His Arranged Bride

She is a gem

Gillian's POV

After meeting Mason's parents , I decided to go and see Dylan so that I can explain to him what happened.  I arrived at his house pulling over I noticed his car was in the spot he usually parks in and there was another one.

I got out of the car and walked to the front door; I slowly opened the door letting myself in the house.

I looked around hoping to see him but he was nowhere to be seen, I walked in his room and there was another woman sleeping on his bed.

“Who are you?”  she asked me as I tried to stay strong wondering what was happening

“I am… am” I struggled to explain myself when she cut in short, “Oh! Wait! You are that woman? The fat-rich kid” She said as tears filled up my eyes, what was she talking about

“Fat? Rich?”  I said mimicking her

“Yes, the girl who is always chasing after him despite him giving you hints, he doesn’t like you,” she said and I shook my head not sure if she was telling me the truth

“Listen, girl, if you really respect yourself and value yourself, move on. The guy was just using you to get s*x from you because I couldn’t give him, now that am back you can bounce off” She said to me as I struggled to take it in, was Dylan cheating on me this whole time? How could he do this to me? I asked myself inwardly

“I don’t believe, Dylan and I love each other very much,” I said to her as she chuckled looking at me with a straight face

“So, it’s true, you don’t usually believe what you can even see for yourself? Wait I call him” She said dialing his number and putting him on speaker.

“Hi baby,” She said through the phone and he excitedly responded, “My love, Missed me already?”  He asked her as I swallowed hard looking at her

“Yes, I miss you, you know it’s been long since we have been together why don’t you come back?”  She pleaded with him,

“I will be coming let me just finish what am doing” he responded before she went on telling him how much she loved him and him the same.

“Still don’t believe me?”  She asked me as tears fell from my eyes, I couldn’t believe that I was being used

“Why don’t you now get out while am still being nice?”  She said to me her voice suddenly changing as tears filled my eyes

“Also, make sure you take care of your body no wonder no man wants you” She said to me as I rushed to my car. What was happening in my life?  I couldn’t believe it, how was it possible she came back so quickly after him and I just broke up.

I went home and just went straight to bed, luckily my parents were not yet home so it was an opportunity for me not to have and deal with them after this.

I quickly rushed to my room locking myself, sleeping just like that, even though I was having problems I still needed to sleep.

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The next day I was woken up by the sound of my phone loudly ringing, I pulled it from the side of my table, answering without looking at the screen of the phone.

“Hello?”  I casually answered,

“Hello sweetie this is Mason’s, did I wake you up?” She softly asked me, Mason’s mother? Oh my God!

“Mrs. Sullivan!”  I said finally waking up from my sleep trying to be alert, looking at the time it was already 11 am. I had overslept and she was the one wake me up

“Please call me Nicole,” She said as I apologized once again for not recognizing her voice

“I got your number from your mother, I hope that’s fine” She explained to me but that was fine, I really didn’t mind since my phone really had no one to call me

“Of course not, Uh, how can I help you?” I asked her and she chuckled softly

“I thought you might be free and maybe we can meet” She said and I kept quiet, why did she want to meet me?’

“If you are not comfortable that’s fine” She said sounding disappointed, what was I going to do?

“It would be nice to meet you, just let me know what time and I will be there” I said to her as she cheerfully replied

“Great! Say in an hours’ time? At the Roan restaurant?”  She replied

“Okay, I will meet you there” I said cutting the call, how stupid was I to agree to meet with her? I don’t know anything about her and here I was going to meet her, I dragged myself out of bed. I quickly took a shower, came back and now the struggle of finding the perfect outfit’

She wore a jean, blacktop and olive-green blazer with vans, she quickly grabbed her bag and cellphone before she walked out. She had put on light makeup and didn’t exaggerate with her accessories.

I met Ariel on the way but just ignored her, going in my car and drove away. I arrived at the restaurant and found her sitting waiting for me

“Hello?”  She excitedly said standing up to greet me

“Hello, sorry. I am late. I was stuck…”  I wanted to apologize but cut me short

“Don’t worry, it’s okay. Why don’t you sit down?”  She offered me as I took my seat, “I already ordered some food, I hope you are okay with it” She said to me as I nodded my head, how could she decide on my behalf without asking me? Was I going to manage to be her daughter in law?  This was something I never expected?

Surprising when the food came it was pepper steak, my favorite.  “I love pepper steak; I hope you do as well” she excitedly said as they served us.

“Why don’t you eat?”  She offered me as I started eating, she asked me about my life and when she asked if I was seeing someone, I puzzled not sure what to say.

“I was seeing someone but recently broke up” I truthfully said leaving out the part that it was because of this marriage

“Shame, I don’t know why but I do hope that you will be fine with Mason, he may be a little overboard sometimes but his amazing” She said making me chuckle.

“Oh, speaking of the devil!”  She said looking behind me, as I turned to look at him

“hey!”  She waved at him smiling widely, I saw him roll his eyes after he saw me with her.

He turned coming towards us as he sat down to join us, he acted like I was invisible to him.  He acted like I was a plague the way he had wiped the side of the table where he decided to sit

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Mason’s POV

“Are you drinking this time?”  I asked her as I looked at her glass and Gill’s

“It had a low alcohol percentage so don’t worry,” She said without looking at me she was winking at Gill

“ You did well to come here, it’s good that I caught you, I was just talking to Gill and she says she has nothing to do this weekend, why don’t you two think of how you want you your engagement to be like,” she said to me and Gill who was quiet the whole time, I hated women who didn’t know how to speak for themselves and this one just proved to be the greatest turn off for me.

“If you don’t mind please excuse me, I need to take this” Gillian said after her phone kept on ringing, as I saw her walk away, I turned to my mother.

“Mother, what are you doing?  You don’t even like the Jenkins, why are you being nice to her?”  I asked her to explain why she was acting so different

“Because she’s a good girl and someone who can turn that cold heart of yours around, I have seen how you look at her,” She said to me chuckling loudly before she sipped from her glass

“I don’t like her! And that’s not going to change” I said to her before I poured myself some water

“Oh, I know that will you see what rare gem she is just not yet polished,” She said to me and I scoffed, “you don’t even know her, how could you be so sure?”  I asked her

“Because I do know a lot about gems than you, just wait when she becomes a swan. You will be drooling over her” She said and I wanted to laugh hard until I heard her asking Gillian if she had finished talking on the phone.

“yes, it was my father. He passes his regards” She said sitting down to join us again. My mother nodded her head as she sipped from her glass of wine winking at me.