章節 1: Chapter ONE :,Love at first sight
"Michael." Heiress Angela called Michael and trembled, devoid of what else to say.
It was her first time to toast a guy or make advances. And she did not envisage it coming.
"Michael. I love you!" she vomited the words. The shyness and fear in her stripped the words of any romanticism and to Michael who had been standing like an accused, he stiffened the more, hearing the words.
A minute passed, two minutes, and the Heiress did not hear anything, she jumped out of her seat and ran in and threw herself on the bed, slapping the bed." O'God! Why why why!"
The next day, she saw him, he was mowing the grass. She hung at the window looking at him, her future husband.
How does a man with this height, and this athletic physique be so timid?
She called him with a mouth whistle and mocked herself: Heiress, you have to throw personality aside and grab him, even if to pin him down today because without him no wedding, you know? " Yes." She agreed with herself.
Five years ago, she saw a glimpse of him in front of a gardener's shed. What could be termed love at first sight has dominated her mind ever since, even now as the CEO of Harrison Manuel Business Empire, Africa Headquarters and she cannot honor herself with the one-in-town wedding without him. No. Never.
As the scripture says 'This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased', Michael is her beloved husband without him there is no marriage, the fantastic wedding.
She has had a picture of her wedding with him, but she never envisaged she would see him in the form she saw him, in her castle, as her gardener.
But since this is him, no Jupiter as they do say, will stop them being husband and wife.
She studied him, coming glumly, like the most timid person he is.
Love, or toasting other guys would die for, is what he is afraid of.
Her heartbeat lost its regulation as she heard his silent footsteps.
Would she call Magdalene to come fast and assist her? No no no.
She shook her head and ran and hid by the widow and shifted the curtain as if it was a crime, peeping at him.
He was pensive, staring into the empty roof-garden
Funny enough, she saw him staring at the half-filled glass of her red wine she abandoned on the table with her weaver's chair padded with a floral pillow.
He was ready to vamoose at any hush.
Oh!Lord! She was shy in her hiding place.
Thank God, her Dad's Copter hummed, coming.
She ran out. " Hey! Michael go. My Dad is coming. "
The twin-engine lowered and landed on the helipad.
With her long legs, she strode like a gazelle going to the helipad as two bodyguards came down from the Copter before a man in his late fifties. The man was holding his hat in his hand revealing receding grizzled hair, a walking stick in his right hand, and a leather bag hanging down from his shoulder.
That was Harrison Manuel, her father, the Chairman of Harrison Manuel Business Empire Wide World.
She surrendered her cheeks one after the other to him to peck and she hung down the leather bag from his shoulder, going down into the castle before him and the bodyguards.
She opened his study and sat in his seat, a swivel chair, to read the documents she brought out from the bag.
She was to be at the meeting for diversification by Harrison Manuel Business Empire into Nickel mining in Namibia but she was sick. Not sick that is curable.
Since Mr. Igni, the old gardener was relieved of gardening on account of age and by a twist of fate the replacement was the guy she saw five years ago, she can only be cured if she has him.
She needs him, her husband, she needs to kiss him and start a preamble of what would happen on their bachelor's night.
Her mother's sister rang.
"Oh! Aunty has come!"
She ran down. She had told him she had seen whom to marry so she came to see.
They two hugged, waved themselves, and fell into the Divan.
Harrison came out into the sitting place they were.
"Oh! Super in-law, " Agnes spread her arms, advancing to him. Reaching him, she wrapped her arms around Harrison Manuel's big body.
Stepping two steps back, she ran her eyes all over him. "Ever looking young, my in-law."
Manuel was in a body hug polo and shorts and was muscular, a shape rarely seen with men of his age.
" Heiress, when are you going to bring your husband to him?" asked Agnes, with a cornering eye at Heiress.
"Dad knows my choice of man."
"Yes," agreed Harrison Manuel before he went to the bar.
" What kind of choice? " Agnes whispered and corked her eyes at her with an elastic smile widening and widening.
They were back in the Divan, and she was keen to hear Heiress answer her.
Her little niece has no experience in relationships. She was very interested to hear her choice of guy.
Herself, Agnes, does not give a damn about man any longer.
"As I am an only child, he must live here!" Heiress Angela said.
"Is it possible?" she asked casting a probing look at Heiress.
"Aunty, what do mean?" Heiress Angela stared at her.
"I didn't mean bad. What I was saying is...In some climes, it is not accepted. It is the man that goes to marry a wife and takes her to his home."
"That is not my kind,"
" Has the guy agreed you marry him? Hope it's not Jojo?"
Heiress Angela felt bitter. She turned.
"Nene," Agnes called her by her native name. " I didn't say you should not marry him if she agrees. Two of you are mature. "
She tried to touch her breast, giving her a don't-be-offended grin, and she flinched and went to her room in her apartment.
She rolled along the bed." Lord. I can't sleep"
She returned to her aunt.
"I wonder how you went so early to sleep while your Aunty is here," said Agnes.
"Aunty," she called her. "Anything wrong with love at first sight?"
"Love at first sight? ...first or second sights are the same," said Agnes. She had married thrice and divorced thrice. She did not want to be a hindrance to her sister's daughter. And Heiress Angela is somebody who suspects even a good friend, sorry to say so.
If she wants yes, tell her, yes, and if no, tell her no.
"I won't tell her not to go ahead now until I see her Dad."
"Aunty you are not telling me," said Heiress Angela.
Back to her room.
"I won't tell her about him now."
She invited her to show her her husband but she has now canceled that.
She went to the wardrobe to combine what she would wear to Mary and Claude's bachelor's Even
Mary was Jojo's twin sister. Jojo was the guy her parents arranged to marry her.
Despite t, hat she did not tell them she had someone in mind, Her Dad knowing the choice of marriage she wanted, told Jojo's parents they should let them grow together, whatever that meant.
章節 2: Chapter Two: Sticking to Michael, not Jojo
Her pair of black trousers were tight on her like she deliberately wore it to say 'See me, ain't I curvy?'
The black top bared it all. Her navel, like a sea pebble, and the nursery hairs below it were like a collection of feasts to the eyes.
She banded her golden hair with a headdress. So weird, isn't it? and sat up, swayed right, and swayed left before the mirror of the vanity table." Heiress Angela! Maids or no maids, glam!" she enthused herself and took a look at her Phillippe Patek diamond-encrusted.
There was still time. She sat back with a ball pen and piece of paper and wrote: ONE, and bracketed it and wrote down the names of domestic staffers to be relieved of their duties.
"Magdalene" she pronounced, and tightened her lips, waved her head, tightened her lips again and again, waved her head, rested her pen, and picked it up and wrote: Peddy and Killer.
She underlined the two bodyguards.
Rose. Martina. Ada. She underlined them.
The Heiress is about to marry an unequal, without whom, life is incomplete. A wedding off of the bad eggs in the castle becomes necessary.
She called Magdalene.
"My Heiress," Magdalene, who rushed in, hugged her and looked up toward her face, because of her own low height and glared down," So sexy, my daughter." she eulogized her," For Mary's bachelor's night?" she asked.
"Yes, Mom." Heiress Angela sat back and she sat too. "Mom, do you want to retire?" asked Heiress Angela, knowing she would say no.
"Retire?" she asked bewildered and looked at Heiress strongly.
"I wanted to know."
*No, I am still young" she told her firmly with a bewildered look still. Was it not why she compares her with her mom, she must have said.
Her mom always cross-examined her if Harrison spoke to her, and cross-examined the butler.
Always heated the castle with the imaginary presence of bad eggs.
Heiress Angela gave her the list in her hand to give to the butler
Downstairs, one of the bodyguards opened the rear door and bowed. She slid into the green Rolls Royce and it headed to the Ferdinands.
From the mansion of the Ferdinands, a man split the crowd, approaching her. He was bulky like Mr. Ferdinand Handek and a little below Heiress Angela's 1.75 m height.
He was Jojo's uncle." Ohh!" he embraced her."Heiress. So sweet." The same way Magdalene glared at her up and down, he did and said, "Where is Jojo?" taking her up into the mansion.
Jojo's mother and Mary came and pecked her cheeks, and each admired their wife.
"Jojo. When are we hosting your bachelor's eve?" the man, Uncle Albert asked Jojo who came out. His voice was like a command.
"Ask her Uncle." said Jojo.
"I should ask her?" Uncle Albert looked up into his face and swerved to Heiress Angela." What's the problem, Heiress...no, don't smile." he insisted." Let's resolve any issue now."
" Marry Jojo?" Heiress Angela asked herself. "I have seen whom I want." She sealed that issue and laid long in the sofa in Jojo's room
Jojo sat up and went to the wardrobe and returned to her
She was curious about what he wanted to do with her fingers.
Ring? She struggled to free her hand. "No. Jojo." She kept resisting.
Jojo was the CEO of Emerald Hotels and Casinos.
They started being friends from their middle school in New York before both families returned to the country. If sex was involved in their close relation it was not a known.
Jojo's parents had arranged their marriage but her father, Harrison Manuel told them he would prefer they grow up by themselves. Whatever that meant.
She analyzed her situation. Heiress Angela is not a character in a fantasy book with fictional CEOs with arranged marriages. I am a real figure, an only child. My own Billionaire's marriage will not an an arrangement. I had waited to see him, with whom my spirit agrees. No retreat as they say."
She snatched the ring from Jojo and walked like a gazelle to the wardrobe where he took the ring from and put it back into its case. It was a Cullinan diamond.
And so what?
Three days later, she was dazed in a self-celebration, for having seen her choice of a husband, and waving a hand of praise, slipped off from the balcony's rail where she sat.
And she was falling. She was falling…falling…cascading from the castle down the hill in the air.
Scream. Scream.
Oh God!
Michael, mowing at the foot of the hill, saw her in the air, ran ran ran and under her, was his arms and she fell across the arms and her weight brought him down with his knees, hitting the ground.
Strong enough, he raised himself and carried her like a fallen Angel, her golden hair flowed down from her head, her legs were across his forearms, and her hands were loose and hanging down from her shoulders like she was lifeless.
Michael was scared but trudged up to the castle's entrance.
Magdalene saw the scene, ran, and ran.
She nudged Michael with an accusatory look and tried to carry the heiress from him.
An ambulance arrived.
Recovered from panic, she reflected:
He saved my life! Another reason we are fated.
Some minutes later, she played the video of Mary and Claude yachting in the Caribbean.
It was a perfect union anyway. Both are billionaires. Mary met Claude in the UAE. Mary was the twin of Jojo. The belief that twins don't leave each other behind was Jojo's main reason to rush into a marriage with her.
" Heiress Angela. Mine loading. Just a call to action. How to educate the mind that an heiress and her gardener could fall in love"
How about toasting him and making advances? Will this love come to stay?
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