Chapter 1 – Proposal Gone Wrong!!
“I’ll return home in two days time, arrange everything,” I whispered into the phone as tears streamed down my cheeks.
“Miss Bellaire, are you alright?” the voice asked me over the phone.
I shook my head and replied, “No, but I will be.
Hanging up the phone, I stared at the diamond engraved box in my hands and sighed.
I had gotten this box custom made specially for this day but I ended up being betrayed.
Hidden in my boyfriend’s closet, I held the diamond box tightly, my hand on the door handle, poised to surprise him–until his friend’s voice made me freeze
“You are so cruel, Richard, I can’t believe you’ve been playing Olivia for three years now,” his best–friend, Ethan said
My hand froze on the door of the closet. Playing me! Surely I’d heard wrongly. But Richard’s voice rang out, silencing my thoughts.
“Olivia is just like my loyal dog. She’ll do anything I want even if I ask her to lick my shoes,” Richard said proudly.
I gasped while his friends burst into laughter. How dare he speak about me like this??
-But you’re so lucky, man, how do you think Olivia will react when she finds out you’re getting married to Elena?” Ethan asked.
Richard shrugged nonchalantly, “I don’t care but I know she’s not going to find out and even if she does she has nowhere to go. That bitch has been living off me while her step–sister helped me grow my company”
A small sob escaped my lips as I clamped my mouth shut while I opened the diamond box in my hand
A beautiful diamond ring lay inside it. I smiled sadly. To think that I was going to propose to him today.
I’ve been dating Richard for the past three years and I decided to take the first step by proposing and giving him a special surprise.
But hearing him say all these things about me I realized I had been a fool and I never truly knew Richard X
“But why doesn’t she want to let you go, huh? Maybe ‘cause you still treat her well, Ethan said
“Oh please, she thinks I’m the one who she had the one–night–stand with three years ago on the day of the masquerade party. She doesn’t know it’s her step–sister, Elena,” Richard stated callously.
My heartbeat increased as I took deep breaths trying to calm my racing heart!!
How could he say this? He knows how much that night meant to me. That was the night I lost my virginity.B
So if it wasn’t him I slept with then who? I wondered.
The only reason why I had started dating Richard was because I thought he was the man from that night.8
“But why not tell her you’re not the man she was with? I feel you’re being cruel to her, Richard, another of his friends spoke up.
Richard scoffed, “Oh shut up, you know nothing about women. You don’t even have a girlfriend. Besides, Olivia is insanely in love with me and even if she finds out she won’t be able to live without me,” he bragged
His friends hailed him while I clenched my fist ready to storm out and unleash hell when the next voice stopped me.
“I wonder if she’ll stay when she finds out Elena is pregnant for you,” Ethan mused.8
Blood rushed to my ears as I touched my stomach, the pain of one month ago flashed in my mind.
I had gotten pregnant for Richard and he convinced me to get rid of it saying he didn’t want to get married to me pregnant.S
“You know I love you, Livia, I don’t want people gossiping about how I got married to you because you’re pregnant,” he had said, kissing mell
And like a fool I believed when in reality he wanted me to get rid of the baby so he’d be with Elena and have kids with her.
I felt blind rage consume me as the pain I had felt on that day became fresh in my mind.!!
I pushed open the closet door and glared at him.
“You dirty scumbag, how dare you?!” I yelled, charging at him.”
12.21 PM c
