were going to arrive later than this when I did not see you walk in with Liam.”Rachel gazed at me like she expected me to greet her or something. I had gotten up and punched her in
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Aria's P.o.vI couldn't understand why he wasn't doing anything other than that and I didn't want to make it weird by looking him in the eyes.I didn't hear him say or see him do anything after I had said that so I was forced to raise my head and look at him. “Is there something you want to say?” I asked him because I didn't know why he was quiet.He had a warm and gentle smile on his face that made him look like an angel. I loved every part of his beautiful face and couldn't believe that he was taking so much care of me and acting like he was in love with me. He shook his head and said, “Nothing. I did not just know how I found It so hard to recognize that you had been with me all these months. You're more beautiful to the eyes and I know any man will want to be with you more than you might imagine.” His voice warmed my heart and I didn't know if he did that because he knew that it was a charming thing to do or he meant every word that he said. I kept my unbelief to myself but smile
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Aria's P.o.vI didn't understand how Vaughn expected me to just be fine with the fact that I couldn't walk for some time. I don't even know when. “I can't be confined to a chair for god's sake. I had a lot to take care of.” I was worried about myself. “We don't even know when I can walk again. What if it's after a year? Or two? Or worse, five?” I began to make terrible assumptions to scare myself and I said them out loud to Vaughn. The more I thought deeply about it, the more I realized that several things were wrong with the fact that I would just be confined to a chair. “You won't be confined to a chair for long. It's not going to happen. You will have a personal therapist who will help you ensure you walk in a faster time. You don't need to worry about all of these things. I have them all under my control.” Vaughn assured me.Vaughn picked up the food he had bought for us and opened it up. “You've not eaten any good food in a while. I know you must have been tired of eating the m
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Aria's P.o.vThe hurts of the unknown of all that Vaughn is involved in that could be the reason behind why my family is in disarray filled my heart as I lay in bed, glancing at the ceiling, sickly. I wished for several signs or explanations that could help me believe Vaughn or truly show me that he truly was clear of all the accusations I had against him. “But I know Vaughn. He just looks like it from the outside, I don't think he will do things with the intention to hurt me…” I said inwardly.Vaughn had gone out of the room to get me something to eat and maybe speak to someone. I didn't even know what went on that caused me to faint, all I just knew was that whatever happened to me got Vaughn scared and made me see that he really cared for me but he was just hiding his intentions.I held myself to sit up. I felt my body ache. It was as though my bones were too weak and they didn't want to be moved. I wasn't going to give into that anyway because I knew there was a lot of work ahead
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Aria's P.o.vVaughn moved aside for the doctor to properly assess me. He stood behind him and watched him as he asked several questions. “Aria, can you see me well?” The doctor leaned in and asked me. He took his pen torch from his side picked and opened it into my eyes. I felt a sharp pain at first but subsequently, I let him look at me and I moved my eyes around as the bright light from the pen disturbed me from fixing my eyes in a particular spot. “She's reacting good.” He faced Vaughn and assured him. Later, he took off his stethoscope from his neck and swung it in his hand as he tried to put the right part in his ears. He checked something around my breasts, I wondered if he was checking my heartbeat. I didn't know even though I always hoped to be a nurse. I didn't know and, in that moment, all that mattered to me was for me to know what exactly was wrong with me.“Aria, can you hear me? Can you please speak up? You can hear us, right?”Nothing was wrong with me when the docto
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Aria's P.o.v“Why does it feel like there's something still odd about you and your request?” Vaughn looked at me in the eyes for a while. He shook his head and walked away from me, backing me. I took a deep breath out as I had been standing, as though he had choked me with his eyes, and any slight mistake I made could cost me. I cleared my throat and said, “I have nothing to hide from you, but I genuinely need the money. That shouldn't be hard for you to do.”Vaughn scoffed. “I don't think you don't have anything you can hide from me because I feel like you're already hiding something with this request. Aria, tell me whatever it is you're hiding now. Let me know.”I looked Vaughn in the eyes and made sure I acted strong so he wouldn't see through my weak eyes. “I am hiding nothing.”Vaughn looked over my head, back at me, and over again. I turned to look at what he was glaring at. My heart was palpitating. I hoped that I had not left anything in the wrong place that would make him su
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Aria’s P.o.vI trembled at the thought of the fact that I was caught. I couldn’t afford that ever to happen, I was certain Vaughn would kill me or something if he found out that I intentionally disobeyed him and took his niceness to me for granted. I already saw that he had just arrived and it wasn’t possible for him gets upstairs that fast enough. Perspiration drained my body as I watched the door fling open after several banging. Sandra seemed as though a large force pushed her into my room because she was close to stumbling after she entered. “The phone… Hand it over to me now.” Sandra sounded as though something hung in her throat as she spoke. I could barely hear her but knew the context of what she must have been asking me for was nothing more than the phone.Sandra stood in front of me and gazed at me keenly. I could see the anxiety in her look as she glared. It was as though she wanted to snatch the phone from my hand, given how slow I was at processing all that was going o
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Aria's P.o.vSandra took a tiny button phone from underneath her sleeve and handed it to me. “You took quite a time to get the door. I feared that someone might find out I was hiding something before you get the door for me.”“While I was deliberating with the cook. She was scared to lend me the phone. She said the security just allowed her to take the phone into the room because she needed to speak to her daughter who was home alone and they did that without Mr Slade's consent. Another cook in the store room walked over to me and said he could help, he gave me this phone and said it cannot be traced to what house it came from or the owner of the phone. Don't worry ma, I didn't tell them you were the one who needed to use it.” Sandra added.I held the phone in my hand and smiled. “Okay. Thank you. Just help me standby outside, I will need about ten minutes and once the ten minutes is over, kindly knock twice on my door.”Sandra nodded and walked out of my room.I didn't know why; I be
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Aria's P.o.v“Sandra, I need you to do something more important than the food you're trying to give me. Just place it down and let's get down to business now.” Sandra walked to the kitchen slab and placed the food down as she saw the urgency I used to speak to her. I knew she, and I understood I was not in the mood for all the cheerful gait she had.“Is anything the problem ma?” She walked back to me and asked out of concern.“Just follow me upstairs. I need as much privacy as I can get.” I said in a low tone and with a serious gait. It was as though Sandra was familiar with the possibility that whatever I needed her to do would put her into trouble. “Please let me get the food. If I walk into your room without anything, Mr Slade might think that we are planning a coup against him. I was going to say that I'm grateful you apologized on my behalf. This morning, I received my letter….”“Look, you're welcome. I need you to do something important for me right now. We will talk about all
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Aria's P.o.v“I'm sorry Aria, you will not be able to see your parent. The only reason why I should ever send you back to the is if this contract is terminated.” His response was stern and he didn't even look at me in the face while he spoke. He continued dressing and I didn't want to intrude on his privacy but I stood closer to the dressing area. “I know. But I need to see them, I miss my parent and I know my mum would have been expecting me to visit at least or check on them. Look, you haven't allowed me to call them either and I don't get emails from them anymore like I used to when I just got married to you.”Vaughn over the wardrobe at me and said, “I am not allowing you to go and speak with them. You have to let your past stay in the past.”“Vaughn! They are my parent. They are not my past!” I nagged and stayed on my terms. I didn't think Vaughn realized that I was supposed to still be able to see them when I wanted to even though I'm married and this marriage isn't supposed to
