Betrothed To The Cold Billionaire

“I saw you today with your lover…” I stared at him in surprise when he said that. What the fuck is he yammering about?? Seeing my confused look, I noticed he got very angry.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“Don’t fucking act like you don’t know what I’m talking about!!” He barked in anger.

“I don’t know anything about a lover. I was at the restaurant to see my friend and brother.” I explained but that only made him laugh.

“Your brother?? You’re gonna lie now that the man you were having an affair with is your brother??” He asked.

“What affair are you talking about?? The man I saw is my bro….”

“Shut the fuck up!!” He shouted in anger, startling me.

“I’ve been trying to act cool so you’d probably tell me the truth but you are still trying to feed me with more lies.”

“I’m not lying. Why would I be having an…”

“Don’t ask me that useless question. After giving me that nonsense speech about how I should respect you, you went ahead to start having an affair right under my very nose. Do you know how annoying it is to be played like a fool??”

What affair is he talking about?? I only went out to meet with Hillary and Sandy. Why won’t he listen to me?

“You think that I’m a joke just because I’m disabled right? You think you can use me for your selfish needs and still try to hide it from me even though I caught you with my very eyes??” He asked.

I could see his eyes turned very red. He was getting angry at every passing moment and I couldn’t do anything to explain. Or rather, he wouldn’t let me explain. He wouldn’t even listen to my explanation if I did explained to him.

“I’ll only ask one last time. Who was the man you went to see at that cafe today??” He asked again.

“Do you want me to lie to you??” I asked back and that made him chuckle softly.

“Well, that settles it all.” He muttered as he wheeled himself out.

I stared at him in surprise. He’s leaving just like that?? I thought he would lash out at me or something. He just left and that scared me more. His silence was very scary. Even for me.

I sighed when I heard the door shut close. Even though I was well aware that he was going to retaliate later, I was happy that he wasn’t in my presence anymore. Just looking at him was enough for me to shiver in fear.

I was still deep in my thoughts when I heard keys jingling and the door knob sound. My eyes widened when I understood what was going on. I ran towards the door and tried to open it but I couldn’t. It had been locked from the outside.

“Ooen this door!! Open the fucking door!!” I screamed as I hit on it. Trying to open it but still couldn’t.

“I’ll only open this door when you’re ready to tell me the truth.” I heard Adrian’s voice from the hallway.

“I already told you the truth. He isn’t my lover, he’s…”

“Shut up!! I don’t want to listen to any shit that you have to say. I’ll be back when you’re finally ready to tell me the truth.” He said before I heard the wheels of his wheelchair receding into the hallways.

My fear grew when I noticed that he was leaving so I hit harder on the door but no one answered me. One thing about me is that I get really scared when I notice that I’m in a closed room.

No matter how big the room is, I always get scared anytime I realise it has been locked from the outside and I’m not able to leave where I am. I was never like this.

It started after an incident that happened to me when I was little. Since then, my life had never remained the same but that is a story for another day.

I kept on hitting Hardee and resorted to pleading but no one answered my cries. Then, I recalled that my phone was still in my bag. If I can just call someone that would be able to help me out of here.

I looked around and heaved a huge sigh of relief when I saw the bag resting on the queen-sized bed. I picked it up and started searching inside the bag but couldn’t find my phone.

I poured out all the contents in the bag onto the bed but still couldn’t find the phone. But it was in the bag when I came back home. Suddenly, I recalled that I had given one of the maids the bag to carry for me.

Did she seriously remove the phone?? I decided to search around the room to see if it had fallen on the floor but still couldn’t find it. I didn’t even see any of my other phones that I keep in my room.

It then occurred to me that someone had removed them on purpose. The fear and panic I had before returned immediately with full force. I started to feel like I couldn’t breath anymore.

My heart was beating fast and it was very hard for me to have free intake of air. It felt as if the walls of the room were closing up on me. I placed my hands on my chest as I tried to steady my breath but nothing was working.

I was slowly loosing air and it felt as if I could faint at any moment. I couldn’t stay in the room any longer so I decided to go to the balcony. I tried to open it but the door wouldn’t budge.

I looked down only to realise it had been locked with strong chains. What the hell is wrong with Adrian? Why is he so hell bent on making my life miserable??

I couldn’t do anything anymore but just wait till my body finally gives up. My legs went first. I fell on the floor when they grew too weak to carry my body. Then, my body grew numb. I couldn’t move myself around.

When my eyes were about to shut, I saw the door burst open and someone rushed in. I saw Oliver walking towards me in fear but funny enough, I was hearing Adrian’s voice calling unto me to stay awake.

That was the last person I heard and saw before I finally went unconscious.

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He had never expected that she would be like this. He did it out of pure rage and was only going to scare her for sometime till she finally decides to tell him the truth. He didn’t know that she would go unconscious.

Thankfully, he had rushed in the moment he saw that she was finding it hard to breath through the small surveillance camera he hid in her room. Things would have been much worse if he hadn’t come sooner.

He never knew that she had a panic disorder. But what actually caused it?? It doesn’t just happen to someone and from the looks of it, it only happened when he locked her up.

He couldn’t believe they gave him a broken girl as his new wife. He stared at her calm face as she laid peacefully on the bed. He started regretting why he locked her in.

But he was still angry anytime he remembers that she was lying about that man being her brother. He knew that he wasn’t going to get the truth form her so he had better find out by himself.