It started with a hard scrutinizing glare, cold shoulder and then accusation.
An accusation which altered her planned life, giving it a new deviation.
Deviation filled with more hard glares and cold shoulders but the only difference was that, this time their hearts collided.
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When he first saw her, his eyes sparkled up with an emotion.
Emotion only he knew, an emotion which he roughly ignored.
But somewhere deep within, he knew what it was and that's what led their story to come together.
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"You heard me what I said, I am not going anywhere with you.
I have had enough of your attitude and I am done being your robotic salve.
From the moment you came into my life, you have done nothing but played with it to your mind's content.
You altered my life in just mere seconds.
You are nothing but a tormentor to me Mr. Stone",
I said all in one breathe my voice reaching octave second by second, my chest heaving in and out and my fingers clutching the end fabric of my T-shirt to stop hands from trembling.
"Yeah, so my answer is NO", I repeated again a little slower this time.
What felt like forever, he again gave me a threatening soul trembling look which sent a shiver back down my spine definitely not in a good way.
One thought rushing in my mind,
'Leave this sickening confronting situation and RUN!'.
Italian playboy billionaire Marco Orsini has a dilemma. With the ultimatum to either marry or get disinherited, he must now find himself a wife before his grandfather's birthday--and he entrusts his fate on one woman to find him the perfect bride.
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Twenty-nine-year-old Francesa Marcolini never expected that the day will come when the handsome yet hateful playboy billionaire Marco Orisini would barge into her office and announce that he needs a wife. Despite being a teacher of etiquette and personality development, Francesa had no intention of becoming the matchmaker for this arrogant Italian no matter how determined he is for her help. But to Francesca's horror, she finds herself on that very job!
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