Contract Marriage (Preview)

Chapter One * The Reluctant Wedding

"Arrgh would you close the damn blinds," Aurora groaned, her head pounding as a result of a hangover.

She was starting to really regret her decision to get drunk last night, although it was really needed.

"Would you sit up young lady, it's nearly eight o'clock and for goodness sake, it's your wedding day," Laura Bentley said.

Hearing the dreaded W word she suddenly remembered why she and her two friends had to get drunk last night, she wanted to enjoy her last night as a single lady.

Aurora Bentley was getting married, no not love, but the marriage was arranged, not that any one except her father still arranged marriages in the bloody 21st century and if that wasn't enough she was getting married to the most pompous ass Nate Walters, just thinking about him made her want to pull at her hair, he was arrogant, irritating and rude to her as she grew up, he would tug her pigtails and push her into the mud, and suddenly he's all grown up but not in the least bit changed.

She sat up the soft blanket pooling at her waist, remembering all she did to try and get out of the marriage but all for naught, how she had known all her life that he was the man she was to marry, but never really wanted to accept it, how she argued when her father first told her the wedding was in a months time, then when it was getting clear that being stubborn will take her nowhere, she turned to emotional blackmail, trying to get through her mother to her father, and since she's getting married today you can guess how that went.

Obviously not knowing when to give up she resulted in trying to escape and leave the country or even the continent where no one would find her, and even that didn't go as planned as she was caught even before she could book her flight.

Left with no other options she resulted to begging, crying, which was a low low even for her.

And a month of being looked after like a prisoner in her parents house here she was her bloody wedding day.

"Come on Aurora, you need to get dressed," her mother said pulling her up from the bed although she really didn't want to go Laura Bentley wasn't a woman to be trifled with Aurora reluctantly allowed herself to be dragged by her mother.

"Andrea is already dressed and ready to go as a good bride should be," her mother said while walking her to her sisters room.

Digging her foot, she halted in her steps, the statement was meant to make her feel guilty but all she could feel was anger.

"Of course, she is ready, she actually wants to get married, she loves Ryan !!!" She all but yelled at her mother.

Immediately, she said that she felt bad it wasn't her mother's fault she was marrying that egoistical pigheaded man, it was her father's and Nate's father's fault though she could never be mad at Uncle Alex it was all her father's fault.

"I'm sorry for yelling mum, but I can't take it anymore, marrying him will be my worst nightmare," Aurora said.

"I know you don't want to get married darling but I can't really do anything about it your father has made up his mind and he is convinced that it us for your own good, I have tried changing his mind but he is as stubborn as you are," she said.

"It will be hard, but just try to get along with him."

"Mom, it's not that easy he doesn't even like me," Aurora complained, and I don't like him she continued in her mind.

"Am quite sure my daughter can make any one fall in love with her," her mother said and Aurora sorely doubted it.

"Now cheer up let's get you ready for your big day," her mom said as they got to Andrea's room.