Chapter 8

　　Phoenix Sterling

　　"But on one condition.." She said as she took a step back and sat down on the sofa.

　　"What?"

　　"Let me stay in your house but with seperate rooms." I raised my eyebrows completely amused by her condition.

　　"That's easy, I will gladly grant your wish."

　　"You want to pleased your parents and I want to pissed off mine. I hope you can cooperate with me when it comes to that." That made me wonder if she hates her parents.

　　"No one can know that we're married and don't even wear the wedding rings on a daily basis except when we're meeting our families." She said and I nodded.

　　"That's easy for sure. Anything else?"

　　"How long should we do this?" She asked.

　　"Maybe 7-8 months, I think it's enough for my parents to leave me alone." I said as I sat down on the sofa across her.

　　"But I want you to play the role of a good wife. I want you to make my parents love you so they will leave me alone." I added.

　　"It won't be hard." She said and I let out a breath of relief.

　　"My mother asked me to bring you to Maldives this Saturday for my cousin's wedding. We will be staying there for 8 days or maybe less than that."

　　"Okay.. so are we going there dating or married?"

　　"Married couple, we will surprise them with our marriage there. We can sign the legal documents as soon as possible. I'll buy us rings to convince them." I said as I took out my phone writing it down on my notes.

　　"Okay." She said as she looked up to me without any emotions.

　　"I'll call you for further information." I said and she nodded.

　　"No one will know about this except us right? Only your family and mine then.. we can get divorce too quitely."

　　"Yes, that's true. I will make sure no one leak it to the media or trying to sell this kind of information to anyone." I said seriously and she got up from her seat.

　　"Very well." She said as she put her hand in front of me.

　　"Good." I smirked.

　　After that conversation, I made a contract myself for this matter because I don't want anyboby else to know about us being together. A day after that, I prepared a room fornher to move in with me and the contract done. She signed it without reading it and I wonder what's going on in that head of hers.

　　We both prepared a lot of documents for our marriage and we went to registered our marriage together. Everything was done perfectly and there's no flaw in it. We both got married officially without anyone knowing about it except us both for now.

　　We looked at each other after we both finished signing the legal papers. She put her hand in front of me and I shook it. I pulled out a small black box out from my pocket and opened it. She looked at it without any emotion.

　　"I think it's too big.. we're not real and you will have to sell that later on." She said as she looked at me raising her eyebrows.

　　"It's a statement, Lana. I'm a billionaire so I have to give my wife the biggest ring that ever existed." I said proudly and she just put her left hand in front of me. I slipped the beautiful diamond ring to her and she sighed.

　　"I hope it will go smoothly for the both of us." She said and I caressed her hand. She looked at me and tried her best to smile. I always wondered.. if something is bothering her. She seemed to have a lot of things going on in her mind.

　　"We will go to Maldives the day after tomorrow so.. be ready." I said as we walked out after registering our wedding.

　　"Yeah, I know."

　　"When will you move in?" I asked as I opened my car door.

　　"Tomorrow." We both got into the car and I quickly started the car driving it out from the building.

　　"Very well."

　　"Your wedding ring?" She asked.

　　"At home, don't worry."

　　I thought dealing with Lana would be difficult but it was an easy deal. She accepted it and I still can't believe that I'm married now. Not technically married with love but still married to someone so I could get my parents off. I will make sure that no one knows about this relationship except our families. She agreed to that too so that's easy.

　　I gave the both of us freedom to be with someone else. We both won't be staying married forever, we're doing this for show so if she or I happen to meet someone in the middle, we can freely date them.

　　I'm a little nervous actually. I hope she can act smoothly in front of my family without being awkward.

　　"You and Finn.. you like him?" I asked her in a careful tone.

　　"I loved him but I decided not to go for him anymore. He has a low taste in women and I rather not be with a man like that. Besides he's rude to me so.. I'm not the type of woman who will stick around and wait like an idiot." I can say that I was surprised hearing her answer. I was expecting her to be obsess with him.

　　"Julie is not that type of woman, Lana. You shouldn't judge people without knowing them."

　　"I hate commoners, they don't deserve to hangout with us." She hissed.

　　"Why do you say that? You know that there's a lot of good people out there who's not wealthy like us." I said as I stopped at the red light.

　　"My mother left us for a low class commoner, she abandoned me and my father for that man. She's living in poverty when she can get everything that she wants in this world." That's the reason why she.. hates commoners.

　　"She left me and my father when I was 2 years old. She didn't even try to get in contact with me and I hate my father for keeping in touch with her. She's basically having an affair with that man and my father. I can say that my father is stupid for going back to my mother when he can have other good woman who's the same level as us." I turned to her and grabbed her hand.

　　"You don't know the reason why he's like that, Lana. You can't judge people without hearing their side of the story." I said and she shook her head.

　　"Just drive, Phoenix." She said as she pulled her hand away from me.