Emilia Peyton
The meeting with Liam was a bad idea. She admitted it. Not only was she not able to change his mind, he somehow made her speechless.
Growing up, Emilia never had a boyfriend or even hung out with boys, hell she didn't even hang out with girls although she was loved by people because of her looks. It was part of the reasons she had no friends presently. Since her parents died when she still very young, an early age of 7, she could only focus on trying to survive without being trampled upon.
So yes, she had never been touched by a man, or woman. She didn't know what it felt like to be held by a man, well not until earlier today.
She was barely managing to not loose her sanity in front of Liam Kings. Inside, she was a complete mess. Emilia started craving for things that she never gave so much thought to. When he came close to her she could swear that her breathe seized
And his hands on her waist. Good lord! He knew how to work his hands, she gave him that.
" Oh God." Emilia whispers as she remembers the feeling of his hands on her body.
She wanted it again.
But she wasn't going to agree to getting married to him just because her body liked his. She only had that reaction because she was new to that feeling.
He wouldn't touch her again, she'll see to it that it didn't happen a second time. She didn't trust her body around that man and it was better to be safe than sorry.
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Emilia was on her way back to her uncle's mansion. She had just left Liam's office when she got a call from aunt Claire, informing her that they had returned from Switzerland and her presence was sought after by her uncle Aaron. She didn't want to go there, trouble awaited her. She didn't check out of her hotel room, only taking her clothes with her because she felt that she would be sleeping there tonight.
She finally arrived at the mansion much to her disdain. It was quiet as usual.
" Good afternoon Miss Emilia." Stella, the housekeeper greets. Looks like the helpers were back from their leave. Well it was expected. The owners were back.
" Yes, Stella." She says as she heads for her uncle's room. She wasn't exactly close with the housekeeper. Stella didn't like her, at all. Having worked for her uncle's family for twenty five years, she became just like them. She was a loyal slave to Aunt Claire, always at her beck and call, doing the dirty work for her and of course sharing gossips.
When Emilia was fifteen years old, she and Julia happened to be attending the same high school, those were the worst days of her teenage years. Julia and Emilia were of the same age and so they were in the same class. Julia loved to be the center of attention, she still does. But she knew that Emilia was prettier and curvier so she would regularly do anything to humiliate her in front of the whole school.
One day, Julia threw a party at the house, her parents who were out of the state had no idea. It was just Stella and the other maid's that were home. Emilia didn't have any friends of course, nor did she want any, so she spent the evening in her room, alone. She was woken up the next morning with a boy in her bed and almost immediately the door was burst open by Aunt Claire, who was followed by Julia and Stella. According to Julia, Emilia was out partying and got drunk, then she went into the room to have fun with this boy –who, in Julia's words, was Emilia's boyfriend. She hadn't even seen him before, to think he was her boyfriend already. Emilia tried to explain to Aunt Claire but of course she wasn't going to believe her, even if she was right. She even told her that Julia threw a party, but after Julia bluntly denied it, with Stella defending her. She left in bruises by her uncle, who heard the news from his wife.
She still has no idea who the boy was up till this day.
So yeah, Stella wasn't exactly her favorite person.
She makes her way towards her uncle's room. Voices can be heard from the room indicating that he wasn't alone. Julia's voice was extremely loud, so was Aunt Claire's.
" Another family meeting, I guess."
She gave a faint knock on the door and wait. They don't seem to have noticed because no one says anything, just more shouting. She knocks again but louder this time and the door bursts open to reveal a very angry Julia.
" You ungrateful little bitch." She says as she raises her hand to her but Emilia is quick to hold it in the air.
" Don't even think about it Julia." She says already getting angry. These people could make the happiest person on earth angry in just two seconds.
" Emilia!!" Uncle Aaron calls making Julia and Aunt Claire flinch.
He takes fast strides towards her.
Slap!
It stinged so bad and before she could raise her head, he lands another, and another, and another. She feels the tears at the corner of her eyes but blinks them away.
From the corner of her eyes, she could see Julia and her mother smiling at her present state, obviously pleased with what was going on.
She wanted to shout, scream, stop him or even hit him but She just stands there and allows him to continue with his assault. She needed to bear this if she was going to take everything from them later.
" How dare you steal my daughter's place. I have always known that you where a whore although I could never understand how the media never saw through your façade. " He says on yelling on top of his voice, while she just stood there with her head up, looking him in the eye. She wasn't going to look like a coward in front of them.
" Tell me, how did you manage to convince them to marry you instead of Julia, huh. Answer me you bitch!!" He says as he lands a hard blow on her face. A metallic substance is felt on her lips, blood.
" Speak!!!" He yells.
" I didn't do anything." She says, trying not to cower in fear. She was done being scared. He wouldn't kill her, he couldn't afford to do it, so the only thing he could do was beat her up and she was ready to endure that.
" Liar, you're a liar bitch." Julia says.
" So you mean that the kings just picked you instead of Julia, just like that." Aunt Claire adds.
" You must think we're stupid." She continues. Well, technically they were actually stupid, because if they weren't they would have seen that she didn't want this marriage either.
" I had no idea that they wanted to marry me. I didn't even know that you and Julia had gone over to the kings with a proposal. I knew nothing." She says to her uncle.
No one says anything, so she continue.
" If anything, I should be the angry one, not you people. You were going to trade the company for a marriage Uncle. You almost created a big mess for all of us uncle, something that even I would not have been able to salvage." She says with annoyance.
" If you had given the company to the kings, you would have nothing, except this house and your cars to your name. How then do you expect to continue living the life of luxury that you have been used to. You wouldn't be able to handle the after effects and you know that. You should be grateful that they are even letting us keep the company after you already signed it over." She spits with anger.
They all stared at her with their tongues tied. She was right and they knew it.
" Julia will marry Liam. They are the most powerful family in the country. It won't matter even if we loose our company, we will become one family with them so their wealth will also be our wealth child." Aunt Claire speaks up.
She was so naïve. The kings would never share their company with them. She didn't even understand why her uncle and his family needed the wealth of the kings, they were also rich. If they knew the statistics, they would've have known that the difference in wealth between the two families wasn't that much.
Wait.
This was perfect for her. She could take the company back from her Uncle without having to do anything. Once she gets married to Liam, according to the documents signed by Uncle Aaron, the company will belong the kings. Then her only task would be to get the kings to sign the company over to her. That didn't seem like such a hard thing to do.
She would get married to Liam and achieve her first goal. Once that is done, finding out how the wil miraculously changed will be easier.
She gives a big smile as she looks at the family of her uncle. She looked like she was crazy right now but she didn't care. She didn't have to put up with them any more.
" You know what, I just changed my mind. I will marry Liam Kings. " She says with a laugh.
" What? You wouldn't. You said you were against the marriage Emilia!" Julia says in her pitched sickening voice.
Her uncle and aunt looked like they were going to go crazy any minute.
" I did, but then, Liam isn't so bad. He's good looking and powerful, what isn't there to like." She says with a smirk as she uses her thumb to wipe the blood from her lip.
" You won't marry him. As long as you live under my roof, under my care, I forbid it. Liam will marry Julia. I'll talk to his father tomorrow and change his mind." Uncle Aaron says.
" You're right. So if I don't leave under your roof and care, I can marry him. Right?" She says.
" What do you mean?" He asks.
" Exactly what you think." She says looking at all their faces.
" I'm leaving your house. Or should I say my parents house which you stole." She spits angrily.
The look on their faces was priceless. Their all looked so shocked.
She had never spoken up like this before, so they though she had forgotten about everything.
The house belonged to her parents, but when they died, her uncle and his family claimed ownership of it. She was still a child so they thought she didn't understand anything but in truth, she was well aware of everything that transpired. She was just too little to act up.
" How dare you. We took you in, fed you, clothed you, sent you to school and---." Aunt Claire begins but Emilia cut in.
" All with my parents money. Correct me if I'm wrong." She says with a smirk.
" You were all too lazy to work for your own money, so the best you could do was to covet my parents property and make me a slave who does all the work for you." She continues and Uncle Aaron raises his hand to hit her for the uptenth time but she wasn't going to allow it this time around.
She stops his hand mid air and pushes it down.
" This would be the last time you raise your hand at me Aaron. The next time you try it, you'll be going to jail." She says.
She had proof of his assaults. Whenever he hit her she would always take the video recordings from the CCTV and store it. So she had about fourteen years worth of assault in a flash drive.
Giving them one last look, she leaves the room with only on thing on her mind.
She was going to get married to Liam Kings.