After breakfast, Rex left for the study, leaving Ariel to take care of herself, left with nothing to do. Her mind wandered off to that night and she couldn’t help but try to recall every detail about the man.
Who was that man that night, Ariel thought as she unconsciously picked up her phone and rang Damien, but what she heard from the other end of the line was not what she wanted to hear, as the man didn’t give her the chance to talk.
“Ariel Ann, your sister is pregnant with my child. If you still have any shame left in you and you still wish to save face, then stop pestering me. I told you your sister is the one I love, not you. We are now together. It is something you know, it was only your wishful thinking and delusion that made you think I love and will marry you. So, please stop pestering me.
She’s delusional
She’s pestering him.
Those harsh words pierced through Ariel Ann’s heart. After ten years of being with Damien, she had never expected the guy would treat her with such an attitude.
Ten years of loving the man and what did she get in return? Nothing, but a lover who cheated on her with her sister. What was worse is that he had a child with her and her family were in support and treated her like a source of money.
The continuous pain caused by the messed-up situation of her life led her heart and mind into disarray.
Her tears were about to flow down from her eyes as she stared at the blank screen of the cell phone dishearten and broken. She had just said she was over Damien, but what now?
Now that she had learnt how to numb her pain with alcohol, she picked a bottle of wine from the cellar and headed towards the study room.
“Devil Anderson drink with me” Rex looked at the woman with a bottle of alcohol and wondered what she was up to asking him to drink with her.
“I will tell you a story if you drink with me.”
“Okay”, he closed the document in his hand and walked over to seat with her on the sofa.
“So tell me your story. I would like to hear it.”
“Damien is a liar, he had always said”
“Ariel is the love of my life. I will marry her when we grow up”. He had looked after me, since our childhood he had spoilt me. If I said I wanted this and he would gladly do anything to make sure he get it for me.
Ariel sniffled.
“Devil Anderson, what makes me even sadder is that the person he gets together with is my step-sister. I am the biggest victim here, but they are all on Elvira’s side.
Ariel sniffled, “Elvira didn’t even let go of Damien. She stole my Damien and I was forced to marry you after an unknown man violated me. When she thought of this, Ariel’s tears rushed down. Why? What exactly did I do wrong? Devil Anderson, you tell me, where did I go wrong?
“Today, I called him to ask something from him but…” she trailed off without completing her sentence.
Rex Anderson raised his eyes and looked at Ariel, “you’ve had too much wine in your system these days it is not good for your health.”
“No devil, I didn’t drink too much! I’m more sober than before”, Ariel yelled, and she simply grabbed the bottle and drank from it.
Rex Anderson did not stop her and let her drink.
“Since you’ve offered to help me, I won’t let them have their way. My heart is in pain, they must be in pain too when I take back the property left for me by my mother, trying to make me lose everything like this! No way in hell”
Rex Anderson’s pupil shrank slightly and a strange light flashed through his eyes, perhaps he was feeling guilty.
Ariel muttered something to herself on the table. She drank way too much, lying on the table unconscious.
Rex Anderson stood up, picked up Ariel, and walked into the bedroom. He threw the woman in his arms onto the bed angrily.
Ariel passed out without any reaction. She was like a doll at that moment.
Rex Anderson did not expect that he would have to marry that woman’s daughter; he had almost turned her into a piece of chess for his revenge. But fate brought them together.
He didn’t look at Ariel who was lying on the bed, instead he leaned against the side of the French window, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.
He put it in his mouth and, with a drag, green and white smoke covered his face. His crestfallen eye flashed with sharp light.
Finally, he turned and moved to bed, puffed in another drag of the cigarette and exhaled the smoke in Ariel’s direction.
Peradventure, the smell of the smoke woke up Ariel, who passed out from alcohol. Her weak body coughed a few times before she got up slowly.
Since she was being thrown on the bed, her waist-length hair scattered messily on the bed.
Ariel opened her eyes gently but suddenly opened her eyes wide, because her first feeling was that this was a strange place.
Then she looked in the direction where the smoke was coming from and she saw a tall figure leaning against the dressing table staring at her.
In the smoke, his cold and handsome face seemed to be standoffishness.
“Where am I, who are you and what did you want from me that made you bring me here?
Ariel Ann immediately jumped down from the bed and questions the man.
However, the man stood steel without a response. He only continued smoking.
She sighed a sigh of relief when she realized she wasn’t touched by the stranger, how will she explain to people how she got drunk in their own villa and then got into bed with another person, Aarg! It’s so embarrassing.
“…..”
Not receiving any response from the man, Ariel Ann tiptoed to the door. She pried the door open, only to see that the door was locked from the inside. Her sweat beaded down her neck as she felt the man’s hardened gaze boring down at her. No matter how hard she struggled with the door, it was no avail. She was trapped.
Glancing at the man who was covered with smoke under the dim light.
“What are you trying to do? I am a black belter; you know I could beat you into pulp if you misbehave with me.
“Are you done?” Rex Anderson asked.
“Oh my goodness, you scared me! She snapped at Rex Anderson, patting her chest in relief. And here I thought I had been kidnapped by a stranger.
The man was now like a lion that had been awoken. He retracted the sharp and cold light in his eyes and looked at Ariel angrily.
“Mrs. Anderson, this is now your new identity. Let it sink into your head, stay away from Damien Ford. I will put in more effort to satisfy you and you wouldn’t have to go looking for another man. Don’t tarnish the Anderson’s name. Remember it”
He pressed the cigarette butt on the ashtray on the dressing table; his voice was low and indifferent.
“I never asked to be Mrs. Anderson, if I wasn’t forced to marry a scheming and pretentious man like you my life would be better. If you don’t want me again, hurry up and divorce me. Let me go. I can take care of myself”. She was so angry that her entire body trembled with anger. How could he say such a thing to her?
“Take care of yourself? Tell me where you want to go back to? Don’t forget you’ve been sold to me. I own you, so there’s no place you can escape to that I won’t find you.”
His tone was full of contempt and ridicule.
But for Ariel, this was the reality, a cruel fact that she had to face. She was indeed sold to Rex Anderson by her father.
“Rex Anderson, don’t forget I know your secrets. What would happen if I exposed you?”
“You will expose me?” Rex Anderson raised his thick eyebrows. “Ariel Ann, don’t forget you still need me to get your mother’s property, so behave yourself like a good wife and don’t forget that in the Anderson family may look like an idiot, but I have the final say.
Ariel Ann’s little face stiffened. Yes, her threat was not strong at all. The man in front of her was as scary and powerful as the devil himself.
Next time you contact Damien I will make sure I exercise my right to you as your husband to teach you a lesson and stop hanging out with other guys”
Rex Anderson could tell that Ariel Ann would still go looking for Damien Ford to get more enquiries about the man that night.
“You misunderstood me!” Ariel Ann muttered under her breath.
Rex Anderson realized that teasing Ariel Ann was kind of an interesting thing. He chuckled lightly.
He walked to her and kissed her on her forehead.
“Mrs. Anderson, behave yourself, your husband’s stamina is good enough to keep you in bed for days”
“You are a shameless liar!” Ariel Ann gritted her teeth and cursed angrily.
Now that she knows all men are just dirty bastards in this world, it was really an eye opener for her.”
I will ask Pius to change your wardrobe and get you your own credit card because I’m sure the Ann’s will not give you enough money, Rex Anderson said in a friendly tone. As he opened the door to step out.
“Where is this place?” Ariel asked, confused.
“My room right across our room, fool.”
His elegant noble body disappeared from the doorway.
Ariel clenched her hand in anger and she followed him out.