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"Mrs. Romero! Your room is at the end of the corridor towards the west wing, adjacent to the servant's quarter!",I gulped audibly, nodding to the head servant.

What more could I expect from this loveless marriage?

Flashback...

"Hi Ms. Aurora! I'm your father on rent for today's wedding!!",I looked at him defeated with tears threatening to slip away from the corners of my painted eyes.

"W-What the hell are you saying? How dare you to take my father's place? Get lost from here before I do something you won't like!!!",I yelled anxiously with my palms trembling vigorously, itching to punch his nasty face.

"Ms. Sir has ordered to take your father's place temporarily on your wedding! Please co-operate",he replied pleadingly scratching his nape with an irritated look lingering on his forehead.

"Then the fuck tell your boss that I don't need a father!! If he's so damn egoistic than suggest him to marry one of his whores...",I didn't realised while seeing red that my sharp tongue has uttered something which it shouldn't.

"What is my bride saying, Patrick! Obey her, don't make her cry on her wedding day",the devil itself was standing behind him with his hands clad together, a mocking expression brushing his lips while a deadly silence persisting in those dark green woods...

He nodded immediately leaving the room at once.

"Come here!",he ordered sternly, his smirk immediately disappearing in thin vapours with an ablazing aura darkening his evil villainous scary orbs.

I hesitantly shook my head, clutching the hand mirror behind me for safety,"S-so that you'll...you'll..."

"SHUT UP AND COME HERE!!!",he barked on my face, taking a step closer to my slightly shivering body and with a swift, he clutched my hand and twisting it behind my back, he pulled me into him. His sturdy chest pressing against my heaving body.

"Now that you've chosen to willingly jump into the fire then don't think that I'll let you go without burning gattına",he replied huskily in a soft voice but with a hidden meaning behind his malicious smirk, twisting my hand with a force that a tear escaped my eyes.

Whimpering silently, I slowly looked at his now poker face with teary gaze only to notice a flick of emotion swirling in those viridescent copse, immediately to be replaced by an skin numbing coldness.

"Wipe those worthless tears and reach silently down the aisle with that rented father Patrick that I arranged for you since your bastard of a father eloped with my money to spend on his slutty bitch!!",he spoke with a vicious tone, each word pointing thousands of daggers at my frail heart.

"I-I won't! Fuck your marriage and f...",he instantly grabbed my throat in a death grip, slamming my body against the wall while ramming his nails deep into my skin, peeling out the layers.

I started seeing darkness when he instantly left me asphyxiated on the floor and went out, me coughing vigorously while clutching my wedding gown.

After few seconds of refreshing my makeup, I was brought forcefully down the aisle with my rented father who without any regret or feelings, easily detached my hand from his hold, handing me over to the man who wasn't even looking at me. Anyways, I don't want that man's attention too.

"Do you Aurora Wilston take Kayden Romero to be your lawfully wedded husband",my throat parched with the priest's words...

My heart was yelling from inside to shout no and runaway from this dismal den forever from this treacherous enemy of mine but as my gaze swept at his furious orbs that were indirectly forcing my constricted throat to utter yes.

"Y-yes!",I finally croaked while chewing my bottom lip with my sharp incisors to stop wincing when he abruptly pinched my side brutally to break the silence.

"In the name of God, I Kayden Romero take you Aurora Wilston to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold form this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish you, until death do us apart...",he uttered like a speech with a bored expression lacing his tone.

I repeated my part like a caged trained parrot too without much thinking...

As if thinking would change my already broken life?

"I therefore in the name of holy god pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride!",as the priest declared this, it didn't took a second before my vail was lifted from my face and instantly warm plump lips landed on my lips.

It wasn't a forced one,nor demanding neither a peck, but a proper kiss. The one anyone would fantisize. He slowly brushed his lips against mine, encircling his hands around my waist to mould his body tightly against mine, his tongue gliding and teeth nibbling my lower lip until it was swollen with his lecherous hunger.

"Welcome to my world and my life wifey'! From now onwards, you're the wife of a mafia king not the daughter of some beggar! So I expect you to behave like one otherwise I won't hesitate to break your legs and feed them to the hungry Wolves",he snickered leaving my waist with a jerk and instantly retreated his steps, looking away from my eyes.

Flashback Ends...

"Where you goin'?",I paused suddenly hearing the maid's words.

"To my room!",I replied sighing while lifting the long skirt that was weighing more than my weight, brushing the floor as I was walking.

"That's your room for the day. For nights, you'll stay in Mr. Romero's room",she replied with a duh faced menacing look while brushing the tendrils falling on her face, leaving afterwards strutting against the Brazilian cherry of the so called new Mansion of my husband.

Am I his whore to spend only nights with him? Our deal is over, now I don't care! I'll fulfill all my duties as wife except being his slut!!

I clutched the knob tightly, hesitating for a moment whether I should pay heed to the maid's words or not?

You'll be my sweet little wife for the outside world who'll stand beside me while my little fuckin' slave inside those closed doors...

His words rang into my ears, pricking my eardrum like a piercing sharp and pointed needle.

Without giving a second thought to the unreasonable fear of my brain, I entered inside the dimlit room where only the small table lamp kept on the side table, sitting adjacent to a large circular bed was glowing brightly, otherwise everywhere across the room pursed an intense raven darkness.

The scarlet vampiric curtains hanging from the tall ceiling of my room kept shielding the moonlight from entering inside.

Removing my vail from my head and slipping out of my long heavily beaded skirt, I slowly walked near the curtains, only to touch it when a hand instantly grabbed my wrist and pushed my body against the curtains, my brain immediately freezing due to shock that'd hit my body like an avalanche.

"Why'd you not came to our room?",I heard his soft voice murmuring near my ear, while his musky cologne mixed with the nauseating smell of alcohol hitting my nostrils creating an unknown sensation in my stomach. The proximity was too erotic and weirdly sensual that my body froze at its place like a statue.

"I-I...",I stuttered unable to reply anything, fisting my hands tightly when he suddenly pulled my back against his sturdy chest and dipping his face in my neck, he started murmuring something which I couldn't hear.

I tried to remove his hold forcefully from around my body while he kept tightening his hold, sticking more to me like a leech.

My body stiffened on it's own accord on feeling warm droplets of liquid dripping on my bare shoulders...

I craned my long neck towards his face only to notice the side view of his face shoved in my shoulder which were wet, wet with tears?

"I'm sorry baby..."

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