A Marriage To Die For

Chapter 7; Meet The Pandora Ladies.

CHANGI BEACH HOTEL.

"What took you so long?" Aella complained when Valkyrie finally joined her at the hotel lobby. 

"Forgive me girl, I had issues with my outfit and stuff," Valkyrie explained running into the already opened car.

Aella took a while to check her out. But apart from the lazy jean and baggy crop shirt Valkyrie put on, there was nothing to see.

"Is this what you spent almost an hour putting on?"

Valkyrie looked at herself, she too was convinced she didn't look dazzling enough for a girls day out. 

"I guess?" she made it sound like a question.

Aella raised an eyebrow. "Girl! You have no fashion sense!" she declared starting her car, a golden zenvo ST1, then zoomed away from the hotel.

"Where are we headed?" Valkyrie asked.

"To meet my personal designer"

"What, why?"

"One, because you obviously have none, two, you'd look outrageous going out like that with highly sophisticated rich girls, they are gonna check out everything on you down to your toe nails,"

Valkyrie forgot to close her mouth. 

"Three, you are going to be my maid of honour in place of the most sophisticated of them all, you might as well win in the looks area"

Last night, the phone call had lasted way longer than expected. Aella had gone on and on about how she has had to put up with what everyone expected her to do, and how this would be her first step at rebellion. She also mentioned that she would be elated to have Valkyrie because she had the perfect sassy and snobbish look. 

Valkyrie wouldn't have said yes, but she had done some research on the family. Although, members of Pandora were not publicly known, the Raven family among a few others were frequently associated with the group. She knew, if she wanted to slowly infiltrate the mafia, she had to get along with Aella, so she said yes to her absurd request.

"Thanks again for agreeing to all this, I know you don't know me and you have no reason to trust me,"

"Well, I also don't have a lot of friends," Valkyrie said.

Aella's head spun so fast Valkyrie was afraid it would snap.

"What!? No one could look at you and believe that," Aella shrieked. "How many?"

"Let's start with zero!" Aella's jaws dropped.

"But, you have the perfect body, how could you not have friends, even a guy friend?"

They both laughed at Aella's comment but Valkyrie shook her head in the negative.

"Nope"

"What the hell?" they stopped at a red light and Aella turned to look at Valkyrie. "No 'boyfriend'?" she drawled at the word 'boyfriend'

"Nope. I used to have one!" Valkyrie added quickly before Aella opened her wide mouth again. "I'm not impotent okay" she joked.

"Gosh! No! I wasn't gonna ask that" She continued the drive "what happened, you used a past tense there"

Valkyrie pulled a stray hair behind her ear. "We just couldn't work" her tone didn't sound like she regretted the outcome. She looked very passive about it, which led Aella to ask the next question.

"Didn't you love him?"

"You know, based on the feelings and enthusiasm I get when I see him, I suppose I did"