Naya’s POV
The smile on my face instantly fell, the moment I took in the seriousness on my father’s face. It took me a while to finally get it but then the realization dawned on me that he was indeed serious!
“You promised me, father!” I snapped angrily. “You promised that I would have a say in this..”
Who the hell was he to dictate my life like this? And what kind of sick joke was he trying to play?
“I was wrong, you do not have a say in this one, you’re getting married to Zach Montgomery.” He said with a note of finality, and then stood up to walk out of the room as if he had not just said something that was bound to change the entire course of my life.
I hated this! I hated that I had to be his only daughter and the fact that it was my father’s clan’s turn to give out one of our daughters in marriage to the Montgomery present leader.
Some months ago, he had discussed with me about the tradition in my family which always made high ranked members of my family give their virgin daughters to the present leader of the Montgomery family.
At first I didn't know why he was telling me something like that because he had other higher ranked brothers who had more than enough daughters to save our family’s face but now I know why…
…they were coming for me!
Now, I wasn’t feeling angered about it because I was literally being forced to get married to someone I knew practically nothing about but felt this way because dad had always promised me that I’d always have a say in anything that concerned my future.
It has always been like that, he’d make the decision but sell my consent… but then I’m this case, he simply did not care. He wasn’t even interested in listening to whatever I had to say about it.
To think that he called me from my home in San Francisco only for him to greet me with such news annoyed me more than it disgusted me and I couldn’t help but talk back at him even though it was the one thing I hated doing.
Never!
“I am not doing this, father!” I yelled out at him who immediately stopped by the door as soon as he heard me speak.
“Okay, fine then, do whatever you want.” He said.
Wait… what?
“…but then you’ll seize to be my daughter and would be cut off from me and every other person from this family… and also lose access to all the bank accounts and jobs you have as my daughter.” He finalized.
“You can’t do that! I’m your only child!” I sneered but he instantly turned to look at me like I was some stupid toddler.
“Watch me.”
My eyes immediately widened at his utterance. I couldn’t believe this; couldn’t believe that he would stoop this low… and try to threaten me just to send his stupid point across.
I visibly shivered when he gave me one last hard look, and then strutted out of the room as if he had not just threatened me into getting married to some stranger simply because of some family tradition.
A tradition that I absolutely never had any business with.
My heart fell, I didn’t want this! I had a life already and a job somewhere else… I can’t do this!
In anger, I picked up my bag and was about to walk out of the house when I remembered that one day, I had overheard Richie, my boyfriend telling someone over the phone that one of the reasons he liked me was because I was going to help him climb up the social ladder.
I had brushed it off that day because I knew that a lot of guys wanted me for that purpose… but then what would happen now that I had no social ladder to offer to him?
Angry tears sprung into my eyes but I refused to let them fall as I stormed angrily into my old room at my father’s mansion and threw myself on the large bed in the middle of the room.
I guess my father was always meant to win anyways and that should be the reason for his unreasonable cockiness; only that this time, I had a lot of things in store for him and my so-called husband.
The kind of things that would make them all decide I was a psychopath…and yes I was,
I was just like my father.
***
I groaned in fatigue as soon as I got to the top of the stairs and stretched.
I had been out jogging for the past hour because I had been looking for a way to avoid breakfast with my father which I successfully did.
I didn’t want to see him yet, especially after that stunt he pulled some hours ago and still wasn’t intending to until he decided to hear me out.
As soon as I got to the corridor leading to his room and mine, which also had his sturdy, I paused when I saw light seeping through his office into the dark corridor.
I could make out the voices of men arguing heatedly in the sturdy, and from here, I could also sense the anger in their voices as they spoke.
It sounded like a fight.
In curiosity, I tiptoed towards his door to eavesdrop on their conversation but I still couldn’t make out most of the words they said.
I could hear the banging of tables and even that of people growling, but instead of walking away like any sane person would, I instead stood rooted to the place because I naturally wasn’t sane.
Everyone knew that…
I knew that my father was in no form of trouble because he was always and has always been able to take care of himself during conflicts.
The person I feared for was the one on his receiving end.
I slowly crept up to the door in order to be able to hear them a little more clearly than I already could and pressed myself against the door, with my ears laid flat on it.
I could hear them clearer now but as soon as I pressed my weight against the door, I heard the clicking sounds of something and wasn’t fast enough to react as I fell straight into the office when the door suddenly sprung open.
Dang!
I laid on the floor unmoving, unsure if I had the audacity to look up into the faces of the men who must think of me as a fool for embarrassing myself this way.
“Naya? What do you think you’re doing?” I heard my father ask in surprise and I sat up slowly, not wanting to meet anyone’s gaze.
Embarrassment crept up my cheek and I could feel it sting my ears as I looked up at my father and whispered; “I was eavesdropping.”
I didn’t want to lie to him, couldn’t bring myself to even though I could have thought of something else to say.
I heard someone’s muffled chuckle sound behind me, and in curiosity, I turned to look in the direction of the voice only to be met with the most silver shade of eyes I had ever seen in my life.
It belonged to a man who looked almost as old as my father but had fine lines around his eyes and had a kind of peaceful smile on his face that even my father could never have.
He looked down at me with so much affection and I unintentionally squirmed because I had never been entitled to this kind of open affection in my life.
“That’s my daughter, Naya.” My father said gruffly from his position behind his desk. I could sense the anger in his voice as he spoke, and even the…embarrassment.
My face flushed.
“Naya, that’s Adonis and his son, Alpha Zach… your husband to be.” He said to me and I gasped.
I slowly turned to the other man who stood a little too close to the handsome old man, and gasped as well when I was met with younger silver eyes.
He looked exactly like his father but had some distinct features that made him quite more physically attractive.
They had these stern expressions on their faces, but that couldn’t dispute the fact that they literally looked like Greek gods.
The ‘Zach’ smirked in my direction, and winked at me.. and for a minute, I wished for the ground to open up and swallow me…
Naya’s POVI sat unmoving in front of the overly decorated vanity mirror, allowing the young maidens who looked a little too eager to comb through my hair and pamper my face with things that made me uncomfortable.They were slowly dolling me up and I was quickly beginning to fall in love with what they were doing to my face and body but I wasn’t in a good mood.I couldn’t be… especially in a situation like this.The only thing which had gotten me so worked up was the fact that I was being decorated for a ceremony that I wasn’t in support of.I had always envisioned looking this great on my wedding with the love of my life and not with an unfeeling handsome young man who in a way reminded me of my father.As soon as they were done with my make up and my hair, they happily helped me into the big white wedding dress that my father had gotten specially for this occasion and stepped away to allow me look into the mirror.They expected me to gasp and croon about how I looked like some hormo
Naya’s POVAs soon as the ceremony was over, I quickly said my goodbyes to my father and a few other people I liked. I was ushered into a white sleek car which stood waiting in my father’s driveway by one of Zach’s soldiers.I saw my father and Zach quickly shake hands, say some inaudible nonsense to each other and parted ways as if a business had just been finalized.Maybe a business had really been finalized though… I was the business, I was the object being sold.The obvious dislike between my father and Zach was so eminent, it hung over us all like a cloak and immediately I began to wonder what my fate would be at his house.I suddenly wanted to escape, to run away to a place where no one knows me because I couldn’t stand this. I couldn't stand being married to a man who was just as cocky as my father… or even more.I couldn’t even imagine a life with a husband that I do not know, and do not even wish to know; and the thought made me want to cry, want to yell at my father for bein
Naya’s POVAs soon as I stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my head and another wrapped around my chest, I knew that there was something wrong.I squinted into the dark room frantically and began tapping on the wall for any signs of the light switch but I couldn’t find any.I could sense a presence in the room but due to how dark it was in here, I couldn’t say exactly where the person was or what they wanted to do to me.Thoughts of Zach and his father trying to take me out now that I was already in their den struck me but I quickly shrugged it off because Zach’s father was a man of honor and wouldn’t lure me here just to kill me.“But what about Zach?” I questioned myself and felt my breath hitch in my chest because I knew I didn’t trust Zach enough.Zach didn’t look or seem as honorable as his father and in fact, behaved exactly like a child that my own father had borne.He was just as dishonorable.“Who is there?!” I shouted into the darkness and was met with si
NAYA'S P.O.V.Letting out a deep breath as I heard his voice, though I felt Zach's gaze on me I didn't bother sparing him a glance. Goodness knows what the hell he is up to."Ok!" I yelled directly into Zach's ears, but made it look like it was completely unintentional. I walked past him and wanted to open the door, but then his voice stopped me."Are you really going to meet my father in a towel?" He asked with an arched brow. I looked down to see that I was actually still in the towel. I'd totally forgotten but I wasn’t about to give him the benefit so I just rolled my eyes."You're the cause of that." I fired back, and he looked at me with a deep frown on his face like he wanted to say something, but he chose to reserve his comment and just turned back to the papers he had torn into pieces.Completely ignoring him, I picked my bag and walked into the closet. At this point, I was really glad that it was a walk-in closet and not a wardrobe.Zach is so filled with pride and so much ar
NAYA'S P.O.V.I felt the familiar sting of tears as Zade pulled the last piece of glass from my arm. I was too shocked to say anything sassy to him, he was also helping me so that was a point in for him. I guess maybe he wasn't that bad. I tried to suck in a breath through my nose, but my lungs felt constricted. It all happened so fast, one moment I was sitting, the next something was breaking and tearing my skin. I didn't know who he was or what he wanted, but there was a man. I could barely see his face because he had a cloth covering his face like an assassin."What the hell made you think you could freaking break a window for no reason?!" Zade snapped as I stayed silent."Zade you need to calm down and let..." he cut the elderly doctor off, and moved from me like I burned him. Can’t say I was disappointed."Calm down? She hasn't even been here for less than a few hours, and she's already causing a lot of trouble. Damn it! I should have done it when I had the chance to!" His voice
Naya's POVI wanted to back away from whoever was in front of me, but I couldn't, even though I badly wanted to.I really wanted to, I promise.A few seconds passed, and the lips on mine started moving. The lips were soft, a bit bigger than mine and...thicker.God, I could literally feel my insides quivering.The person in the dark moved closer to me, and Zach's scent blocked my nose.Subconsciously, I opened my lips to ask him to leave me alone, but the moment my lips parted away, his tongue gained entry into my mouth like it's been waiting for that.A small moan escaped from my mouth, and I didn't know when my hands flew to his warm neck.I was a bit worried that I'd make a mistake because of the fact that I'm not really good at kissing, but the constant moaning from him was making me feel confident.My lips started moving in sync with his, and it felt like the whole world came to a halt.I could feel my heart stopping, but I didn't want to stop. At all.My grip on his neck tightene
Zach's POV"Don't. Zach, even if you're the last man on earth and I needed to be saved, I'd rather die than let you touch me." Naya's words continued ringing in my head, as I quietly got off her.Normally, something like that wouldn't have hurt me at all, but I didn't know why that particular sentence of hers was hurting me so much.I didn't show the hurt that I was feeling on my face, I only let out a small sigh before leaving her alone with her thoughts in my room.The next few months in my life are going to be the longest months of my life, I can already feel it.When I left the room, I started walking slowly to the dinner room. I wasn't interested in having dinner at all, because I knew that things were going to be awkward between Naya and I.She is one of the weirdest women I have ever met. It's weird.I started walking really fast, and I was in the dining room in no time.My father was already seated there, and with the way he was scanning everywhere with his eyes, I didn't thin
Naya's POVGod, my heart was beating really fast. I couldn't even raise my head to look at my brothers. I was sure that they were going to be so angry at me, at what I did.I should've really told them that I was married to Zach. When they asked me why I was in his house, I told them that I was there for a business and not to get married to the son of the family."Naya?" Ryker called, snapping me out of my thoughts. I took a deep breath in, before raising my head to meet his accusing eyes.He looked so betrayed and...angry? I wasn't sure. All I knew was that he didn't look happy, at all.I uncomfortably cleared my throat and I turned my head to look at Raiden. He didn't even try to hide the fact that he was angry, I could see it on his face. It was red and a bit sweaty. I could see that he was trying to hold his anger in, but it wasn't working."I'm sorry, I have to go," I said, and pushed my chair backwards. If I continued staying in that dining room, then I was sure that I would def