The Marriage Contract: A Marriage for Help

Chapter 1

Natasha sat at the bar with a glass of wine in her hand, yet she seemed not to be within the environment as the noisy and music filled room did not distract her.

With her back slouched, thoughts of different kinds filled her mind, different emotions seems to pass through her hazel eyes. She had known that the family she called hers for 25 years wasn't hers yet the feeling they gave her for the first 18 years made it so.

She could remember it all started when her grandfather decided to make her the chairman of the Sterling group instead of her father, who was already the Ceo, besides Linda Sterling, her sister had been going around the town circle spreading rumours about her.

She could still remember the conversation she heard a week ago at the house “mom, do you mean, that imposter will be the chairman of the Sterling group, while we the main members will be her subjects?”.

“Don't worry not on my watch” came a reply, the voices she knew very well as they were the voices of her foster sister and mother.

“What do we do then?”.

“We need to come up with a plan to remove her without it being traced back to us”.

“What if we killed her, I mean nobody would know it was our doing, we could just say she travelled and encountered an accident there”.

“That is nice of you to come up with that or well could just hire some thugs to deal with her and record, then we would put the video on the net”.

“yes, that way grandfather will see her for the b***h that she is”.

“Alright my dear, do not worry your pretty head over it and allow your mother to do that for you”.

Natasha stood at the stairs as if she was struck, the feeling of disappointment did not allow her to believe what her ears had heard. Chuckling to herself, she asked why she was disappointed when all they did was to plot against her. She was only lucky that grandfather sent her out of the country since she turned 18 and had only returned six months ago. With the last willpower on her she dragged her body to the door after all, if she stayed tonight she didn't know if she was going to be poisoned.

She laughed dejectedly at her herself as she chugged down the liquor in the glass. She felt the burnt of it as her eyes were watery and red and her throat felt as if it was on fire. She knew that was her cue to stop but she asked the bartender for another because a certain picture couldn't get out of her head.

She had caught her fiance Lucas Regens in bed with her backstabbing sister with him promising her that he would marry her. “Bro. Lucas, you are so bad, you are here with me yet you told my sister that you are not home”. Came a shrill voice that supposedly could melt the heart of any man.

“You naughty girl, who did you think I did that for?, if your sister had come, do you think you can go free?”. Came another voice.

“But you promised to marry me and dump my sister or you just want to have me and my sister together?”.

“No, don't think like that, I love you very much, besides I just want to marry her and take control of the company before leaving her. Besides, you have to be pregnant before I marry you, so my grandmother won't have any reason to question my decision”.

Unknown to them that she heard the words clearly and even had a recording of it as evidence. Her friend Lucia has warned her about Lucas saying he looked scheming and didn't love her but she wanted to pretend that she loved him as he seemed concerned about her on some occasions.

“Hello Beautiful” was a voice that brought her out of her thoughts, not bothering to look at the person, she replied “not interested” and she continued with her drink. Feeling she had had enough, she stumbled to her room with her key card on hand.

After taking a shower, he came out with a bathrobe on him. Who saw him would look twice with his skin and face that could make even a lady feel inferior and a body that could rival the body of an international model, yet looking at the cold golden eyes with specs of green will make anyone think twice when approaching. Only those that knew the name “Nickolas Greene” knew he wasn't to be messed with. Rumors nicknamed him “The Devil” as anyone who crossed him was never seen again.

As he walked towards the bed, he heard the living door open, Nickolas frowned as he knew his assistant knocked before entering. Then, he thought it was an assassin sent to kill him so he switched off the light and picked the gun under the pillow waiting for the person.

Natasha walked to the room and was surprised to see the room in darkness with confusion she managed to switched on the light, and saw a person sitting on the bed. “So the hotel adds company for their customers now?”. She said.

Nickolas frowned when he saw a very pretty girl staggering into his room with the stench of alcohol overwhelming him. He became more confused when he heard her words so he asked

“who are you?”. He was surprised when she walked to him and she began touching his face and while saying “so handsome, don't worry brother, sister will take care of you as long as you make sister happy for the night”.

“What is your name?” He asked again. “Brother don't worry, sister has enough money to take care of you if you follow sister and be a good boy and not follow other girls because that will make sister sad”.

While he was still thinking of the situation, he felt something on his lips and he had to admit that they were the softest lips he had tasted and the fragrance from her had an intoxicating yet relaxing effect on him just as he was thinking where she come from, a painful sting brought him back to the present and he heard the voice again

“Is brother thinking of other girls?, you are mine and that means you can't think of other girls” then she proceeded to kiss him again and Nickolas felt every bit of control he had slipping away as the lady hugged him and her hands seemed to set him on fire on every part of him that she touched, then the room filled with throes of passion.

While Natasha slept, Nick had gone through her purse and found her name, so he made a call “I need information about Natasha Sterling” he also asked “have you found out about the cause of today's event going south?”.

“No, young master” came the reply.

“Find out about it else there will be no need for you to continue working with the Greene family”.

The next thirty minutes the report about Natasha Sterling was placed before Nick, going through the report he discovered that she was an adopted daughter of the Sterling family yet amusement danced in his eyes when he saw that she was to be chairman of the Sterling Group but upon remembering the current Sterling chairman and knowing him for his antics he laughed out loud because nothing could escape that Old man besides the Ceo of the company wasn't exactly doing his job properly.

With this information known, he eyes shown with light as an idea came to him.