Chapter 8

"Ma'am, Mr Richardson is here," Martha informed Olivia, who was concentrating on her phone.

A wide smile formed on her face the moment she heard Scott had finally shown up.

She downed the remaining wine in her glass and hurriedly dropped the glass on the table before rushing to the living room to meet Scott.

"Hello Scott," she greeted calmly as she descended from the stairs.

"Good afternoon miss Olivia," Scott greeted, watching her graciously walk down the stairs.

She was definitely a beauty to behold; he thought to himself.

"Have you decided?" she asked, clenching and unclenching fists nervously.

"I wouldn't be here if I hadn't missed Olivia," he responded and Olivia sighed.

"Okay Scott, I'm all ears," she told him, swallowing a lump in her throat before clasping her fingers.

"After much thought and consideration, I have made my mind that I will marry you as my fake wife," he tells her and Olivia immediately heaved a sigh of relief as her heart had begun beating faster than usual as she waited anxiously for his reply.

"You can't imagine how happy I am to hear that Scott," she told him, not hiding how very relieved she was.

"I'm very grateful you decided to do this for me, Scott. You have no idea how grateful I am for your help. So did you decide on how much you'd like to get paid?" she asked and Scott couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He obviously came to this decision not because of the money from her but because he had his own intentions as well.

As silly as his thoughts sounded and as impossible as it seemed, Scott's plan was to get Olivia to fall in love with the real him and finally make their marriage a move from a fake one to a real one.

He didn't want to make it seem obvious that he had another agenda or make her feel uncomfortable so he decided to tell her his price although deep down, he already knew that even if his plan didn't succeed, he would not be collecting a dime of that money from her.

"Two million dollars," he told her, trying to look confident but mentally cringing in disgust.

"Really? That's all you want for this? Just two million? I must say Scott, that is quite a small amount of money. I was expecting you to name a price like maybe from ten million dollars and above," she replied to him, genuinely surprised by how low his price was.

"That is more than enough Miss Olivia," he assured her and Olivia sighed.

"Oh well, I guess it's your choice at the end of the day. I will transfer the money to your account as soon as we finalize everything related to our marriage and don't worry, it won't take too long at all," she assured him.

"Alright, since that aspect is settled, how about we get started with the rules of this agreement. This is the contract and inside it, there is everything you need to know," Olivia told him as she handed the contract to him hurriedly.

He collected the contract from her hand and carefully read through them.

"When we are in public or in front of the camera, we need to act like the perfect couple. They'll be questions, paparazzi harassment and other different situations and we'd need to put it out there that we really love and care about each other," Olivia explained to him.