Deal with the mysterious mafia

Mutual Hatred

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦..

𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝐿𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠.

Annalise walked down the hallway that was usually crowded, everything looked normal but still abnormal, everyone was staring at her, whispering about her, pointing at her.

Some with envy in their eyes, others with admiration, some with hatred, others with a death glare, including Charlotte and her friends. Annalise shuddered.

She's the one he's getting married to.

What a poor taste he has.

They're a terrible match.

I bet she's feeling proud with her short legs.

Annalise creased her brows while listening to this. What were they talking about? Layla suddenly came out of nowhere, dragging Annalise along with her.

"Hey!!!" Annalise screamed as she tried to catch up with her short legs, but Layla didn't stop, neither did she slow down.

They finally got to a secluded place. That was when Layla stopped.

"Why were you dragging me like that?" Annalise asked with her hands on her waist.

"Why..... Why didn't you tell me?" Layla asked breathlessly, it seemed she had run a long mile before she got to Annalise.

"Tell you what?" Annalise asked again.

"That you were getting married to Zane Adler".

"Oh, well, even I was surprised, I didn't know about it until last night too. Wait, how did you know?"

"It's all over the news," Layla replied.

"How? Something from last night got around the world within a few hours?"

"Mrs. Cassandra said it this morning, she even had a picture of you, she said you and Zane had been betrothed since you were a baby".

"I really didn't know, my dad only told me last night at Zane's house".

"You were at Zane's house??" Layla's jaws dropped open in shock.

"Yea, why?"

"Why? Are you seriously asking me why??"

"Layla, let's go to class, it'll start soon" Annalise said.

"No, I need answers," Layla whined.

"Race you to class. First to get there, gets to buy a looser lunch", Annalise said, and ran off before Layla could say anything else.

"That girl..." Layla groaned, running off too.

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Zane got to his office, his friends Gary and Kai were seated on the comfy couch.

"Hey, our soon-to-be groom" Gary hailed mockingly.

"Don't call me that" Zane said with gritted teeth. He sat opposite them.

"Why? Your fiancée is cute anyway," Gary said again, wiggling his brows at Zane, who glared at him.

"You didn't tell me you were betrothed," Kai said in a low voice.

"I didn't know either, my mom only told me last night, she said it so naturally and that girl.. that girl is the worst"

"Seems you have a new duty aside from your company," Gary smiled.

"Seems so, and this duty is really annoying".

Zane's phone rang. It was his mom. He ignored it and continued talking with Gary and Kai, but the phone kept ringing, and he had to answer it.

"What now, Mrs. Cassandra?" Zane groaned.

"You're getting married to Annalise the day after tomorrow".

"What?" Zane asked in shock. He has always been indifferent, but only his mom could bring out the different emotions in him.

"That's right, so you had better go get some clothes for yourself. It'll be a short and simple wedding with a few people in attendance," Cassandra said, and ended the call.

"What did your mom say?" Gary asked, he's always the curious and loud one.

"I'm getting married to that annoying little brat".

"Well, that was quick," Kai muttered. He's a calm and quiet one with a lot of emotions on his face, like Zane, but he's a lot more indifferent.

"I feel like slapping her"

"You look hilarious right now man, only your mom can bring out this much emotion from you" Gary laughed and Zane glared at him. Forget it, just after Annalise, Gary was the most annoying.

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"Why do I have to sleep there?" Annalise asked. She came back home and her dad suddenly told her to sleep over at Zane's house.

"He'll be your husband soon," Smith replied.

"Stop saying that, I don't want to marry someone like him, he's annoying and scary".

"With time you'll get used to him".

"I hate that word and I hate you, mind you I'm not going anywhere" Annalise screamed, storming upstairs...

𝐹𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟…

Zane came back home and was surprised to see Annalise huffing angrily.

"Why are you here?"

"Don't ask me that" Annalise snapped.

"She's going to be staying with you until you both get married," Sandra said from the dining table.

"What??"

"I don't want to stay either," Annalise muttered.

"I know you two will get along well. You both have a lot in common."

"The hate" Zane and Annalise said at the same time.

"I'll see you both tomorrow," Sandra said, and left with her personal assistant.

"Show her to her room," Zane said to the butler, and went upstairs.

"This way, ma'am" the butler said with a calm voice. He took Annalise's bag and went upstairs and she followed.

They got to the second floor to the right and stopped in front of a huge door.

"This is your room, ma'am" the butler said, opening the door, he kept Annalise's bags in front of the wardrobe and left without saying anything else apart from "please come to dinner when you're done freshening up".

She stared at the huge empty room, it was painted purple and blue, her favorite colors.

She went into the huge bathroom that was the size of her room back at home, she immediately freshened up and went down for dinner.