Desiree's POV
"Hi…" I wiped the sweat on my forehead when I saw Johanna, it's been so hot outside, summer is coming again. her mouth opened in surprise when he saw me. "Omg! You came!"
"Yeah…it's traffic you know? And you told me you were in the coffee shop and then you changed your mind and told me that you are in a flower shop."
"Yeah sorry about that, But you are here already, I want you to choose what is the best flower for me." She said and hugged me, she took my hand and pulled me inside of the flower shop."Hi Marsella, this is my friend. Desiree."
I smile at the seller of the flowers and the owner of the shop, she gives me a sweet smile and says, "Hi, nice to meet you, Beautiful, are you getting married too?"
I chuckle nervously, "No…" I said.
"Marsella, I am the one who is getting married here." Johanna said and smiled at me. "but who knows Mister Alexander Roberts will propose to her."
"Wow, are you his girlfriend? I heard about Mister Roberts. He is a good man and I like him." Marsella starts to talk about Alexander. yes I know a lot of girls like to have him because he is rich and handsome.
"Uhm, no…Johanna can you please shut up and let's choose your theme of flowers now?" I pinched her nose and she laughed at me, "okay okay, I am enjoying annoying you."
"So how is Alexander , does he treat you well?" Johanna continued to ask me about Alexander and now the day turns to be my own life topic.
"He is fine… he is the protective guy I have met in my whole life, so when is your wedding day? Do you have a date already?"
She chuckles and when she sees the flower with bright colors, her eyes widened in happiness. "Uh-huh I finally found it."
"Yeah you found it already, just answer my question." I said and Marsella smile at me, she took the flower and showed it to us. Johanna clears her throat and says,"I don't have a date yet, but I am sure it's going to be very very soon." She wink at !e and she takes her attention again to the flowers. It's like she is avoiding my question about her wedding day date.
It's a nice color you have there!" I said as I smelled the flower.
"Yeah it's a bright yellow…perfect for your wedding theme, Johanna." Marsella said and gave her the card. "Just tell me if you want this so that I can deliver it on time to your wedding organizer."
"Yeah. Ofcourse, Marsella. I want to look more…just save that one for me." Johanna said and she pulled my hand as she walked and we walked more inside and we saw a lot of variety of flowers. I smiled because these are all beautiful and lovely to my eyes.
"So lovely…"
"I talked with Francis yesterday…he is fine, he is still working on his dreams and he has a new girlfriend, it's quite a shock to me but you know, I am happy for him that he finally moved on."
"Oh girl…" I hugged her to make her feel better, because I know she still has feelings for Francis. Francis is her first love but she chooses to marry a young and a billionaire man because she is a practical woman that wants money, but I still love this girl no matter what.
I don't know her reasons and I don't have the right to judge her for every decision she makes in her life.
"I am fine, Desiree. I am happy with the man I choose now. Though he is a bit hard to deal with, I am happy with him." She assured me that.
"Well, I want what is best for you…if you're happy, then I'm happy too." I said.
ALEXANDER'S POV
When I arrived at the mansion. I saw my mom and she was with Samantha, they were busy talking to each other happily and when they saw me, Samantha bit her lower lip and tried to be as cute as possible. Well, she is not cute now for me, that was before.
"Hi Alexander…" Samantha greeted me with a smile and my mom kissed my cheek, "Hi, son. It's been a long time that I haven't seen you, where have you been? You are keeping yourself so busy with that woman." My mom said and I can see the disgusted sour on her face when she thinks about Desiree.
"Mom, I came here to take some things inside my room." I responded to her.
"Samantha is here, she always visits me and she is like a daughter to me now, I love your girlfriend, son."
I shook my head and chuckled, Samantha began to widen her smile.
"She is not my girlfriend anymore and you don't know the reason why we break up mom so please stop pushing me to her." I said and I really want Samantha to hear that so that she will stop hallucinating things that we still have a chance to do when we don't have anymore.
"You don't have to say that, son. You can hurt her feelings… you must show some respect to her even if she is your ex." My mom said and I just sighed. I walked upstairs without looking at them, "it's okay, I have to chase him…"
"Okay go." My mom considered her and I just heard all of their conversation.
Samantha is behind me and when I open my room, she just swiftly gets inside and he smiles at me. "I know you are still mad at me."
"But please if we can't be together anymore, we can still be friends right?" She asks and her eyes look into her feet while waiting for my answer.
I turned around to face her and said, "I don't know anymore…but we can't be friends. Ex can never be friends…"
"What? Of Course we can be friends…"
Desiree's POV
After the flower shop, I talked everything to Johanna about what happened to me for the last few weeks and she hasn't heard about any news from me. She felt sorry for my situation and emphasised me. Because she asks why the two bodyguards are always following me, it's because Alexander wants me to be safe.
"That's really tough, does your family know about it?"
"No. You don't have to tell them about it, let's just keep it a secret and my sister is getting married to Donovan, Alexander's cousin." I explained to her, "and I just don't want to ruin their happiness as of now…" I added.
"Yeah, trust me, I will not tell them." Johanna said.
"But I am sorry…" she added and she started to sob in front of me.
"But he is here…" she said and pushed me inside the gate of her house, "what do you mean, Johanna?!"
Then ten men arrived and shot my two bodyguards on the feet, making them groan in pain and cornered by ten armed men.
"What the-"
"Ugh!"
The two of my bodyguards are bleeding now and I raise both my hands shaking and Johanna starts to cry, "I'm sorry but George tried to threaten my life, I don't betray you…I don't have a choice."
I gulped and the tears on my eyes began to roll one by one, "it's okay…I understand. Just save yourself."
George just shows up and he is dressed in a fancy royal blue suit.
He smiled at me as he stared at my body from head to toe and he shifted his gaze too to Johanna.
"Do you think Johanna, you can get out of here?" George asks and he slowly walks towards me and laughs. "What do you mean? George? You promise that you will not bother me anymore if I give Desiree to you!" Johanna said hysterically and slapped George's face twice because of her anger. "I'm getting married! Don't take this opportunity to me!"
"A gold digger risks the life of her best friend just to get married to the billionaire man!" George snapped at her and she cried and freaked out.
"I don't have a choice, please let me go and she's all yours!"
I sobbed and slapped Johanna, "You are only thinking of yourself! You are a…"
She grasped my hair harshly and I yelled at her to stop but she didn't want to stop and tried to attack me all over and over again.
"Good job girls, that's it. Try to kill yourselves!" George claps his hand like a psychopath and he kicks Johanna on the stomach.
Johanna coughed and breathed heavily as she said, "You ruined my plan, George! You ruined everything! I already gave her to you!"
"Yeah but Johanna, this only proves that you are greedy of everything, you risk her life so you are coming with us." George said and motioned his men to take Johanna and shoved her inside.
"George you can't do this to me!" She yelled at George angrily and I just stay at where I stood, I was speechless of everything.
Johanna just betrayed me, I thought she was a friend that I can trust but she did this to me so that she could live her perfect life.
"You are coming with us, Desiree. I am happy to see you again…" George said and held my hand. I flinched and pushed him away. "George, why do you have to do this? You want to come back to prison again?!"
"All I want is you, all I want is to be friends with you and let's forget about what had happened. You will work for me again and I will make you happy or else you are going to suffer, your family will suffer and even Alexander will suffer because of your stubbornness!" George said, "So you are coming with me today, let's get to know each other. Maybe you can fall in love with someone like me." He added while trying to persuade me.
"We can go back to the time when we were both okay! I trusted you, I trusted her! But everyone keeps betraying me! I can't give you a second chance!" I told him that and he smiled at me, he pulled me closer to him while I kept hitting his chest.
"I am sorry for what I did to you, if you can forgive me now. I will stop harassing you. I will be a loving husband to you and let's have a wedding soon."
He said and I just frowned at him, "what are you talking about? Are you insane? I am not going to marry someone like you!" I kick his feet and run but he just laughs at me, his men just block the way and he clicks his tongue. "Oh you have no way out, you are like a rabbit that looks for a way out. Just come with me, Desiree or I will shoot these two bodyguards here, they are useless and they can't even protect you!" George said while he pulled out his gun and pointed to my injured bodyguards.
My body is trembling, I am so afraid of him and when I saw my two bodyguards groaning in pain while their blood is flowing continuously and I just sigh and wipe away my tears.
"I am coming with you…just leave them alone." I said while panting.
"Oh calm down sweetheart, you are going to be fine." George said and carried me like a bride, "put me down…" I said as my heart beat raced together in every second.
"No…stay put, don't shake your body and that's my order, you are going to see your friend again in my place." He said as he put me inside his car.
"Traitors…all of you are traitors!"
"We are just like humans-"
"But you are not human, you are a monster."
"Call me like that, sweety. It's really okay…"