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Aria’s P.o.vRachel’s response made me suspicious of why she was present and what exactly it was that Vaughn was all about that time around.“I know a lot is going on and I don’t think it will be of any importance for me to know anyway.” I tried to pretend to Rachel so she wouldn’t know that I was aware of the odd things that went on in the Slade family. I didn’t think she was any important to know much anyway.“I’m not angry at you. You made it easier for me to give in to this decision. You can see that Liam is always going to be an asshole now too, right?” I smirked because I knew that the both of them were no longer together and I had not seen them talk to each other since they came.I had not seen Rachel as calm as she was. It felt absurd that she wasn’t showing her shenanigans like she does. I knew there was something odd going on but I didn’t want to make it obvious to them. I decided I was going to find out what it must be that brought them all together.Rachel wore a smile tha
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Aria’s P.o.vSandra gazed at me and I could see that she was regretting her decision ahead of the consequences that could arise. “I don’t think this is a good idea but sure, I will see what I can get for you.” She smiled and walked away.I knew she was going to get me what I needed. Instead of going into my room I walked down the stairs and went to get a wine to drink. I felt happy that I was going to uncover their secrets as well. Vaughn was seated at the bar hut outside. I walked over to the table and asked for a Champagne. Vaughn and the bar guy looked at themselves, then, the bar guy went to get me what I requested.“I didn’t know that there was something we were celebrating other than the ball party. Would you like to share the reason for the celebration?”The bar guy brought me the champagne and poured me a glass. “Thank you… You can pour a glass for Vaughn too. He is the reason for the celebration.”Vaughn seemed surprised by the way I acted boldly in his presence. He looked
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Aria’s P.o.v“Oh goodness! Aria! You look exceptional. I love your dress.” Mrs Slade walked up to me with her arms open wide as she shoved me into herself and hugged me tight. “You are perfect for tonight’s ball. I was wondering what was taking you all so long which was why I decided to come check for myself but what I found, I can’t even believe my eyes.” She turned to the team and Sandra, “You guys are the best! You’ve done a great job.”Mrs Slade held my hand and led me out of the room with her. I was a bit anxious as I walked out of the room with her because I didn’t know how Vaughn would react when he saw me. I wished deeply that I could attract his attention with my looks. Vaughn’s admiration was the highlight to me. I just wanted him to say something to me that would let me know that he saw me and acknowledged me.As we got to the beginning of the stairs, Mrs Slade called the attention of the crowd by hitting a spoon on the glass cup filled with wine that she had taken from on
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Aria’s P.o.vVaughn's hands were soft as I placed mine on his and walked with him to the center of the dance floor. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to look him in the eyes and do those beautiful looks that a princess and a prince do when they fall in love. I knew that wasn't one of those kinds of moments but I wanted to feel something special. It was my first ball party and I was the center of attraction. I just thought it would only be nice if I got to act like I was living a Disney princess life.Vaughn made eye contact with me and gazed at me like he had never seen me before. I could see his eyes as they gleamed and he moved slowly to the side to get a better gaze at me. He moved two inches closer to me and back, with our hands joined together and serving as the string that attached us together.I could see that he wanted me but I was so uncertain about what was written in his eyes. I mean, this was Vaughn, he switches whenever he likes and might never notice me any longer.Vaughn
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Aria's P.o.vThe ongoing slow dance that went on between Vaughn and I paused after the question. He looked at me in the eyes. I was very uncomfortable having to look at him back so I took my gaze off him and back to the ground. I didn't know what he would do to me next and it would be so embarrassing to me if he walked away from me in the midst of the crowd. I was hoping he wouldn't.Vaughn closed the gap between us by moving two steps closer to me. He placed his hands back on my waist and continued the dance. “Truly, you speak too much but I get it. It must be tough dealing with myself and uncovering who I am. I don't like to be attached to anyone and I hated letting you in when I was down about Charlotte, which was why I had to be away from you then. I always see you. You're pretty and sexy. I see you.”I was amazed by the words Vaughn said, it was as though I was dreaming. Never in my life would I have thought that Vaughn would speak to me like I was somebody again. I missed that
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Aria's P.o.vI could not stop myself as I was all out to make sure that I gave Vaughn the best head he had received. He pushed off my head after his cock got so thick and he pushed me onto the bed.I opened my thigh for him and my heart raced faster. I couldn't breathe with my mouth any longer, I opened my mouth as I waited for him to dig into me. Vaughn got to the bed and rolled me to be on top of him so I could initiate the dig myself. I was so excited but I didn't have the time to jubilate so I slowly sat on his dick and it slid into me in a painful sweet manner. I loved it. I could feel it fully in unlike whenever he was the one on me.He held on to my boobs rubbing them and then he placed his hands on my butt when I began to do in faster. Drops of sweat from my body filled his already wet skin and it began to make a flap sound.“Harder, faster…” Vaughn said in an audible murmur and I rolled on his dick then began to grind faster. I felt as though I was having the best experience
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Aria's P.o.vLiam was not pleased with how Mrs Slade yelled at him. I wasn't sure the both of them had a good relationship between themselves. Mrs Slade always complained about whatever he did.“Grandma!” Liam said intentionally to Mrs Slade to piss her off. “Can't I speak to a friend of mine who was forced to become your son's wife anymore?”Liam was rude to Mrs Slade and she didn't take it well with him either. I for one wasn't interested in anything that was going on between them so I stood up and walked my way out of them.“Aria Darling, where are you going to?” Mrs Slade turned to me. I had hoped that she wouldn't see me as I walked off because I just wanted to be away from them and all the drama that their family caused me. I was more bothered about Vaughn not being home by that time. I didn't think thought whatever fight was going on between them or cared about who was right or wrong.“I just want to lie in bed. My head aches. I think it must be the noise from last night.” I he
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Aria's P.o.vI felt like I was drowning as I sat on my bed and wailed. I didn't think I deserved to be treated as badly as Vaughn was treating me. I wished how I felt within me didn't matter so much to me.I had buried my face into my hands as I wailed. I didn't notice when Mrs Slade walked into the room until I felt a presence around me and finally, her hand wrapped over my shoulders. She squeezed me in and I didn't know why she liked me so much because she was always kind to me.“Don't cry about this. You know whatever Vaughn is saying shouldn't get to you anymore at this stage. You really shouldn't have brought up this matter with him, you know he has a lot on his mind and he behaved just as expected. Maybe you could have used a different approach to get your message across to him.”I raised my head and looked at her. I thought she was supposed to be on my side. I wondered why she was supporting Vaughn's terrible behavior.“I know you have a lot to say from within and there's proba
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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
