Hello there my beautiful readers!

Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to one of my best-friend and fellow wattpad author Anushka Pushilal. Go check out her work- 'If Only' if you have a soft spot for some crime thrillers and hot protagonists. Trust me it's amazing.

Shower her with some love after reading this chapter (obviously) haha!

And thank you for the first 500+ reads! *sends flying kisses*

Hope you like this chapter

Also Lucrecia's dress on the side bar *wink*

Happy Reading!

Xo

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As soon as Ezra left, I breathe out in relief. To be honest, I don't really get this man... at one moment he is going all Godzilla on me and on the very next second he starts caring about me and my breakfast. And to top his bipolar nature, the moment he pulled out a gun, I thought he was literally going to blow out my brain.

Feeling a little drained out with all the ninja techniques I managed to pull in front of him, I proceeded towards the bathroom to wash off the touch of his; the way he held me... and kicked you the very next moment; the way how my body smells like his because of the shirt I am wearing... you mean how stinky you smell like? argh shut up! what? inner self speaks the truth honey.

The bathroom was fairly big with a giant Jacuzzi tub on my right and a shower on my left. Without wasting any time, I moved to the sink that was in the middle of the shower and tub, and started brushing my teeth. When I was done, I stripped then and there and hopped into the shower and began scrubbing off. When Ezra said, that all of my necessities are taken care of, I did not expect that; there were all sorts of bathroom products placed on display, even different brands of tampons and pads. I took my time, washing my hairs. After completing my shower, I got out of the bathroom, wearing a robe and made my way towards the walk-in wardrobe that was attached to the bathroom.

The walk-in closet had two sections, the left one was entirely filled up with Men's shirts and trousers which I presume was Ezra's side. While the right one was lined up with dresses, evening gowns, causal tops and jeans and even lingerie of different kinds. Damn imagine Ezra picking out all these for you... without getting any more foul thoughts, I picked out a nude ruched dress with square neckline and poof sleeves, pairing it with a nude lingerie underneath. I didn't feel like doing much make-up and had settled for some nude lipstick and coated my lashes with some thick mascara. I left my hair to dry naturally and came out of the closet wearing some gliders.

With my now non existent hungover and rising hunger, I walk towards the breakfast-tray and indulge into eating. Feeling content and full, I thought of watching something on the TV when the bell rang. I took my time in answering the door, thinking of it to be Ezra but was soon met by the curious eyes of my best-friends instead.

"Hey" I breathe out.

"Thank God you're okay" Harry said hugging me, "when Leon told us that you were feeling sick and called Ezra to pick you up... we were so worried"

"You should've told us" Nans interrupted

"Wait how do you know Leon?"

"Ah we met him yesterday when Ezra came to pick you up" Harry said, "Hold On".

She holds on a finger and looks out the the lobby and says, "Come... place them in here"

It was that very moment, a bell boy enters and brings in all my luggage. "Anything else that you need mam?" he asks us

"No thank you" saying Nans pulls out some bills and hands him.

He happily took the tip and closed the door on his way out. We three then made our way into the bedroom and got settled on the bed.

"So... engaged ha? why didn't you tell us?" Nans asked me.

"You should've told us. We were so worried for you last night but thank god for that Leon and what was the other guy's name..?" Harry asks Nans

"Haze.."

"Ah yes Haze. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have known..."

"What did they tell you?" I asked them.

"That you are engaged to the most Eligible Bachelor Ezra Ambrosia" Nans said flatly

"Look I was going to tell you..."

Harry interrupted me, "He told us that you were feeling sick and had called his brother... your fiance to come pick you up" she paused for a second and continued, "We had our suspicion about him and tried calling you, but your call went straight into the voicemail"

"Yeah... which is why, we then called Enaya and asked her about all this" Nans huffed.

There was a moment of silence,

"Look I get it that you both are angry with me but this happened so fast that I too needed some time to process this news. It happened the day before yesterday when Ezra announced our engagement in front of our families after I had insulted him and his manhood in my office. This is the reason why I asked you guys to plan a trip so that I can have some time to think about any of the loopholes" I looked up to see Harry and continued, " and also it was your birthday so my disappearance wouldn't have been suspicious to anybody but I don't know from where Ezra got to know I am here and... the rest you know"

"So now you have to marry him?" Nans asked

"Unfortunately yes. I don't really have a choice. He twisted the contract in such a way that if I dare to back off it, not only I will lose my family but also my father's hard-work that he has put into this business would be lost. But also, He said I quote, 'he'll turn us into beggars if I don't do as he told' " I sighed.

"Wow.. that's a lot to digest" Harry said

"Now what?"

"I don't know Nans"

"You said something about loopholes.. Did you find any?"

"None yet"

"Do you have the contract papers?" Harry asked

"Yes" saying I got up and went to the other side of the room, where my luggage was kept.

Onto opening the luggage, I searched for the contract papers that I had placed on the very bottom part of my suit-case. Just when I got hold of them, something else caught my eyes, a black jewelry box... my engagement ring. I open the box and take the gorgeous pink diamond out. It is one of the prettiest ring I've ever seen and if situations were different, and had Ezra proposed me in real... no contracts or as such then I would've loved this ring dearly. But alas, you don't always get what you wish for. Sliding my thoughts aside, I slip on the ring on my ring finger and walk towards my friends.

"Here" I gave Harry the papers, ignoring their curious looks on seeing the ring on my finger. I know they're itching to know more about it but they know better than to ask when we have such a dilemma in front of us.

Harry goes through the papers and says, "He's very cunning. There isn't any possibility of your way out of this" she huffed.

"You know what.. maybe we should file a con case against him, like how he tricked Lucrecia into marrying him and taking a hold over her compan..." Nans started rambling.

"On the second note..." I interrupted Nans, "Maybe marrying him is not that bad of an idea" I smirked.

"WHAT?" they replied in unison.

"Are you out of your mind?" Nans asked looking at me as if I've grown two heads.

"One hundred percent sure babe... trust me on this"

If you're so keen on playing games with me Mister Ezra Ambrosia then let's play it my way.

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A cliffhanger hahha!

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Xo