From "can I borrow a kiss for bet" to "It was nice sleeping with you" Ethan and Esmeralda entered the most inconvenient marriage of the century. _______ A commitment-phobic and emotionally unavailable Billionaire. That is the reputation that precedes Ethan Westbury. The words cold and distant don't even begin to describe him. An unwarned kiss made him cross his path with Esmeralda Fox, the eccentric actress. She is sure that the billionaire who has more money than emotions is the devil in disguise. Now, the story gets spicy here. Ethan's grandfather's will inheritance clause had posed a great threat to everything he had achieved so far in his life. Get married before his thirty-fourth birthday or lose everything to his Asshole cousin who would stop at nothing to defeat him. Marrying the emerald-eyed curvy beauty is the only option he had. The problem? He is unable to keep up his distant and cold appeal before the devilish beauty. She is everything he hadn't expected. She is like a typhoon, breaking all of his fences and walls and creeping into his heart like a clawing vine. Suddenly, it's impossible for him to keep up with this marriage of convenience when his contractual wife is nothing but an inconvenience with a capital I.
Ethan was taken aback. He didn't know she would be the first person to ask him to keep their little episode a secret. By the way, what kind of scandal was she talking about? Who was she? And she wasn't going to demand money to keep her mouth closed, was she?
It seemed as if he had to contact his PR team to come to rescue. The woman he had been in the past few times spread the rumours that they were going to be next Mrs Westburry and he didn't want such an episode again. Even if she spread the rumours, no one would believe her.
After all, Ethan Westburry had a type and she was far away from it. No, he wasn't saying that this woman wasn't beautiful. She was. Extremely so. It was just that she wasn't his usual type. His type was simple– tall, beautiful, blonde. But this woman was fire– Redhead, green eyes and lots of freckles on her nose as if all the bright stars had scattered there, making her look ethereal.
Esmeralda went on saying, "I have a reputation to maintain. We can discuss an NDA and price–"
He cut her off by saying, "Who are you and why should we sign an NDA?"
"You don't know me?" Esmeralda asked as she pointed her perfectly manicured finger at herself. This man was hellbent on bruising her womanly ego, was he not?
Never mind, she would let him do this once after all he was handsome.
"I don't, "Ethan replied coolly.
"How is this possible?" Esmeralda asked. How could someone not know him? She was only a little less famous than Angelina Jolie.
"Do you know Angelina Jolie?" She asked him once again.
"No, who is she?" Ethan asked with furrowed brows.
Esmeralda sighed, revealing a dimpled smile. He didn't know Angelina Jolie, it lessened her heartache.
"Never mind, you don't need to know me, "Esmeralda replied with a charming smile. "What would you like for breakfast?"
"Excuse me?" Ethan couldn't help but say the word a little loudly. What the hell was wrong with her?
Who on earth offers breakfast to their one night stands?
"Actually, this is my first time at a one night stand. My mother says I am not good when it comes to handling awkward moments. But I think I'm doing much better than I expected. Offering breakfast to the one night stand is not the most unexpected and silly thing I have done, "Esmeralda giggled and went on ranting. "It was kidnapping my ex's bride from the wedding venue. Never mind, I will cook you breakfast."
Ethan looked at the girl ranting nonstop in utter horror and waited for her to calm down. He could feel that she was dealing with an anxious situation in her own manner and so he didn't try to be mean to her. He wasn't that much of an asshole to be mean to the girl who he had caused lots of trouble.
However, if she didn't stop speaking, he might lose his mind as she didn't make any kind of sense to him. She was so tiny, how could she even kidnap anyone?
After freshening up and wearing his clothes back, he found her in the living room where she was getting breakfast on the table. It only took her tee to minutes to make so much food.
From the conditions of the apartment and the view outside the apartment that screamed money, he could tell that she was well off and perhaps wouldn't pester him for money later on.
But who knows the mindset of womanhood?
If she wanted to sell the news to the paparazzi that Ethan Westbury slept with her, she was welcome to do so. It wouldn't be the first time Media had spread false news about him.
"This is…"Ethan was at a loss of words when he saw the number of food items covering the breakfast table. Was she planning on throwing a feast?
"Oh, I have a habit of stress cooking, stress eating, stress cleaning, I can do anything stress. Stress and I are besties, "Esmeralda laughed at her own joke. "Take a seat and you can start eating."
Actually she wasn't joking. Stress and her had always been very good friends. Stress could leave anyone in the world but not her.
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A/N: Any words for her?