Prologue: Fortitude
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"Do you, Diamond Zone, take this man, Christian Towers, to be your lawfully wedded husband...," She wasn't even listening. She knew the words, to have and to hold blah blah, she was well aware of what she was doing and that was precisely why she was crying.
The silent tears flowing down her cheeks, that everyone in the room would have assumed were of joy, made her continue to sniffle. Only Crystal, her younger sister, knew she was in pain.
Well, her and Christian, even though he couldn't care less even if he tried, if anything her tears annoyed the s**t outta him but he had to play the loving soon-to-be husband part. That way his parents would give him what he wanted, no what he deserved and finally leave him the f**k alone.
"Diamond?" the priest repeated.
"Yes? I mean yes... I do" she quickly shoved the ring on Christian's finger
"Then by the power vested in me, by Almighty God, I hereby now pronounce you, Christian Towers and Diamond Zone, husband and wife. Christian, you may kiss your bride"
His grey eyes bore into her deep brown ones for a second before he leaned in, delicately surrounded her thin frame in his arms and connected their lips, sealing their fate. The crowd cheered, the cameras flashed like crazy, but it was all drowned in Diamond's dizziness.
The kiss, felt soft, somewhat delicate, seeming so fragile yet so powerful it was marking a fork in her destiny. Her life would never be the same now, she wasn't Dia, daddy's baby anymore, but now...now she was Diamond Towers, Zone Security's largest shareholder and wife of New York's richest billionaire...
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