As I got ready for school that morning and headed to the bus stop, I had no fucking idea that my life was about to get this shitty.
When the black luxury van had swerved past me, I had shrugged it off to the mere careless driving but here I was in a locked dark room, no idea of how I got here, my head banging terribly and some really huge men standing before me. I made to stand and felt a sharp pain, I was cuffed.
Shit.
"What am I doing here?, Who are you guys!?"
My voice broke at each stop.
They made a jeering sneer at me and laughed out loudly.
I felt pain as one of them grabbed my chin so hard and pulled me forward.
"You better learn how to lower your voice here girl. If you weren't the boss special order, we wouldn't mind having you "
I was mad at this point and I did what next came to my mind. I spitted out my saliva on him and before I could think of what was about to happen, he slapped me..so hard I felt my eyes spin. My blurry eyes saw his hand coming up again and I tried scurrying away from him until the deep voice echoed in the room.
"I will take it from here Gora"
My fuzzy sight couldn't allow me picture his face but he was so tall and broad and at that moment, a look of familiarity flashed through my eyes.
"Alice"
That was the last thing I heard before I gave up to the dark.
White curtains, white wall, Tv, glassed vases, white cushions, a long office tables, I can't remember having all that. When I felt a hand touch mine, I was snapped back to reality. My hand pressed down to my pounding heart as I sat up.
My eyes fully open. I turned to my side, he was a miniature being, a small being so to say. I looked down on his big fat hands, the fact that he had touched me with those hands made me want to cringe so hard.
The firm stride sound had me turn the other way. Memories of the dark room flashed through my eyes. He was the voice I heard, he had called my name and I knew him. His name was Logan.
Owner of the popular D'Nores film production Company.
The famous D'Nores Logan that I can't get enough of. I probably know all his movies by heart, watched all of course. His pictures are definitely more than mine in my phone, I stalk him on social media. I wouldn't be lying if I say, I'm his number one.
Well, So many girls will claim that too.
I've always dreamt of meeting D'Nores one on one someday, as a poor girl from the countryside, that sounded much more impossible but here I am except this wasn't the Logan I thought he was.
I drew the duvet closer to myself and stared. Afraid he was going to get angry if I looked for too long and scared they were going to do something not so good to me if l look down, so I just took the safer way, stare.
I watched him tilt his head to the side and looked at me. His piercing gaze was so not helping matters. I pressed my hands more tightly to the duvet and tried to breathe. His eyes fixed on mine as he came closer.
He clicked his fingers to the air and i watched the small man bow and leave. Was this some sort of royalty, I was tempted to ask.
"Alice"
It dropped from his lips, so delicate yet firm. I would be crying right now if this was some other circumstance. This man up until now was my fave. A star I stanned.
"You will be getting married to me"
Was I mad?..no
Was I about to turn crazy... yes.
I was up on my feet the next second, shouting to his face.
"You literally take me against my will Logan D'Nores and you haven't even given a fucking explanation to what I'm doing here and all you can come up with is that I'm getting married to you?, You're a monster!, A murderer. I saw your men kill that man outside in that dark room. It was your order"
I watched him smile, the dry type of smile and in one go, grabbed me by the hand and thrudged me forward, I almost fell. I Yelped out in a pain trying to loosen my hand from his hold. Truth be told I was scared at that point. I called him a murderer a while ago and he indeed at that moment had a murderous look to his eyes.
"Do you have an idea who that man was?"
He snarled. I shook my head, water forming in my eyes
"He was your brother"
My hand fell from his hold and when my wobbling legs couldn't carry me anymore, My body met the cold floor. The memories came flooding in. The chain the man had on was the same as my brother's, the haircut, the tattoo below his neck, the voice too.
Why didn't I see all these?. I would have stopped it, I would have shouted to the men to stop. The sound of the knife plunging in and out of him. my heart sank. I tried, I tried to keep the tears from coming, not to give him the satisfaction he wanted but it came rolling down so uncontrollably. I wept so hard.
I think I must have slept off on the floor because when I opened my eyes to the blinding lights of the room, I could see the dark from the open window. I stared. I could find an escape from this window if there was or fall from it and end this whole drama. My brother was dead now, there was no much living for. He was the only support I ever had, he was a parent to me and they took his life right in front of me. I made small steps to the window and just when I was about to look down.
"You wouldn't want to do that now you know"
My heart jumped. I snapped my head behind me. It was a woman, a blonde. She looked like the celebrity hosts on Fame Diva's show that I never missed but when I looked more closely, the eyes, her blond waves, her body, the smile and the D'Nores tattoo on her naked arm, I almost scoffed. So this was all it. They never were what you thought they were. She was the famous Leah D'Nores on the Diva's show, in other words, Logan's only sister.
"I'm Leah, Leah D'Nores and I will be taking care of you until I leave for my modelling campaign. It's nice to meet you Alice"
I zoned out on her for once, I couldn't stand her presence, the urge to kill her at that moment was high.
I wouldn't be able to do much on that aspect though and even if I succeeded, I won't get away with it. I'm sure her brother was going to make sure, it's a painful death on my part. So staying mute was the best option.
She bathed me, said she had to see the body herself, she gave me clothes and brought me food. I don't know what this shit was all about but at the end of the evening, killing myself was a pressing option.
"Logan will be here any minute, Don't shout at him, don't say shitty things, just hear him out" she shrugged "listen to him. It will do you more good"
She gave me a pat on the shoulder and walked out mouthing a goodbye from the door. Overall, she was nice, more nice compared to her brother but I really did doubt if she was.
I was already thinking of going to bed when the monster showed up in the room. Watching him from the bed where I laid, he really was the same man I saw from my television screen.
His black hair, he always had gelled to the side, the dimple even with the smallest smile, his grey eyes, the pursed lips every time. I think I must have dreamt of kissing them countless times. Nothing had changed except that I was seeing him right now and he killed my family.
I looked away, the tears were threatening to come again.
He sat on the single sofa opposite the bed and spoke
"So here are the rules Alice. Now that you're in town, you will be going to a new school, Gab, your driver will be taking you to school and bringing you back. You ain't going nowhere else apart from school until we wed and also here's a phone"
He threw the phone pack to the bed. I glanced at it and looked away.
"There's a tracker, Don't think of running away either. I will find you with or without the phone babygirl"I wiped out the tear that had found it's down to my face. This man was inhumane. Wedding?.... wedding?How can you kill a man and decide to wed his only sister against her wish.The slight bang on the door announced he had left the room. I tried breathing and it still was hard. Sulking in a deep breath, I climbed off the bed. If I couldn't run away from him, I might as well end the whole drama. My room was at the far end of the hallway, it took a whole lot of tiptoeing to come down the wooden coloured stairs. My heart was right at my throat as I moved. I could get killed at this junction and unapologetically.As I stood, just below the stairs, my eyes frantically searched for the kitchen, looking behind me, the way was right under the stairs, Quickly with the help of the dim light from outside, I sought out for a knife and there it was, snatching it from the knife holder, I th
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“You do not get to treat me like a piece of shit, Logan! I am not that kind of girl, and I will not allow it.”Logan ignored me completely, but I was so mad at him that I continued to stomp right after him. “Who the fuck do you think you are, Logan? Doing whatever the hell you feel like doing without considering the feelings of others! You are a callous man!Logan entered his room and I followed him in. One thing you don’t do to me is ignore me like I am some irrelevant bag of thrash.No one has ever made me feel the way Logan does; emotionally, and it is always so intense that it makes me want to burst. And even though a small part of me was still afraid of him, daring him just seems like fun, but so far he has maintained a calm demeanor, which infuriates me even more.“You have a big mouth, Alice,” Logan finally said as he poured some Vodka into his glass. “You should learn to control it.”I drew closer to him. “No, you should learn the proper way to treat a lady! If all the women y
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Riley and Emma met at a coffee café to get a cup of coffee. Riley saw Emma coming and scoffed. “She is always overdressed. It’s just coffee for fuck’s sake!” Riley thought jealously. Emma was a screen goddess, and she always dressed the part. She even worked for some modeling agencies before she ventured into acting fully. At first, they were enemies, especially after Logan dated Riley and dumped her for Emma, but they became allies after both got dumped.“It’s so hot in here,” Emma said she moment her butt touched her seat.Riley could not wait to get the meeting over and done with, and she particularly chose that coffee café out of town so that hungry papparazi’s would not see them and take pictures. She was sure the headlines would be screaming about them;“Logan D’Nores’s surly ex-girlfriends spotted having coffee together.”“Popular Actresses, Riley and Emma who got dumped by superstar Logan meet up to lick their sore wounds.”“Are the ex-girlfriends of D’Nores now besties?”“W
By the end of the day, I felt sick. My eyes hurt from looking at different brands and colors of clothes, accessories, bras, bikinis, lingeries, G-string pants, colognes, hair dyes, jewelries, nail polishes…just name it.I am sure there were a thousand of brand owners at Logan’s extravagant living room when Leah had come into my room to drag me down. Apparently, Logan had told her that he did not want me hopping from one boutique or fashion store to another.I was at the brink of fainting from trying out dresses upon dresses when Leah asked for a break when her phone rang. I could not have been happier!Phew! Does the lady ever get tired? Well, I am sure Leah is already accustomed to this kind of lifestyle. I walked into the kitchen to grab a bottle of milk so that I could at least, balance the micro organisms running furiously in my head from too much stress.Beside school and hanging out with a few friends and Samuel, I have never experienced anything else and I must admit that this
“A cheap fucking stripper!”That was Leah, her voice still about to tear down the whole house. I could not look at Logan in the face, because he was seething with anger where he was seated, just some inches away from me.Leah had on her iPad, and a “friend” had seen hidden pictures of me in a stripper’s club in a dead end club house and sent it to her.“I thought you were just a bloody college student! Isn’t that what you told us, you slut!” Right there, I would have leapt at Leah for not just raising her voice at me, but throwing underserved insults. Since the appalling news reached her, she had been shouting and cursing, and calling Logan in between.Logan had had to leave his shoot and rush home to see what the disaster was all about.Leah had not even given me the slightest opportunity to explain that it was all lies, and that the pictures splashed all over the blogger’s post was not me. “What else don’t we know about you, Alice?” She queried. “What other lies are hidden beneath
Logan’s POVI tossed and tossed and turned in bed begging for sleep to come but it did not. I was disgusted at myself for treating her the way I did. I could still see her horrified face, and hear her whimpers when I forced her to strip for me.I honestly do not know what made me do that.When Leah had called me and told me told what had been found about Alice, I knew that if those pictures were released for the world to see it would taint my name. I have spent years, working endlessly like a donkey just to rise to this level of power and fame, and there was no way in hell I was going to let one little girl from the slum ruin everything for me overnight.While I drove home in blinded anger, Leah sent the pictures to my phone. At first when I saw them, I was filled with disdain for her, and I pound my fist angrily on the steering. Thankfully, the cops were not anywhere close by else they would have pulled me over for going too fast and honking unnecessarily loud.Then I looked at the p