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Melissa was truly in a tight corner and she had suddenly found herself in a dilemma. Nathan’s offer was simple. The deadline was just a week away and he knew Melissa didn’t have a suitor to get married to, which meant she would have to forfeit her rights to take over her father’s business. So, he would make sure he was the one who bought the business. And if she wasn’t okay with that, she could marry him and thereby she still gets to have rights to the company and Nathan has a double win by also having his fair share of rights to the company and gaining Melissa as his own along the way. He was a smart thinker. Witty. And always ahead of others. He thought outside the box, critically too and can never be outsmarted. It was true, he had won this battle and Melissa had to pick either to back out or to marry him. Melissa was at a deadend. Nathan had his plan all thought out and in motion, she never even suspected it. She made a mental note to thoroughly scold her father’s lawyers. S
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He wasn’t taken by surprise at all, he knew this would finally come. It was wrong for him to lump all of Hope’s responsibilities on these women and it would become cumbersome for them. He was being selfish for giving them such burden in the first place. “I understand Aunty, I will find a job. But can you give me till the end of this week? Please I beg you and the other women, just help her with little food to go by everyday with until the end of this week when I’m hopeful to get a job. Please aunty.” Aiden went on his knees and pleaded vehemently. “Oh my goodness. Boy, get up please. You’re embarrassing me.” Aunty Grace urged and made to lift Aiden up. “Aunty please. I’m sincerely begging.” Aiden continued as he got up. Aunty Grace heaved a huge sigh of her own and contemplated about it for a minute. “Fine. I’ll talk to the other women and we try our best to make it till Saturday, but that’s as far as we can go.” Tears fogged up in Aiden’s eyes, “Thank you so much Aunty. I’m so g
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Aiden couldn’t believe his eyes, he was face to face with a woman he had least expected to see. In fact, he had completely doubted in the possibility of him being able to meet with her— an even if, certainly not in this situation. Why did he always end up trying to rob her? And always ended up getting caught by her. Well, a part of him hoped and wished that there was a bartender cleaning pouring coke into her whisky behind him that Melissa was referring too. And if there wasn’t any, he was thoroughly screwed. Melissa herself was extremely shocked to see Aiden and may I add, trying to steal from her too. She was downstairs, watching TV and had heard something crash upstairs. It was weird because she lived alone, and all her house workers didn’t live with her; they came around early in the morning and left at night after the day’s job. So she was completely alone, so who crashed something upstairs? She was scared. She felt a strange eerie feeling and something told her she wasn’t h
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“Please Melissa, don’t call the cops on me. I beg you, please just have mercy. I don’t usually do things like this but I’m poor and homeless, I also have a little daughter to feed. And she’s the reason why I’m doing this, I’m trying to get money to put food on her table.” Aiden lamented his ordeal. “So I was walking around the area, looking for a house to break into and coincidentally, I stumbled across yours.” He added and Melissa furrowed her brows, lowering her pointed knife finally. She saw him as a defenseless man who would do anything to provide for his daughter— he was wrong but he was helpless and didn’t have much of a choice. She pitied him. And herself too, she had thought he was a wealthy man when she saw him at he club, the suit he wore that night cost a couple of thousand dollars at least. But now, she’s seeing him in ragged jeans and a torn shirt, trying to hoist her jewelry. So she must’ve misunderstood a whole lot. And she admitted to herself, if she had known he was
THE SUPREME BILLIONAIRE BOSS 27
Melissa saw sense in her newly found idea. It was a better option than getting married to Nathan or loosing the company to him, besides she had no other option and had to make do with what she had, which was Aiden. She knew him at least, he didn’t seem to be harmful and he was in dire need, and she was in need too. So they could help solve each other’s needs; she helps him with cash to start life afresh and he helps her by playing pretend husband for her so she can get her inheritance. It would just be a fake marriage of nothing less than three months, after she gets married to him and signs the necessary documents to become the owner of the Real Estate Agency, they would file for a divorce and Aiden would be handsomely compensated. He could use the money to start up life. That way, both of them win. However, Melissa decided keep her newly found idea to herself, for the mean time. She didn’t want to scare him off so soon. She decided to hand him the two hundred dollars and then tomor
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“Melissa!” He yelled her name, but she had already stopped the moment she saw him coming towards the car. She wined down the passengers’ window. “Aiden, I know I’m leaving earlier than I said I would. I need to be at work in urgency and since I don’t have your number, I couldn’t call to inform so I dropped my business card with my security men to give to you by the time you show up do you can come meet me at my office.” Melissa narrated and Aiden’s quickening pulse calmed down, he thought he had been here so late that it offended her and she decided to leave. “So since you’re here, I can give you a ride to my office.” She offered and Aiden smiled, going over to the other side where the doors where and beckoning on Hope to follow him. It was a big car and long car, but not as long as a typical limousine but the exterior and the interior looked like one. Aiden didn’t quite know how to describe the vehicle. Aiden and Hope took a seat on the chair opposite to Katherine’s. Hope’s eyes l
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“What?” Aiden questioned, unable to believe his ears. He couldn’t just understand why. Why did any woman he met to solicit for help always find a way to try to get something back in return. First it was Katherine and now it’s Melissa, asking for his hand in marriage. How did a nobody like him end up getting two wealthy ladies offering marriage to him? The only lady who had offered him help without asking for anything in return was Kiera, the lady that gave him twenty dollars without him even asking for it. Why can’t all the women in his life be like her? And suddenly, his mind drifted back to the angelic lady named Kiera. Her light brown— almost blonde hair that sat in perfect waves that glorified those mesmerizing light blue eyes of hers tht looked so bright yet seemed to hold so much untold pain. He wanted to see her again. He wanted to know her story. But seeing her again in a busy town like this with the only idea he had about her being her name and those shimmering eyes of he
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Melissa hadn’t expected his rejection. She thought Aiden would jump at the offer being the he was poor and in need, she couldn’t understand why he was so stubborn. What kind of man was this? “But Aiden, it doesn’t have to be like this.” Melissa protested. There had to be some way to reason around this and the both of them could come to a compromise. “Hope dear, it’s time to go.” Aiden ignored Melissa and called for Hope. Hope turned over, pausing her game. “But daddy, I just got a hang of it and I’m almost winning this level.” “Stop the game and come over here, Hope.” “Don’t be harsh on her Aiden. She doesn’t deserve to be at the end of your frustration. You’re only suffering the little girl. You know you’re poor and wretched and subjecting the girl to poverty, she deserves more Aidan.” Melissa stated and the words struck, angering Aiden. Melissa was angry that Aiden wasn’t succumbing and that’s why she said all she said, but it wasn’t from a place of hostility but by the time the