Defom -- A Love Story❤️❤️

Chapter 1- Prologue

"Nihan, I have to tell him!" Cried Defne in anguish!!    "I have to tell him; our love is all based on a lie!!"

But can he really take it, if he does, how is he going to react? 
If he can't take it, how is he going to react?
Defne mused and  kept spiraling in circles, trying the very best way to tell the love of her life, how she came into his life, how it all started....
With a lie that changed her plain, sundry world into a blooming, happy and a colorful one!!!

A simple waitress working in the bustling bayside restaurant, Manu, under a very bossy, rude boss Mr. Riza;
Her world took a 360 degree turn when she bussed that fateful table that fateful day when Nihan, her best friend and coworker, traded tables with her! 
It was a tryst with destiny. 

She gaily went to the table to take the order chirpily, a bit dishelved, her red flaming curls, set against her porcelain skin went chalk white when the guy at the table, a tall, slightly olived - sun - kissed - skinned gentleman, dressed in an all-black trim suit, grasped her thin slender wrists and dragged her out of the restaurant calling all sorts of endearments and apologizing to the rich snootily over made up woman who looked like his date seated across from him. 

He dragged her with lightning speed and explained to her that she was his lifeline to escape his blind date. 

As Defne summoned enough courage to tell him in so many words that she detested this, he shouldn't be treating a girl like that, with her cute lush lips moving in and out mouthing the illegible words or so it seemed to his ears... they were closed shut with a pair of hot lips of a man, the man in the dark suit with dark hair and darker than coal, smokey eyes!! 

Yes, she had read in books, rich guys coming across poor girls, sweeping them off their feet in a whirlwind of romance... but this was all too real for words, for her life, for her everyday dreary life!! 
What was going on??
How could he kiss her like that in broad daylight, in one of the posh lunch places in Turkey, in Istanbul, in the middle of a bustling patio where the city's who and who dine?? 

She suddenly disentangled herself from his soft yet firm embrace, and gave him one sharp slap across his well-groomed chiseled cheek.

"Omush?!  Omush?!"
Was that his name?!!  Defne wondered!
The lady from his table, followed by Mr. Riza, the owner of Manu came running in utter shock. 

The man in the black suit stumbling and swaying from the slap, reeled himself to a halt and straightened, looking pointedly at Defne, who was just spitting fire from anger. 

He was too stunned to say sorry, he prayed hopefully his eyes meant to convey a sorry... he had never behaved like that with any girl, even so as to spite another girl, for that matter, anyone!! 

He swiftly turned his back, rubbing his cheek, which stung like crazy, and briskly walked off to the car, waiting.

Defne looked after him, and within seconds her arms were roughly jerked by Mr. Riza who ordered her to enter the restaurant, and to her utter dismay and to her incessant protests, fired her on the spot!!! 

She just had, had enough time to gather her stuff from her locker to find her phone shriek to be picked up!! 

The news wasn't great either;
Why was her day going from bad to worse... she wondered as her little sister Esra, hiccupping through tears told her that their brother, Serdar was taken by the mafia, since he owed them 200,000 TL and her grandmother was having diabetic seizures!! 

Her world just went pale as she rushed home thinking how she was going to find that huge sum, she had never even set eyes on a whole bundle of 2000 TL, let lone 200,000!! 

But on seeing her two most helpless women in her life beside themselves in fear, she was determined to do something, somehow, by hook or crook to get her "good for nothing" brother out of this mess, and into the safe arms of her grandmother. 

The next morning dawned bleaker by the promenade, as she sat on a bench pondering, as now she had no job, but the world's biggest loan on her head! 

A rich, well put together woman sat next to her and introduced herself as Neriman, and she needed to talk to her about something life altering!!! 

She explained how she was going to lap up a fortune from her father in law if she got her nephew, an orphan, married in the next 6 months, and she had chosen, her, Defne as the new bride!!! 

Defne went reeling!! 
She, the rich well groomed woman wagged the price tag of 200,000 TL, Defne was tempted, yet felt it was wrong, took her card, and headed home saying how wrong the scheme was and what a wrong girl that lady had chosen!! 

When she shared this piece of news with Nihan, the latter jumped at the opportunity!! 
Nihan said how God sent was this lady and her scheme, and she, Defne would actually be doing the nephew a favor by being the nice girl that she was and she was to accept it without batting an eyelid!! 

Defne reluctantly agreed and made a beeline to the lady's house!! 

Neriman, along with her husband Necmiye and housekeeper Mine, were ecstatic when Defne accepted their offer!! 

They gleefully groomed her, shined her, prepped and weaned her into the role of their nephew's personal assistant and created a beautiful glam doll, equipping her with all the minute details of his preferences from music to his daily brew!

Her nephew, Omer, as it turned out was a very disciplined, proud, a stickler for adhering to proper manners, rules and ways of life!! 

All that mattered to her, Neriman, was for Defne to woo and spin him around her little finger, by six month's time and drag him to the wedding altar and disappear the next day!! 

Though it seemed daunting to Defne, she agreed with the sole purpose to get her wayward brother out of the web of debt and the grasps of the underworld! 

At the work front, Neriman had roped in her nephew, Omer's best friend and business partner, Sinan and her own best friend and a shareholder, Koray, in the master plan!! 

When Defne met Omer, her joy knew no bounds, he turned out to be the same young, dashing, handsome, well-built and the same dark suited hot kisser guy from the restaurant!! 

They started off to a stumbling start, but with her own charm, grace and quick wit, she was able to work her way in the office, and in his life and turned out to be the best assistant Omer had ever had, both professionally and personally!! 

All this while slowly, steadily and crazily falling in love with her new boss!! 

For Omer, his life had taken a very robust and colorful turn when he realized that he had met the girl of his dreams, a girl of his past mother's choice, the girl who embodied all his heart's desires and responded to the love strummings of his heart!! 

Defne proved to be a keeper, personally, due to her warmth, her selfless love and charm and beauty inside and out! 

Professionally, she had excelled from an amateur assistant to head on to becoming a very promising designer, carving her own way, much to Omer's delight!! 

It was not all smooth sailing for the lovers, troubles came in all forms of persistent game player Neriman, jealous present and ex-girlfriends, slanders, thefts and the biggest of all....
Now, when Defne sold her design to Omer's prime competitor, Mr. Deniz Tramba of Tramba Designs Inc, for a handsome sum just to get out of the grasps of Neriman and her loan and to say "yes" to Omer's marriage proposal!!

To enter matrimony free of any pangs of guilt, debt feee!!

In the past, Defne and Omer always found their way back into their cocoon of love, but this one proved to be a hard one and all up against Omer's world of principles and pride!!! 

❤️Will Defne find the courage to tell him all??? 

❤️Will he accept a flawed Defne?? 

❤️Will their love find its way to the wedding alter??