Episode 4
~ Aaron ~
“Are you sick Adam? I said, I can’t marry that woman. I hate her so much! And probably she hates me too now!”, I said trying to reason out in order to get out of this situation.
“Then offer her money, money has every power Aaron”, he said and I snorted.
“She looks idi0t and clumsy but one thing I know for sure is that she ain’t a gold digger. Her face reflects her honesty and determination to do hard work”, I said and stood up to face the glass window.
“So what? Look Aaron, you have only sixteen days, or should I say fifteen cause this day is almost finished and the way you say you don’t want to marry, brings out only this solution. It’s all for your business, the business that took you four years to rebuild. Everything is fair in business and you need to do it as soon as possible cause time is running and you don’t have any. Think wisely!!”, He said before storming out of my office leaving me deep in thoughts.
I can’t afford to lose my company!
I am sorry Mom, sorry Miss. Collins!
I grabbed my phone and dialled a number, “Hello James, I need detailed information of one of our employees. Her name is Eva Collins, and by the detailed I mean, personal as well as professional. Got it?”, I asked and he said yes.
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Next Day, 8:30
“Send the assistant manager of sales department, Miss. Collins in my office”, I said to my assistant through intercom.
“She is not yet in her office sir, I will tell Mrs. Smith to call her”, Stella said.
“Okay, tell her to come immediately once she enters building”, I said and she said yes.
“She has no boyfriends except one Ex, but that’s not a problem as it is Ex. Sister, Liza Collins studying in Parsons college of art and design. Cousin Chloe, no parents that means orphan. So no need to ask her hand for marriage or whatever that thing is. She is quite easy to get”, Adam said while nodding to himself.
“What if she rejects the offer of one million dollars?”, I asked.
“Blackmail”, he answered.
“I am not gonna stoop that low!”, I hissed and he rolled his eyes.
“King or no King?”, He asked roaming his hand around in my office.
“King!!”, I sighed.
“Good”, he smiled.
“But what are we gonna blackmail her with?”, I asked.
“Her sister’s career, as she has no parents definitely her love for her sister will be uncountable”, he answered.
“You are so evil!”, I commented and he smirked.
“Only for you darling”, idi0t!
A knock came and I asked to come in. Miss. Collins entered rather looking nervous and little bit hopeful. “Good morning sir”, she said nervously while twiddling with her fingers.
“Morning, Miss. Collins. Please have a seat”, I said politely.
She walked front and sat beside Adam who was grinning widely to which she gave him an awkward smile and being the donkey he is, he grinned more.
“Ye-yes, Mr. King?”, She asked squirming little bit on her seat.
“I don’t like to go round and round in circles, so I will come straight to the point.”, I said sternly and she nodded.
“I want to marry you”, I came straight to the point and her eyes widened little but then she shook her head.
“I am so-sorry, Mr. King. I think heard something wrong. Will you please repeat it?”, She said with an embarrassed smile.
“I said exactly what you heard! I want to marry you, Miss. Collins”, A loud gasp escaped her mouth and her jaw dropped. Her elbow slipped down and she winced little causing Adam to stifle his laughter over her reaction.
“Mr.King, this isn’t first of April. It’s August right now. So stop making me April Fool”, she said making weird confusing faces.
“I am not making you April fool, Miss Collins. It’s a different thing that you already are”, I mumbled the last part to myself.
“What?”, She asked and I sighed.
” I am dead serious, Miss. Collins”, I tried to make her believe using my stern voice, she remained silent for few seconds and then burst out laughing. Did I cracked a joke?
“She is funny!!”, Adam said pointing to the laughing maniac beside him and started laughing hysterically. Ohh god!! Why always I have to deal with such idiots!!??
She stopped suddenly and looked dead straight in my eyes causing me to blink few times. “Enough of jokes Mr. King!! My sack letter”, she said forwarding her palm. I took out the Tiffany’s couple ring box and kept it on her hand.
“I am serious”, I stated and she dropped the box on desk with disgusted expression.
“My sack letter, I can’t stand the sight of Asylum patients!!”, Did she just called us mentally imbalanced?
“Did she just called us mentally imbalanced?”, Adam stole my words as he gasped.
“Look Mr. King!! Enough of your lame jokes and hand me my resignation!! I don’t have time to be your entertainment. I need to be somewhere and-”
“It will be a contract marriage Miss. Collins!!”, I cut off her rambling.
“Are you stupid? Didn’t you heard what I said-”
“For one year!! You will get one million dollars if you accept my offer!”, I stated yet again cutting her off. I could see her temper rising, the way her nose flared and she clenched and unclenched her jaw.
God! This girl needs anger management classes!
Suddenly she stood up and slammed her hands on my desk causing Adam to wince but I kept rigid on my place not moving an inch. “Enough I said!! What do you think of yourself huh!? Don’t take your surname so seriously you dumb!! Having King as a surname doesn’t mean that you are literally a king!!! I thought you want to give me my job back so I was tolerating you till now but enough!! You are one of the biggest j*rk I have ever met!! First ‘Marry me!!’, then ‘it will be a contract marriage’ and then what ‘one year with one million dollar’. You imbecile man!!! I am not a gold digger or slvt to agree your conditions wholeheartedly and sell my body to you for one year. I am not a doll!! I am a woman with dignity and pride which costs more than your *petty million dollars!! I have my own brain and I prefer to work according to it!!!!! Blo0dy A$sh0le* !!!”, She spat showing her anger!! I have never seen any woman fuming with so much anger. All I have experienced is them throwing themselves on me for money or s*x. But this woman, without any fear said those things which no one could ever dream of. But she looks damn hot when she is angry!!!
Wait what?
Forget it!
“She is scary”, Adam squeaked while gulping multiple times.
“I can be scariest!”, She gritted while giving deadly glare to Adam and grabbed her purse.
Sh!t no!!
I immediately stood up and round walked against my desk. When she was about to open the door, I grabbed her by her waist and pulled causing her to bump against my chest. Not now heart!! Please!! Don’t beat so loudly!!
She gasped and tried to wriggle out of my hold while I gestured Adam to lock office door. “You d!ckhead!! Let me go!!”, She started punching on my chest with her tiny fists.
“Look, listen first!!”, I said while trying to stop her.
“No no no no! Let me go! You freaking controlling j*rk! I said leave me!”, She yelled loudly, I swear my ear drums are gonna burst due to this yelling hyena.
“Oof woman! Calm down!”, Adam exclaimed.
“Uggghhhh!!!!!!!!”, She gr0aned while clutching my shirt in her fists. For god’s sake!! Stop reacting that way to her touch!!! I scolded my heart that was racing 100 miles per sec due to the closeness we were sharing.
I am d@mn uncomfortable in this position!
“Fine! Leave me! We will talk!”, She gritted each word as like trying to control her temper.
“Really?”, I asked not believing her.
“Yes!!”, She hissed.
“Okay”, I said and was about to leave when Adam stopped me.
“Wait!! One minute!!”, He said and started running frantically in my office. He first picked up all the vases and kept them in drawers, then did same with pen stand, and paper weight and files.
“What was that?”, I asked being confused and holding her in tight grip to which she was resisting quite forcefully.
“This woman seems to believe in vi0lence, so….”, Adam said and Eva snorted.
“Now leave me!”, She snarled and I immediately let go off her.
“Look, Miss. Collins-“, I started.
“Come to the point!”, She cut me off. I sighed.
“I want to marry you, but it will be a contract marriage just for one year. I will give you one million dollars as payment-”
“Why me?”, She asked again cutting me off.
“Because he hates you!!”, Adam bvtted in with a stupid grin plastered on his face.
“Shut up!!”, I hissed at him.
“What?”, She asked.
“Let me tell you”, Adam started and I was about to stop when Eva showed me her palm straight on my face gesturing me to stop and urging him to continue. He like a idiot he is, clapped excitedly and started rambling.
“It’s his birthday coming within next fifteen days, that is on 25th of August. And once he turns 27, this company will be given to trust as it is stated in the clause of his father’s will, that if he doesn’t get married before 27, he will have to give up on this company. And he being himself don’t want to get marry, so I and his lawyer suggested to do the contract marriage thing, but you know how stubborn he is. He said, he neither want any physical nor emotional attachment with the woman he will get married so the concluded result was to get married for one year with the woman he hates from the depth of his heart which happens to be you! Congrats!”, He stopped and sucked a large intake of breath. This b@stard! Is he really my friend!? I feel like to strangle his neck with chain!
After five minutes of staring back and forth between both of us she finally spoke up, “You both really need psychiatric.”
“Look Miss. Collins, enough of this drama now!! I need to marry you and now as you know the reason it shouldn’t be any problem!”, I said.
“But aren’t you gay?”, She asked out of nowhere and my eyes widened.
“Do you really believe the media?!”, I asked with a gasp.
“Yes yes yes!! He is g@y!!!”, Adam said jumping up and down in a very cheerful voice.
Has he lost it!!??
“Are you out of you-”
“We even have our ship name!!”, He said and my jaw dropped.
“What are you say-”
“It’s AdOn, isn’t it cute!!??”, He cooed at Eva who looked equally confused.
What the fvck is he talking about?!
“Then why do you want to marry me or any girl if you love him??”, She said while pointing towards Adam. Ohh my god!! I am losing my gender here!! I am straight!!! I AM STRAIGHT!!!!!
“I am stra-”
“Stop declining this, it will be better this way if she thinks that you are g@y.”, He whispered and my mind processed on his words. He is right!! Smart!!
“Ahh Yess!! I am g@y!!”, I said swinging my arm over Adam’s neck, bringing him more closer.
“Dude!! I feel disgusted!!”, He whispered and I snorted.
“Feelings mutual!!”, I retorted back in whisper.
“Enough of this drama!! I know you are not g@y!!”, She stated and we both gasped.
“How??”, We asked in unison.
“Fortunately, you both svck at acting. And the way your face held the most disgusted expression it is quite easy to notice!!”, She said and my jaw dropped, I immediately pushed Adam away from me, cringing and shivering little.
“Look Mr. King, you are young, handsome, successful and rich, you will get any woman that you want. So please stop this and let me go!!”, She pleaded.
“But I want you!”, I said and she became stunned for second even I am stunned cause I sounded so desperate. “I meant to say that, you are not my type so I will never have any type of feelings for you.”, I said sharply which came out little bit rude.
“Mr. King-”
“Think about Liza’s career, Eva!!”, I said and that brought deadly silence around the room. I am sorry, but I don’t have any choice than to play blackmail card now!
“Wh-what di-did you said?”, She stammered with horrified expression.
“Liza is completing her fashion designing course but what if her career never picks up the race and her degree remains unused in her hands”, Adam stated seriously and she gasped, a expression of disbelief formed on her face.
“Ar-are you bla-blackmailing me?”, She breathed out.
“What if we say yes?”, Adam said with a curt nod.
Are you tongue tied?
My sub concious mind snapped.
Just look at her face, she looks so hurt.
“I will file complaint against you both”, she said trying to be confident but the shaking of her voice proves that she failed miserably.
“For god’s sake woman, you said you have brain, don’t you? Use it and think, what has more power MONEY or YOU?”, He asked with wide smirk and she seemed in deep thoughts.
“I will report to media that you both blackmailed me to marry him”, she said pointing to me with a a small grin as hope flickered in her eyes.
“And we will say that you are planning a disgusted plot against us. Around half world believes that he is g@y and is in relationship with me, how much time it takes to confirm it and slap your accusations back on you face. The media and this world will make your life living hell, and will call YOU a gold digger trying to damage the images of the owners of King’s and Davis’s, prominently the most richest right now!”, He said after swinging his arm around my shoulder.
She seems so helpless. Her eyes welled up and within no time tears started dripping continuously.
No! I can’t! Get a grip Aaron! But why the hell is my heart clenching at her sight. She seems so helpless and weak.
I averted my eyes from her little crying frame towards the painting hanging on the wall.
“Please! Please Mr. King, please, you can get any woman you want. Please don’t do this to me!”, She pleaded and Adam’s hold tightened on me. I am a businessman, and when it comes to business, I am the most dangerous person you could ever have encountered with, but since birth, crying women are my weakness. I never had the capacity to tolerate my mother’s tears, and whenever I saw her crying instead of consoling her, I used to cry along with her. So after my parents death, I have never seen any woman crying so helplessly except Adam’s sister Riley, who is like a sister to me. I don’t know why, but something about this woman seems so familiar, I just can’t pinpoint it!
“You don’t have option, Miss. Collins”, I said trying to sound as cold as I can.
“I guess I don’t!!”, She mumbled and I felt a flicker of happiness ran through me.
No, it must be satisfaction, yes satisfaction. I feel like this whenever I crack any deal. That’s it! It is satisfaction.
“I am ready to marry you, Mr. King”, she whispered which was barely audible but we heard it as we both sighed at the same time.
“Wise choice, Eva”, Adam said with a chuckle and her head snapped towards us.
“It’s Miss. Collins for you both!”, She gritted, her eyes were fiery, rage resided in them and if looks could kill we might have been six feet underground until now.
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