Betrothed To The Cold Billionaire

“You look more beautiful with your hair let down.” He muttered as he placed a small kiss on my cheek before leaving me standing dumbfounded in the kitchen.

I placed my hand on my cheek, on the same spot he had kissed me. I was still in shock. What just happened? Did he seriously just rizz me up. How and why would he do that to me?

I could feel my cheeks slowly heating up as I flushed in embarrassment. I could feel the butterflies in my stomach that had been dormant for a while now slowly start to flutter around inside of my belly.

My heart was beating really fast as I kept on trying to understand what just happened. I was still standing motionless in the kitchen when I heard the voices of people approaching. I turned back and saw the chefs heading into the kitchen.

“Get a grip of yourself Ariel.” I said to myself as I wiped the weird thoughts away from my head and picked up my bag before leaving the kitchen.

I could hear them greeting me but I didn’t answer all I wanted to do now was leave the kitchen so they won’t be able to see how red my face was. Before I got into the garage, my heated face had already cooled down.

I tried to walk steadily as I headed towards the Mercedes. Steven opened the back seat door for me and I entered gracefully. He shut the door before walking towards the driver’s seat and entered the car.

In a few minutes, we were already on the road and on our way to CRESCENT HIGH SCHOOL.

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Adrian chuckled slightly as he watched her through the small camera in the car. He still couldn’t believe that he was actually able to pull that off without her suspecting anything.

It was as if she had fully opened up to him, really fast. All through the time he was with her, he noticed that she couldn’t take her eyes off of him. Even though he tried to act oblivious, he could still see her drooling over him.

Thankfully, he decided to go shirtless at the last minute. That was the only thing that was able to grab her attention towards him. He so much loved how giddy she was acting in front of him.

It gave him the sense that she still desired him even though she fought so hard to hide it. That alone was enough to make him really excited because his plan didn’t look like it was going to fail anytime soon.

He just ended with phase two of his plan. The next is phase three and by the time he’s done with it, there’s no escaping for her. She was surely going to fall deeply in love with him and he would use that against her.

“It’s all so easy.” He muttered as the smirk on his face increased.

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Sandy stared at the text she had recieved earlier this morning with shock on her face. She still couldn’t believe what she was staring at. Her crush whom had rejected her so coldly wants her to go on a date with him.

It was just so surprising that she felt she was still dreaming. She pinched a spot on her hand very hard to see if she was still asleep. The great pain she felt was enough to let her know that it was reality.

What does he want with me now??

I so much doubt that he wants me back so what’s with the date??

Or is he trying to break my heart the more??

Numerous thoughts roamed in her head as she tried to figure out the reason for his absurd request but she couldn’t come up with any suitable answers.

The only thing that made sense is thinking that he made a typo or the message was from someone else because she knew Hillary would never ever go back on his words especially with something as serious as this.

Her heart broke the more when she realised that the message might not even be for her. She had almost forgot that he would still have to date someone else or even get married soon as he was the first and only son of a very wealthy family.

She had never thought of that before but now that she did, she was regretting having such thought cross her mind because it hurt like hell. It was okay loving him from afar but it would be much worse to see a lady that isn’t her or Ariel beside him.

But what could she do now? He had already rejected her advances so there was no way that she could ever have another chance with him since he already made that pretty clear.

It hurt so much. Even though she tried very hard to look like she was okay outside so Ariel wouldn’t feel bad since she set them up, she wasn’t okay. She would be lying if she said that she was over Hillary but what could she do?

If her feelings for him made him uncomfortable, that was her cue to let him go. She stared at the message with mixed feelings.C0pyright © 2024 Nôv)(elDrama.Org.

“You can’t do this to yourself Sandy. You know it would be too hard for you to move on if you see him again or even hear his voice. Besides, this message might not be for you so don’t put yourself into another round of heartbreak.” She reasoned with her self.

She decided not to give him a reply so she dropped her phone on the bed stand so she wouldn’t view the message again before standing up from her bed. She really needs to let go of him soon or she would just put herself in a very big trouble.

She took off her night dress before heading into the bathroom to take a shower and prepare for school. While she was taking her bath, a call cane into her phone. It was from Hillary.

She didn’t know as the phone was placed in silent mode. After calling for about five times, he decided not to call again since she might be in class right now.

When she was done, she came out of the bathroom with a short towel tied around her small figure and an even shorter one on her hair. She took her time in preparing herself for school.

After about forty minutes, she was finally through. She picked up her school bag and phone and was about to head out when she saw the missed calls in her phone.

She was surprised when saw Hillary’s name flashing on the screen. It made her wonder if was actually serious about the date. She needs to inform Ariel about this.

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~CRESCENT HIGH SCHOOL~

We were currently in class right now, I and Sandy and we were having our first lectures for the day. All through the period, I could feel Sandy going me side glances.

She was giddy and uneasy at the same time. She’s always like this anytime she has something important to tell me. After some minutes, the bell rang indicating that the period was over.

“You have something to tell me, spit it out.” I said the moment the teacher left the classroom. I badly wanted to know what it was all about.

She opened her mouth and was about to say something when her facial expression turned into a huge frown. I noticed that she was staring at something rather someone behind me so I turned back.

I had a huge frown covering my face the moment I saw Lucas standing behind me.

“We need to talk Ariel.” He said.

“I don’t think she has anything left to say to you.” Sandy answered, rather loudly and that grabbed the attention of some students around us.

They stared at us with keen interest as they waited for the upcoming drama to unfold.

“I wasn’t talking to you Sandy so mind your fucking business!!” He said angrily.

“And what if I don’t??” She answered and tried to stand up when I held I back.

“Save your breath. He isn’t worth it.” I whispered to her and she cooled down immediately.

“Come with me Ariel.”

“I don’t think we have any business left together so just find your way back into the slums you crawled out from and leave me the fuck alone.” I said to him and that made the students around to burst out into laughter. Sandy was the loudest amongst them all.

He had a huge frown on his face the moment I dissed him but that was just for a split second.

“I’m pretty sure you would think otherwise the moment you see this.” He muttered as he gave me his phone.

I stared at it in confusion before collecting it. My eyes bulged out when I saw the photo on the screen. It was when Adrian forcefully kissed me in that gala. How was he able to get this when he was even there??

“Follow me silently or I’ll show this photo to everyone one in this classroom and let them know the slut that you are.”