Anna Harris
Absolutely betrayed, I’ve never felt this kind of pain and definately never met someone like Benjamin Mackenzie. His existence not only ruined my life but destroyed my whole world. I was the one who spread the flowers for this despicable man. Bile rises in my throat seeing this man whom I once loved with all my heart…fuck I still love him.
He sits there across me on a wooden chair like a ruthless dictator, one leg crossed over the other with sly smirk playing on his thin lips which once were like the sweetest nectar from the heaven’s forbidden fruit.
‘Well you’re no less than Eve herself.’ My sub-conscious mind mocks at me.
“Take my offer and save your father.I don’t think it’s a big deal for you. You’re the most sensational celebrity or I guess all over the country by now.” I can’t miss the pun in his venomous words.
“You son of a bitch.” I spit out through clenched teeth. I am having a very hard time to accept that he was the same person who used to treat me like a delicate flower no more than twenty four hours ago.
“Do you have an alternative option to save your father and more importantly your family who may be thrown out of the house that Liam Harris built with his hard earned money.” His smirk grows into a full grown devilish smile.
He looks confident of the outcomes of my blind love for him.
“Do not dare to take their names from that shithole mouth of yours.” I am totally red in anger like a blazing furnace,"I promise you, I can live under the bridge, eat from garbage or beg on the subway but I won’t be your mistress even if you promise me diamond mines in the exchange of warming your bed.” I spring up from my seat, my head erects high. I came here in a hope that it was a nightmare I was living, my Ben was mislead by the false rumours.
But it turns out to be even a bigger nightmare than the previous night.
The one night I wished to lock in the treasure of my good memories but it left a deep scar on my heart.“Well, I proposed you a fair deal to get out of your never ending miseries but your stupid naïve ego is blinding your logical mind . So, best of luck, Miss Anna Harris. I will see you soon in the court.” He smirks and leans back, looks satisfied with my vulnerable state, “You may leave my house now. I do not want my dear wife to see a whore desecrating her lovely abode.” By the moment he's finished with derogatory remark about my character, I imprint his handsome face with a harsh slap.
It serves him right. At least, I have a little satisfaction now.
“Fuck you, Benjamin Mackenzie. One day you'll rot in your own hell. ” I spit on his face and storms out of his house.
Warm tears of betrayal and anger roll out of my eyes.He is married yet he kept playing with my feelings. He used physically loyal to his wife but a silly me thought that he was waiting for my consent like a true gentleman. His words kept resonating in my ears like a mocking reminder of my own foolishness.
My emotions are always trouble invitor for me but this time brought my family in the mess I created with my naivety.
For the first time in my life I regret not listening to my Mom who used to teach me about the true nature of a man. They always want something from us.
Tired, broken and anguished, I reach home only to find my mom and Aiden moving out of the main door while a few men dressed in expensive suits labeled a lock. I feel it is laughing back at me. Averting my teary gaze from the house which witnessed our birth and blooming years, I run to Mom and Aiden. She's crying over Aiden's shoulder.
He was a grave expression on his face while stroking our Mom's back to consol her. I want to jump off the highest cliff so my existence can't be find. I am the reason of their sufferings.
Aiden's gloomy eyes move in my direction, they indirectly seemed to blame me for everything they endured or more coming in their way, may be it is the illustration of my worn out senses or I want it to inflict same pain on me.
"Mom..." I dare to gain her attention with the last amount of courage I have and then her red puffy eyes shot at me.
"How dare you to show us your disgusting face, you ungrateful bitch!" She slaps me across my right cheek but her words stung more. Her anger is justifying but I wish she could show me some affection. Hot trail of tears flow through my eyes.
"Mom, please calm down. Anna is also suffering as much as much as us." Aiden tries to pull her back but it intensifies her anger more.
"No, Aiden. She's not suffering like us. We're homeless with no penny left for our survival. She can always run to her lovers. I am sure, they'd help her in the best way." I can't miss the bitterness in her tone. She sees me as a slut, what else can be more worse for a daughter that her own mother despises her existence.
"They have only sealed our house and the company but they can't snatch our ancestral property from us, right?" More like I ask myself.
"They seized our house, our company, our bank accounts and every single assets we hold as Harris until the investigation is on." Aiden answers in a low voice.
I close my mouth as a loud gasp leaves my throat. It meant, Benjamin wasn't bluffing, he actually screwed us in the worst way. He played dirty on us but it was my Dad whom he wanted to destory, right?
He went on the extent of ruining our lives as well. How can someone be this blind by revenge that their humanity dies in the process?
Whom am I even blaming?
"I am sorry, Mom. I shouldn't have trusted him but I didn't listen to you and Dad. Please forgive me. I promise, I'd do anything to protect you and Aiden. Please, give me a chance, Mom. That's all I am asking." I beg her although I know what will be her response.
She looks away from me," Aiden, tell this filthy girl to leave us alone until she rectify her mistakes, clean her name and bring your father out of the jail or she can assume us dead for her because she's already dead to me. I don't care if she has to sell her body, the only thing she's good at. I am sure her rich suitors will offer their help to drop the charges against Liam." Her words were more sharper now, they slit my heart into pieces.
Karma is really a first class bitch in my case.
"Mom, the cab is here. You go first while I settle some legal procedures with the police officers." Aiden says to her. She spares a last longing glance at our mansion and leaves with tears. She lost her status as the lady of this house. I try to hold her but she pry my hand off like I was some contagious decease.
"She doesn't mean anything. It was only the hurt and anger, Anna. Just give her some time, she'll be fine and eventually forgive you." Aiden tries to lessen my pain by placing a comforting hand on my shoulder.
I let my shields break loose and throw myself in his arms," I am not hurt by her words, Aiden. I feel angry on myself. Nothing would have happened if I listened to her and Dad. See, you all are paying for my sins." I chuckle dryly.
He wipes my tears and kisses my forehead. Although he's younger than me but he's way more sincere than I'd ever become.
"Don't blame yourself, Anna. Dad is no saint. He has hidden many skeletons in his closet. This time one of them reappeared and it seems it will haunt us forever.
Benjamin is the skeleton.
"Take care of Mom. I'll soon find a way to regain what is robbed from us." I blink my tears away with a faint smile. It is very hard for me to see my family homeless.
"We're staying at Uncle Lucas's spare apartment but he doesn't want you there." He says, helplessness is clearly visible on his face," I promise you, Anna, soon I'll arrange something for you. Please don't loose hopes. God is only testing our waters. Soon this phase will be over and we'd be together. You can stay with Eda, I am sure that she'll let you in." He suggests.
"I'll be fine, Aiden. Just remember one thing, I love you. Take care little brother." I kiss his forehead, my heart constricts inside my rib cage. This whole farewell is too complicated and nostalgic.
He gives me one last hug and I reluctantly let go off him. My vision gets blurry as I watch the cab disappearing from my sight.
Now the big question is, where should I go? My best friend Eda shares her flat with her boyfriend means I can't just drop at her place without their permission. It will be a cruel invasion of their privacy. I know they would happily let me stay with them as long as I want but it is my repentance for investing my trust in people who don't deserve it.
I practically screwed up my life and now I have to fix it's broken pieces.
Time to hunt for a job and a shelter over my head.
Anna Harris Uncontrollable tears, a contant ache in my chest and a numb mind, I am walking on the streets with my handbag which contains a few dollars and my academic documents. I am thankful to Aiden who managed to fetch them for me at the mean time.I would probably start hunting for a job but it seems crying for the moon after the news of my Dad's arrest and our company going bankrupt spread like a wildfire. I am not unknown to this city. I regret joining my family and my friends to the high profile parties and night clubs. They know me well and the constant stares from the passing by peddlers. It is like a poison that I have to swallow down my throat.I deserve it all.I stopped by a small cafe by the side of the road to grab a latte to give peace to my throbbing head. A cup of coffee isn't pricey at this place which would help me to save money for rainy days.Well, I am facing a stormy day.I walk inside the diner, covering my face with my scarf to avoid unnecessary attention. I
Hunter Storm "You're so fucking beautiful, more than I imagined in my wildest dream, Kitten." I couldn't stop myself from saying those words to the half conscious woman lying beneath me. I never imagined myself to sing praises for a woman before but this woman with a body of a Goddess cast a spell on me.I ran my fingers tips on her belly, her body arched back like a serpent on desert sand."You don't mean it?" She asked me with her half opened eyes, I could see surprise in those pale blue eyes."Yes, I do." I couldn't help myself from smiling on her innocent question. I am sure, she had received praises before. I wasn't her first admirer but I wish to be the last."I never thought you would actually say this to me." A smile tucked on the corner of her lips and it broke the last thread of my patience with her.I had controlled myself from taking her roughly right in the moment she led me inside her hotel room but the way she withered under my touch, I bet she was alien to a man's in
Anna Harris I had to endure a walk of shame from there to here, where I am standing having no home to go, no one to share my pain and no one to help me in reshaping my life.I was busy cursing my fate that I didn't see a car slowing down it's speed and finally halting in front of me.Fear creeps into my heart as I am all alone in the middle of nowhere, homeless and jobless with no penny in my hand to rent a roof over my head for the night.The window glass of the backseat slides down revealing the face of a young and the most handsome man I've ever seen with soul piercing green eyes. They seem familiar but I can't pin out where I've seen them. Staight, styled dirty blonde hairs with pointed nose and thin red lips, for a moment I find myself drowning in those mystical eyes. Perfect tight jaws and high cheek bones enhance the plain of his face.His face, in the dim streetlight looked more like a Greek God from old scriptures.He doesn't look like a criminal from any angle or may be he'
Hunter Storm I rub my temple averting my attention from the girl laid out on my sofa. She looks so pure and flawless even with puffy eyes and bags, her glowing face has lost it's color due to all happened with her in last twenty four hours.I clench and unclench my fists, it's becoming hard for me to stop myself from going straight to that motherfucker's house and shoot him on his balls. He used my kitten as his bait to reach her father's collar.Well, he messed up big times by using my girl. I check the time, it shows half past eleven in the night. I missed the dinner I must attend to fix my earlier mistake. Valentina will be the first one to invade my house as soon as the morning hours roll on.My cell phone chimes diverting my attention from Anna to my phone. I walk to my office and close the door behind me in case she wakes up and listen to my conversation with Blake. She still sees me as a stranger who is forcefully keeping her at his house and if by any chance, she learns that
Anna Harris To say, the night was quite peaceful and I slept forgetting all the misfortune and a platter full of problems, it would be an understatement. I indeed slept peacefully, a dreamless sleep, I should add. May be, I was too tired and my brain shut off. Whatever the reasons were but long night's sleep somehow helped me to regain my energy but the challenge comes along with the morning.I must make a decision. Collect the broken pieces of my life and start from the beginning. May be leaving this country will be a good idea but again, the thought of my family in the middle of a troubled water and my name having the tag of a slut, they need to be cleared first.Again the same question pops up.How?How am I going to join the missing dots?With these uncertain questions whirling inside my head, I decide to come out of the safe confinement of the room and face Hunter. Speaking of Hunter Storm who hasn't told me yet how he knows me and how I am not a stranger to him, I have to confr
Anna Harris "I-I can't live with you, Hunter. It's wrong." I try to shake off the fear that is creeping It's way to my heart. He doesn't look like a criminal or a psycho serial killer but there's no other reason to hold me captive."Look, Anna." He suck a deep breath and the way his adam's apple popped up and down, I assume he's trying to keep his patience at level." I am just trying to protect you." He says, the look in his eyes softening."Why do you need to protect me and from whom?" I raise my brow at him. Honestly, the seriousness in his tone indicates that there's something he wants to confess but he can't."You don't need to know the details, Anna. All I am asking you to stay low profile for some time while I deal with this situation. Believe me, it's temporal." He says, like I predicted, he didn't tell me much."Hunter, I know you are only trying to save me, I appreciate your efforts. I really do but I am a human, a living being with a mind to process everything happening aro
Hunter Storm I find no peace, it seems to abandom me since she asked me to leave her alone and the only thought of her hurting emotionally and mentally, I want to kill myself. I shouldn't have agreed on telling her the truth. Unknowingly, she's melting the stone wall I built around me to save myself from the same agonizing phase where everyone leaves me to endure the pain of being all alone.Having Anna, in this cold and deserted house, with her warmth and positivity she carries with her, I feel the air more welcoming and a homely feeling now sprawls in this house.It has been over an hour but there's no sound coming from the library. The thought of checking upon her through cctv crossed my mind but I shook it off. It will an invasion of her privacy. I've already trespassed it long ago."Mr. Storm, the breakfast is ready." The cook's frightened voice rings in my ear."You may leave the food in the oven. I'll serve it later for Miss Harris and myself." I dissmiss her."But Sir-" She t
Hunter Storm I am disgusted with myself when I stepped inside the warehouse, the place that witnessed the cruelest face of human in the form of Storm men. My grandfather built this hell gate, passed it down to my father and now, I am supposed to continue this legacy which is imposed upon me. For a strange reason, I do enjoy watching my sinner taking their last breathes, waiting for their soul to leave their bodies and end the endless sufferings. I hate myself for the beast I've become. I am no better than my father. Sometimes, I thanked the God for taking my mother away when I was just a kid. She couldn't handle seeing her only child follow his father's footsteps rather than becoming a righteous person as she wished for her children.My father is a person whom no one wants to come across in their right mind. He has always been like this, a ruthless and terrifying man who can bring his enemies on his knees, the only quality I admire about him.He's a man screaming power.I am just his