The Croesus’ Bride [Completed] - 122 Chapter 18

Flora Kent’s POV

I have been happy and contented as I was doing some coding and programming as I remembered our shower that morning. I have been dying to get closer to Daniel as possible and I think I have hit the point where he wanted to shower with me.

He massaged my body as well as cleaned it real good. He played with nipples until they were hard and left me breathless as he just left me getting wet for him but he never took me. I never had sex with me even though I know how much he controlled himself from taking me.

I giggled as I was putting some codes together and sent them to Val. I have to thank him as his party has helped me to move on from Danial and I think I might hold something else for him. I will lay for him that I don’t need him in my life.

As I was busy doing some coding and programming for some websites that had been crashed with the virus, I was distracted by the constant ringing of the doorbell. I was trying to act like I was not home but the insistent was making me angry.

I got off from my study room as I went to the door and prepared some speech on my mind. I was about to say something angry and sarcastic when I was looking at one of the most feminine figures that I ever encountered. Except for me, of course.

Her blond hair was cascading along her shoulder. Her petite figure was perfection as I was looking at her immaculate attire, compared to me who was in my sweatshirt and legging.

I went to look at her face. Her wide blue eyes were looking at me as if I was a speck of dirt in her shoes. Well, the feeling’s mutual. I never hate someone so quickly in my life than I was at her right now.

“Is this where Flora Kent’s residence?” She asked me as I was blinking at her.

“No, this is not her residence,” I said as I was trying to make believe that I was not her. I was Flora Clover after all. She looked at me sideways before making her way into the house. I grunted but I closed the door as I turned to look at her.

“Okay, what are you doing in my house? I just told you I was not Flora Kent,” I said as I was looking at this stranger who was eyeing my apartment.

“Nice house,”

“Thanks, but I think you overstayed your visit,” I said as I was about to pull her when she said something that stopped me in my track.

“You don’t have to pretend with me, Flo,” she said as I was stopping in my track. All the vivid memories of my moment with Daniel were out of the gutter. Only one person called me that and it was none other than my then-best-friend-turned-enemy, Celine Lebrun.

“What? You think I could never find out where you have been hiding?” She asked me as she went to take a seat on my sofa. I was still looking at her as she had grown two heads.

No, this cannot be.

Celine Lebrun was one of my best friends in college before she turned psychotic, obsessing over mind control in the human mind that she had done something that I will never forget. She took my thesis statement and made her own as she tested it on her blood.

How sick was that?!

“What, no hugs from my best friend?” She asked me as I was too stunned to move. I gulped as she was looking at her red fingernails.

“Why are you here, Celine? I thought you were in jail,” I said as I was keeping my tone neutral. I don’t want to raise any suspicion that I was onto her or maybe I don’t even trust her, not at all.

“Well, first I wanted to see my best friend—”

“We are not anymore,” I interrupted her. She looked at me as she waved her hand dismissively.

“and secondly, I was here because I followed my betrothed,” she said as she was looking at me. She pulled something out. My heartbeat fastened as I thought it was a gun or something that could harm me. Turned out, she just pulled out her phone.

“This is his picture. I’m sure you know him,” the taunt in her voice made me looked at the phone. Suddenly, my blood runs cold.

it was Danial Summer’s picture with her kissing his cheek. He looked so happy as I was drawing a sharp breath.

“You did not expect that, did you?” She asked me. I was not sure what to say to that. I was so angry, confused but mostly, regret all over. I have been dying our contact together that I thought he would never find another but I guessed wrong. I gulped as I cleared my throat.

“How long have you been together?” I asked her. She shoved her phone away as I cannot see that smile on his face anymore. I needed to stay strong. I can do this.

“5 months,” she replied that made me turned to look at her.

“Yeah, it’s been 5 months that we were engaged. That was also when he broke up with his 6 years girlfriend,” she said as she was looking at my face. I remained stoic as I was trying to control my tears.

“Well, I guess congratulation was in order,” I said as I was gripping my own hands into a fist at my sides. She looked at the gesture before she spotted something on my left hand. She smirked.

“I see that you have found yourself someone else as well over those 5 months,” she said as she was standing from the sofa now, crossing her arms in front of her chest. I looked at my left hand and I spotted that I was wearing my engagement ring.

“Well, we did not work out and I think I was overdue to find my true love,” and hoping that he would come back but I guess he was too busy with Celine. Celine looked at me with amusement in her eyes.

“Well, anyway, I came here because his parents told me that he was on vacation in Albania. Lucky guess, since you were here as well,” she said as she smirked at me. I gripped my fists tighter.

“So, I put two and two together, and voila! You were here and I think I might find Danial around the corner,” she said as she was holding her handbag before she went to walk past me before opening the door.

“How did you find me?” I asked her as she was looking at me with her smirk.

“Well, you always leave a virus in your awake to get away from everything. It was that easy to know that it was you,” she said as she was pointing at me. She smirked before she got out of the house and closed the door.

The rays of sunlight have gone as my heart was once again cold. I cannot believe it as Danial Summer has moved on so early from that it took me 5 months to get over him. I hoped that Celine would never find him as my heart ached to go to him and asked for an explanation from him.

Danial Summer’s POV

I was yawning as I just looked at the websites that have been attacked by the virus. I have been hired by Val, because he was an awesome boss, to let me be in his company for a year. That way, I will have more excuses to spend some time with Flora.

And of course, I did not tell Flora that I worked at the same company as her. She would lose her shit and I don’t want my love to lose control and hunt me down with a gun and a dagger. Little did you know, she was raised by a group of lethal friends.

I was looking at some of her codes and programming. We were working in synch as I never told her that I would be taking some of Val’s work over the last 3 months of his wife’s pregnancy. I think it works perfectly so that I can break the ice to her one day at the time. I just hoped that she did not think it was Val.

Another email came from her that she sent to Val. I was checking some of her previous works and she was awesome as ever. I did not know what to say but felt awestruck with her capability to be the most sought out IT engineers on our campus.

I opened the latest email and the shiver ran through my spine. She was telling something that I should have known the first time she was here.

Celine was here in Albania and she was looking for me!

“Are you okay, bro?” He asked me as he put a mug of coffee for me on the table. I mumbled a thank before I closed the email as I turned to look at him. I crossed my hands together in front of my chest as I was scoffing at Val. His eyebrows shot up at my behavior.

“Okay, I don’t know what was going on with you two because I already did my part and I’m sorry if you still don’t get laid by her, so what is this all about?” He asked me as he was holding his hand in surrender. I sighed before running my hands through my hair.

“Celine’s here,”

“Celine?”

“My betrothed. My parents’ arranged bride for me,” I said as I was rubbing my face. Somehow, telling Val was not helping me at all.

“So, is that a good thing or a bad thing?” He asked me before I turned to look at me.

“Bad,” I replied to him.

“Why?” indeed, why? Why should I be scare? Perhaps because she will know who I was and break that news to Flora before I can.

“I think I just bit off more than I can chew,” I said before Val was looking at me, concern on his face.