Wrapped in gold

Sadie M y phone rings and I pick it up while in the cab."Hello?",I said already in a bad mood after a whole day in college and part time job. "Sadie!Where are you?I told you to come home early!",Mason,my cousin brother's voice shouts from the other side.Wait,this number is mom's. " I am on my way to home.Calm your butt down.And mom said some of your busniess associates are coming.Why would it matter if I am on time or not?I will use the backdoor,ok? Now,where is mom?",I said sighing.My seventeen year older brother is a politician and most his busniess associates are either bad or a old bad prevert man. I have no appetite of having a prevert man during dinner, but the bad days he decided to bring the men in MY house,I have to bear them. After all he, Tessa,Hazel and Jason, all four of them siblongs are my cousins and family that all I got left plus Aunt Luna and Mom. "I don't need you to -"Sadie,just come home early.", Hazel said cutting the growl Mason was about to throw at me.She sounded odd. " I am coming.I am coming,geez.Stop scaring me.",I said and cut the call.Surely another one of my dad's old busniess or politic partner is supposed to come home.Or else Mason knows better than fixing me in a date like mom tried. "Madam,we are here.", the cab drivwr said and I nod paying him before getting out of the cab and infront of my small house which currently lined up with black cars.Huh? This guy must be pretty rich.I brush a lose strand of my messy braided hair behind my ear and straighten my scrubs before checking myself in my small pocket mirror to come across my dark brown hair, dark almost black eyes and button nose face with thick rimmed glasses. I shrug and thrust the mirror inside my gignatic bag.I am pretty enough for me.I fix the middle finger ring on my middle finger and walk inside the open door. Ok,something is fishy and I think I am starting to get a fishy feeling.Because why the heck would my whole dymasty would be here from mom and dad's side.I didn't came home last night for a double shift but this smeels way toof fishy. I peek inside our drawing room just infront of our front door and see men after men lined up sitting in their big suits.Yeah,I need to get out nefore I have 'too rich diarrhea'. I spot my mom and Mason also there.Wait!When did Jason came here from Washington.Why the heck is everyone wearing so much makeup?Yuck!Don't even tell me Jason's wofe Miley used all the eye shawdow shades in her both eyes and wore lashes on her already thick eyelashes? Yeah,definitly not going in.I turn to leave when my hand clashes with the nearby vase."s**t!"I quickly catch it and keep it on it's place trying to tiptoe and get out."Sadie.",Mason speaks up when I am one step away from the threshold. Shit!s**t!s**t!Double s**t!I close my eyes in frustration and put on my best smile turning on my heels."Yes,Mason?",I said with a huge smile that came out as a grimace. "Come and sit here.",Mason said looking at me with his brown eyes.Everyone has their heads snapped to me.I give him a tight lip smile and give mom a look.Mom whispers soemthing in Mason's ear,probably telling him to give me five minutes to turn into a human from a homeless person with messy braid. I felt someone's eyes boring holes into my skull but I didn't look at that way.Mason clears his throat and lets out a nervous chuckle." She just came in.Sadie,go and get freshed."he said. "Gotcha.", I said with a huge smile and turn on my heels and like in three minutes I got a bathe, wore my signatuer black knee length dress with my black wedges and let my hair casded down my back, with my balck earning. I look at the mirror debating wheather or nit wear any makeup.Nah.I look nice enough. I take a quick selfie and click send to my bestfriend,Meghan." Sadie!",Mason yells from downstairs.Uh,oh."Coming!",I said tripping before walking straight and walking inside giving my best smile. "Sorry to keep everyone waiting.", I said in my sweet velevty tone and again everyone's head turns to me." Good.I mean sit here.",Mason said pointing at an empty seat beside a stranger.I glance at the stranger to find dark emerald eyes with sharp featuers and a deadly handsome man in his thrities. Shit,isn't that Ashton King.As if the one my mom and family was talking about, being a gangster and some type of busniessman. I give him a small fake smile and sit beside him. Not like it is my first time sitting beside a killer.Being in a politician family here in this city and in my town, Riverdale meant you have to work with gangsters and maintain a 'good' relation to stay in game. I straighten beside him and seat properly and quitely.I felt the man's eyes on me. "Sadie,we have to tell you something.",Mason starts.Why are they talking about me?Infront of everyone? I look at Hazel and my other cousin of my age,Melissa to hint of what was going on,but both ignored my gaze.I frown and look at Mason." Yes?",I said. "You are to be married to Mr.King.I mean Ashton. ", mom said. " No,I am not marrying any gangster.",I said before my mom speak further.Me?Marry a killer?I save lives not take them.And I am not tangling in my family's old ways. Mom looks at me shocked and I can hear several gasps from my aunties or older cousins who thought, I didn't even know what our family does or runs. I very well know the roots but I ignore it.But I was prepearing myself for this situation for all my life knowing all the history of my elder cousin sisters, who had to run away from home or either marry a gangster or marry a prevert man. I thought my mom knew more than marry me off to a killer like her in-laws or her family.But apparently,she doesn't. And I am sure hell not going in a poor gangster with terror in their area jsut to end up pregnant and losing my career, also falling in 'so called love'. "Well,you are getting married.Like it... or not.", mom said sternly leaving no room to argue. I gulp the ball of fear and respect in the back of throat that I felt towards my mom that denide me to disobey her but I know more.I want more than this life. I look at Mason very well, knowing who will be most benefitted by this marriage.I give him my tearful, helpless eyes and he melts almost instantly.He opens his mouth to say something but mom beats him to it. " No,Mason.She has run away from every date,every man, every marriage proposal I have ever brought.She is marrying Ashton and that is it.She is twnety seven years for f**k's sake.",mom said and my eyes widen.How could she expose me infront of all these men? "I am not marrying a b****y chased by police poor gangster with nothing but 'love' to offer me. I am a doctor not a killer!b****y bullshit!", I yell and attempt to leave feeling like a f*****g godzilla.I swear I will that man staring at me with coldless eyes,it is all because of him and he keeps looking at me like a statue. I glare at everyone, one last time before leaving when a voice stops me."What do you want from this 'chased by police poor gangster ' to marry him?", a deep voice stops me. I turn on my heels with my blood boiling as my hair flips and I glare at the man. " Excuse me?",I ask through gritted teeth balling my hands in fists.He looks at me knowing well, I heard him."You heard me.What do you wnat from this poor chased by police gangster? ",he asks shrugging. I roll my eyes, turning to leave." I just asked a simple question,doll face. ",he again said.I make a face and turn towards him.He really didn't just asked me. I can see my mom and everyone almost sighing because they know I can be startled by such questions and submit easily. Fine!I will be a f*****g doll faced Annabelle bastard!And my family won't ever, I mean Never bring these guys in home. I cross my hands over my chest." Wrap me in gold.",I said trying to sound brave and confident .He smirks."Only that?",he taunts me. I roll my eyes."I have three conditions asshole. One.I want myself covered in diamond head to toe on our wedding day. Everyday my hands should shine like gold and my dress should scream rich, without a penny from my purse. Two.I want to be f*****g treated like a queen after wedding.One blow of work towards me,one blow of abusive word or even a blow of a***e towards me,forget you ever knew a girl named Sadie. Three.I want to continue my career and you will do everything I want for that. I mean Everything. Take these three rules or get the f**k out of my house. ",I said calmly as I can, dropping the three rules,I wnated but was sure none would give. He makes a face at me like mock serious. " If I fill all these rules,Can I have you?I mean,by soul and body?" he asks and my face heats up as I see everyone staring between us."Yes.But one rule out of place,it is all over.",I said flipping my hair. He smirks at me with his eyes glistening something,I couldn't pinpoint." Be ready. We are getting married.",he said and my heart drops to my stomach.