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05
Xavier Knight
I never knew Andrew Smith had two daughters, the whole business world knew that he only had one daughter, Scarlet Smith because she was always in limelight. She was always present in business events or other parties with her father. She was nothing but a spoiled brat.
But what intrigued me was Andrew’s other daughter, his stepdaughter. Though she’s his stepdaughter, why was she never in limelight, why was she hidden from the world, and most importantly how my mom and dad knew her if no one else did? And why they wanted me to marry her.
How were they sure she’s not some spoiled brat like her sister? As for me, I could only think of her as a spoiled brat. Maybe she had done something due to which her parents had to hide her from the world? I knew I was being judgemental but what else could I think when I didn’t know anything about her?
When my father gave her details to me, I got to know that her biological father died when she was ten and her mother remarried just after a year of her husband’s death to Andrew Smith. She was a straight-A student in high school and college. That’s all I got to know about her.
When I saw her picture; I would be lying if I say that I wasn’t mesmerized by her beauty but from my experience, I had learned that looks are always deceiving. They all had faces hidden behind their mask of beauty. These types of girls are always after money and she is no different; only because of money she must have said yes otherwise she didn’t have any reason to say yes because we had never met, never knew each other.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
When she stood in front of me in the Church, I so badly wanted to run away, my blood was boiling and I was on verge of letting all my anger out on someone. But I chose not to because I was the reason she was standing in front of me. I agreed to marry her just because my parents wanted me to.
It took me few seconds to say “I do” because I wanted to say “I don’t” but my parents’ happy face flashed before my eyes, they were really happy when I agreed to marry the girl of their choice.
I didn’t want to kiss her on her lips or her face so I took her hand and kissed the back of her hand. A jolt of electricity passed through my body as I kissed her hand, my heartbeat increased at an alarming rate which made me immediately let go of her hand. This kind of thing never happened to me before. What exactly happened? It was just a kiss.. that too on her hand. I was so damn confused. I immediately walked out of the Church to calm myself down.
My thoughts were interrupted by my name being called, I turned towards the direction of the voice, which was my mother calling my name. She was holding her hand. She let go of her hand and approached me.
“Xavier son, today you made me happy by marrying Ariana. I wholeheartedly accept her as my daughter-in-law. I know right now you must be confused an… and must be a little unhappy with our decision. You must be hating us right now for doing this to you. But trust me, son, Ariana is pure gold, you will never regret marrying her. Take care of her son she is a delicate flower, we have done enough, she is now your responsibility. Take care of her, son and don’t hate us. Remember that I love you. I am always proud of you.” She kissed my cheek and hugged me tightly and whispered: “My little Xavi is a married man now.” Then she let go of me.
“Son, today I am handing over her responsibility to you. I will now live in peace because I know she will always be safe with you. I trust you on this son. Stay healthy, stay happy and keep her happy.” My dad patted my back.
Handing over her responsibility? Safe?
Though I had many questions in my mind, I just nodded my head but didn’t say anything. Yes, I was hurt and upset but my parents’ happiness was more important to me and they were very happy with my decision of marrying that girl. I may hate that girl for life but I couldn’t do that to my mom and dad.
I walked towards my car and opened the car back door for her to enter. I didn’t want to do this but my parents were standing there. My mom and dad hugged her then she made her way towards the car. She entered and sat on the car backseat. Closing the door, I moved to the other side of the car and sat beside her. I asked my driver/bodyguard, Finn, to drive to my penthouse building.
That’s the new penthouse I purchased and shifted in a month ago; media or paparazzi didn’t know about it. That’s good for me because I didn’t want them to know that I was married, I wanted to keep that hidden. If the media finds about this they would gather outside my workplace and surely would dig out the address of my penthouse building and would not let me live in peace.
We reached the building; Finn parked the car in the private parking. I got out of the car ordered Finn to bring her luggage up. Without saying anything I made my way towards the private elevator. I knew she was following me.