As I was chugging glass after glass, the sadness of my situation was getting numbed down. I couldn’t believe I was actually here. The doors to the balcony opened and I figured it was Jacob f*****g Bennett coming out to berate me so I didn’t bother turning around. “I’m surprised to see you here,” the most alluring voice I had ever heard started speaking, and he had an accent British maybe, but definitely European. “And engaged to Jacob Bennett no less.” Turning around to see who the stranger was, I was once again met with those piercing blues that caught me staring yesterday. He was looking utterly delicious, wearing a navy-blue tux that accentuated his eyes. It was perfectly sculpted to his body to where you could see every muscle movement. “What are you doing out here, shouldn’t you be enjoying your engagement party inside?” He asked, tilting his head trying to get a good read on me. “This is Jacob’s engagement party, I’m just along for the ride,” I replied with a smirk lifting my wine glass in toast. He came closer, leaning on the edge of the railing, his head tilted over looking at me. I couldn’t look at him. I have lied to enough people tonight. “I didn’t see a ring on your finger yesterday.” “There have been recent developments,” I chuckled. God, just yesterday I was single, and now I was engaged to a t**t. If that wasn’t top tier comedy, I didn’t know what was. I could tell that I was a little bit tipsy, after all I had like 6 glasses of wine in less than 10 minutes. Mistakes would be made tonight; I could count on that. PhotoCredits: Engin Akyurt from Pexels
Rowan Sommers is set to take over her father’s billion dollar company once he retires. She is caught off guard when her father and a rival decide on merging companies in order to monopolize their market. Now she has to learn to work with the arrogant man who is set to take over with her after the merger. Photo by Ali Pazani from Pexels
Formerly Breaking with Tradition ****** His voice is even more alluring than I could have imagined, like it’s pulling me closer to him. The next thing I know is that I’m pressed up against him with my head resting on his chest and my arms wrapped around him. At first he’s stiff like he doesn’t know what to do, but then he relaxes into my embrace, wrapping his strong arms around my waist and resting his head on top of mine. I don’t know what is happening but being in his arms, I feel safe. “Penelope, who the hell is this guy!?” I hear Achilles shout. “I-I umm I don’t know...” I answered removing myself from his embrace, realizing that I have no clue who this guy is. Alexius pulled me behind him as Achilles stands guard. Adonis comes running trying to figure out what happened and I hear small feet padding down the stairs. “Azrael?” I hear Jo say looking towards the guy at the door. “What are you doing here?” He doesn’t remove his gaze from me, only making my brothers more upset. “Lucifer sent me, we were supposed to have a family meeting but you never showed up.” he explains, his eyes never leaving my body. “Why were you touching my sister?!?” yelled Alexius blocking me from his view. “It was more like she was touching me, don’t you think sweets?” Azrael smirked sending me a wink causing shivers to run down my spine. His response only making my brothers growl in contempt. “Wait. She touched you?” Jo asked. “Surprising isn’t it?” responded Azrael. “Jo you know this guy?” Adi looked towards Jo questioningly. “He’s my brother.” Jo answers “Azrael, this is my boyfriend Adonis, his brothers, and sister Penelope.” “Hello Penelope.” Photo by luizclas from Pexels
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