The next morning, Adeline woke up as her sleep was interrupted by the sun rays falling over her eyes.
At first, she didn't get it. She pulled up the blanket on her face and changed her side so that her back could face the window but something hurt her in the forehead that made her whine softly.
As she opened her eyes a little, she even realized that her window is on the right and not the left.
Finally, her eyes opened wide when she saw a shirtless figure resting on his forearm beside her on the bed, he was just staring at her as if he found something precious to him.
"What the!" Adeline grumbled sitting in her place but the sudden headache made her fall back on the back but Augustus caught her in his arms.
"I got you," he said teasingly.
Adeline tried to get away from him but he sat in his place instead, and pulled Adeline towards him, making her sit on his lap.
"Where do you think you are going, love" he tightened his grip around her waist.
Adeline's face flushed red. He was too strong to defeat but unexpectedly something inside her made her weak on his muscular body.
She could feel her skin touch his, and the erotic sensation was speechless. Her clothes were changed and now she was in a baby pink thin nightgown which made her back sense every feature of muscle on his chest as she tried to escape from him.
"Easy baby girl, you ain't too strong right now. I prefer you go back and rest until you are healed completely," he whispered in her ears.
Every time he speaks, he sounds more sweetly melodious than any song Adeline has ever heard.
And right now, he was dangerously closed to her ears that gave her goosebumps when he rested his chin on her bare shoulder which was covered with just a strip of her gown and bra.
"What the hell am I doing here and who changed my clothes?" she growled.
Augustus inhaled deeply rubbing his rose softly against the skin of Adeline's neck as he continued in his low and deep addictive voice, "I saved you last night and the nurse changed your clothes."
Adeline remembered last night, how can she forget that? Due to the highest speed that she was driving, she risked the life of two elks including hers.
But then she also remembered why was she furiously driving the car in the dark, Augustus's offer to her.
And now, she is sitting shamelessly in his lap which triggered her more.
"Just let me go!" she blustered. She can not just pretend that deep inside she was frightened to give herself to him for his contract.
But Augustus, he is as insistent as her. If she insists to go away from him, he wants her more closer to him.
"Baby girl, you are injured. Stop moving or you will be hurt more"
"But why do you care?" Adeline looked behind at him with her sharp glare. "I ain't going to sign any contract, just let me go!"
As she wished, Augustus let her go the time she put all her strength to get away from him. But she ended up getting her already injured arm hit against the headboard making her whine louder.
"See, I said you stop moving or you will be hurt" he scoffed. "Now just lay here quietly and tell me what will you like in breakfast "
"You, and your breakfast, go to hell," she said and started to search for her mobile phone that was kept on the table behind Augustus. "Give me my phone "
"But I'm in hell" he smirked.
"Stop this and give me my mobile phone"
"You got all the energy. Crawl yourself and take it," he shrugged before laying beside her on the bed and becoming an obstacle between Adeline and her mobile.
"You are the unbelievably horrible human I have ever met" she sent him death glares. "No one can be as pathetic as you."
Augustus chuckled and didn't care to answer back while Adeline was waiting for him to give her the phone.
If her arm and both the knees were not injured, she would have got it herself. But she has no other choice than to depend on Augustus right now, Adeline only stared at him and hoped for a help.
"Your eyes," Augustus sneered. He sighed and glared at her before he continued. "Your eyes are the most awful thing I've ever seen in my life. Stop looking at me, NOW!" he made Adeline flinch.
Augustus took Adeline's phone in his hand before placing it abruptly in her hands.
Adeline didn't care, she has nothing to do with what he feels about her. If she looks pathetic to him then let her be the same way, she has other business to take care of rather than asking him why he said that.
Ignoring what he said she rolled her eyes over him and started to check her call log and messages.
"Ellen would have been worried about me for not coming home," she thought as she scrolled through tons of notifications after turning on the internet.
But she was wrong, as expected there weren't many missed calls or texts from Ellen except one text.
"Call me once you wake up" was the text.
Adeline was confused, "why isn't she worried about where am I? doesn't she know that I didn't cane back?"
Adeline mumbled. She quickly made a call to Ellen.
"Finally," Ellen spoke from the other side.
"What finally? Do you even know I didn't come back home? why aren't you worried?" Adeline started fiercely?
Meanwhile, Augustus laughed over Adeline being so loud and stupid in the morning. She is unaware of many things but Adeline shot him a death glare before listening to what Ellen was saying.
"Adeline, I know where you are and I know who helped you. It is better if you stay at his place right now, Mr Yang and I are coming there in a few hours to talk."
"What?"
"If it wasn't Mr Dumas then I'm afraid what would have happened to you. Ok bye, we are taking care of the news right now," Ellen kept the call with that while leaving Adeline in bizarre.
"Wait-" she sighed, it already disconnected.
"Did she tell you about the news?" Augustus questioned her. "Or, you should check it yourself"
Adeline doesn't know about which new news was he talking about and what Ellen said to her about the news.
Adeline quickly searched for the National news channel before watching it to see some recent news about her than yesterday.
"Adeline Elsher was falsely accused of something she never do?"
"Augustus Dumas, heir of Dumas group has reported complaint against the people spreading fake rumours about his girlfriend, Adeline Elsher"
"He confirmed their dating for the past two years and everything between Jack and Adeline was a made up fake story through Adeline's haters"
"Augustus Dumas and Adeline Elsher were reported yesterday to be at his farmhouse"
"Unseen pictures of Augustus Dumas and Adeline Elsher together at Yang Management, Augustus's farmhouse and parking lot of his apartment"
"It is said that Adeline spends every weekend at Augustus's penthouse and if it is true, she will be there today too"
"People are standing out of Yang Entertainment and Dumas Tower with the banners in their hands to apologise for their harsh behaviour"
"What the hell is this" Adeline's jaw dropped as the headlines were only filled with her and Augustus's names together. "Can I know what have you done?"
"Helped you, no need to thanks," he said.
"Tell me!" she shouted.
Augustus gazed at her with his sharp eyes before he stated, "better keep your voice low before me"
"Oh my God, I don't care" she added with a chuckle.
Just then she got on his nerves, Augustus doesn't like people who back answer him in such a teasing way.
He didn't care if Adeline is hurt anywhere, he carelessly pulled her beneath him and hovered over her. It was too quick for Adeline to know what just happened.
"Do you even know from what I have got you out?" he pinned her hands above her head. "You are nothing -"
"Get away from me- ahh!" As Adeline was trying to speak in between, Augustus tightened his grip around her wrist and made her whine in pain.
"What the fuck do you think you are? If I didn't tell the media about the lie of us dating, you might have been found dead in your apartment by next week due to the stress of losing everything and the debt you have to pay"
"I have no debt to pay" Adeline asserted.
"Ellen didn't tell you? All the companies that suffered the loss in a day because of you were asking for the money from Yang, and you helped your entire company to go bankrupt in two days," he said. "just because I announced about us, they all want to work with you again but I rejected the offers from every one of them with some blank cheques."
"Which means, you have some debts to pay me now"
Adeline scoffed, she couldn't believe what has just happened in her life within a day.
And on the other hand, she got to pay debts unexpectedly and she is unknown about the amount of money.
"Are you freaking out of your mind?" Adeline grunted. "You gave away blank cheques?"
"Of course, I did." He smiled leaning a little closer to her. "And you will pay me the exact amount they have taken. Interest will be 5% per month if you fail to pay me."
Adeline went speechless. She opened her mouth to speak something but close it later and repeated it, she was dumbstruck by the situation he has put her into.
Adeline was really never ready for this. She was expecting things around her way too easy that she forgot to think about things that could make her life goes upside down.
This isn't even her fault, her life was always easy on her after she left her house and moved to an unknown big city.
She got whatever she wanted through a little struggle and some hard work. The biggest challenge in her life was only making her parents accept her back into their family and it will always be until they finally accept her.
But now, Augustus Dumas has stormed into her life and she is sure she will be ruined when he leaves.
But, thinking of the bright day after the storm leaves, Adeline thinks if it will be worth it or not? If she signs, will she get back to her parents?
Meanwhile, Augustus thought of some other way to convince Adeline to sign the contract. Making her fall in love with him with his soft and smooth moves. He thinks assertive girls like her are the ones who actually crave for a man's touch.
He leaned closer to her neck, he knows the weakest points of a girl. And what makes the girls go weak is the soft spot right below her ear. Also, when he comes close to her, Adeline's skin is always covered with goosebumps that he finds funny but striking.
"Hey what are you doing?" Adeline tried to move under his strong body to escape but it is useless.
He smirked once he reached to her ears, "I can hear your heartbeats when I come close to you. And trust me, you sound good than what I have heard ever before." He whispered before leaving a soft kiss on her soft spot pretending it to be an accidental collide between his lips and her skin.
"What pathetic man are you?" she gasped at his touch that almost aroused 440 volts of electric current passing her body. "Get away from me" earning a chance, Adeline finally succeeded in pushing him away after many tries.
But, she hurt her knee instead that had some internal injury she got last evening. She whined in pain while Augustus laughed at her. She was nothing more than a time burner for him at the moment.
While she was cursing herself for getting into this situation on her own, Augustus's attention was dragged by a phone call from his father.
The laugh on his face disappeared with a stressed look. He got himself put from the bed, leaving the whining girl behind on the bed. He doesn't care.
Augustus walked out of his bedroom and close the door behind his back before he answered the second call from his father when he didn't pick up the first.
"What is this Augustus? What is going on?" His father lashed out from the other side of the call while Augustus stood rest assured as if he knew his father was going to ask this.
"Will you like to give me some explanation about this?" his father asked.
"Father, let's meet tonight-"
"I want to see her now!" his father cut off him in the midsentence. "I know she is at your penthouse, I will be there for lunch, both of you be ready for the explanation "
Augustus didn't expect this, not that his father won't listen to him and the first thing he wants to do will be to see Adeline himself. His plans were different until his father blast off a bomb of seeing her in a few hours.
He rushed inside his bedroom quickly. Where he has to look after other works, he was looking after a lovely family meeting with his fake girlfriend who is ready on her one leg to disprove his proposal.
But he can't just let her do what she wants. If he wants her to get into the contract, he has to do something about it.
Adeline was sitting upset with her injuries when Augustus quickly stepped towards her and got over the bed to kneel before her and grabbed her arms abruptly. "Sign the papers if you don't want to lose your career forever or pay the debts" he made her gasp with his sudden and fierce actions.
"What?" she frowned.
"Sign it!" he said at the top of his lungs.