Elisha’s POV
"I want you to come with me." He didn't ask for my approval, but he told me firmly that I had to go with him.
"Excuse me, Are you drunk, Mister?" I asked in a confused way and took a few steps back.
I gave him a frown and walked away, leaving him puzzled. Well, if he doesn't know what's really going on, neither do I.
That man thinks I'm easy to get; he may believe I would love to sleep with him tonight. But I'm not that kind of girl.
When I got to my parents' house, Harry was already there, and it seemed like he was having a conversation with both of my parents the entire time. I'm only thirty minutes late, but they're already staring at me as if I have committed a heinous crime. When my mother approached me, there seemed to be a little pause in the conversation, and the sound of her heels caused my heart to skip.
"Elisha, where the hell have you been?!" My mum asked me angrily, "Tell me the truth?!," and she walked towards me, grabbed my arm, and asked again. "Where the fuck have you been? You've been with a man in his VIP room?! Tell me!"
Dad saved me, and he took my mum away from me. "Alice, Don't hurt your daughter! Can you please calm down?!"
"And why not? That's why she turned out to be so stubborn because you put up with her bad behavior!"
"Well, she deserved this. After all the sacrifices we made for her, this is what she did to us! How ungrateful!" I got a slap in front of everyone. I really wanted to cry, but I didn't. I didn't answer her; I just lowered my head and heard Harry say, "If you choose me, you won't be in such a bad place right now."
I looked at him with deep frustration in my eyes and smiled in front of them like a psychopath. They all looked at me with wide and puzzled eyes, and I keep on laughing until I cried in front of them and said, “It’s better to be miserable than to marry a horrible man like you—”
I didn’t finish my sentence because Harry slapped me and dragged me outside of my house while my parents just watched me being maltreated by the man they wanted me to marry.
My Dad tried to push Harry away, he locked me in his arms but it was too late, because I don’t want to be with them anymore. This made me decide to leave this kind of family. For all these years, I did everything to please them and now—I’m done.
Cristella arrived, she saw me with blood on my lips, she smirked and put all her shopping bags on the table and sighed. “Well, this woman again? Nothing new! She always puts the family in disgrace!”
“Don’t talk like that to your sister!” Dad yelled at her.
Harry stood up, and raised his voice angrily. “Make your daughter learn from her mistake, if she insults me again, that’s not the only thing I can do to her, it will be worse than that!”
I took a deep breath and wiped the blood off the edge of my lips, and stormed towards him without blinking and directly slapped him on the face, and took the metal chair to hit him with it. Luckily, I was stopped by my dad, and Cristella put herself in the middle and put her hand on Harry who got so angry right now. It looked like he wanted to kill me just by the look of his eyes.
Cristella said to me, “Are you fucking insane?!”
My mom grabbed my hand and begged, “Don’t leave!”
"Oh my god! I don't know what to tell this family. I'm done, Cristella you marry him. You like him right? Then get married to that jerk to save this toxic family!" I took my small purse and walked away as the tears in my eyes slowly rolled down my face.
I was walking when I saw a pair of red eyes looking at me in the dark. I gasped in fear and tried to run away but ran into someone I didn't expect to see tonight: the stranger man.
“Y-YOU?!”
He didn't say anything, and when my family went outside to look for me, he put me behind him like he was protecting me from them.
Harry put his gun out of his pocket and pointed it at the man in front of me, my hand nervously trembled and I raised both of my hands and asked him, “Harry! What the hell are you doing?! Do you want me to call the police for you?”
“Harry! Put the gun down!” Dad ordered him, then he put his gun down.
He said, "I'm only trying to keep your daughter safe from this man because we don't know what evil plan he has for Elisha."
I raised an eyebrow and laughed, "Well, look who's talking about the evil plan..." I mumbled under my breath.
My mother crossed her arms and stared at me with a fierce look. Then she asked me while she was gazing at me and the man next to me. "Who is this man, Elisha?"
Harry interrupted. "This is the man that I'm trying to tell you, I saw them together inside the bar."
Cristella laughed and said, "Oh my! Elisha, you are so cheap. How can you sleep with a man you met on the street and then went to a bar with?"
“That’s not what you think, I don’t know this man at all—”
Cristella snorted, “And now she’s trying to deny this poor handsome man in front of us.”
The man took a deep breath, and he looked me in the eyes. My lips quiver in nervousness, and he said. “I’m Arman Ashford, and your daughter is marrying me.”
Wait….what? I wanted to yell at this man in front of everyone, but maybe I should go with the flow again. My heart starts to race as I tell them the most shocking words. "Yes, I'm going to marry him."
Everyone was so surprised that they didn't know what to say. All they do is look at me and the guy named Arman with wide, judging eyes. They can't believe what I said tonight, and my mom was so shocked that she just passed out.
“Mom!”
Elisha’s POV"And who the hell are you again?" I grabbed the man who was standing in front of the hospital while I was mad at him. I want to thank him for saving me again, but he doesn't have to put himself through this trouble to save me.I shook my head. “You can’t just show up in front of my house and tell everyone that you’re marrying me. You don’t know anything about me, and in fact, we just met last night.” He sighed and put his thumb on the corner of my lower lip. "That's perfect, right? We don't know each other, so there's no physical intimacy between us. You would marry me because you wanted to get away from your family, and I would marry you for my own reasons. Deal or no deal?" I'm so annoyed by what he said and his complete inability to comprehend what I was trying to convey that it makes my blood boil.I inhaled my anger, slowly blinked my eyes and looked at his very unusual eyes. It looks like dark golden eyes, and it seems strange. When I tried to figure out what was
Elisha’s POV“Forget about it.” Arman said with a blank expression.I opened my phone, and scrolled down to see the news on social media, and to my surprise we were the ones who were made to take the blame for what happened to Harry, the only heir to the Jameson family, who suffered severe brain damage. Harry's father and grandfather are two of the most influential persons in the business world. Dave Jameson accused my family of wrongdoing, and my father accepted the blame for it all because he did not want my mother, sister, or myself to become embroiled in this scandal. After all, in the first place, it was my father's fault for having a massive debt to the Jameson Family.At this very moment, I am entirely at a loss for what to do. Harry was in a coma, but doctors expected him to leave this world in fewer than twenty-four hours. As I sat on the corner and attempted to compose myself, I cried my eyes out in an unbearable way, my sobs sounding like a deluge of raindrops falling from
Elisha’s POVThe woman who just walked in caught my eye. She wore a black dress that fit her well and made her look classy. Some of the guests met her in the middle of the hallway as she walked slowly and with poise. The host opened the door for her, and as she looked around, our eyes met. She walked towards me and Arman as if she already knew us. Then I stood up with a shy smile, but this woman's face changed as she stared at me so hard that she didn't even blink. I get the feeling that she wants to eat me up like an angry wolf. “Hi, I’m Elisha…and you are?” “I’m Madeline, The Ex-wife.” I was surprised to know that, so this is the Ex-wife that wants Arman to come back to him. In the corner of my eye, Arman stood up with a blank expression."So, is this the ceremony where you married a lowly woman in front of everyone? Hmm?" Madeline seems unfriendly. She kept staring at me like she wanted to stab me. "At least the girl I'm going with isn't as cheap as you are." Arman spoke up.
Elisha’s POVI was horror-struck when I saw Arman beat up all the bad guys with guns with his bare hands and unbelievable speed, making them groan in pain and run away as if they were running for their lives because they were afraid to die. I pushed down my fear as I stared at him in the middle of the road. His eyes flashed red when he looked at me, but when I blinked, they went back to normal. Or maybe I was just hallucinating. I stepped back and raised an eyebrow as I looked at him from afar. "How on earth did you do that? You...You make them look like a loser, but you're---alone, how? Explain it to me. Do you have a superpower?" He laughed at me, “Do you think I’m your Superman?” I frowned at him, and he said, “That’s nonsense, can you just thank me for saving my life again?” I shrugged my shoulders, and let out a soft sigh, “Well, thank you….” He walked over to his car and opened the front seat. Then, with sharp eyes, he looked at me. "Harry's family wants you dead. Aren't yo
Elisha’s POVI punched him in the face, and I gasped in pain. It felt like I had hit a rock, and my hands hurt. I held my left hand while I stared at him in shock and confusion. Suddenly, my left hand hurt so bad that I could only grit my teeth and endure the pain.His eyes broadened, and he grabbed my hand to see if I was all right. But I stepped back and told him, "Don't touch me!" I walked inside the hospital and he followed me inside, he looked for a Doctor to look for my sprained knuckles. “Doctor, can you take a look at her hand?” "Yes, Of course!" The Doctor stopped what he was doing, and then took me to his clinic. Then he said, “Did you punch a wall? It looks like your knuckles hurt so bad, it was swollen already.” I sighed and looked over at Arman, who was standing in the corner and listening to the Doctor's query. Arman's eyes landed on me. I gave him a dirty look and said to the Doctor, "Damn, I didn't know his face was made of metal.""Oh, that's it? So you smacked s
Elisha’s POV“Arman, we have been waiting for you for an hour now. Come on inside, we need to have to talk—” A woman who had a pair of eyeglasses glanced at me. She paused a little, then continued, “Well, tell her that we have an important meeting tonight. This can’t be tomorrow.” Arman escorted me inside the house while his hand was over my waist, “My butler will take care of you.” A woman in a suit smiled at me but looked like she could easily punch me in the face if I did something wrong. I sighed, sat down on the couch while scrolling something on my phone screen, and said, "Fine."Arman left the living room when he heard the woman outside, but I didn't know that they went to another building. There's a group of people outside, and it looks like they're having a conference room meeting. The Butler said, “Ma’am, may I?” She was staring at my bag, and I shook my head, “No, it’s okay…” She folded her hand together gracefully, then smiled, “Okay, let me show you your room…” “My
Elisha’s POVI came back to him just to snatch my bra in his hand, and he got a very sweet smile on his face while he was staring at me.“Arman, I’m not playing with you!” He winked at me, “Neither do I…” “Stop looking at me like that, it doesn't suit you, okay?” It feels like he was having fun to make me feel angry, and embarrassed at the same time. I walked inside the room again and put on the bra; after that, I went downstairs and saw everyone laughing and chit-chatting around. I took a step forward and saw a lot of people outside. It looks like I was staring at a group of clans in Arman’s family. The giggling ended as soon as Arman caught sight of me and stopped what he was doing; simultaneously, the corners of my lips began to pull apart in surprise. Arman stepped toward me and beckoned me over, saying, "Hey....come here, baby." “So, is this the human that you are talking about, bro?” The man with eight packs asked and winked at me. “Hi, I’m Zel.” Zel extended his hands and
Elisha’s POV"No." I walked away from him and grabbed my purse. Everyone saw me leave the Villa, and Arman had nothing to do with it. He just saw me leave the Villa and stopped chasing me because it might look like he was desperate for me, so he just let me go and told the guards, "Close the Gate!" I heard his mom ask, “What is going on, son?!” I walked into the street without looking back, and when I saw the gate close, I walked as fast as I could and tried to find a taxi, but I thought this was private land and no public transportation goes here. So I walked and walked until I got to the street where people looked for public transit. When I got to the Hart Empire, the building looked empty. It made me sad to think that the building used to be full of life and happiness, but now it seems like an abandoned building. I took a deep breath and tried not to cry as I looked at everything that was missing.I touched the building while trying to break down but I couldn’t help myself but c