By now, Cassandra had been fully dressed up by the maids and despite the deep hatred she already felt towards them she couldn't she couldn't help but agree that they indeed had done a good job on her. Despite her almost four hundred pounds she still looked very beautiful. Her makeup was light and it fit her perfectly even highlighting her beautiful green eyes. She had been dressed up in a very beautiful red strapless flowing gown, it was classy and she could tell that this had cost a lot. She was also made to wear a high heeled shoe, it was also very beautiful but she just wasn't used to wearing heels as she had always preferred flats, so her step in them was a little funny, luckily they weren't so high. As she was being led downstairs by the maids she wondered what type of psychos would spend so much money on someone they had kidnapped. The bodyguards from earlier were already waiting for them at the foot of the stairs.They all surrounded her while she walked awkwardly in their centre like a scared chicken. They walked down the stairs and the hallway until they got to a room or rather an office as she noticed after they maids had knocked and were granted permission to enter. Her heart was beating so loudly now that she felt that even the maids could hear it.
She was a little surprised as the maids didn't enter, but instead one of the guards who was also the first one from earlier, tilted the door handle, held it open and motioned for her to enter.
But instead of entering Cassandra stood rooted to the floor like her shoes had been glued to the floor. She feared what was to come at the other side of the door. She feared for her life and wondered if it was too a late to escape.
Glancing furtively around, looking for a possible escape route, her eyes landed on an open window down the hallway. If only she could jump through it!She calculated that it wasn't too far, perhaps she could make it to there in the next maybe 5 or 16 or even 20 steps…? Fuck it! She had never been good at maths, perhaps she really should have tried a little harder back then at school…
As she was still contemplating on her next move, she felt a sudden push on her back which made her lose her already shaky balance and the next thing she knew, she fell face down to the other side of the room, her dark brown long wavy hair which was held in a nice bun, fell scattered all over her face. She felt the already quiet place go more silent.
Wincing in pain from the sudden fall she sat up awkwardly and tried using her hands to draw back all the hair scattered all her over her face. After she did that she could see clearly now, she looked up and saw and elderly man sitted behind the glass table in the office, he had a small kind smile on his lips and seemed to partake in her embarrassment. Standing up from his chair , came over to her and gave her his hands in a bid to help her stand up, which she gladly took as she felt she would have fallen down once more ,if she tried to stand up on her own considering her uncomfortable shoes.
Damn the idiot who pushed her over! She was certain that it was one of the maids who did it. Probably that red haired cow named Maureen!
It was only after she was up on her feet that she noticed the other two people in the room, one was a woman who seemed to be in her thirties, she was dressed impeccably in a white and black suit and had on an aura of grace and pride around her. She even looked a little pompous. Judging from her dressing and carriage Cassandra could easily guess she was a lawyer, she didn't even seem bothered about anything at all, like she had everything under control, with her bright red lipstick and not even a strand of hair out of place.Cassandra hated her that instant!
Her eyes drifted slowly to the other person in the room, her green eyes met his jet black ones and she froze, there he sat on the chair like every other human being would ,but still managed to look enthralling and almost god like. Sitted adjacent to the window, with the rays of sunlight focused solely on him, his eyes seemed like they had little glitters in them!
And his black hair even seemed like it was polished! He was dressed just casually in a white polo and ash sweat pants, his lips looking so red, she had never considered herself a pervert but those lips looked so damn kissable, but those same red lips, were drawn into a sneer directed at her!
While she looked at him almost like she was in a trance, he looked at her in an opposite manner , like she was the most disgusting thing he had come across, like she was filth! She felt so heartbroken at that!
" Leo meet your would-be-wife, Cassandra, Cassandra meet your future husband Leonardo"
Cassandra mind was spinning senseless now as she put the piece of the puzzle together; This was Leonard the "sir Leonard " the maids had talked about, who Father wad forcing to get married after a " bad breakup " between him and his " exgirlfriend" who was also the "madam Angelika"
She held her head as the began to feel like it was spinning along with her mind.
" Hey, hey, child are you okay?" The elderly man asked with concern evident in his voice but she couldn't make out what was being said.
How could she have so much bad luck in her life! No wonder he had looked at her with so much contempt..it was because….she was the "useless wife"! She fell limply to the ground with this realization.