Melody Anne's Billionaire Universe: Devoured (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Marian Tee

Author:Marian Tee [Tee, Marian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Wednesday. This – and not Tuesday nor Monday – was the real beginning of a new chapter of her life. Today was the day she would be Luca Valencia’s wife and Eula’s stepmother. Today was the day everything would change---

“For the better,” she finished out loud. Staring determinedly at her reflection on the mirror, she told herself firmly, “Got that?”

The bathroom door opened, and Maggie complained, “Will you please stop talking to yourself when you can talk to me?” Sauntering inside the hotel suite’s expansive toilet, she took a hold of her friend’s shoulders and used it to get Vivian to face her. What she saw almost had Maggie wincing, with the way Vivian’s pale face looked even smaller and thinner, her body dwarfed by the too-large terry robe wrapped around it.

Scared out of her wits, Maggie thought, like she should be.

“Are you going to tell me I’m making a big mistake?” Vivian asked fearfully.

Maggie smirked. “I would…if I didn’t know that’s exactly what you want to hear from me.”

“I hate you,” Vivian mumbled. “I really, really, really hate you.” Maggie clearly knew her too well, she thought. She should have asked for a private talk with the judge first. A third party would no doubt tell her that---

Maggie gave Vivian a quick shake when she saw her friend’s eyes beginning to glaze. “Keep it together, Viv,” she growled. When Vivian blinked at her, she told her friend firmly, “This is something only you can decide, okay?”

Vivian nodded.

“So we’re going to talk about it, and maybe it will help clear your mind.”

Vivian nodded again.

“First – have you asked him?”

“Ask him if there’s a catch in marrying me?” Her friend’s gaze skittered away.

Maggie gave Vivian a harder shake this time. “You didn’t ask him, did you?”

“Umm…”

“Vivian!”

“I didn’t want to,” Vivian cried out, “because I already know the answer to it.”

Maggie froze.

Finally looking at her friend, Vivian said haltingly, “If there’s one thing I was able to understand about him all those times we were talking, then it’s the fact that he’s a control freak. And honestly? I don’t mind that, at all. You know how my dad was like. He was the opposite. He was way out of control, and people always had to rein him in and when you grow up with someone like that, it gets tiring.”

Looking down at her bare feet, Vivian mumbled, “When he practically threatened me about my IOU, he probably thought I’d get mad, but I didn’t really care. At the back of my mind, I was thinking, at least he was doing something about what he wanted. I know it’s bad, but I couldn’t help comparing him to my dad, who blamed everyone but himself for how his life turned out.”

When Vivian fell silent, Maggie was at a loss for what to say. “Viv…” She knew the kind of childhood Vivian had, with her on-off father, who had acted more like an overgrown child than anything else. She could see where the attraction

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