MONIQUE ♚Morning of the next day came so quickly and a series of knocks was what got me out of bed. All through the night, thinking got me occupied and from the look of things, I was guessing I only slept for an hour before I was woken. I didn't get up immediately, though, but Gina did. She stayed the night in case any shit went down. Surprisingly, nothing happened. They probably were all waiting for today. "Don't open it." I muttered before she got there. "You know you're still gonna open it anyways? Let's just get this shit over with." She opened it and tons of women streamed in, holding different things. I assumed they were the ones who would dress me in preparation for my supposed engagement. Fuck this shit. "Good morning, my lady." They muttered and I got up, tightening the robe around my body. None of them had to see me in the state that I was. "I'm assuming you haven't take your bath? " A middle aged woman asked, and all I did was throw scary glances at her and that di

MONIQUE ♚The feeling of a tall and enormous monster walking within the walls of my head brought me out of my slumber.The headache could split my head in half and cause me to drop dead there and then.It wasn't only that. It was accompanied by a terrible stomach upset and I didn't need anyone to tell me that those fucking pancakes caused all of this.I was out of bed in no time, sitting on the toilet sit and trying to do my business. I was utterly disgusted, not at what I was doing at the moment, but at how I was feeling in my body. It made me want to take all of my clothes off and walk around the castle naked like I was the only one--honestly, if it was what I had to do to feel better, it wasn't that big of a deal, then. I wiped, cleaned myself up and flushed before proceeding to leave. I didn't make it out of there before I slumped--I really didn't know if to say slumped because no external force contributed to it, I just found myself on the floo

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄I'd tried to preserve my mental health in so many ways by asking myself the question why. Out of the billions of people in the universe, why did this have to happen to me? The year before, when I was informed about Father's passing, it was said to be an accident. I didn't get this at all. I folded my arms across my shoulder and shut my two eyes, trying to picture how it all happened. It might have been that I misheard one or two things. I was at the office, laptop on the table, coffe as well. We'd just concluded a board meeting. It was around that time that we were planning on releasing the first teaser for what we'd planned for better banking and saving at MBC. Gina was a lot of floors below mine--probably whiliing away time with Solomon. It was then the call came in. Like every normal phone call, I accepted and that was when the doctor dropped the bomb that Father died in car accident. He was brought in dead, by the way. "Excuse me?" I could remember saying and

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄The sound of people running heat and there kicked my ass out of the bed. My eyes still had sleep in them, but the sight of people running towards the gate eliminated it so quickly. Smoke was billowing, and I got so scared. I was terrified for my life. Where was Marcus? He promised to come later on. I rushed to the balcony to get a better view and things were even so much scarier there. With tears in my ears, I looked around, in search of something handy that I could take along with me. A knock came in, and I was all the more scared, but I still managed to move my legs to see who it was. Before I could form an expression, he pulled me close to him and crashed his lips against mine, his back slamming against the door and closing it. His hot mouth was all over my lips, kissing it nland having a taste of me. He didn't deepen it because he wanted me to be comfortable with it. Releasing my finally, he looked into my eyes. "Fuck, I've been wanting to do this for so

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄 The stress lines on Marcus'sforehead were so damn visible that even I was somewhat scared. His face had gone from happy to sad within the snap of a finger, and the cause was something I was sure I'd never figure out. "Did I do something wrong?" I asked, fear being the order of the say so fucking swiftly. It was like the nerve controlling his speech to a vacation because I could see Marcus try to move his mouth, but fuck if a single word made its way out. It felt as though something had told him that what we had last night wa fucked up and we weren't meant to be at all. I'd stop his brain from doing all that thinking. "Baby?" I whispered into his ear before angling over so that my head was facing his chest, and I kissed the region that I felt beating--his heart. Whatever spell was cast on him immediately turned into nothingness and it felt as though he'd resurrected from the dead like Jesus Christ. Thank heavens. "It's just a whole lot of things going on, Monique