Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge
Chapter 28. Sounding Possessive.

Chapter 28: 28. Sounding Possessive.

All through the drive, all I can think of is the kiss. I keep trying to tell myself that it was just a kiss. Just a kiss... Just a damn kiss! Not even a serious kiss, he just pressed his lips upon my own.

See, nothing special about that sort of kiss. Even little children did that sort of kiss all the time. In fact, he kisses the twins like that all the time!

So I’ve been telling myself, yet while he held me in his arms, and his lips were pressed upon mine, with my body pinned to his own, I could not think straight, I could feel myself melt the longer he held me in his arms.

Thanks to Giovanni who came to announce the arrival of our designated driver. I fear J would have completely melted away had he not come in sooner.

If only I didn’t have to drive to the party with him!

I mean we’re in a limousine and it still feels too tight in here! I feel so hot I think I might lose my mind.

I just can’t stop thinking about it. How can I, when he’s sitting right here with me.

Why did he have to kiss me? Why? Why? Now I can’t stop stealing glances at his lips like a fool. Get a grip Champagne! Get a grip!! He was just doing that to satisfy the curiosity of the twins, nothing more.

Stop reading meaning into every little thing the man does.

I keep telling myself this, and it’s not working. It’s not working at all.

What’s more annoying is that I’m here feeling completely restless about our kiss, he on the other hand is calmly seated with one leg crossed over the other, with his hands buckled together at his knees, and his gaze focused on the moving scenery outside the limo.

How is he so calm after doing that! Well, that shows that I’m the one who really is putting meaning into everything like a fool.

Dear God, please, help me seal my stupid heart from this man. It’s starting to beat foolishly again. I place a hand over my chest, indeed it’s still beating fast.

It’s when the door next to Duke opens that I realize the limo has come to a halt, meaning we’ve reached our destination. I completely forgot about our destination.

And here I was thinking I’d be nervous all the way to the party because I’ll be meeting Alicia for the first time since the incident, and yet here I was being nervous for an entirely different reason. I didn’t even think of Alicia once since I stepped foot in the car.

"Pagne," I hear him call for me and realize he’s already stepped out and is stretching his hand out to help me step out.

This is it, my major steps into the battlefield. But seeing that hand stretched out to me makes me feel some sort of ease because at least I know, I’m not stepping into that field all on my own.

With a deep breath, I take the hand reaching out to me and with his aid, I step out of the car.

"Dearest, how are you right now?" He asks and I sigh deeply, giving him a smile.

"I’m fine. And I’m ready." I nod and he smiles at me, that reassuring and proud kind of smile.

"That’s my Pagne." He says, and a warm feeling surges through my spine as he entwines our arms. I’m so grateful for him. I really am.

...

I’ve been to parties before of course, but I was always either with grandpa, or I was alone. Rowan never had the time to be my plus one. I always believed it was because he was a doctor, and doctors are naturally busy. How foolish I was to think that way then.

At every party I have ever been to, my sole aim and purpose was making connections and fishing out potential investors, so I never put in much effort into looking good.

However, tonight is different. It’s entirely different from other parties I have been to. Not only do I have a different partner for the night, I am also dressed gorgeously, if I do say so myself.

Most importantly, I don’t have to waste my time trying to fish out potential investors. Because what I’ve come to realize now as we’re in this party is that standing by this man’s side, being flaunted around as his wife automatically means that I don’t have to go searching for investors, it’s the other way around.

Investors come searching for me.

Maybe if our entrance hadn’t been announced like we were some kind of sovereign emperor and empress entering a banquet hall, maybe no one would have known exactly who we were.

Because according to Duke, not many people knew his face due to the fact that he rarely showed himself to the public.

So no one might have known who we were. That is not to say that eyes and heads still wouldn’t have turned at our arrival. I mean, I’m standing next to such a magnificent man, his aura alone can pull all the attention to himself.

However, the fact that our entrance was announced as Mr and Mrs Grand, Co-CEOs of Harford electronics and foods, made matters even more interesting.

It felt as though all eyes were on me and Duke. The moment Senator Mitchel Martins was done welcoming us to the party and introducing us to those he wanted us to meet, others began to approach us.

And when I say others, I don’t mean just anyone. I mean People who would have been hard to approach because they had a higher status than me are now the ones walking up to me, introducing themselves to me. Why? Because I’m from Harford.

"Would I sound boastful if I confess that I like the attention I’m getting for being your wife?" I whisper to him as we are finally left alone.

"You deserve every attention you get, my dearest." He whispers back and I giggle. "Although," He leans in closer to my ear and his breath tickles me, "I’m thinking of gouging out some certain eyes." His words sound so low and deep that my eyes become dizzy and I feel a tingle rush down my spine, "I’m such a jealous man, you see. And I’m barely holding myself back from doing anything crazy to those bastards who keep looking at you with a covetous gaze."

When he says things like that, my entire body shivers in a remarkably good way. "You’re sounding possessive." I whisper back, finally opening my eyes to meet gray ones staring right back at me with something that seems like mad hunger. So mad that for a second it scares me.

"Dearest," his hand climbs over mine on the round table in front of us, his eyes are fixated on mine and his face is drawing closer and closer to mine, "I am." He professes.

Champagne, what are you waiting for? What the hell are you expecting? Why are your eyelids getting weak? And why are you burning? What’s this butterfly effect you’re having in your stomach? And why in the world are you seriously closing your eyes!!!

"Oh, cousin!" I instantly flinch and freeze. My eyes fly open and my body instantly begins to tremble.

I had completely forgotten about her. Totally...

But then his hold on my hand tightens and my eyes find their focus on his face. And although he’s not saying a word to me right now, I can hear him silently telling me, ’it’s going to be alright.’ Yes, it is.

With a silent deep breath, I turn my gaze from his face so I can see her and I feel a little ache in my chest when I see whose arm she’s holding on to.

They didn’t even try to disappoint me. I expected he would be her plus one and shamelessly, he is. To think he was the same person who was forever busy when I wanted him to accompany me to a party.

To think he has the guts to stand before me.

Dear God help me, I can feel my blood boiling with rage.

"I was right, I almost didn’t recognize you!" Alicia is saying with a bright smile on her face, a smile I desperately want to slap out of her beautiful face.

Oh, she is beautiful. I hate to admit it but she is gorgeous. Long blonde hair let loose to the night air, bold red lipstick that makes her lips look attractive to anyone, and those doe eyes that are spellbinding.

Her dress is even more suited to her personality and beauty. A long ocean blue dress that perfectly brings out her eyes. The deep cut at the neck revealing her heavily endowed front side and the fitness and the hips showing off the God-given curves there.

That’s one thing about Alicia, she’s one hundred percent real. Never had plastic surgery in her life. Everything just came to her naturally.

She’s blessed, blessed so no man can resist her.

Ah, that’s right, Duke, he’s probably mesmerized by her beauty right now. I’m doing it again, thinking like this.

I want to turn my eyes to stare at him right now, but I can’t. I’m scared those gray eyes that only looked at me all this time will have shifted to her now. I’m scared to see the surprised look on his face to see such a beautiful blond in front of him.

I’m so scared.

I’m just a Coward.

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