Bargain Bride: The Billionaire’s Forced Wife

THE SYRINGE FELL DOWN ON THE GROUND as Elisa’s hands tremble with rage. Memories of her late husband’s last moment replayed in her mind, again and again, and it makes her feel sick and nauseous.

Every bullet that hit her husband’s back while protecting their son echoed in her ears like bombs. Masimo’s bleeding and cold body made her went back to that traumatic past.

Her mind was quickly filled with Kazimir’s violence and brutality. The moments Kazimir tried to violate her resurfaced. The way he tried to destroy her clothes and make her feel dirty just made her blood boil more.

Elisa’s eyes looked down on the kneeling man on the ground. Her eyes were shooting daggers as Kazimir looked at her with surprise, and a lot more emotions that she cannot recognize.

Kazimir was touching the part that Elisa injected, stopping it from bleeding. His lower lip trembled as he looked at the woman he chased for years.

“Belleza, why?” he stuttered. “What did you just say?”

He wanted to hear that Elisa just made a mistake saying those things, or that he just heard it wrong. He will accept any reason as long as Elisa will say that she does mean those word.

But the truth is far from his delusions.

“Oh, you didn’t hear it? I’ll repeat for you,” Elisa curled her body down to get closer to Kazimir’s ears and spoke. “Die. I want you to die.”

Kazimir shook his head repeatedly. “You don’t mean that. You don’t,” he said, still in-denial of the truth. “You won’t say that.”

Elisa’s manipulation and act ingrained into his mind deeply that he still cannot see the reality. He still thinks that the woman is on his side.

Angered, Kazimir turned his head towards Ezio who is just watching the show and screamed. “Bastard!” his saliva was even threw to the air because of it. “How dare you use Elisa in this situation?! How dare you manipulate her to go against me?! Can you see that we love each other?!”

Ezio couldn’t help but to laugh out loud because of Kazimir’s words. He cannot stop himself and he even slapped Luigi’s back because of the ridiculous things he just heard.

On Kazimir’s back, Elisa was also laughing and mocking the old man. Kazimir was about to look back at her when he heard Ezio responded.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“I didn’t use my mother, you delusional man,” Ezio spoke after composing himself. “Mamma orchestrated this whole plan. And did I just hear you say that you love each other?”

Ezio’s ear faced Kazimir while leaning closer to him even if they are meters apart, seemingly taunting the old man to repeat his words.

“That’s right,” Kazimir spoke with confidence. “Elisa and I love each other.”

Ezio and Elisa couldn’t stop themselves from laughing. Ezio’s eyes even watered because of that. “You love each other? Breaking news, old man! Mamma doesn’t love you! You’re being manipulated! Surprise!” he mocked while looking at the man with silly expression.

Kazimir shook his head and looked back to Elisa, asking for help for her to clarify the relationship between them and defend him from his son. But all that he saw is a woman laughing at him.

“Belleza, you love me right?” he asked with all of his hope. He looked at her with pleading eyes, only to be met by her cold ones.

“You want the truth, Kazimir?” she leaned towards him and smiled creepily. “I don’t love you, and I will never love you.”

Kazimir was taken aback. He didn’t expect her response. For the past week, they had been living like a husband and wife. Elisa acted like an affectionate lover, catering everything that Kazimir needs.

They even had a trip to a foreign country. They had their sweet and romantics times, even dating on several places. They did things that only a husband and wife will do, now she’s telling him that she doesn’t love him?

“You told me that you will make it up to me, that you will make up those years of me chasing you,” Kazimir clung into Elisa’s leg because he felt like he can’t stand up, maybe because of the thing that Elisa injected into him.

He looked expectantly at Elisa. “You said that you already saw the good in me. We even dated. You told me that I make you happy,” he spoke wholeheartedly. Kazimir tightened his grip he felt that Elisa wanted to release herself from his touch.

Elisa sighed and ran her fingers on her hair. “Those words were parts of our plan, Kazimir. Or should I say, Kaz?” she mocked him with her words and expression. “Oh, I remember. I made that nickname up for more effect.”

She removed Kazimir’s hands on her leg before kicking his chest away. Kazimir easily fell to the ground again as his lower body already lost its energy.

When Elisa moved backward, Kazimir tried to moved closer, but he cannot do it. He cannot move his leg, just like what happened to him the previous night.

“I planned to get closer to you. I used your feelings for me to find your weaknesses,” Elisa spoke before removing the earrings that she wore during her entire time staying in Kazimir’s mansion.

She dropped the earrings to the ground, and Kazimir hurriedly grabbed it with his hands. “Those earrings recorded everything you said to me. Everything you shared, your work, you connections, the information about your name. Those were all relayed to my son.”

“When Jacob told you that I was a bad news and a spy, I didn’t expect that you will come to defend me. You even believed my words when I told you that Jacob hurted me,” she chuckled before slapping herself the same way she did when she sabotaged Jacob. “Imagine believing the woman of your old enemy instead of the person who had been loyal for you for decades. You’re a fool, Kazimir.”

She walked around on her heels, slowly removing every jewelry in her body that Kazimir gave to her. “And speaking of Jacob. I just want to inform you that he died yesterday,” she said before throwing Jacob’s golden watch towards him. “Lucio killed him. If you don’t know who he is, Lucio is Isadora’s grandfather. He seeked revenge for her.”

Everything that Kazimir gave to Elisa fell on the ground. Elisa even stomped on those things like those were just trash for her. The dresses that Kazimir bought were all inside the suitcase that Elisa brought.

“No, that’s not true,” Kazimir muttered under his breath. “That can’t be true,” he looked up at him while gripping the earrings hard on his hand. “We made love, belleza. Now tell me that’s not true.”

Elisa threw all of the things inside the suitcase. “Oh that? You think I will have sex with a dirty man like you? You think I don’t know that you fuck all of your maids?” she threw a bottle of liquid on the things that Kazimir bought, soaking them wet

“I used a hallucinogen and used a maid to replace me that night. While you were moaning my name, you were fucking another woman. Isn’t that plan effective?” she smiled sarcastically at him. “You trusted me more because of that. I can’t believe that all you need is sex to believe a woman.”

Kazimir’s eyes widened. That night, he really believed it was Elisa he was making love with. Even if the body doesn’t felt the same, even if the voice doesn’t sound the same, he still believed it was her.

He was on cloud nine because of that. Making love with her is one of his greatest dreams. But everything was a lie. She lied to him.

“You lied to me,” he whispered. “You lied to me!” he said for the second time, now screaming at her face. “Bitch! You made me a fool!”

“Because that’s the plan!” Elisa shouted back at him, holding a lighter in her hand. “You really think I will love the person who killed my husband?! You think I’m a saint to forgive you?! You ruined my life! You deserve to go to hell!”

“No!” Kazimir fought back and tried to stand up just to fail. “You’re just a mindless bitch who will choose a dead man over me! I gave you everything, Elisa! You’re just too blind to see my efforts to give you a good life!”

“You became pregnant even before marriage! You think I don’t know that?” he mocked as tears started to form in his eyes. “You can give yourself to another mam but not me? I helped your family and even gave you opportunities for your career, but you can’t even see that! Shameless! Ungrateful! All I want is for you to love me back!”

Elisa threw the lighter harshly on the ground, and a huge dire engulfed everything that Kazimir bought for her. In front of the huge fire is Kazimir’s eyes that’s filled with pain and hatred.

Slowly, he smiled creepily. “You know what, Elisa? If I can’t have you, then I’ll make sure that no one will.”

Suddenly, a gun pointed at Elisa’s face, catching her off guard. She tried to dodge the bullet as Ezio and his men ran to save him.

Then, a sound of a bullet echoed in the airport. Twice.

When Elisa opened her eyes, she was surprised that no bullet hit her body. Instead, she saw Kazimir laying on the ground, lifeless.

His hand is bleeding from the bullet, while the center of his forehead has a bleeding hole. His eyes were still wide open, but he is not breathing anymore.

On their back, Dante was standing with his gun on his hand.

“You really killed him,” Ezio spoke at his friend while helping his mother recover from shock.

Dante just clicked his tongue. “The situation calls for it. I have to do that or your mother will die,” he answered before putting back the gun on his holster.

That the same hour, Kazimir was announced dead. Ezio didn’t expect that the old man will meet such unfortunate end. He was expecting of him going to trial because of his crimes.

But now that he’s dead, a huge thorn in his throat was removed. He felt like he can finally sleep peacefully, with both of his eyes closed.

“Are you okay, Mamma?” he asked his mother while they were on the way to the Vitali’s old mansion.

Elisa nodded. “I’m fine. I just didn’t expect that he will meet his end that quick. And also infront of me,” she answered before smiling. “I feel relieved now that it’s over. No one will try to hurt you anymore.”

“Thank you for your efforts, Mamma,” Ezio hugged his mother from the side. “Without you, we wouldn’t succeed. You’re the MVP, Mamma.”

“Silly boy,” Elisa chuckled. “I’m not the MVP. It’s actually your wife. She planned everything, from the start to end.”

Ezio’s pupils dilated upon his mother mentioning his wife. “My wife, where’s my wife, Mamma?”

Elisa just smiled and told Luigi to drive towards her condominium. She didn’t answer her son’s questions even if he kept on bombarding him.

“Where’s cara, Mamma?”

“Why did you hide her from me?”

“I want to see my wife.”

“Let me go to cara, Mamma.”

“Mamma, give me her location. I’ll go to her.”

Elisa kept quiet and ignored her son until they arrived at her condominium. She was followed by Luigi and Ezio while going to the elevator.

When they were already in front of her condo, Elisa swiped her card and invited them to enter.

Ezio was about to ask what they are doing in such place when he heard footsteps coming from the other side of the room. He slowly turned his head to that direction.

Suddenly, his eyes widened upon seeing a familiar woman. She was wearing a pastel green dress that reached below her knees. On her hand is a bowl of grapes as her other hand picked the fruits one by one towards her mouth.

The moment their eyes landed on each other, the woman lose her hold on the bowl, and it fell down on the ground, creating a loud sound.

“Cara,” Ezio whispered, as he cannot believe what he is seeing. “Cara!”

He ran towards her direction and locked her tightly in his embrace. Tears fell from his eyes, not because he was sad, but because happines filled his heart quickly.

Since that incident, Ezio didn’t have a good sleep. He was always twisting and turning on his bed, craving for his wife’s embrace and goodnight greetings.

Now, feeling her warm skin against him brought out his emotioms that were pent up since her disappearance. He kissed every part of Chiara’s face: forehead, cheeks, lips, and even her neck.

“You’re squeezing my tummy, tesoro,” Chiara complained while pouting.

Ezio was about to respond when his mother pulled him away. “Don’t hug her too tight!” she scolded her own son.

Luigi interfered with the conversation and asked because he was confused. “What? How come you were alive, signora? No offense but, we saw your body and the DNA results, so…”

Suddenly, another man emerged from the balcony and smiled. “It’s because of me!” Nick announced.

“You’re missing,” Ezio spoke and cocked his head while touching his wife’s waist.

He sat on the couch and explained what happened. “The day of the incident, I left the mansion and followed Chiara. Thankfully, I was able to pull her out on time with Gabriel’s help. However…”

Elisa opened the door of one of the rooms, and they were greeted by a man with burned body lying on a bed with various tubes connected on his body.

“We weren’t able to save Victor. He was shielding Chiara from the fire and he ended up getting most of the damage,” he continued. “Although he has some burns, he is stable now.”

Ezio nodded, convinced with his explanation. “How about the DNA test result? I’m sure it’s fake.”

“Of course it’s fake, tesoro,” Chiara answered while massaging the small bulge on her tummy. “We need to fake my death so that Kazimir won’t go after us anymore. Also, it helped us in working behind the curtains and he wasn’t able to see our movements.”

Ezio smiled. He was so proud that his wife was able to think of such plan on bringing Kazimir down. He can’t help but to hug her again, but Chiara pushed him slightly.

“You’ll squeeze our baby,” she spoke while smiling at him.

Ezio still didn’t get what she said and spoke, “Oh, sorry, cara. I- what?”

His eyes widened before looking down on Chiara’s stomach. That’s when he noticed that it was bigger than before. He also noticed that what she’s wearing is not just a simple dress, but a maternity dress.

Ezio looked up at her with widened and questioning eyes. His heart beating faster and faster at every second.

“I’m three months pregnant, tesoro,” Chiara smiled softly with glistening eyes. “You’re going to be a daddy.”

Ezio’s world seemed to stop after hearing her words. His eyes went back and forth between Chiara’s face and her tummy.

Suddenly, he stood up while smiling before shouting. “I’m gonna be a dad! Fuck yeah! I’m gonna be a dad!”

He jumped up and down with joy while repeating the same words. Ezio reached for her wife before hugging from the back and gently caressing her belly.

He kissed her cheek before crying on her shoulders. “I’m so happy, cara. Thank you.”

“No, thank you,” Chiara spoke before facing him. “Thank you for forcing me to marry you. If you didn’t do that, I wouldn’t experience how good it is to be loved by you. Te amo.”

The two lovers shared a passionate kiss, full of love for each other. It was deep, just the like their love and affection.

After the obstacles they faced, their relationship became stronger than ever. They didn’t back down and held each other up to succeed. Now, a new member of their family will come, and they cannot contain their joy.

Chiara felt lucky to be the bargain bride of her husband. A thing that seemed to be a curse was actually a blessing in disguise, and marrying Ezio is the best decision that she made in this life, and on the next lives.