Daily Prompts (15)

#dailyprompts 15th

Up for take, no strings attached

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She fell for the wrong man.

He is not the only rich man in the city, but no one dares to cross him. It costs not just money, but lives if anyone dares to try. Not even "the shark" -- the iron-wrist business man, his own father -- could control him. Or he wouldn't have left the rich life young at 16 to make his own name, and to build an even bigger empire himself.

But that's not why she shouldn't have fallen for him. She shouldn't because, she has to call him "Uncle Ted".

"He is my brother and he calls your dear grandpa father!" Her father slapped her on the face, leaving five finger-shaped red lines on her tender cheeks, "How dare you even open your mouth to me?!"

"He is adopted, so." She shrugged, wiping off the blood on the corner of her lips slowly with a calm tone, "Grandpa only adopted him because you don't have what it takes to lead the company--"

She gritted her teeth and closed her eyes when her father raised his hand again at her daring words, but this time, the slap didn't land.

"Uncle Ted!" She exclaimed with excitement when she finally dared to open her eyes and peek.

"Where is the damn temper of yours to shout at me when he hit you?" Ted fleered at her, his tone cold and his eyes colder. The man has both elegancy yet an aura of danger at the same time, like a king. You fear him, but at the same time, you can't help but want to bow to him.

"How dare you--" Her father gritted his teeth but Ted cut him off--

"Mind your tone with me, BROTHER. You don't want to cross me."

"Wait till father hears about you trying to seduce HIS granddaughter!" Her father shouted angrily.

"He won't hear about it, because if I have to talk to him, then I might spill more than what you would want, things like, the assassins that were sent after me five years ago."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Her father grumbles, but he no longer dared to look in Ted's eyes.

Ted turned to her: "Go and wait for me in the car. The grown-ups are talking."

She didn't know what happened later that night, but her father surely had a flip of mind. Whatever Ted did that day, it worked. He not only allowed her to love him, but even started planning their wedding. Never again did her father talked to her about her fience like there had never been a problem, until the last night before the wedding.

"You are kidding, right? Father...?" She murmurs, her eyes brimmed with tears of disbelief.

"If you don't do this, then you will lose your whole family," Her father sighs heavily, "He is coming for me. He will kill me, your mother, and your brother! Is that what you want?!"

"But, just because you sent assassins after him?" She couldn't get her head around it, "It was five years ago, I'm sure he will forgive you--"

"Don't you see?! He is sleeping with you only to get back at me!" Her father burst into shouting, and she burst into tears. Her whole world twirling.

The next day she didn't go to the wedding. She stood in front of a French window over the lavish wedding venues, and she watched it turned from a golden boat of happiness to a red ocean of fire...with the only man who she ever loved in there. She thought that was the worst day of her life.

She was wrong.

Her nightmare began when that man, that devil that everyone feared, returned from the fire.

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XOXO

Please, millions of pleases if you want to use this one -- Ted is the ML! Please don't turn this into a real revenge story, okay? Romance! It's romance!