Forced to Marry my Sister’s Fiancé

Two.

Georgia couldn’t remember the ride home. The moment she left her office building she immediately got into her audi car and braced the road and raced home.

She couldn’t trust what that slimy bastard Arthur had said about not alerting the authorities and so she had to be ahead and immediately exit the city before they came for her. There was no way to prove her innocence at the moment, and the logical thing would be to escape and evade arrest before she would slowly gather her evidence.

When she reached her apartment building, a tall skyscraper that seemed to touch the sky. She jumped out of her car hurriedly, almost sending her phone crashing to the ground.

She approached the building with fast strides, barely returning the well intentioned greetings of some of the staff and neighbors she encountered on her way.

It was only when she got inside the elevator, her heart racing and trying to catch her breath that the thought of calling her best friends skylar and maddie came to her. She couldn’t believe she’d have to leave them but it was a necessary sacrifice. She could already imagine their reactions to the news once she tells them.

She took another steadying breath, before she whipped out her phone and called the two of them in a group video call. She didn’t expect them to pick up immediately, as they ought to be very busy at the moment. Today as a Monday, was usually their busiest day.

Sky was a tattoo artist who owned a very successful tattoo shop and had even award winning celebrities as clients. Once she’d even been approached by a tv studio who were interested in making a reality show about her and her business, but she’d refused. She loved her privacy far too much.

While Maddie was a Dentist. She worked at her father’s dental clinic, and she was a major shareholder in the clinic and was among the hospital’s senior board members.

Georgia had met sky when they were both in law school and had immediately hit it off. They remained very good friends even after sky had quit law school, not because she wasn’t smart enough, but because she simply loved tattooing far too much for it not to be her calling.

They met Maddie not too long after in a bar when she’d been publicly humiliated by her boyfriend and they went up to stand up for her when not even her friends did, and they’ve been inseparable ever since. Well except now, when Georgia would be forced to be a fugitive.

Maddie picked up on the call on the last ring, and immediately her flushed face filled the screen. She had on her scrubs and a face mask pulled down on her chin.

“Heyy girl!” Her cheery voice immediately boomed, but another look at Georgia had her smile dropping. Her gorgeous friend didn’t normally call during work hours, and the sight of her red eyes and disheveled face told her that something was definitely wrong.

“Oh baby what happened?” Her voice turned soft and soothing as she looked at Georgia through the screen, wishing she could be with her immediately.

“Hi Maddie..something really terrible happened,” Georgie sniffled, the sight of her concerned friend breaking down the tight reigns she had on her emotions.

A beep sounded and then Skylar joined the call too. Like Maddie she also had a mask pulled down to her chin, her thin wired glasses on her nose and her long hair pulled in a top bun atop her head..

“What’s going on Georgie?” Sky immediately asked, concerned etched on her face when she noticed the sour look on her best friend and the worry on Maddie’s face.

At the question Georgie immediately broke down in tears, her lithe body quaking as she tried and failed to control her emotions. She was only glad that it had been only her inside the elevator, and thus far none had stopped the lift in it’s ascent.

“Georgie honey, what’s going on? You’re scaring us,” Skylar asks, her voice soft while worry gnarled in her heart. Georgia had always been the strong her, she could count the number of times she’d seen her break down on one hand, in all the years she’s known her, so she couldn’t imagine how terrible a thing to reduce her friend in such a state.

Georgia took a moment to steady her breath, before she recounted the whole experience to her friends who listened with rapt attention. Once in a while breaking out in cursed outrage at the absurdity of what was happening to their friend.

“And now I don’t know what am going to do, I have to leave the city by tonight or god knows what would happen to me,” Though she felt better having talked about it with someone, she still didn’t have a solution for her mess.

“That bastard! I can’t believe he’d do that to you, especially after all you've done for him," Skylar exclaimed, her voice roaring with anger. "We're with you on this, Georgie, and we'll help you in any way we can."

Maddie nodded in agreement. "Absolutely, Georgie. You're not alone in this. Why don’t you come to mine. Staying in your place is not safe.”

Georgia was shaking her head even before maddie finished speaking. “Staying with you two is still risky. It’s easy enough to track me back to yours. There is only one solution. I’ll have to leave the city for as long as it takes to Prove my innocence.”

Skylar and Maddie exchanged worried glances over the video call. Maddie then said, "Georgia, leaving the city won't be easy, and it's a big decision. But we understand that you have to protect yourself. You have our full support."

“But Georgie where are you going to go?” Skylar asks, her face pinched in distress. “That fucker better pray to whatever god out there that we don’t cross paths!” She growled.

“I don’t even know yet, but I can get a motel outside the city tonight. I’ll think of my options tomorrow.” Georgia says, feeling her head pound in an impending headache.

Sky and Maddie exchanged glances again, a thought passing through them, before Skylar sighed, knowing what she was going to say would only upset her friend more. “Georgia, you have to go back.”

Georgia’s face turned blank, as she looked at her friend through the tiny screen. “Back where?” She asked, her voice laced with a growl.

“Back home Georgia, to Moore. This is the only solution you’ve got Georgie. No body would be able to trace you there.” Skylar’s face hardened, knowing Georgia wasn’t going to make it easy.

“Am not going back there Skylar.” Georgia said with a tone of finality, looking offended that Skylar had even suggested it.

“It’s the only choice Georgie. The government does not take the issues of spies lightly. They would go to the ends of the world to find you. Georgia Valentine has to disappear, at least for the moment.” Maddie says, her usual soft spoken voice hard and unyielding.

“You need to reassume your identity as Georgia Valentino and go back home. Only then would your safety be guaranteed..” Skylar added, her face easing up.

Georgia’s heart beat widely at the suggestion. She couldn’t go back. Not to that city ever. She couldn’t go back to that life of luxury and deceit. Of power plays and judgment. She’d vowed never to go back since she left at 16 and built a whole life for herself at the opposite end of the country. She couldn’t possibly go back.

“They disowned me remember? They’d sooner call the police on me then provide me a sanctuary,” They hated her almost as much as she hated them. And while she had reasons to detest them, she on the other than had only done them one wrong. She existed.

“You don’t have to tell them the circumstances. They know nothing of your life here, not even your new identity,” Maddie continued, the more they talked about it the more convinced she became that this was her friends only choice at safety.

The elevator finally came to a stop at Georgia’s floor, and slid opened, welcoming Georgia to the view of her hallway which she shared with four other neighbors.

“I have to go now.” Georgia mechanically informs them. She didn’t know what she’d expected calling her friends, but she certainly didn’t expect them to tell her to go back to that hell hole.

“Georgie, this is for your own-” Skylar worriedly starts, observing how cold her friend had gotten.

“I’ll call you guys later.” Georgia cut her off, and without another word, ended the call.

She exited the elevator, a huge burden atop her shoulders as she strides towards her apartment building, her mind in a turmoil. She wished she’d never told them about her true identity, then they’d never give her such a suggestion that the more she thought about the more likely it began to seem to her.

She still couldn’t believe they’d even mention it, knowing the bad blood she shared with her family, the bitter hatred she had for them and the anger that she could never quite let go even after ten years. But as she fumbled for her keys and unlocked her apartment door, a sinking feeling settled in her chest. She knew they were right – it might be the only way to stay safe.

But she didn’t like it. Oh she didn’t like it at all. And had she any other choice, she wouldn’t even dare dream of going back. But life seemed to be playing a cruel joke on her, and she had no choice but to laugh along.