Bargain Bride: The Billionaire’s Forced Wife

“HE’S NOW OUT OF OUR WAY,” Chiara spoke while watching the police bring Simone back to his cell.

He was pretty beaten up. The authorities brought him to the medics earlier, and they found out that his body suffered a fatal blow from Alessandra’s father’s attacks. However, the Morellis were merciless enough not to let Simone stay in a medical ward, rather, they put him back on his cell where he will receive treatments.

“The Morellis are really furious at him,” Ezio commented as he remembered how red their faces because of anger. “I can’t believe he beat his own wife. What a bastard.”

Chiara couldn’t help but to smile on his reaction. “Well, technically, he never beat her up,” she responded.

Ezio cocked his head towards his wife. His eyes squinted at her, confused on the statement before asking. “What do you mean, cara? Didn’t you see Alessandra’s face? She looked like she was a made a punching bag.”

“He didn’t hurt her,” Chiara reiterated, smiling because her plan worked successfully. “We just made it looked like he did.”

She promised Alessandra that she will help her get back to Simone. He may had never hurt her physically, but his words were enough to cut a deep wound in Alessandra’s heart. Besides, she wanted to give back the favor for her statements before that can help in pinning Giovanni.

Just a few days ago, she asked Alessandra to go back to Rome and visit Simone on the day she provided. She explained her plan, which is to frame Simone for physical abuse.

Alessandra is great when it comes to using cosmetics, and she used that to make herself looked beaten up. Chiara intentionally asked her to visit Simone on the day of the police’s visit to give a double blow to him.

Ezio’s plan to frame Simone on the illegal drug is their plan A. The hair they used was retrieved by Alessandra. Their first plan to frame Simone is already strong, but Chiara wanted to make sure that he will have a difficult time releasing himself from prison.

That’s why she made a plan B. This time, she included Alessandra’s family, the Morelli, in the picture. That way, Simone will have more enemies pinning him to his downfall.

“You framed him, too,” Ezio spoke with surprised face, before smiling widely like a proud man. “That’s awesome, cara!”

He showered her face with kisses, from the forehead, to her nose, and to her lips. Even her jaw didn’t escapes his sweet kisses.

Ezio was so proud that his wife was able to execute such flawless plan, even including the Morelli, who were one of the top families in Florence. He can’t help but to chuckle, not just because Chiara did a good plan, but it was also better than his plan.

“You’re the first person to say that framing is an awesome thing to do,” Chiara replied with a cheeky smile. “I just made that to make sure that it wouldn’t backfire to us. With the Morelli on the way, he won’t suppect that it was us who did everything.”

While the two were staying in the parking lot of the police station, Alessandra approached them. She still has the fake bruises and wounds on her face.

“Thank you, Chiara,” she said before hugging her. She was crying, not because of sadness, but because of joy.

Chiara hugged her and caressed her back, comforting her. Ezio just stood beside the two women, giving them time and privacy. Although he doesn’t really like Alessandra, he chose not to shoo her away because she’s pregnant, and that she helped them in framing Simone.

Alessandra was the first one to let go of the hug before her hand rested on her baby bump. She was sniffing and holding back some of her tears.

“The divorce will be done immediately,” she spoke. “Papa said he will do everything to rush it. Aside from that, he will not get anything from me in the divorce. Rather, he will have to pay me for the damages he did.”

Chiara gave her a reassuring smile. “He can’t go after you anymore,” she responded. “I’m sure that your family will do anything it will take to protect you,” her eyes went down to her baby bump. “And your baby.”

Alessandra looked back to her family who was busy finishing some papers. “I’m lucky to have them,” she said.

After a few minutes, Ezio and Chiara left the police station. It was Ezio who suggested it since Chiara cannot stand up for a long time due to her injury. Seeing Simone behind the bars and Alessandra getting what she wanted is enough for them.

“Does you wound hurt?” Ezio asked after he put down his wife on their king size bed. He removed her rubber shoes before gently massaging her feet, earning a satisfied groan and smile from Chiara.

“No,” she answered. “I really thought I won’t be able to walk after that incident. Good thing the bullet didn’t hit my bone.”

Ezio sat beside her and trailed kisses on her neck. “If you became crippled, I’ll carry you everyday, cara, ” he whispered with so much love that made Chiara shudder.

Since the shooting incident, Ezio didn’t ask for any intimate acts except from kisses and hugs. She knew that he is giving her enough time to rest her wound, and that includes not straining her body, especially her leg.

She made a mental note to reward him once she recovered.

Chiara hugged him from the side before rest her head on his chest. “It’s good to be back in this mansion,” she spoke while looking around at the bedroom.

Just days ago, they left the safe house and went back to their mansion. They left some things behind like clothes and other essentials, just incase they will be needing the safe house on some other time.

“I remember you telling me to have a pergola in the mansion,” Ezio responded as he remembered Chiara’s words the first day he woke up. “I’ll have my men do that. What design do you want?”

Chiara giggle and reached for her laptop to show the references of what she wanted for their pergola. Ezio listened with interest on her words, while staring her face. Little by little, her words didn’t reach Ezio’s ears, and her husband was too focused on staring at her beauty.

“You’re not listening,” Chiara spoke when she noticed her husband lost while looking at her.

Ezio blinked and smiled at her. “I just can’t believe that you’re now my wife,” he spoke.

She pinched his nose and chuckled. “We’ve been married for four years, tesoro. And I’ll be your wife until the end, even if you like it or not.”

Their faces moved closer to each other, but was interrupted when someone knocked on the door, which was followed by Luigi’s voice.

“Signor? The representative of Romano Enterprise is on the telephone,” he spoke behind the semi-closed bedroom door.

Chiara looked at her husband. “Romano Enterprise? Isn’t that Isadora’s family’s company?” she asked.

Ezio nodded. “Now that Simone and Sigmund are in the prison, we can now attack those people who are closer to Giovanni, and that includes Isadora,” he answered with a grin.

“I’ll support your plan, tesoro,” she replied and kissed his cheek. “Go and rock that call!”

When Ezio left the bedroom, Chiara lay down and tried to sleep. She closed her eyes for several minutes, and even counted sheeps. She reached a hundred but sleep seemed to be avoiding her.

She got up again and looked around the bedroom, finding something that might entertain her. Chiara got up from the bed and opened the drawers, in hopes to find something that can catch her interest.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

Suddenly, her hand stopped when she saw the flash drive that Elisa gave to her before. She picked it up and realized that she hasn’t told her husband about the contents; she just told him that Elisa gave a flash drive.

Chiara connected the flash drive to her laptop and opened the folders. Other files doesn’t seem to help them in accusing Giovanni. Most files include the list of their investors and partners.

The cursor moved towards the file of Ariti Gomez. Chiara wanted to know why Giovanni has a file dedicated only to Monika’s ex-fiance. She opened the only video inside, and scrutinized it. However, she can’t find anything that will point Giovanni’s, or other people’s, connection to the content of the video.

She was watching the video when Ezio entered the room. “What are you watching, cara?” he asked with furrowed eyebrows as he heard someone screaming at the video.

“This is the flash drive that Mamma Elisa gave to me before,” she answered and showed the video to her husband.

She pointed the man on the video. “This is Ariti Gomez, he is the fiance of Monika, Giovanni’s ex-wife. He died because of suicide.”

Chiara moved the cursor so that the video will start over again. The video started by showing the recorder’s car bumping the black car in front of it. The impact was getting stronger and stronger after every hit until it stopped.

The person recording the video hopped off from the car and the video was focused on the car in front of it. Ariti went out from his car, which is now dangling on the edge of the cliff. Ariti’s head is bleeding, and he can’t walk properly.

Suddenly, the person recording the video hit Ariti with a metal rod. Ariti kneeled on the floor, coughing blood. He looked up at the person and his eyes widened.

Chiara saw the emotions in Ariti’s eyes: shocked and betrayal. She saw Ariti trying to say something but the blood on his mouth came out first.

The person recording the video spoke something in French. “That’s Giovanni’s voice,” Ezio said upon hearing it.

Then, the person kicked Ariti towards the edge of the cliff. Ariti tried to fight back by grabbing the person’s pants, but the person kicked him more. He kicked his face, his arms and his hands, until Ariti fell on the cliff. The last thing they saw in the video is Ariti’s body laying on the ground, bleeding with his eyes wide open.

When the screen turned black, Chiara looked at her husband. “The voice of the man who pushed Ariti to his death is Giovanni. But we cannot see him in the video. How can we use this as an evidence?”

Ezio moved cursor to go back to a certain part of the video. He stopped at the part were Ariti was kneeling on the floor, just after he was hit by metal rod.

He zoomed the video to the car’s window. There, they saw Giovanni’s reflection.