Darling, only I can be your man

chapter 3

Two years later…

“Why do I have to get married for the family benefits?” Ariana tried to reason with Ashton, his

father. They are forcing her but Ariana is no longer that easy to be bullied.

“Shut up! Why shouldn’t you get married to help the family?” he shouted at her. Hearing her

father’s words Ariana cannot believe this is actually her biological father. They had been pestering her

throughout University to get married to all sorts of businessmen to help their company in which she

always refused but it now got worse after she completed her studies. It is almost as if she does not

have a choice in the matter.

“Sister, what is wrong with getting married? Father and mother had been taking care of you for

years. This is you paying them back.” Gina Fearon said softly as if she was doing Ariana a great favor.

I looked at her as if she had grown another head. “Why don’t you do the honors of helping your

father with the company since you are so concerned?” Ariana said coldly. ‘If you didn’t steal my

boyfriend two years, would I be going through this right now?’ Ariana brushed that thought aside for

Adam Richards is not worthy to be thought about.

“Gina has a future ahead of her and she is going to take over the company as soon as she

completes her last year of studies. And she is already getting married to Adam Richards in three

months.” Angela responded gloatingly.

“So what, don’t I have a future too?” Ariana cannot believe these people are her so called family.

They had never treated her as a part of the family. Her stepmother and sister bullied her throughout

childhood and for some reasons they managed to corrupt her father over the years.

The way he looked at her, the disdain in his eyes is obvious and cannot be hidden. As a father he

never protected her from evil hands, it is almost as if he had a personal grudge against her. Does he?

Regardless of his indifference towards her, Ariana still cannot manage to hate him as much as he

hates her. Ariana doesn't even know if her mother is dead or alive because she never came back for

her and when she became of age, she never went looking for her. Ariana had given up on her mother a

long time ago.

Ariana didn’t know when she left Fearon's home, all she knew is the fact that she ended up in her

apartment. Ariana took a shower and went to bed. She has gotten a job in the biggest company in

Westron City and she needs to get up early and be prepared.

The next day …

In Matthew’s Group

“President, here’s your schedule for the day and remember that you have an appointment with Mr.

Johnson the CEO of the JJ Company at 1pm.”

Michael did not respond. He did not like the CEO because of his bad reputation against innocent

women and he was seriously considering if he should renew their contract. Despite this, he is still a

good businessman. It was rumored that he will be getting engaged to the eldest daughter of Fearon's

group. The eldest daughter of the Fearon’s family is not officially known. No parent would allow their

daughter to be involved with such a man for the exchange of financial gain. They must hate her in order

to do such things. Well, it is not my business, so I am going to take care of the ones that pay me.

“Alex, are the new hires settled in their departments?”

“Yes sir. Here are their files and which department each of them are placed in.” Michael took the

files and started browsing through each of the files. Every year or two they hire at least three University

graduates. While going through the files, Michael suddenly stopped at the third file with his eyes glued

to the small photo clipped to the top left of the file but his face was still expressionless.

Alex noticed that he kept looking at one of the files for a long time, so he thought there was

something wrong with that recruit. “Sir if there is a problem with one of the new recruits, I can get the

next candidate on the waiting list.”

“No need.” Michael lazily responded. ‘I would never forget this face. I have been looking for you for

two years and I finally found you. I cannot believe you had been hiding unintentionally in plain sight.

Ariana, Ariana, you will not get the chance to escape again because you will be my woman’.

“Which department is she in?” Michael asked with curiosity.

Alex looked at the president blankly and whispered in his head, ‘how should I know, you have the

files in front of you’. Fearing for his life, Alex Jones could not say that aloud.

As if Michael could read his mind, “I am referring to Ariana Fearon. It shows here that she studied

Business Management at University Hampton of Business and graduated at the top of her class.”

“She applied for the Marketing Department.” Alex politely responded but at the same time

wondering why his boss seemed to be interested in this one. He doesn't normally pay attention to these

things. In fact, ever since he got injured by his uncle and his family two years ago and was saved by a

woman in which he didn’t even know her name, he had been looking for her and never got involved

with any other woman.

While Alex was in his thoughts, he heard Mr. Matthews blurted out, “Transfer her to

Secretary.”