Imprisoned by the CEO
“You will have to marry me and bear me a child.” “What the fuck?!” Logic flew out of the window when Grace heard him say that. “Excuse me, what did you just say?” Maybe, she was the one who had heard him wrong. It could have been anything except marrying him and giving him a child. “You heard me,” Christian tsked, “but I’ll repeat it. Marry me and have my child.” Her mouth opened and gaped at me. In her mind, she was trying to make sense about what was going on. How in the world had it come to be? What in the world could make the situation come to this?! “No?” Grace replied, but then realized that the word was not firm enough. “No.” she said again. Christian frowned, and it seemed so innocent like he had not asked her the most unbelievable thing. “Why not? I thought you wanted to help me. You offered.” “I offered my help, my brain, my support not my,” she hesitated, “stomach!” What was the word for it? “Womb,” he provided. “Yes!” She slapped her hand on the table. “You don’t get my womb!” “I don’t?” He challenged. “No!” “What if helping me out means Lorelai coming out of a coma?” Grace felt her heart drop. “What?” Christian nodded. “What if helping me out, agreeing to what you have to do for me, means bringing your grandmother out of the, that she is in?” ******** Grace was one strong girl and with the people she put her trust in, that was only a small number, she knew she could conquer the world, or at least she thought to herself. When her best friend proposed a deal that could change their lives, she made a decision that was going to be mutually beneficial to both of them. But one renovation led to many and everything has been just a game, a manipulation from him. Everything was full of deceit, lies, planning and plotting against her. Every single thing, right down the fact that only he had been her friend… Everything was a lie and she had been living it, willingly. Tropes; Friends to lovers, office romance, best friends, frenemies, marriage of convenience, possessive villainous and morally gray heroes!
A strong word - II
"If anything," She continued, "why don't you tell me what's happening with your job?"
"What about my job?"
"Is everything well?"
"Yes," Grace answered, the volume of voice getting low as she did, "why would it not be?"
She knew, and grace knew that she was just buying herself, a little bit of time before her grandma would snap, and tell her that. How did she even know was the question?
"Liar!" Lorelai spat. "How dare you lie to me?! While you were out deciding to drink yourself, I found out the stuff you had left on the table. You brought everything you had in that office home and you expected me to find out? Especially when you left them out in the open."
Embarrassed, Grace looked down on her lap. While the corporate world may be understandable to a lot of people, her grandmother was a stranger to it. How was she supposed to explain what had happened to her grandmother and how no matter what she did, she still had to be let go.