Hellbound With You (WN)

My plan? ” Kelly looked at her best friend. Her eyes lit by a glint of mischief, not the playfulness of an innocent child, but something crazy and… dangerously alarming.

Abi waited patiently. Knowing that Kelly wasn ’t the type who just sit there and accept everything, Abi was intrigued at what she was planning to do next.

”Running away. ” Kelly grinned, but Abi couldn ’t see the determination she was expecting in Kelly ’s eyes. The stubbornness and wildness Kelly usually possessed were gone.

”But I can ’t run away, ” she added. ”My family… all they have is me. I understand why my father is doing this. Since I was young, I was raised to accept my fate. That one day, I will get married, not for the sake of love but the sake of my family and the company. And I knew I couldn ’t escape this… and that ’s why I asked for a year of complete independence. They gave it to me. I promised them I would abide by whatever they want after that. If I ran away… I will betray them, and without me, their one and only heir, my family… the company will eventually…. ” Kelly leaned back and rubbed her face with her hands. ”My mother is ill and my father… I could already foresee what would happen if I run away… he ’ll go mad and might have a heart attack. The company is everything to him. He ’ll do everything to find me, and even if he would fail to find me, I don ’t want to be the cause of the family ’s fall. ”

”How about plan B? ” Abi asked softly after a long while of silence. She knew how serious and complicated Kelly ’s situation. Before Kelly met Kai, Abi knew that Kelly was never really serious about finding the love of her life. It was because of this. Had she not meet Kai, Kelly might be sitting there now, with her legs folded as she drinks her wine elegantly, like a savage queen, completely unfazed. She might even willingly marry Tristan, but of course, with meticulous plans and conditions that would never make her emerged victorious in the end. Kelly had been a little too callous to men back then. But now, meeting Kai changed her.

There was a long pause before Kelly responded. ”The plan B is… ” she forced a grin again. ”I need to find a man in the next four days to wed. ”

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”Oh, ” Abi ’s lips formed a small ’o ’. ”Alex and I can help Kelly. Alex can call Kai – ”

”No, Abi. ” Kelly cut her off. ”Not Kai. ” She shook her head as she flashed a bitter smile.