Her Fake Billionaire Husband

5: The beginning of a bad day

*Ines*

I am sitting in one of my family's private rooms, which functions as our living room, and I am trying to read a book, realising I have been reading the same line five times and still haven’t gotten it. It’s all Jackson’s fault.

The bastard had kissed me and then insinuated that…arg why does the memory make my pulse speed up and my body feels like the temperature just went up about ten degrees.

Suddenly the double doors are slammed open and my stepmother strides in, looking like a volcano about to erupt. “There you are, you conniving little b***h”.

“Huh ?” I put the book down in my lap, and look around wondering if there is someone else, I mean I don't think I did anything to her. “Ivelisse… is something wrong ?”

“Something wrong ? Something wrong ? You little..”. She walks towards me. “I was supposed to get something”.

I stand up, mostly because I feel I need to be at eye level. “Get something ? Sorry what are you talking about”.

“Like you don’t know... the will… Your father and Maceo were signing it with a lawyer. “You made him give the hotel to Maceo”.

“What ? No, I wanted to inherit it”. I want to be the owner, not Maceo, I want something of my own, something which is mine, not my husbands. “This is a mistake”.

She huffs. “Oh yes it is. I am the one spreading my legs to the old fool, I was supposed to get it when he croaks”.

“And here I thought you loved him”. Not that I really ever believed that, but her saying it directly irks me.

“Oh balderdash ! Like you love Maceo, women like us do not marry for love, we marry for what we get from it. And I was supposed to get a hotel”. She is grinding her teeth, clearing at me.

I sent her an overly sweet smile. “Apparently you spreading your legs, are not worth a hotel…sorry”.

“Oh I am gonna..”. She stops when two maids come in, curtsies and starts to clean.

I will need to go see Maceo and my father. This got to be a mistake. Maceo can’t get the hotel.

Ivelisse leans in, her voice poisonous. “Better watch out, we wouldn’t want you to have an accident.. if you did, I am sure your father would change his will”.

I just stare at her, my mouth slightly open.. Did she just threaten me ?

“An accident ?” I look at her, trying to read her face. “Was that a threat ?”

She just shrugs with this little knowing smile, then she turns and walks through the room, and out the door on the other end, into the hallway leading to her and dad’s bedroom.

I shake my head, I mean it’s Ivelisse, even if we have never been close, she is my step mom, she wouldn’t hurt me.. would she ?

But hurrying out of the room I wonder if I should worry, I mean she never striked me as particularly clever.. more like a silly teenage girl despite being older than me.. and that is one of the reasons I didn’t want her getting the hotel. And well secondly I want it to stay in the family.

I decide to go talk to Maceo first, and ask if it was his idea to change it, so I walk out the back, he lives in one of the cottages there, meant for senior staff.

It might seem bad, as he is my fiance, but to be honest I do not trust him when it comes to money, I know he is greedy. Sometimes I wonder if I did the right thing accepting his proposal.

As I get near I get this odd feeling, I can’t really explain what it is or why, just a big part of me feels like turning, like walking away. Maybe I just fear the confrontation.

Stepping up on the porch I am about to knock when I hear sounds through the open window. At the same time they are very strange and very familiar, like something I should know but have never encountered.

“Yes .. oh yes Maceo... harder big boy... harder”. A female voice gasping between words, followed by a sound like skin on skin.

My heart sinks and I feel bile rise in my throat, but I still push open the door and walk in, following the grunts and groans to the bedroom.

And there he is, my fiance, naked and humping some cheap go-go dancer. I recognize her from the casino. Yes, I feel betrayed, but most of all I am angry…very angry.

I clear my throat and Maceo jumps off the w***e in a way that almost looks funny. “Oh God Ines, darling, baby. It’s not what you think”.

I look at him, knowing my expression is one of utter disbelief.

“Better she knows”. The woman says, and looks at me, not even caring to cover herself. “He is mine now you know, he wants a woman who isn't so … frigid”.

Okay, that stung a bit, the frigid part… I am not… I think. I am just a good girl, and not a cheap w***e. “No worries you can have him, I don’t want him”.

“Like I need your permission, little-miss-fancy-panties with the rich daddy..”. She hisses.

“Giselle shut it”. Maceo growls, sending her a searing glare.

I just shake my head. “Oh lord. I will go tell dad. Maybe you want to start packing ... both of you..”.

“Ines, sweetie”. Maceo is desperately pulling on his pants. “Don’t be unreasonable..”.

“Unreasonable ! Really”. I place my hands on my hips. “Uh nope, unreasonable would be cutting off your balls, I am being very much reasonable…you and me... are over, please continue .. whatever that was .. big boy, I am out”.

The woman jumps up, grabbing Maceo’s shoulder. “Let her go, you have me”.

“Listen to her and do not dare follow me”. I say and walk quickly to the door, hearing him calling my name, but I ignore it.

Right now I need air and I need to go tell my father, I can’t believe I didn’t see this coming.