Anna's POV
Our honeymoon was starting the following day, but our first night together as a married couple was at a luxurious hotel.
I have been in the worst mood ever since my encounter with Selina.
"Are you alright?" Nicholas asked, when the car stopped at the front of the hotel, and he was standing holding the car door for me but I was too lost in thought to notice.
I was also a little bit nervous, we have slept in the same room in the past but now we are married.
"Yeah, I'm fine" I replied smiling nervously at him and climb out of the car.
He nodded but frowned slightly at me.
"Do you not like this hotel?" He asked worriedly.
"What is there not to like? We aren't a real couple after all" I replied, trying to reassure myself that everything is just one big lie.
Nicholas frowned deepened but he did not utter another word.
We had just walked into the hotel's lobby when a feminine voice called his name.
Both of us glance to the direction of the voice.
A young woman in a black knee length gown and stilettos walked towards us.
Who is she?,
I thought after seeing a change Nicholas's expression.
"You didn't even tell me you were getting married?" She asked in a soft accusatory tone as she got close to us.
I watched them and realized something else was going on between them.
Subconsciously, my palms fold up in a fist, I cleared my throat and smiled to get their attention and smile sweetly at Nicholas before speaking.
"Can we go inside?, I can barely feel my feet in these heels" I whined, and Nicholas frown slightly at me.
"Let's go in,
I will give you a call later", Nicholas said to the lady and we continued inside.
In our suite, I ignored Nicholas's questioning gaze and went into the bathroom to change my clothes.
He was waiting for me when i came out of the bathroom.
But I was too nervous to hold his gaze for a minute.
"Can you come here for a minute?" He asked and I silently obliged.
"Did something happen between you and Mum?" He asked.
My eyes snapped up at him in surprise.
"Something like what?" I asked, trying to see if he had little inkling of what was going on.
"I don't know, you are the one that can tell me that. You have been acting strange ever since she took away after the wedding" he said, folding his arms across his chest.
"There is nothing you can do even if something is wrong, your mother rules your family. I replied, almost telling him the truth about what Happened but that will make things worst as he would argue with her if I do so.
"I know Mum is almost impossible to get along with but I'm sorry if she has done anything to you" he said softly.
"Not really" I replied.
He nodded thoughtfully.
"I am going to bed" I said gesturing towards the bed but he did not say anything.
He keeps staring at me, making me feel naked.
I turn around to walk to the bed but he pull back into his arms.
"Let me hold you for a while" he softly pleaded and I relax a little bit in his arms.
"Are you alright?" I asked because I could shake the feeling that something was wrong with him.
"Yeah" he whispered.
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Nicholas's POV
I left the bedroom after she had gone to bed.
I had gotten the crazy idea to hire her as my girlfriend because I wanted to give grandfather a reassurance that I had moved on from the issue that happened between me and my brother.
But seeing Mia tonight brought back the pain as never before.
I'm still yet to forget what happened that night
"I must be this pathetic".
It was almost midnight when my phone began to ring.
I had drank almost all the content of the wine bottle that was brought in earlier and now I was finding it difficult to read the name on the screen of my ringing phone.
"Hope I'm not disrupting anything?" A feminine voice asked over the phone as soon as I picked.
"No, you are not Mia".
Immediately recognising her voice, I had promised to call her but I had forgotten to do so.
We continued to talk for a while until she invited me for a drink.
I turned down the invite but insisted that she wants to congratulate me properly.
I accepted and left my suite, I guess I am too drunk to think properly.
In the hotel lobby, Mia was waiting for me with a glass of wine which I accepted without much thought. We talked aimlessly for a while until I was starting to feel lightheaded.
"Are you alright?" Mia asked as I put my head on the table between us from the effect of the alcohol.
"I'm alright, I have drank too much I guess" I replied, but my words sound strange to my ears.
"Let me help you back to your room", She offered and come over to my side.
"You don't have bother" I replied but she insisted and we wobbled all the way to the room.
I slumped on the bed, before I faintly noticed the difference in the room.
"This is not my room" I forced out as my consciousness slowly slipped away.
I woke up the following day with a headache.
The cold air hit my torso and I immediately realized I was naked.
What the hell?
"Good morning?" Mia walked out of the bathroom in a robe and smile at me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked in shock.
"Here?
This is my room, you were too drunk to make it back to your room so I brought you here" she replied.
"What?!.
"Your clothes are over there" she said pointing to the chair close to the wall.
I spent the night here?
I thought and wore my clothes in a hurry.
"I helped you take them off because it will be uncomfortable for you to sleep in them" Mia said again.
"Enough!" I yelled and she gasped in shock.
I return to the suite where I had left Anna and she was sitting waiting when I returned.
"Good morning, I went out for a walk," I informed her even if she had not asked.
"I know all of this isn't real,
we are both getting something out of this marriage and while that is happening I think it will be nice if we respect each other and don't lie to each other.
You were out all night Nicholas", she countered in a calm voice.
"I was -
"No, I don't want to hear it.
It's your decision whatever you do but telling before hand would be good so that I don't worry myself" She yelled at me.
"Don't raise your voice at me Anna, I was out all night and that's it" I snapped at her.
I left her there and went into the bathroom, I tried to recall what happened last night but my memory is completely blank.
I came out of the bathroom and noticed Anna wasn't anywhere in the suite.
I became more alarmed when I noticed her stuffs are gone.
"Shit!"