CHAPTER FIVE
1098 Words
"And that's the last thing I need for now” Ariadne exhaled, putting the bottle of soy sauce into her shopping basket.
She paid at the cashier and hurriedly walked out of the grocery store. It was already evening and she was running late. She wanted to prepare dinner before going over to see Chanel. She was working half time today, giving her the opportunity to go grocery shopping.
It has been a week since she eavesdropped on the Blacks having a serious quarrel and she didn't really know if he would carry on with the divorce he had promised.
“So what if he divorces his wife, what are you planning on doing, do you think he would even lay his sight on you?” her inner self taunted her
Ariadne clenched her fists and pursued her lips
She knew that her inner self was right, she had been going over to Mr Black's place to care for Chanel and the man hadn't even taken a single glance at her direction, he didn't even know her name and he still referred to her as Chanel's Nanny.
In fact, it was almost as if she wasn't existing in his eyes.
“Oh my God! Ariadne, I didn't expect that I would see you here” A voice exclaimed loudly.
Ariadne turned and was shocked to see someone unexpected, it was a face that she abhorred so much.
Harper, her ex husband's Mistress, the same woman who was the mother of her ex husband's child.
“Hi Harper…what are you doing In this part of the town?” Ariadne asked , tucking her hair behind her ears.
Harper laughed and showed her well manicured nails to Ariadne “oh you know this part of the town is known to have the best nail techs, so I drove here to get this gorgeous babies”
Ariadne looked at Harper's nails and indeed it looked like it had just been done, Harper's nails looked like eagle talons polished in pink and studded with fake crystals.
Ariadne squeezed her face, thinking of how Harper would be able to wash herself with such long claws.
“Yeah…. It looks nice?..”
“I know right, they cost me 500 dollars to get” Harper said proudly, blowing on her claws.
Ariadne winced at the price, she knew that Harper was lying to her about the price because there was no way an ugly job as this would cost half a thousand.
“You haven't stopped by in a long time, why is that?Daniel keeps on talking about you, the pot pie you…”
“There's no need for me to come around and you should be making pot pies for your son” Ariadne cut her off and walked off
Harper huffed and glared at her “aren't you angry that i took your husband away?” She asked.
Ariadne stopped walking and turned with a scoff from her lips “Angry? Why should I be when you took away what I had been wanting to get rid of for a long time, marrying Jayson was one of the greatest mistakes i made and I'm glad that someone finally took the hot potato away from my hands, thank you Harper for being such a homewrecker” Ariadne said with a proud smile, she walked off, swaying her hips slowly.
“Damn you! Ariadne Salvatore!” Ariadne heard Harper yell.
She chuckled loudly and got into the car, she took a deep breath and exhaled.
Damn! That felt good.
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“I've been waiting for you!” This was the first thing Ariadne heard when the door was opened by Mr Black, followed by a little girl who rushed and hugged her like a little whirlwind.
Ariadne cracked a smile, she bent down and scooped the little angel into her arms while peppering kisses all over her face “How have you been Angel, Hope you had been a good girl” She cooed making Chanel giggle loudly.
Ariadne walked into the house still carrying Chanel.
She saw Sven seating on the couch, watching some business news on the modern TV that was plastered on the wall.
“Good day sir” Ariadne greeted him with a small smile.
“Good day to you too” He replied with a nod, his liquid silver orbs trained on her
Ariadne felt herself trip over the flat floor, there was a small blush on her cheeks.
This was the first time he had actively paid attention to her or even bothered to give her a reply.
Ariadne didn't know how she managed to make her way towards Chanel's rp but she knew that she wasn't ever going to forget this evening.
“Why are your cheeks so red?...are you sick?” Chanel asked worriedly, placing her little hands on Ariadne's cheeks.
“I'm fine, the weather is hot '' Ariadne replied, looking at the door nervously, she hoped that Sven had not heard what Chanel just said.
“Are you sure?” Chanel asked again,
“Hmm” she replied, she put the little girl down and held her tender hands “so tell me little munchkin, how did you day go today?”
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“Have she slept off?” A masculine voice asked from her back, Ariadne who had just closed the door of Chanel's room jumped in fright.
She turned and held her chest, panting.
“I'm sorry, did I scare you?” Sven asked, his tone was guilty but the look kn his face was always the same. Indifferent and uncaring.
“Yes you did” Ariadne whispered out, patting her chest with her hands.
“We need to talk” he said in an authoritative tone and walked off, heading towards the sitting room
Ariadne furrowed her brows, she wasn't pleased at the way he spoke to her but she kept quiet and followed him to the sitting room.
Once they were both seated comfortably on the couch, Sven leaned forward and pushed a stack of paper towards Ariadne.
“Read it” he said In a mysterious tone.
Ariadne picked the papers and read them carefully. For some time, there was absolute silence in the room except for the flipping of papers.
“What's the… mean..ing of this…I don't understand…. what am I seeing here?” Ariadne stuttered with wide eyes.
Sven nodded his head
“What you are seeing there is exactly what I mean, I want you to marry me Ariadne, be my wife and Chanel's mother”
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