The Billionaire's Pet

Announced Her Wedding

That night Lotus didn’t realize when the wine bottle became empty. 

Next day

“Lotus! Lotus,” someone shook her. Startled, she got up from the floor and rubbed her eyes to see around. She saw the wine bottle had rolled off somewhere in front of her and her mother’s sister, Samantha Summers was sitting beside her and shaking her. 

“Lotus, this is too much! Why are you lying like this on the floor? Who had the courage to make you feel sad again, tell me and I will gouge their eyes!” said Samantha Summers. The last she saw her like this was long back. 

“It is nothing aunt,” she replied as she tried to get up but her hangover was so bad that she couldn’t. 

Samantha got up from her place and pulled Lotus up. “Tell me everything!” shouted Samantha. Upon her continuous insistence Lotus told her everything. 

When Samantha heard everything, she became red with anger. The first thing she did was to make Lotus lie on the bed, cover her with the comforter and then go to make some hot coffee for her. Since Lotus wasn’t feeling good, she decided to take a shower. 

Samantha was like an older sister to Lotus. She was Kiara's youngest sister with five siblings in between. She was about ten years older to Lotus and ever since she had met her, she was her closest friend and family. Lotus shared everything with her. 

By the time she came out, Samantha Ross was back with the hot coffee and waiting for her. Giving her the hot coffee, Samantha said angrily, “Lotus, you took a good decision. You need not go there! What the hell do they think they are? After so many years they call you only for reading out the Will. That would be the best answer to their nonsense! Also I wonder what is left in that family that would be given to you? Everything is slowly taken over by your ex-finance Brian. I say let us go for a vacation outside the country on the day of reading it and let them keep hanging!”

Lotus laughed softly at her aunt. “Samantha, sometimes I feel you act like Natasha Wayleigh – too dramatic for real life. Instead of having your own Music Company, you should have an acting school. Your students would greatly benefit. Since you are too old to be a heroine, I think this would be the best option.” 

In a male dominated industry, Samantha was the one of the two women who was into music production. In fact her Music Company, Gecii was one of the top five in the country with an estimate turnover of about ninety million annually, which was an impressive figure. Lately, Samantha Ross had started going to South Africa to promote talent over there. 

“What do mean, too old? You are truly brutal Lotus! If I will come in the acting industry, trust me you won’t have a single job left for you,” retorted Samantha snapping her fingers. 

Lotus now laughed aloud. She felt better and kept sipping the hot coffee. 

“You are not going, that’s it!” shouted Samantha Ross. “You have everything that life could give so it is best to stay away from those bastards.”

Lotus was sitting on the love couch near the glass wall of bedroom with her legs curled behind. She sipped more coffee and looked out at the city’s skyline. It looked like a concrete jungle. 

The two of them sat quietly for some time after which Samantha gave her a pill. “Here have this… and Lotus please stop drinking. I don’t like it when you are in such a helpless situation. You are the tigress and you shouldn’t let trash people like Martha, bother you anymore. How dare that b***h calls after so many years only to talk to you like this?”

Lotus took the pill and then Samantha said, “Keep sitting here, I will go and make some breakfast.” Then she fanned her face with her fingers and said, “I am grateful for my habit to come and check on you every time I am in town, otherwise you would have been in a mess at the moment.”

Lotus shook her head at her aunt’s drama. She had come there to collect the Prada jacket she had bought especially for her when she had gone to Paris a week back. But she knew that Samantha loved her like her sister and so she was thankful to her. “Thank you my lovely aunt.” 

“Good!” said Samantha and left to go to the kitchen to make breakfast. 

Lotus again looked outside at the skyline of the city and felt a pang of ache in her heart. Her grandfather was dead. The only favorite person she had in this world was dead and that b***h called her to spout nonsense. She started brooding. So many years back, her grandfather couldn’t do anything for her. 

When she was a young girl, she was so beautiful that her sister and her stepmother were always jealous. Her grandmother was anyway against her. Although she was getting good education from a good school, unfortunately her grandmother made sure that she was used more as a maid of the house than treated as the eldest daughter. Sometimes she was made to do household chores all day along with the servants. Even the servants sneered at her knowing how pitiful her position was in the house.

She was older to her stepsister by three years and yet she used to get her older clothes to wear, which were so tight that she eventually could wear only five or six dresses of hers. Rest she would wear the shirts and pants of her grandfather. She never complained.

At first her grandfather thought that she was wearing them out of affection, but when he saw that she really didn’t have much to wear, he went on to buy fifty dresses for her much to her grandmother’s annoyance. Her grandfather was a busy businessman and hence he had to stay out of the house for at least ten months out of the twelve. So whatever time he used to be at home, he would take care of her and dote upon her. She had to endure the atrocities of the three bitches rest of the months.  

At one point of time she wanted to run away. However this was the time when suddenly her grandfather announced her wedding with the son of a wealthy family Brian Lesley. The Lesley family was having their own movie studio, which had made them extremely wealthy over two generations.