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Caught between two CEOs who all their life have remained rivals, Lauren is faced with the backhanded choice of not falling in love with Ethan or risk being exposed by Richmond. With her revenge in check, she falls hopelessly in love with Ethan making her vulnerable to carry out her assignments but their life is tested more when Diane comes into the picture.
Three years earlier.......
The bright light casted on Ethan's face, causing him to wake up turning to see the woman beside him. It then dawned on him that this is not the woman arranged for him,he sprang up,
" What the heavens sake are you doing here?? Who are you?? She lazily opened her eyes, trying to figure out where she was,
At the club, they had hooked up afterwards why was he acting all out now ,
the memory flashed,
"Harder sir....sir" the eyebrows arched as she looked under the duvet only to see they were both naked,
"What the fuck! What did you do to me?!! You pervert ". She yelled, this was not what she planned for, as a stripper her services were just to keep him relaxed and not to have sex with him,
"I should be the one asking you what the hell are you doing here! Who are you?" He yelled
"Don't you remember anything from last night, brought me here last night?! And the agreement clearly stated no intimacy which I doubt you couldn't read through because you were terribly drunk last night and you equally made me go drunk so you could have your way!!! What was I even thinking Coming here, you still had the nerve to talk back at me!!! You're stupid!!!" She panted heavily angrily, staring at him,
"How low can you go?? You think I'll marry you then you're dreaming,an ugly thing like you have no rights to be my woman nor my girl and am telling you now to get the hell out of here!!",
Struck by his words tears ran down her eyes as she began shivering,
"Get the hell out and I don't want to see your face again anywhere near me or my office". He stomped outside sitting on the bed she wept so this was how she lost her innocence to the devil himself, it took her time to recover as she washed up after herself ,got dressed , stared at the her torn panties, she sighs sadly putting it inside her bag and left the hotel without even getting to who's this devil is ? His identity nor the name he bears.
Her cellphone rang, she picked up the unknown number,
" Hello," She said quietly.
"Hello Lauren it's me Elsa, how did it go? She asked, hearing her voice again,she tears up crying over the phone
"Why crying girlfriend? Did something happen??" She asked but got no answer from Lauren who just kept crying till the line was cut off. Worried something might happen, she boarded a taxi home, throwing her things on the floor. She sat down on the couch sadly, then buried her face in tears.
Reaching the home, to see Lauren seated on the couch with her head over her knees she tapped her,
"Amelia". She called lifting up her head to see Elsa. Elsa could see the dark circles beneath her eyes which were puffy and red, she had been crying,
" Come here". She pulled her into a hug patting her hair till she got herself
"So tell me what happened?" She asked, Lauren threw her a look then sniffed looked at her and pulled out the bundle of money out of her small bag handing over to her,
"He gave you all these? Just for the night?? How generous." Lauren scoffed then turned to her friend whose attention had been stolen by the money.
"I'm sorry, so why the tears? She folded the money giving it back to her,
" Because I'm so stupid, Elsa". She said as a tear dropped wiping it away Elsa asked
"Why do you think you are stupid??" She asked still as confused as ever,
" We slept together". She dropped the bombshell , Elsa gasped in surprise
" You did what!! Lia you should have been careful". Seeing her friend all bursted into tears, she had to comfort her, she immediately hugged her
" I didn't know how and what happened afterwards, we woke up this morning shocked and mad at each other, even he too couldn't remember a thing, he was drugged as much as I was drugged". She cried,
" Hush now, don't cry anymore, anyways where is he? Does he know about it ?
" He doesn't know it's fake, he thinks I was the one who drugged him just to sign the paper and have sex with him afterwards, he said horrible things to me and it hurts and also a victim here? She wept.
Elsa couldn't help it but curse,
"The son of a bitch, he should be grateful I didn't meet with him, he would be sorry what I would do to him, stop crying ok?? What's done is done, let's not cry over a spilled milk, come let's go to my room, I'll prepare hot calming tea for you in a minute, ok?" Lauren was grateful for the presence of Elsa in her life.
They met when she had just newly joined club Feliz, as a stripper last year, she was just 19, although challenging for her but Elsa had always been there.
Lauren Earhart, that was her name, and although everyone's life seemed prefect, hers was far from being prefect, she was sold off to the club as a collateral for the debt by her abusive Father, he owned the owner she had never met before, seeing her life take a huge turn was very drastic and to be working at the club was traumatizing already, she was still young but life had chosen to spill all the bad luck on her, she sniffed as she walked into the room to have a hot bath, the event from last night were breaking he nerves.
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