Betrothed To The Cold Billionaire

“I would like for you to meet my family.” He muttered with a smile playing on his lips. Wait what?? I stared at him in shock and silence. No words were able to leave my mouth as I took in what he had just said.

“You’re joking right?” I managed to ask when my lips were finally able to move.

“Why would I be joking about something like that?” He asked back.

“Well why wouldn’t you? You lie about eevery single thing so it’s kinda hard to trust you even with petty things like this.” I said, within me though. I knew better than you tell him that to his face. I just kept quiet and listened to everything he was saying.

“I meant every word I just said.” He added. He had a very serious expression on his face which was enough to show that he was tell the truth. I sighed heavily and pulled out of his embrace.

“What’s wrong?” He asked carefully. I really should have known better than to trust his words even though he always tries so hard to act like he’s really sincere to me.

He always does things for a reason. Like today, one would think that he had finally stopped with his childish antics and has finally matured enough. I just realised he did it for a purpose, only so I can agree with what ever he wants from me.

Like I had said earlier, his behavior today was very suspicious. I knew he had a purpose. Now, he has exposed himself by himself.

“Is this the reason you’re acting so nice to me?” I voiced out. He stared at me in confusion as he tried to understand my words. His eyed widened in realization when he was finally able to understand.

“What?? No. Why would I do that?” Hr asked back.

“Why wouldn’t you? You don’t just become nice out of nowhere. You do everything for a reason.” I said. He sighed softly before he drew close to where I was.

“What if I told you..” He placed one of his hands on my cheek and stroked them softly.

“… I have no other motive. I did what I did today because I’ve actually changed.” He whispered.

“And what if I told you…” I drew closer to him as well and leaned my face towards his like I was about to kiss him. Instead, I moved my lips to where his ear was and whispered to him;

“…. I don’t believe you at all.” Then, I removed his hands from my cheek. Instead of getting angry, he just smiled at what I did.

“So.. what’s your decision?” He asked.

“It’s quite obvious my darling husband. I’m not going with you.” I answered as I maintained the smile on my face.

“Really? You’re refusing to meet my family?” He asked again.

“Sounds like that to me.” I answered. He stared at me deeply like he was trying to get something out of me while I kept on a poker face.

“Why are always like this?” He asked in frustration. Probably because he wasn’t able to see whatever expression he wanted to be able to read me.

“Like how??” I asked back, with a smirk playing on my lips.

“Why are you always so difficult?”

“Am I??”

“Don’t play with me. You know very well that you are.”

“Well sorry but I honestly don’t. How does refusing a meeting with your family mean that I am difficult.”

“Please explain to me how it doesn’t. We have been married for almost a month now and you haven’t even met with them.”

“Well, I got married to you, not them.”

“And now, as your husband, I’m asking you to go with me to see my fam…”

“Why are you so hellbent on taking me to see your family. What do you do you have in store for me there?” I asked. He opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off.

“Wait, don’t tell me..” I released a very dramatic heave.

“… are you trying to sell me off, or wait.. there’s worse.. are you trying to murder me??” I asked in fake fear and surprise.

“What?? Why would you think like that??”

“Considering all of the lies and deception you’ve been practicing since the day I first met you, I would be very stupid not to have such thoughts.” I answered. I was still mad that he didn’t even think of apologizing to me so all I can do right now is guilt trip him into doing it.

“Ariel, how many times do I have to explain to you that I’ve changed. I’m no longer th..” I cut his words off with a scoff.

“You’ve changed?? Explain to me what type of person changes their character overnight??” I asked him.

“Some people do.”

“Yeah.. some people do. Just not you. You’re a very self centered person so it’s quite hard for you to just change how you think in one day. I’m sure this is just another plot of yours.”

“Another plot to do what?”

“What was the reason you lied in the first place. I want the truth?” I demanded.

“Ariel…” He sighed softly.

“What has that hot to do with this? Why can’t we just let the past be the past.”

“It has every thing to do with what’s happening now. You can’t just say you’ve changed when I don’t even know why you did it in the first place.”

“Okay, at the beginning.. it all started off as an harmless joke.” He muttered.

“Harmless joke??” I scoffed in anger. He just said ‘an harmless joke’..

“Yes. I acted as two different people because you didn’t even know what Adrian looked like so I thought it woukd be fun to play with you for some time.” The anger that was burning inside of me was so much but I held myself back as I waited for him to finish with his explanation.

“That was the plan until I saw you at that cafe with someone I thought was your lover. I got really angry and decided to go on with the plan and even frustrate you with it.” Wow… just wow.

“I know I wronged you in a lot of way. I just want you to know that I have really changed. I’m not the same self centered person you got married to.” He explained.

“And what made you change? Because I found out about your lies??” I asked.

“Well, that is part of the reason. But the main reason I changed is because I realized that we would be spending the rest of our lives together so it wouldn’t really make sense if I make the rest of those years miserable for us both.” He answered.

“The rest of our lives indeed. I would rather die than spend a lifetime with you.” I thought to myself.

“Fine, I’ve heard all of your flimsy excuses. I’ll go see your family with you.”

“You will??” He asked in surprise. He’s probably surprised about how easy it was to convince me. If only he knows I have a plan of my own.

“Yes, but only under one condition.”

“What is it that you want?”

“My family would have to go with me too.” I bargained.

“Well, it’s perfect that way. You can bring your family with you.” He readily agreed.

“Okay..” I stared at him suspiciously.

“I better inform them about the development.” I muttered.

“Go ahead.” He answered.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

I turned away from him and left for my room. I shut the door the moment I got in and bounced around happily. Wow, God really favors me a lot. Here I was, thinking about how I would convince him to see my family but he opened the way for me.

Nothing can go wrong since my family would be there with me so I had no reason to worry. I picked up my phone and put a call across to Grandma so as to inform her about the latest development.