The Contracted Bride Of Alessandro

Chapter Two: A Compensation!

Alessandro managed to lift his head up but not his whole body, his eyes instantly hit the beaming sunlight that seeped through the black drapes, he let out a sigh and sat upright on the bed.

The first thing he noticed was that he was naked bare and a little too comfortable on this bed that was usually uncomfortable. More comfortable than what he remembered Capricon's bed to feel like, but he paused again, trying to reboot, he was still hungover from yesterday's drinking spree.

The math started to add itself up, Capricorn out rightly broke up with him, she chose her career over him for the umpteenth time, and she kept picking the runway over and over again, ignoring the soft feelings he had for her. So if Capricorn broke up with him yesterday, where was this place and why was he naked?

"Jesus f*****g Christ" Alessandro screamed as his eyes met with a pair of bare t**s on the bed he laid on.

"Wake up please, who are you?", he shook the woman on the bed until her eyes opened, the math wasn't adding up, who was this naked woman on the bed?

Alessandro covered his ears with his fingers as Serena finally opened her eyes and let out a very loud scream

"Who are you?" Serena screeched at the top of her voice, as she lifted her head the violent beams of the sun rays hit her hard, she tweaked her eyes and held the covers over her chest with one hand and placed the other hand over her head

Alessandro was struck for a moment, he was lost for a milli second in her hazelnut eyes, her blonde hair was in a messy state but that didn't disrupt the beautiful arrangement of the soft features of her face, she had a beautiful jawline and broad shoulders, he paid close attention to the appealing details, but the beautiful face wasn't the giving any answer to the question he asked

"Who are you ma'am?," he asked again, but this time he got up from the bed tactfully covering his butt with the sheets, he picked up his pants and carefully slipped himself into the pants.

"Oh my God, the alcohol" Serena cried "This is probably a lodge at the bar" she blurted out wearing an irritated look on her face "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God" she squeaked taking a closer look at the rest of her body underneath the covers

"Don't tell me we....." the statement was too heavy for lips to complete.

Finally, he widened his eyes in the realization of what had happened, the truth dawned on him, God damn it!.

"I'm very sure you lured me here, you girls would do anything to get a man's attention" he protested

"eww, why would I want your attention, we were both drunk dummy! How do you not remember? " she scoffed in utter disgust.

The reality of this painful truth washed over Alessandro like tides from the sea, he remembered everything now, Capricorn broke up with him, he dejectedly walked into the bar and decided to drown himself in alcohol, but memories of Serena weren't adding up still.

They both hurriedly dressed up and Serena searched for her phone all around the room, finally

"found it!" Serena announced

"And where do you think you're going" he wasn't going to let her leave, just like that.

"anywhere except here, anywhere! " Serena answered trying to dial a number on her phone.

Alessandro wasn't going to allow tonight to slide just like that, she was going to pay for this, in cash.

" look here, if you want to walk out of this place, you're going to have to pay me for assault, else I'll report this matter, to the police or the blogs " That sounded really dumb but it was the best he could come up with in this situation, he yanked his phone out of his pocket and within a split second he took a picture of her face.

The expression on Serena's face was very fierce, she was trying to maintain composure but this silly man was bent on pushing her to the wall;

"look I don't have time for this, delete that picture now" she thundered

"That would be 800 million dollars ma'am, you go your way and I go my way" he gestured with his hands "I keep my mouth shut and nobody hears about this.

" Both our reputations are hanging on this why do I have to pay you mister" she asked, her tone spilling more irritation with every word.

After going back and forth she knew it was pointless to argue with him, he was hell bent on exposing her, and he promised to tell the blogs she lured him.

In this world who wouldn't believe that a model lured a billionaire to sleep with her, anyone would buy the story, it's very believable, people would think she did it for the money, or to be even more popular, there was no way she was going to allow that type of smudge on her reputation, she worked very hard to get to where she was and this man wasn't going to run her down. She could afford it, so why not pay this so called billionaire to shut him up.

"look Alessandro or whatever, I'll pay you, just text me your account number and let this die right here, right now "

"Good" Alessandro was pleased, he took out a pen from his breast pocket and wrote out his phone number

"text me" he handed the paper over, he was about to add something but the loud ringtone of his phone interrupted him, he took the call and paced about the room picking his stuff from the ground.

He held his tie, socks and coat in his left hand and moved slowly toward the door

"schedule the meeting for noon, I'm on my way now " With that he hung up the phone. Alessandro looked back at Serena

"Don't forget " and with that, he stormed out of the room.

He had other important business to attend to.

****

As Alessandro shut the door, Serena crashed into the soft armchair in the room. She picked up her phone trying to get to her manager, he was the only one who could save her from this mess now.

As she opened the phone the first notification that pooped up was '50 missed calls from Dear Dean", she cleared the notification before and now she cleared it again, he had the audacity to call her number, what exactly was he going to say, what did he want.

Serena tilted her head upwards trying to fight back the hot tears that threatened to roll down her eyeballs. The tears had a spirit of their own, a free spirit, hot strokes of tears streamed freely from her eyes, how her entire life had taken a left turn within 24 hours was the question in her head.

She sniffled her nostrils, and picked up her phone she dialled her manager's number again, while it rang she pondered on the possibility of running away to a place where no one could find her or better still disappearing, suddenly a loud voice from the phone speaker snapped her out of her trance.

"Hello Darling, Hello!" Asher called out again

"Hello Asher, please I need to be in Glass Glow today, can you make that happen" the tears had a noticeable effect on her voice, but she did her best to maintain composure, there was no way she was going to explain things to Asher over the phone.

"Oh Darling, I understand, I want you to leave immediately too"

"Huh, understand what exactly Asher" Serena asked ,

"Haven't you seen the blogs yet"

What! The blogs, why was Alessandro being this petty

"Oh my Goodness, I promised to pay him, don't tell me he posted the picture already, hell no!" Serena's voice was laced with agony, bitterness and anger, there was a pinch of confusion at the end of her statement

It was Asher's turn to be confused

"Picture? what picture?, I'm talking about the kissing video"

Holy heavens Serena's world was turning downwards with every minute, what video could possibly be circulating.

"well honey, I'm on my way to Las Vegas already, I'm coming to get you myself, will talk better when I get there " Asher tried to sound as comforting as possible, she could hear Serena crying

"please Asher send the video to me "Seeing the video wasn't going to make Serena feel better, but at least she would know what was out there.

"OK Darling, I'll send the video, but please do share your location, and stay put, I'm at the airport already" With that Asher hung up the phone.

Serena tried to fight back this pain in her heart but it was too strong for her to fight, everything was turning upside down, all she had now was her tears, the salty liquid found its way into her mouth and mixed with her saliva, the salty taste in her mouth somehow heightened the pain she was in. She was interrupted by the notification sound on her phone, it was Asher, he sent the video.

Serena wiped her eyes properly, she sat upright and clicked the triangle icon on the video on her screen