Episode 45 Like Your Eyes

💦 ACE 💦

 {💔 He's broken... She will heal Him ❤ }

 (🌺 He's arrogant..... She's crazy 🌺)

🔥 Billionaire Romance 🔥

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 🌺 Alex 🌺

"W-what?" I question, not sure if I heard correctly

 "A RING! We need to buy a ring, Now get in the car" he says

I get in and he quickly goes around to the other side and drives off

 "Why do we need to buy a ring?" I ask, still confused 

"God, Alex, we need to get wedding rings, we're married, remember!?" he says, still pretty annoyed

I never really thought about this-

We were 'married' and we didn't even have wedding rings on. 

But why was this such a concern all of a sudden?

 "Okay so you pulled me, like literally pulled and dragged me out of work, yelling like a maniac, to go buy wedding rings!? 

Couldn't we just do this later, or you could have sent Leila to buy them" I say looking away, at the window, pretending not to care

 He doesn't say anything right away "...people are suspicious, and besides we need them for tonight's dinner with the Sheppards" he says

I don't respond and just look out the window, as he continues driving. There was such a strong awkward and angry wave of energy around us. I just wanted to get out of the car

We finally reach the jewelry store and he parks his car.

We both get out of the car, and walk into the really fancy jewelry store. We're greeted by a middle aged man

 "Mr. And Mrs. Anderson, welcome. Please follow me this way" he says

Ace places his hand on my lower back which surprises me, but I mean we are technically married and need to act like a couple in public so.. Anyway, we follow the man to a private sitting room with two sofas and a table in the middle.

"Please take a seat, I shall bring you the samples" the man says and leaves the room.

Ace and I both take a seat on the sofa and don't say a word. 

We both go on our phones as we wait for the gentleman to return.

He comes back with a few other workers, each holding a box full of engagement rings and wedding bands.

"Here are our finest rings, made out of the world's most expensive diamonds and sapphires. For your Ms, here are the engagement rings and you can choose any of these wedding bands, even though we have a couple already prepared for you." he starts to explain the kind of diamonds each ring had and to be honest, I wasn't going to choose any of these anyway. They were far too expensive and not necessary.

"The engagement ring won't be needed. Just a wedding band thank you" I say politely

"Oh but- it's a must! You can't just wear the band!" he starts laughing

I look over at Ace who comes a bit closer

 "Choose a ring" Ace says 

"It's not necessary. The wedding band is enough" I say this time to him 

"Alexandra, we're not leaving until you choose a ring" Ace says, this time in a more stern and demanding voice as he brings his face mere inches away from mine.

Looking into his icy blue eyes, I let out a sigh and stand "Can I see your outside collection?" I ask the gentleman helping us, pointing to the main area where there were far cheaper rings than all these diamonds in here.

"We've brought you the finest diamonds we have. If none of these are to your liking, we can custom make the ring of your dreams and-" I cut him off

 "No-no, no need for that. If I must get an engagement ring, a simple one will do just fine" I say

Ace grabs my hand and turns to me "I can't have my wife wearing a cheap ring. You're an Anderson. Now Alex, please choose one of these rings" he says pointing to the really expensive rings in front of us.

I look over at the displays and see all these big and shiny diamonds staring back at me. These were all screaming 'too much' to me, except for only one. I point to the ring and the gentleman helping us, takes it out of the display case, handing it over to me.

It was a beautiful light blue sapphire that was simple but unique. It was so... pretty.

Holding it in my hands, I look at it and fall in love.

The gentleman starts to speak about the sapphires history, where it comes from etc. but I was only focused on how unique it was.

I turn and show it to Ace who gently takes it out of my hand. 

He looks at the ring and grabs my hand, sliding the ring through my finger which was miraculously a perfect fit! "It's perfect," he says, a smile grows on my face and I look up, as we lock eyes. 

At that moment, I realized his eyes were the same exact colour as the ring... The gentleman starts speaking again and I clear my throat, breaking our eye contact.

"That is a beautiful choice. Suits you well Mrs. Anderson.

Now for the bands, we have these custom made ones with your names each engraved inside." the gentleman says with a big smile

He gives us the silver bands and I look at the inside of my ring, which has Ace's name engraved inside. His ring had my name inside.

"I'll box these for you" the gentleman says as Ace hands him over his credit card

 "Did you order these ahead of time?" I ask Ace about the already engraved rings 

"No, they just knew we were coming and made them I guess" he says with a shrug.

A few moments later, the man comes back with our bill and rings boxed up. He leads us out of the room and to the door. We say goodbye and head out, back to the car.

"Do we wear these now?" I question pointing to the boxed up bands 

"I guess?" Ace says

We take out the rings and put them on. I never thought

I would be the one to pick out my own engagement ring.

Hell l...I never thought I would fake marry someone who

would die and come back to life but yet here we were.

He drives me back to the penthouse and stops the car at the front of the building.

"I'll pick you up at 6:30pm for the dinner" he says before I get out of the car

 "That's if you actualy decide to show up this time" I say letting out a little scoff

 "What?" he questions

Damn.. he probably doesn't even remember "Whatever, 6:30pm see you then" I say and get out of the Car.

I still had some work, and phone calls to make so I pulled out my laptop and started to work from home.

At around 5:00pm, I decide to take a quick shower and change into a bodycon fitted off the shoulder white silky dress, pairing it with nude heels. I decide to curl my hair down and finalize my look with some minimal makeup.

look over at the time and notice it's 6:15.. with some time to spare, I turn on my tv and take a seat on the sofa.

I couldn't help but play with the two new rings sitting on my fingers. I take off the wedding banner and look at Ace's name which was engraved inside. All of a sudden, it felt real. 

That we were actually married.

I put the ring back on and grab my purse when I realize it's 6:30pm. I head downstairs and to my surprise, he's actually here this time.

We've been having way too many events these past few days..

He doesn't come out of the car, so I open the door and get in. He was on his phone, texting away.

"Ready?" he questions, still looking down at his phone

 "Mhm" I simply answer

 He puts his phone down and starts to drive to the restaurant. We get there and realize we were a few minutes early so we decide to go to our table and wait for the Sheppards to arrive. 

Taking a seat beside each other, Ace breaks our awkward silence streak 

"Guess I can proudly say you didn't stand me up to dinner this time" he says with a sarcastic smile

 "Excuse me? Do you really find everything in your life to just be one big joke?" I snap

 "I stopped playing games Alex, but looks like you just started" he scoffed

 "Why are you so angry!? " I question confused

 "What do you mean!? Why are you angry!? You're clearly the one having fun. Is it payback? Payback for lying to you? Is that why you didn't come?" he asks

 "Ace I'm so confused. What in the actual f*ck are you talking about? This is why I don't think I can ever trust you again. I don't even know if you're lying, is this is some kind of joke or what-" I say 

"Ah okay, I get it now. It's all about not trusting me.

Makes total sense to me now. So instead of giving me a second chance, you decided to make me wait at a restaurant for you, all night, only for you not to show up, in order for me to learn about trust? Is that your masterful plan?" he asks angry

 "-Im so confused now. What do you mean waited for me? I waited for you all night at that frickin restaurant Ace!" I say, feeling the heat rise in my body 

"What?"" he questions confused, this time pulling back his tone, he was about to say something else before we were interrupted

 "I didn't think I would see the day that Ace Anderson would return from the dead!" an older man, whom I believe was John Sheppard says as he pulls Ace in for a hug 

"John, it's great to see you man. Elaine, how nice to see you" he says giving John's wife a hug

 "This is my wife, Alex" Ace introduces me as I shake their hands 

"I think we've already met once, at- uhm at the funeral.." I say with an awkward smile

 "Yes! Of course, how could we forget that epic funeral!

Ace you should have seen it! Aye, maybe you did see it"

John jokes.

We take our seats and make small talk. Ace and John both catch up and I speak with Elaine, who was such a sweet older woman.

The whole time, Ace kept on glancing at me. We needed to finish our conversation.. I was so confused, how was he waiting for me?! I was there the whole time... waiting for him.

We talk about Ace's whole situation, why he had left and the whole big 'misunderstanding' blah blah blah lies blah blah blah Then we order dinner and talk about work Blah blah blah boring blah blah blah.

After we finished our meals, we just continued talking, "Oh Alex dear, that's such a beautiful ring" Elaine points out and grabs my hand, looking closer at the ring.

I give her a small smile, "Thank you" 

"A unique ring, for a one of a kind girl. I see what you did there Ace" John says, smiling at Ace.

I look over at him and we lock eyes, I quickly clear my throat and get up 

"If you'l excuse me" I say politely and head to the restaurant bathroom 

I enter the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror.

My face was blushed and I was starting to feel really hot, so I open the tap and gently rinse my face with cool water.

What's wrong with you Alex? Get yourself together... You look into his eyes and this is what becomes of you? No.' I tell myself.

Grabbing some paper towels, I look at my ring and all I can think about, were his icy blue eyes. Really? I just had to choose this ring...

Calming myself down, I head out the bathroom door and before I can go back to my seat, I feel someone grab my arm and push me against the wall. I look up and meet his gaze.

"We need to talk'"

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