I always thought that waking up as the wife of Victor Lenois was the greatest blessing a woman could ever dream of.
Victor Lenois was one of the richest men in the world, despite his age he was able to secure himself a place within the Top ten of his category with a wealth of billion dollars. He was a handsome blonde of about 6ft tall and could have every women he wanted bevause every woman was more than willing to be at his feeth.
I should have been happy to be the one he sweared to spend the rest of his life with, i should be happy to be the one he said 'I love you' to, i should be happy to share the same bed with him every night but now that I am in this position I wondered what made me think I'd be happy in the first place.
I literally do not want to wake up some days, my everyday life with him is full of stress and negative emotions and this has been the case for the past six years. Six years of being sad and wondering if commiting suicide will not be the best decision for myself.
“What do you think of this article?” My best friend Emma asked me while holding an exquisite black leather hand bag in front of me, it was simple with minimal designs and it’s zip was made up of gold. Definitely my kind of bag, she knew me well, not surprising when we have been friends since forever.
“Beautiful” I blurted out, feeling bad because my attention wasn’t completely on my friend, main while I promised to spend this day with her. I was overthinking and depressing again. And it has been going on for weeks now so Emma asked me to go shopping with her, she thought that it will make me forget about Victor and all the sorrowful moments he made me go through even if it was for some couple hours but I was sad to admit that it wasn't working. I couldn't wrap my head around something else and I couldn't even find a piece of article for myself, just following her with my eyes fixed no where in particular. Nothing looked nice because I wasn't really looking at anything. It made me feel bad because I always enjoyed coming to this shop. We were actually at ZIRA which was a grand luxury shop who always sold exquisite items. Despite the prices being high it was worth it.
“Oh my God! could you stop thinking for a second!? You look like your soul isn't here” Emma yelled dropping the bag furiously and glaring at me “I know it is not easy but you have to start ignoring his words and actions and live your life in peace. I don’t want to lose my best friend because of some asshole okay!?” She yelled again, making me laugh as I covered my ears. She was right I have to start ignoring him but it was easier said than done. And the fact that I loved him makes it harder. I can't help think about our happy moments before the wedding, about the man he was, who was completely different from who he is now. I wish we could go back in time and i will see that Vivtor ones more.
“I will try, I promise” I told her while taking her hands in mine and looking up at her, because she was around a fout taller than me. “I won’t leave you, I promise” I almost felt myself tearing up but I knew better than to cry in front of this girl, she will probably smack me or something.
This was Emma for you a very overprotective and extroverted girl she has always been there for me, since elementary school we have been inseparable. I am lucky to be one of those people who have been able to maintain a relationship with someone this long, because as I know it is not that common, and the fact that it is with her of all person’s makes me happy. She is the sweetest soul, and I do not wish for another best friend. Our relationship is so strong that we literally started considering each other as sisters.
“Don’t you dare cry! I swear to God I am going to smac-
“I won’t” I said cutting her off. I smiled and let go of her hands, I guess I just wanted to touch her because touching was my love language, surprisingly, but she was the only one I touched because she was the only one I sincerely loved.
“Well okay. Now let me buy you that bag and we can go grab a coffee” Emma was the heir of the Young family, well they were only two, her mother and her. And her mom, Madame Young had opened the most expensive and luxurious Hairdressing salon in the city thirty years ago, she was a millionaire so Emma was pretty much born rich. Main while I only became rich by marrying Victor Lenois.
“You don’t have to do that, it’s okay” I said after seeing that the price of the bag was around forty thousand dollars. Despite having become rich six years ago I would never be able to comprehend how these prices are being given, and why someone will buy a bag this small at such a high price. Main while you could surely find the same type at a cheaper price somewhere else. But well I would definitely buy it here now that I have the means.
“I insist, I brought you here for shopping, it will be a shame to leave this place empty handed considering our reputations and it will maybe ruine the image of the shop just imagine an article saying
“You already bought something for yourself?” I asked her, she was not really known publicly but she was a rich woman with a celebrity mom so I wasn’t the only one who ‘must’ get an item.
“Yeah, I saw their new collection of heels and there is a particular green one who caught my eye so I will get it” She said excitedly. So she bought the two items, they got wrapped and placed inside shopping bags before being handed to us, so we left the shop and as expected they were around a dozen of persons in front of the shop more than half of them were paparazzis. We swiftly got at the back seats of her Lamborghini and the chauffeur drove away. Thank god they weren't alot of paparazzis, i hate walking around with bodyguards but they are sometimes that i regreted why i didn't come with them because it will be difficult to escape this paparazzi.
“I have to go to work now” I said smiling, I had opened my enterprise eight months ago, it was a cosmetic enterprise called LARA Beauty I named it after myself because Zira told me that that was the easiest thing to do if you wanted a name for your enterprise.
“You know you are your own boss right?. You can do whatever you want. Like not going to work everyday” Emma told me because she clearly wanted us to spend more time together, well I did promise to spend this day with her. But working will help me forget Victor better, I needed to spend time alone.
“I know i can do that but I got used to working everyday and you know why” Well I didn’t want to stay home like a furniture and do nothing of my life while years passed. I asked Victor the permission to open an enterprise four years ago but he refused, every year I kept asking him the same thing but he still say no, until about a year when I started putting him more pressure thanks to Emma’s encouragement and he finally accepted.
“Yeah I know, well I will just go watch The Carnival alone then” She said poutting
“What is that?” I had to ask despite wanting to laugh at her attempt of a pitifull expression
“That new Horror Film, The Carnival, Apparently it is so cool well james told me it was so cool, it won't surprise me if you have never heard of that though” She said excitedly and I really wanted to accept her offer but at the same time I wanted to work.
“Aren't you already twenty five?, you ain’t a kid no more”
“What!? I am only enjoying my life girl and you should do the same, there is no shame in watching movies once in a while” She said rolling her eyes and I laughed so hard I almost choked on my saliva then she started laughing too. And despite almost dying from my own saliva I wanted this moment to last forever, I love her so much she was really the only person that made me want to still wake up everyday.
I was the only child of Rose Hunter and Jonathan Hunter. My mom was a designer but her designs weren’t giving her any income nor recognitions while my dad was a lawyer who wasn’t given that much cases because he wasn't popular enough some of his coworkers usually called him incompetent and mocked him because he had apparently never won a case. His only popularity came for being incompetent. We were pretty much poor, and I got physically and emotionally abused a lot by them while growing up but thank God I had Emma in my life my only safe place until Victor came in when I was 18, he was 21.
I knew him just like everyone else he was the son of a world wide actor and a model, his family the Lenois were extremely rich people and had always been rivals to the Heils. But the fact that he suddenly appeared in my life was a surprise but at the same time it made me feel good in many ways. I started appearing on the Internet as Victor’s girlfriend, anyways I didn’t have the choice but to accept being his girlfriend and thanks to him my family also started being known and my mother began gaining money from her work while my dad started getting more and more cases just because of the media. Everything was like a fantasy I fell in love with him, he was my very first love and he seemed to love me too so the next year we got married.
I was happy, very happy my life was like a fairy tail until the wedding buffet many celebrities came, congratulating us, my parents acted like I was the best thing that ever happened to them and for the very first time they were proud of me but what really scared me and made me think that it wasn’t actually a good decision was when Victor’s rival Xander Heil came to us that day. To this day he is the most gorgeous man I had ever laid my eyes on, his face is literally unforgettable. I will always remember his intimidating height and piercing gaze as he looked at us and congratulated us while stating that he couldn't attend the wedding ceremony because he had work to do. Then surprisingly he looked at me for some split seconds with an intensity that almost made me weak in the knees, I could have sworn his eyes darken during does seconds. But it could have been an illusion, because I was the only one who seemed to have noticed then he left. At that instant Victor’s hold on my hand tightened I looked at him, and he looked furious, his teeth clenching and his brows furrowed he looked like a volcano who was about to erupt and it was scary. He didn't let go of my hand it iwas like he wanted to break it. It was hurting and I told him but he didn't let go until someone came towards us did he finally let go of it. He left without apologizing or even sparring me a glance, I did not expect this kind of treatment, being abused and ignored on my wedding day by my husband hurted me so much I decided to leave and even the next day he didn't pay attention to me nor did he talk about it even after seeing the bandage on my hand, everything just got worse and worse. I was mistreated, insulted, and abused. He would slap me if I talked back to him and have sex with me without my consent, and even if I consented to it, it will be brutal and painful. Sometimes he would cum and just leave me hanging, no kissing and no unnecessary touching. I felt used every single time and that wasn't even the worse until he started bringing other women home despite my presence and will make out or have sex with them on our bed but I couldn't do anything about it.
I obviously told my parents but they didn't give a shit they will remind me that I have always been useless and now I am useless even to keep a husband and call me other hurtful names, all they wanted was the money and fame and if I divorced Victor they will lose it so they warned to disown me if I dared do that. All I could do was suck it up and endure the pain. If not Emma I would not have been here no more she was my everything and she was right when she said that I should start enjoying myself because I definitely wasn’t. I don’t remember the last time I went to a cinema or to a spa all I did was stay home and go to work or events related, sometimes go shopping too apart from that life was pretty boring to me.
Emma dropped me at my Enterprise it wasn't that big. It was a five story company and I loved it. Especially the pink and white accents inside. When I entered everybody bowed down at me while greeting and I made the effort to greet everyone while walking my way to the elevator to go to the fifth floor, where my office was located. LARA Beauty was a cosmetic brand which main product is its body milk which can be used by everyone no matter the skin color. I really wanted a product which could be suitable for every race because many women or men will buy body milks depending on their skin but if we could stop searching for something depending on our skin tone and we could all use the same product it will be easier for everyone I thought that is how LARA Beauty and it’s products came to life and I was happy about Myself. I thought the idea was pretty cool. My brand was already widely known and bought but to increase the sell’s I decided to Email other companies today so that we could collaborate.
I was now sat in my all white office, at the back of the room, behind my desk was a large book shelf with my favorite books, and infront was a couch looking at the TV on the wall for when I relaxed. I also had a counter at the back on my left and my espresso maker attached to it, there wasn't much in here, just minimal things I liked.
I contacted around 10 luxurious new brands just like myself but the most prestigious and popular out of all of them was called SunX which is a sunglasses enterprise. They accepted my offer only a minute after I wrote a long ass paragraph to them explaining how I wanted us to work together and how it could benefit both. The only thing they wrote was “With Pleasure” and that made me smile.
The others haven't even read yet of course i send a group message literally less than two minutes ago. I wonder if SunX even had the time to read through it but whatever I was glad the most popular brand out of all of them accepted so quickly. I thought it was also because of my influence. Well amongst the new brands I had the third most successful one.
I wrote again ‘Thank you so much’ then in a separate text
‘When will you like us to meet and talk about it?’ I send and seconds later
SunX: ‘Whenever it pleases you’ the person behind it replied making me flustered for some reasons he or she was a gentleman or gentlewoman, I thought giggling.
Then I replied ‘Tomorrow Afternoon if it pleases you’ I teased, I don’t know why I did that but I did and it made me smile, after about three minutes of waiting I was getting annoyed and sad did they found me too childish? Did they not want to collaborate anymore. I was starting to overthink and about to move away from my laptop when it ringed signaling I just received an Email I looked up to see
SunX: ‘What time?’. And i thought, the only activity I had yesterday was going to the spa in the morning with Emma. Yeah I decided to have fun, I guess the spa was fun. But after that I am sure she will want us to go eat somewhere else and do some shopping too so I replied ‘5 PM' hoping it wasn't too late but the person immediately replied with
‘Ok’. I did not really like the short responses but I was happy to have at least gotten something. My very first collaboration with a prestigious brand like that made me so excited.
The day ended with me securing 2 other collaborations so I went back home happy about myself. But my smile vanished when I stepped into the foyer and saw Victor sitting on a couch with a glass of wine in hand while looking at the fire burning from the fire place. That is when I realized that working indeed made me forget about him but seeing him now is like bringing me down to a short beautiful dream to hell.
“Good Afternoon” I greeted but he didn't answer and instead finished up his glass of wine in one go and placed it on the glass table infront of him before standing up as I was about to leave. He walked towards me his gaze on me, looking down at me like I was the worse thing that ever happened in his life. I guess I was.
“It has been a long time since we have done it hasn't it?” He asked standing some few centimeters away from me. I looked up at him with a frown and a bewildered expression. How could he expect us to still have sexual intercourse after the way he has been treating me. And the other of wine emanating through him was unbearable I wanted to gag.
“What am I to you? An accessory? A cumdump? What is wrong with you?” I asked with a frown. I couldn't comprehend why he was acting like this with me. Why was he so cruel? He could just divorce me if he didn't love me but no. He likes seeing me in pain. he couldn't even have the decency to reply to my greetings but was willing to have sex!?.
“Well, to me you are just that. Exactly what you said the only problem is you are not the kind of accessories I like on me so I will just use you as a ‘cumdump’ which is the only thing you seem to be good at” I was frustrated and hurt but I didn't show it, I tried to keep my cool and decided to walk away but he held my hand and gripped it strongly making me feel pain.
“Let go of me right now! I am not letting you touch me again” I tried to remove my hand from his rough grip but my efforts were useless, I felt like my hand was going to break it will definitely leave bruises. I started hitting his chest with my other hand while yelling at him to let go but he caught it and threw me on the sofa he was sat on. Tears fell down my eyes as I looked up at him, seeing him unbuckle his belt and climb on the sofa, on top of me.
“I will do whatever I want with you whether you like it or not. You are ‘my’ article and you shall always be that” he said smilling like the maniac he was. I knew that even if I wanted to fight it will be useless he will just hurt me more so I just let him use me to his heart content while I cried and begged for mercy. He went in dry not caring if it hurted me or not and when he was done he came on my face while I didn't cum, like I even wanted to. He arranged back his clothes and went upstairs to bed while I cried on that sofa for a good hour before deciding to go up to the spair room at this point it was already my room I couldn't sleep in the same bed with him anymore.
I pitied every woman who wanted to be at my place they don't know what kind of man he is and what I go through every day, if they knew they will never want to be here. The next day I woke up with my body hurting and my hand blue from his hold, it hurted so much that I wanted to cry but my eyes were red and big enough I didn't want Emma to shout at me. Well! Now that I think, I have to go to the spa with Emma today, she can't see me like this. I always tried to cover all the bruises Victor inflected on me so that Emma doesn't see them and loose her mind but if we go to the spa she would definitely see the ‘Hate’ bites on my neck; this wasn't no Love bites. And the bruises on my hand. I had to make up an excuse as fast as possible it was already 10 am and we told each other to meet at her favorite spa at 11 am.
‘Hi Emma, Victor asked me to go to an event with him in 30 minutes I won't be able to go with you today’ I texted before going to the bathroom and looking at my reflection, I almost cried because of how miserable I looked my eyes were so red, my cheeks flushed and neck bruised. And the worse was the black patches under my eyes like I did 10 years without any sleep. My long brown hair was a mess so I combed it while fighting the will to cry. Victor had destroyed me in every way possible even using my right hand is now a struggle because of the pain.
After being done with my bath I went back to my room and saw a text from Emma saying ‘Oh baby, you will spend the day with that devil!? Be strong if you need anything I am here’ With a sad emoji at the end, I smiled at this and got ready to work, I decided to skip breakfast because they were just days when I felt like not eating anything especially the days after my wedding.
I bandage my hand and wore a white chemise with an office skirt, I also didn't style my hair today because I wanted it to help me cover the bites on my neck and I decided not to apply any makeup today but I did my skincare though. And left the house. I didn't say a word to him as we passed by each other, he called for me but I didn't answer and went straight to my black mercedes, I know not answering will cause me problems but I didn't give a shit and asked my chauffer to start the car and we left.
When we arrived in my office I was thinking of a way to link SunX which is a Sunglasses company with my own company and I noted all my ideas. And my team and I chosed the best idea out of all of them then we wrote some detail paragraphs of the storyline and a way to make SunX accept it. At 4pm I was already in the car for SunX company but there was a lot of traffic. My assistant Reia was sat next to me and showed me the director of SunX through her tablet, it was a 38 year old man, he looked older than his age and lacked hair on the middle of his head but whatever so he was the one I had to talk with I guess.
We arrived in front of a 50 story building, it was enormous with a lot of cars packed inside I was suddenly nervous, how can a Sunglasses company be this big?. I decided to enter with my assistant next to me and I honestly felt small I didn't know where to go nor what to do. There were a lot of people entering and going and I was so nervous that I could feel my breathing shorten
“Do you need coffee Madame?” Reia politely asked looking at me and I wondered where she would take that coffee right now until she pointed towards a coffee shop at a corner of the floor. I was impressed by its size, the owner must be hella rich. I nodded and we went there so i ordered a hot Americano with no sugar, but Reia didn't want anything so we left and went to the concierge
“Hello Madame I am Lara Lenois, I have a meeting with the Director for a collaboration”
“Oh yes! My name is Andrea nice to meet you Madame Lenois. You just have to go to the 25th floor that is where SunX is” She replied with a smile sounding excited to talk with me like she was a fan. I nodded and we started moving towards the elevator that is when I notices the little glances people gave me but they all seem respectful non of them approached like they were mad and started yelling for a picture. So my nervousness got down in an instant, SunX was at the 25th that means they were other companies here right? Or am i wrong, what is even this place?. Anyways that is interesting.
It took a long time but we finally reached the 25ft floor and I hastily walked passed the entrance but bumped on a wall. It was strange because it felt like it was clothed until realization reached me and I looked up to find non other than Xander Heil in front of me. His neatly combed back black hair with a piece of hair falling on his face, his piercing dark blue eyes, well defined jaw line, long straight nose and pink lips not to forget his imposing height of 6ft2 and his well sculpted body who all made him look like a Greek god was impossible to forget.
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