Chapter one
My alarm beeped at 7 in the morning. I was drifting in and out of consciousness when I suddenly remembered what today was. I was wide awake in an instant. Xavier my fiancé was coming back home today. He’d been gone for 7 years and was finally coming back. I couldn’t wait to see him! I got engaged to him at the age of 16. I’m 18 years old now and live with my foster mother in Canada, who is Xavier’s biological mother. He only agreed to this engagement to get the full claim on his late father’s company. The last time I saw him was when he was 18 and I was 11. He was getting ready to go to college in America, and even though I was 11 and It had only been a year since I was adopted, I had still fallen in love him. You all probably think that it’s because he’s my first crush or something, but I really do love him. My parents died in a car accident and I was the only survivor. I can’t even remember anything right now. Mummy said that she didn’t want to adopt me at first but changed her mind after she saw my cute face and beautiful blue eyes. You could say that I’m a really happy child because I had nothing to worry about and everything came easy to me in life. I jumped from my queen size bed and took a quick shower making the bathroom steamy. I walked out of the bathroom butt naked without bothering to put on a towel. I went to the large mirror and sighed looking at myself in the mirror. I’m tiny and I really have a lot of feminine features. I have long curly red hair, smooth baby face with no sign of beard growth, long and thick eyelashes, very pale skin, small red plump lips. I’m curvy and have a big butt like that of a girl, I’m kinda slim which makes my big butt even more prominent and I’m 5'1. Yes, you heard right. Even my mother is taller than me at 5'6. Where was I? Oh right! I dried my body with a fluffy towel, wore a sweat shirt and pants, then I went downstairs to see Nancy, one of the maids, setting up the table. “Hey Nancy,” I smiled excitedly at her and sat down. “Hello, Master Elliot,” she smiled, knowing the reason for my happiness. I got tired of telling her and all the workers to call me Elliot but they never did. “Your mother is not here, but she told me inform you that Master Xavier would be home by seven.” She said with a teasing smile on her face. I quickly turned and shoved a spoon of cereal in my mouth in order to hide my blushing face. “Don’t tease me like that Nancy, it’s embarrassing.” I grumbled while trying to cool my red face. It was no surprise that everyone in the house knew about my feelings for Xavier. I was in love with Xavier. My mummy was the first one to know about it and that’s the reason she asked me if I wanted to get married to him or not and me being sure of myself, said yes. I finished eating my breakfast, and then finally looked at the time. How the fudge is it already 12:00? Oh, one more thing you probably should know about me is that I don’t swear or say curse words. I quickly rushed outside and I’m greeted by Edward, the driver’s son. “Hello Edward,” I smiled at him “Hello, Master Elliot,” he whispered and looked at the ground. His face and neck were becoming slightly red. “Are you okay? Your face is turning red.” “I’m alright, Master Elliot. I’ll be right back.” he walked away I wonder why his face was so red? Or was he blushing? The maids told me that he liked me but I didn’t think that was the case. If it was, then he would tell me, right? He’s 6'1 and has curly brown hair, light green eyes, tanned skin, dark red lips and is also a year older than me. He’s more on the cute side but I’m looking for manly and sexy. Thinking about Xavier gets me riled up and some people asked me how I still liked Xavier despite not seeing him for seven years but I just did and besides he’s always on E entertainment and other tv stations. He’s that popular. I shrugged and entered the car. I laid back on the leather seat and thought about what I had to do, which was a lot. I had to go for a pedicure, go to the spa, cut my very stubborn and curly red hair, which now reached the middle of my back and I needed to pluck out my eyebrows which were getting too thick. I needed to look my best because it’s my fiancé were talking about here. I heard the sound of the front door of the car closing and saw the driver looking at me in the rear-view mirror. “Where to first, Master Elliot?” “To the spa please.” ******************************************************************************* 6 hours later I looked at myself in the mirror and I have to say that there was a positive change. My skin, especially my facial skin was smoother than ever... my eyebrows were perfectly shaped and my body was free of any hair after hours of torture. I thank God for that because red hair is not attractive on the body, my extra curly red hair was partially tamed. I decided to wear a white button up shirt, black skinnies with white and black converse. “Elliot!” I heard mummy call me from downstairs. “Coming!” I answered and skipped down the stairs. The house was really hectic today and all the maids were running around, trying to get everything in order before his arrival. I met her at the bottom of the stairs and she smiled at me, her hazel brown eyes shining. I have to admit that mommy was beautiful, even at the age of 50. She has fresh skin and wrinkles only appeared when she smiled. “Sweetie, let’s go and wait for him at the porch.” she teased making blush. She always babied me and I liked it because it made me safe and warm on the inside. I smiled nervously at her and grabbed her hand as we went to the porch. About three minutes later, a black Mercedes-Benz drove in to the mansion and stopped right in the driveway. I nervously bit my lip and squinted my eyes to see if I could see anything. The driver’s door opened and what I saw made by breath get caught in my throat and my heart beat 10 times more. It was Xavier and let me just say that seeing him on tv did not do him justice. His face had transformed completely. I was no longer seeing the 18 years old adolescent who moved to college. His black curly hair was dishevelled, his strong jawline had a bit of 5 o’clock shadow, his muscular body was sculpted like that of a god and his eyebrows were so thick, he had on a button up shirt and a faded blue jeans, which showed his muscular thighs and brought out the muscles on his upper body. His skin was slightly tanned and his beautiful black eyes were so beautiful and mysterious at the same time. I closed my mouth after I realised, I was gaping and stopped looking at him when I heard the passenger door opening and a very beautiful girl came out of the car. She had flawless blonde hair and had long tan legs that ran for miles. She wore 6-inch heels which made her taller than she already was. She wound her arms around him and kissed his cheek. Why was there a girl coming out of his car? And why was she kissing his cheek? “What is going on?” I looked at mummy to see her face turning a bright red which indicated her anger. He came to stand directly in front of mummy and looked at her with a blank and emotionless face. “Mother,” he said with that smooth and husky voice of his and it took everything in me not to fall down right then and there. “Who the hell is that?” She asked with gritted teeth while pointing in the girl’s direction. I was really confused and scared because this was the first time I’d seen mummy acting this way. Even the girl looked taken aback. “This is my girlfriend, Emily.” he said and wrapped an arm around her waist tightly while looking directly into my eyes