Chapter 1- The Meeting.
And in the midst of the journey I found you and the rest of it, I had decided to explore it with you, until I realised 'you' were my destination, the place where my heart resides and I shall call it my home.
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"What?!" He bellowed, in anger and furiousness, his fists clenching among themselves as he tried to keep his posture calm. He couldn't believe his father would do something like that. An 'arranged marriage?' Really?! It was as if his father was enticed by the cliche novels containing the arranged marriage between business partners in order to make his son responsible.
Impossible! He exclaimed in his mind, shaking his head at his father. There was no way he was going to abide by his father's words, not this time.
"Not happening Dad." He told straight to his father.
One can't really blame him for reacting that way. He is after all, 'The Alexander Knight,' the CEO of Knight Industries and Hotels. Not only is he going to take over his father's place in the business soon but also is considered as the most eligible bachelor in the whole of America and the world; all of it achieved at the age of twenty six only. With his God like physique and devil like ruthlessness that would make any girl fawn over him, he will be tied, in an arranged marriage. That definitely got to be some joke, it was in his eyes at least.
"Alex, sit and I'll explain it to you." His father, Ashton ordered in a strict voice, his demeanor composed in spite of his son's tantrum. Alex huffed and went towards his father and sat on the sofa, across from his. "Listen Alex," His father started, with his wife Eliza beside him and his other son Jacob on the sofa adjacent to theirs. Alex nodded, his posture stiff and muscles tensed before Ashton continued having his full attention.
"Her name is Hazel Claire, daughter of my best friend Harrison Claire, one to whose wife's funeral you came along with us... He's about to die with his heart condition and wants her daughter married before that." Alex nodded calmly, remembering the day he went with his father just for the moral support while not really caring about the girl's name.
"We want you to marry her." His mother, Eliza Knight cut in. Eliza, wife of Ashton Knight was a very loving woman who had always adored Hazel just like her husband. Still in her fifties, she was a very beautiful woman with her golden blond hair and amber-green eyes, the very gift Alexander inherited from his mother.
Even though he had the looks as that of his mother, his whole demeanor was that of his father, cold, calm and arrogant when it comes to his work but a charming, sensitive and warm person when it comes to his loved ones.
Alexander sighed looking at both of his parents teaming up against him. "I will not." He denied again, not listening to what they had to say further.
"Why not?" This time, it was his younger brother Jacob, who interrupted. Alex turned to his brother to find him grinning mischievously at his brother's situation. The notorious one among the two with his dark brown hair and dark green eyes that allows every girl to fall for his honest features. At the age of twenty three, he will be taking the position of CEO, once his brother takes over the company.
"Shut up! Jake!" Alex shut him up with a glare which had his brother closing his mouth instantly but the grin trying to escape was very much evident on his face.
Alex turned back to his father, "Dad, I am not marrying the girl. I haven't even seen her. Besides, I am not forty that I should marry right away." With that he stood, making his way out of his father's mansion, wanting nothing but to crash once he reaches his pent house.
He was just outside the door, when his father's voice stopped him in his tracks. "Fine, then I'll hand over the company to Jake." He clenched his fists on either side him, not expecting his father to threaten him with the company. For years, from the time he took his place as a CEO after getting his degree from Harvard, he had done everything in him in the hopes of taking over the company one day, he had worked hard for it.
Even though loving and kind towards his family, he was a selfish man. There was no way he'd just let his company or anything promised or belonged to him to be taken away. If that means, marrying the girl he'd never seen before, so be it.
He turned back to his father, his eyes holding his for a longer time, a silent battle brewing between the father and the son, of defiance and unspoken words, before he spoke in a composed voice. "Fine, I'll marry her." With that he left.
(Chhapter to be continued in the next episode.)
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