Chapter 5 .5

The sunrise brought a new day, a day of fun and waves of laughter for some and bring sadness

and sorrow for others. But on this beautiful Monday morning, Ivy woke up in an unfamiliar room.

'Where am I?' She asks herself trying to get up but only to feel pain in her lower half.

"What-" she lifts the cover only to find that she's completely naked.

"Fuck," she curses.

Ignoring the pain she got up and got dressed, just when she was about to walk out the bathroom door opened shocking her to see who the man that walkout is.

She didn't need him to tell her it was him. She did something no one in the Eden family would dare to do. She slept with one of the enemies and on top of that, it happens to be the one she hates the most.

Devin Collin.

Devin stops by the bathroom door surprised to see that Ivy was about to leave. She said that she would take responsibility and now she's trying to run away.

The two stare at each other in silence, Ivy ignoring the headache and Devin trying to calm his anger.

Yes, Devin's mad. Mad because all of what he did that woman wanted and say that she'll be responsible for everything and now she's trying to run away. If he hadn't come out when he did she would have been gone.

Seeing that Devin's in only a towel wrapped around his waist, Ivy recalled everything that happened last night and what's worst about it is that she enjoyed it. She enjoyed making love with her enemy.

She curses herself under her breath for being so dumb. This is the first time she ended up in this kind of situation and didn't know how to get out.

What if her parents find out, her sister who looks up to her? Ivy felt like pulling out every strand of her hair.

"There's a painkiller on the nightstand and a glass of water," Devin says breaking the silence.

"I'd rather leave than take the painkiller," Ivy says.

" so you're planning on leaving when you said you'll be responsible for whatever happened after the kiss, you wanted and now you're going back against your words," Ivy flinch a little, this was the first time Devin talk to her in such a cold manner.

Even though they are the enemy. Devin never sits down and argues with Ivy all he does is say one or two things, ignore or smirk and doing these things makes Ivy's blood boil.

"Fine," Ivy pull out a pen and paper from her purse " tell me your amount and I'll send a check for you."

Her stupidity made a bitter laugh escape Devin's mouth, " Tell me, Eden, does it look like I need your money."

Of course, Ivy wanted to give him money so he could keep his mouth shut, but Devin Collin isn't a man in need of money. Like her, Devin is a billionaire.

"What is it that you want?" Ivy asks her stern gaze not leaving Devin's.

"What do I want?" A devilish smirk cross Devin's lips as he step closer to Ivy, Ivy stood her ground and stand tall as Devin stood in front of her, "what I want is for you to be my wife."

Ivy gasp at his words and look up at his face to see if he was bluffing but only to find that he was dead serious.

'What has getting into him? How can he want something that can't happen?'

Ivy scoffed and look away, "you must have finally gone crazy."

"Gone crazy for you," Devin smirked making Ivy glared at him.

"I'll rather die than marry you, Collin," Ivy hiss.

"You don't have a choice," Devin turn his back to her and walk to his dresser, Ivy stare at him waiting for him to continue, "you walk through that door without agreeing to be my wife then what we did in here would be known to the public and you know who would go down by this news."

Ivy's body stiffened, Devin's right if the news about her having sex with Devin Collin got out, she would be the one that would be in ruin because she's a woman. She'll probably get kicked out of the Eden family and her position as CEO would be taken away from her, everything she works hard for would be taken from her and what's worst Devin would come out of this situation without a scratch.

"Why... Why do you want me to be your wife, you know that our family don't get along," Ivy asks curiously.

Devin turn to face her a smirk still crossing his lip, "why? I find you amuse and your also good in bed."

An annoyed expression crossed Ivy's face.

Marrying him?

"You can walk out and everyone will know, or you can agree and this along with our marriage will be our secret."

He gives her two choices but the two of them aren't good.

"Fine, I'll marry you," Ivy has no other choice but to go with the first option of becoming his wife, but in their marriage, she plans on making his life a living hell.

Devin smiles and grabs some papers from a drawer, " here, these are our marriage contracts."

"What do you want me to do with them?" Ivy asks confused.

"Sign them of course, but you should read-"

Ivy jerk the paper from his hand and signs them one by one not bothering to read them. After signing she shoves them at him.

With a chuckled, Devin took them and handed her something.

"What is it know?" Ivy groaned.

"Our marriage certificate," he says making Ivy hold her breath when she saw the picture of her smiling like there's no worry in her life while Devin stood next to her with an amused look on his face.

"You are now my wife," Devin smirked "Mrs Collin."

Ivy snaps her gaze at him, " I'm going to make your life a living hell, Collin."

"I'll send you the address to our house, Mrs Collin, I'll come home after work."

Ivy groaned and walk out while cursing herself out.

When Ivy reached her penthouse, she kick off her heels and run straight to the bathroom to prepare a bath.

"Fuck Ivy, how did you get so fucking dumb? How could you do such a thing?" She asks staring at her reflection in the mirror.

She still couldn't believe that she had sex with Devin or even being his wife. She was already planning to make her children and Devin's children enemy and now look she's now married to Devin.

"Curse my drunk self," she mutters.

Her phone starts to ring. It was her mother, she took in a deep breath before answering putting the phone on speaker as she got in the bathtub, putting her phone down beside her.

"Hello," she answers as nothing happens.

"Ivy, where are you? I have been trying to get onto you for so long," her mother asked not hiding the anger in her voice.

"I'm in my penthouse, taking a bath," she answers.

"Ivy, why do you make promises that you can't keep?" Her mother asks " you promise your sister that you'd be there for her photoshoot today and didn't show up."

Ivy's eyes widen. She did promise Ebony that she was going to be there, but she wasn't.

'Fuck,' she curses silently.

It's all because of that shit face.

"Come by the mansion, your grandfather is waiting for you," Her mother ended the call.

Ivy groaned and sink her head under the water.

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Devin stood in his office staring down at the streets through the big glass window. With a smirk that had been plastered on his lip from the moment Ivy walk out of the room this morning.

'She brags about her beating him all the time," he chuckled.

Devin knows that she would hate to become his wife and that happens to be one of the reasons why he wanted her to marry him. The two reasons he told why he wanted her weren't a lie either.

His office door push open, he turn to find it was Flynn.

"Where were you last night?" Flynn ask making Devin roll his

After Devin ditched Flynn. Poor Flynn didn't know what to do, he search high and low for Devin but didn't find him. Flynn even called Devin numerous times on the phone but of course, Devin didn't answer.

"I was with my wife," Devin answered sitting in his chair with the same smirk that make Ivy gets annoyed.

Flynn stares at Devin confuse, "Wife? When did you get married?"

Flynn knows what kind of man Devin is. He isn't the type to chase after women especially not the type who shows interest in marrying.

"Yes, my wife," Devin say ignoring the look his friend was giving him. He sigh and handed Flynn his marriage certificate.

Flynn grab the paper and stare down at it, shock cross his face when he saw the lady in the picture smiling so freely.

"How did you get this?" Flynn ask.

'There's no way Ivy Eden would do this, especially with Devin. It's clearly photoshopped, but then again the black dress look similar to the one Ivy wore last night.' Flynn thought.

Taking his marriage certificate back, Devin smirked, "It's easy to make her do things when she's drunk."

A gasp left Flynn's mouth. He stares at his smirking friend in disbelief.

"You took advantage of a drunk woman," Flynn says, "she's gonna kill you."

That made Devin's smirk turn into a grin. He's excited to see what Ivy would do he's ready to be amused by her.