Amber’s POV
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I lifted my head as I heard the door open and found his eyes holding mine. I gulped nervously thinking about our previous encounter as our gaze locked. His eyes scanned my body and then looked into my eyes and gave me a small smile.
“What happened? Do you want to say or ask something?”, He asked, walking toward the wardrobe. He took out a gray color suit and a black color shirt.
“How do you know that I want to say or ask something?”, I couldn’t help but ask.
“It’s written all over your face.”, He answered, closing the wardrobe and placing the suit on the bed. I thought he was going to wear his shirt on his own but he surprised me when he forwarded it toward me. I took the shirt from his hand and unbuttoned it to make him wear that shirt. “So, now tell me.”
“You brought the flowers and chocolates.”, I muttered, not knowing how to frame my sentence. “I mean for whom you…”, By that time, I was standing in front of him to button his shirt.
“Isn’t it obvious?”, He asked, interrupting me in between. “It’s for you.”, He said bluntly, pulling me close to him. I blushed hearing him but didn’t dare to look into his eyes. I slightly pushed him when I was done with his shirt.
I turned around so that he could wear his pants. I wasn’t ready to see him in his boxers yet.
He chuckled before speaking, “Why are you feeling shy? Soon you’re going to see me naked anyway!”
I didn’t say anything about that but I knew my cheeks would have turned red by his dirty talk. I heard the shuffling sound of the clothes.
“You can now turn around.”, I turned around to face him and found him applying something in his hair. Though he was standing in front of the mirror, his eyes didn’t leave mine.
“I will have to leave for the office.”, He explained on his own.
“I know you’re required there.”, I said in an understanding tone. In the absence of his father, the workload might have increased.
Once his hair was done, he walked toward me.
“You need to stop being so understanding.”, He whispered near my ear, sending chills throughout my entire system.
“Is...Is it bad?”, I asked in a low tone.
“What should I say now?”, He chuckled at my question and perked on my lips. “Everything about you is tempting me to calm you now and here.”
Oh.
I turned entirely red as soon as I understood what he meant. Earlier when he said the same line when I was standing naked in front of him, I thought it was his lust and attraction for me but I didn’t know that everything about me was awakening his inner beast. But something in my mind couldn’t trust him because he was too good to be true and he had chosen someone like me as his partner.
I mean anyone would want someone prettier than me as his wife.
Not to forget, I had the lowest self-esteem, and I was nothing in front of him.
I didn’t know many things as per his standard, yet his gestures towards me were so gentle and caring.
“Tie”, He forward toward me his tie. I nodded and helped him in tying it around his collar perfectly. And then lifted his blazer from the bed to make him wear it.
I couldn’t help but admire his beauty. After all, he was looking like a Model which I had seen in the magazine.
“You’re ready now.”
“Nope. You are forgetting something.”
I scanned him from head to toe and shook my head. “I don't understand. What am I missing?”
“You forgot to compliment me.”, He teased, winking at me.
“You look like a Greek god.”, I said, blushingly. This was the first time I had given any compliment to any man but then this man was going to be my husband.
When we reached downstairs, I saw Lily talking with a lady at the dining table. I couldn't see her face because her back was facing me but I could smell the sudden change in the mood of my mate.
Whoever she was, my mate didn’t like her at all.
“There they are…”, Lily said and that girl turned toward us.
Wow, she was drop-down gorgeous.
I couldn’t help but be jealous of her beauty. If my mate looked like a male model then she was no less than a female model.
“So, she is the one who had been sold by her family for the settlement of the debt.”, She said in a disgusting tone, making my heart break a little.
I couldn’t help but be hurt by her choice of words.
Immediately, a warm hand encircled around my waist. I didn’t have to look at the person who kept his hand on my waist because the spark all over my body had already answered it.
“Don’t let anyone’s words hurt you, okay?”, He whispered and gave me his best smile. I nodded and smiled back.
“Yes. She’s the one whom I am going to marry.”, Replied Alex and perked me on lips in front of Lily and her.
I could smell her anger and hatred toward me.
I wondered who she was!
Alex pulled the chair for me like a gentleman and helped me to sit beside him. All the time, I could feel that lady was digging a hole in my head.
“Your dad will not be very happy with the type of treatment you’re giving it to her.”, She hissed, directing her words toward Alex and glaring at me.
But Alex gave no response to her remark and ate his breakfast calmly while I was getting uncomfortable around her.
“What happened? Why are you not eating?”, Alex asked when he found me playing with the food. “Do you want me to feed you?”, He asked softly.
“N..No”, I stuttered but too late he was ready to feed me. Before I would have opened my mouth to eat it, I heard the loud noise of a chair falling and I looked in the direction of that lady, who was standing on her feet and was throwing daggers at me.
If the looks could kill then I would have been dead by now.
She marched in my direction angry and raised her hand. I quickly closed my eyes in fear waiting for the pain but I didn’t feel anything for a while. I opened my eyes to check what exactly happened and was surprised to see Alex holding that lady’s hand angrily.
“The only reason that I am not breaking your damn hand is that you’re the wife of my father.”, He hissed and jerked her hand away.
‘Wife of my father?’
This young Alex's lady stepmother?
She hardly looked a few years older to me and of Alex’s age.
“Come on, Amber. Let’s have our breakfast.”, Alex said in a calm tone and sat beside me. He had maintained a tight smile on his lips but I knew that he was fuming in anger from inside. He made sure that I ate all my breakfast without skipping anything. At the same time, that lady stamped her heels angrily and left from there without uttering anything.
No, I was not observing her activity. It’s just that I had a good listening ability.
“Lily!”
“Hmm”, She hummed casually.
“Take care of everything when I am away.”
“You don’t need to tell me that.”, She answered in a cool tone.
After having breakfast, he stood up on his feet, straightening his suit. “I have to leave now.”, He said and started to walk toward the exit. God knows why! I followed him like a lost puppy till his exit. He immediately stopped between his tracks and turned toward me.
“What happened? Do you want something?”, He asked and frowned.
YOU
“Umm..No. It’s just when will you come back?”, I asked before I could stop myself.
He sighed and leaned over to kiss my forehead. “I can’t give you enough time until dad gets back to work.”, He paused for a while. “so….I don’t know the exact answer to your question. But SOON.”
Soon? How soon was that soon?
My wolf whimpered because she didn’t want him to go but then I had to understand that being an elder child of his father, he had to handle a lot of responsibilities on such short notice. He caressed my cheek for a few more seconds before exiting from there. I watched him enter the car and soon his car left the campus of his house.
“Okay! Okay! Now the time of your love story is over.”, I heard Lily's voice dip with Sarcasm. “Go to your room, Amber, and have some rest because from now onwards I’m going to start your training thrice a day.”
“Wait, what?”, I looked at her in horror.
“Do you remember what happened during breakfast?”, She asked, raising her brow, I couldn’t help but nodded my head. “Well, that was just a trailer, and trust me, darling, no one is going to treat you right because for others you're a material, not a girl, who is sold for debt settlement.”, She explained.
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#TBC