Billionaire's Exchange Wife

"Happy birthday, Ariel. Today is your birthday. I have prepared a surprise for you in room 206. Her childhood sweetheart said as he offered her a glass of wine, but she hesitated a little before gulping it down her throat. "I will be waiting for you in room 206."

Once Damien stepped out of the box, the sweet smile and tenderness on his face was replaced with coldness and disgust. Although he did not like her, he despised doing this to her even more. Because of his helplessness, he has no choice but to listen and do what will make the woman he loves happy. And that involved hurting Ariel. He had only wanted to break his ten years of friendship with her quietly, and stop giving her false hope. He wanted to tell her he had been with her all along because he liked her sister and that Elvira was also carrying his child. He knows what they planned for Ariel today will completely ruin her, looking for a random stranger to sleep with her. He has tried persuading them to change the plan but Elvira has threatened him with an abortion. He has no other choice than to listen to her. Besides, he had an eye on Ann's company as he had planned to take over once he married Elvira, the favourite daughter of the Ann's'.

"You can go to the room now."

He hung up immediately before calling the love of his life Elvira Ann. The phone was immediately picked up on the other side

"Everything is set, you can come out now."

A woman came out of the box opposite.

She held her body to the man's body and kissed him.

"My love, we will be married soon now that my sister has been pushed out of our lives, oh poor thing, she must think you love her so much."

"Yes, my love, we will be married soon. I now have enough reason to throw her out of my life and be with the love of my life", Damien Ford chimed in as he returned Elvira Ann's kiss.

Meanwhile, Ariel began to feel dizzy, so she decided to go to room 206.

Ariel staggered all along the corridor of the hotel. Her delicate and beautiful little face blushed because of the tipsiness and the effect of the drug had started kicking in; she was wearing a long white coloured channel dress, which accentuated her curvy figure. She was beautiful and charming.

"It's strange! I only drank half of the wine Damien gave me. I didn't drink much....."

She kept patting her forehead but her vision was gradually getting blurred. Walking into the elevator, she pressed the button for the third floor. Coming out of the elevator, Ariel went straight to room number 206 because of her dizziness. She couldn't tell that the number on it stated room 209, VIP room.

She barged into the room without knocking.

"Damien, I'm here. The surprise you gave me was not fun at all. I'm not enjoying it. My whole body is heated up!"

The room was not light but one could vaguely see the luxurious furniture of the bedroom as well as the king-sized bed. It's really worth it for a presidential suit

"I'm so dizzy, Damien, why are you not saying anything? Are we playing hide and seek? Please come out now, I'm really dizzy". She collapsed on the big and comfortable bed, still calling on Damien.

"Where are you? Damien please come out now."

She was feeling heat in her body and the heat was making her so uncomfortable, so she unconsciously pulled off her gown, leaving her in her underwear.

A man was sitting on the couch and listening to the woman but his body was heated up. The man had thought it was his assistant and a doctor that had come in. He had come here for a business deal, who would have thought that his partner would drug him and set him up with his daughter. Even though the heat in his body was making him uncomfortable, he was still listening to the sweet voice. He was looking at her in the dark before moving closer to the woman who was now in nothing but her underwear and lying on the bed before asking

"Who are you?

"Damian, your voice has changed and why are you asking me who I was? Is this all part of the surprise? Please no more surprises. Please get me water to drink. I'm thirsty"

The man picked a bottle of water from the bedside, uncapped it and gave it to her to drink.

She collected the water and gulped it down her throat but it still could not quench her thirst. He moved closer to her so he could see her facial features clearly, but Ariel pulled him down on the bed with her. He quickly held out an arm to support himself, but was almost on top of her. Her sweet smell waffled into his nose coupled with the heat in their bodies which was making their bodies hotter and hotter.

"I'm sorry. I will take responsibility for you"

The temperature of Ariel's body became even hotter as she stuck her body to the man's body.

"Damien, what are you saying...?"

"Sorry. I will be gentle."

Her legs were directly separated by the man as he stuck something hotter than their bodies into her private part.

"Ouch, it hurts" Ariel winced in pain and the man's movement paused slightly. However, he was still incomparably fierce as he as he directly entered her.

"Damien, it hurts!"

"Sorry, it will stop soon. Don't cry"

The man kissed her softly.

The room was soon filled with ambiguous sounds of collision of skin, the man's heavy breathing and Ariel's calling out Damien's name in her unconscious state.

The sunlight shone upon her worn-out face.

She opened her eyes wearily and felt weak and tired. She quickly shut her eyes when the sun's rays poured into them.

Gradually she gently opened her eyes and allowed them to adjust to the brightness of her surroundings.

Where am I?

She thought as she raised herself to a sitting position and tried to remember what happened. Lifting up the quilt she found herself naked. Why am I here?

She remembered vaguely that she was celebrating her birthday and Damien Ford had given her alcohol to drink. She didn't remember anything else.

She lifted the quilt and checked herself. The hickey, purple and blue mark accompanied with the pain of being torn down there only proved that she had been taken.

She smiled sweetly when she finally remembered that Damien had asked her to meet him in the room last night. She was happy that her first time was taken by the man that loved her so much.

She stood up, picked up her dress on the floor and dragged her tired body to the bathroom to freshen up.

Hardly had Ariel Ann left the room when a young man got into the room. He checked through but didn't see the woman.

"Boss, I'm sorry she is gone" the man said, and left the room.

As soon as she stepped into the living room she was greeted with a ferocious stare.

There was a resounding slap after slap. Ariel was slapped hard by her father.

"You unfilial child, where have you been all night, knee" thud! She knelt on the cold tile.

"To atone for your sin, you will have to marry Rex Anderson."

Ariel's body shook violently when she heard her father saying she would have to marry

Rex Anderson.

"What? You mean I am going to marry that crippled and disfigured shit of a man? Dad, you must be kidding me, right? I won't marry that thing ever, not in this life."

Pa!

She got slapped again by the person she called her father.

Right there in the living room the person she called her sweetheart of ten years sat down there alongside her sister and stepmother.

Her stepmother shouted angrily and the shout almost removed the roofing of the house. "Whore, you still know how to come home?"

Ariel was startled. She knew there was only one person that treated her right and that was Damien.

"Damien, why are you not saying anything? You promised to marry me, right? Tell them I won't marry that man.

Damien, please tell them we love each other" no matter what she said, the man just kept quiet staring at her like some, strangers.

"Did you also want them to marry me off? Damien say something."

She had hoped that one day she would marry her childhood sweetheart and start a family with him so that she would no longer be looked down upon.

Damien smiled evilly and that sent chills down Ariel's spine.

"You want me to marry you after spending the night with some wild man. You are dirty".

Ariel staggered backward when she heard that she had spent the night with a wild man.

Was the man not Damien?

"Damien, what the hell are you saying? We were together last night."

She looked at the man with the hope that he would say she was with him, but unfortunately the words she had expected to hear did not come.

As Damien looked at her like some dirty piece of shit

"Ariel, I wasn't the man with you last night". Such news was a blow to her as she directly fell on the ground.

What did she just hear? She was violated by another man. She was still trying to process what she had just heard when Damien spoke up again.

"So tell me, Ariel, who would marry him, you must have thought too highly of yourself to think I would really love someone like you? Oh, Ariel baby, you see I would have married him in your stead, but you see the fact that he agrees to the marriage between Ann and Anderson shows he is not gay, so you see I can't marry him in your stead."

"No Damien", Ariel struggled to grab Damien's arms and anxiously said "Damien, it's me Ariel. You said you loved me and would marry me..." before she could finish her sentence,

Damien Ford pushed her away. Ariel staggered a little before she stabilized herself.

"Ariel, can you be less shameless? I don't love you. The only person I love is Elvira Ann.

After he finished speaking, he moved closer to Elvira and kissed her.

"You must be tired; you haven't had anything to eat since last night"

"Yes love"

Ariel watched as the two of them talked and acted sweetly.

"Damien"

Ariel called out to him weakly.

Her father's eyes turned red in anger. He hated this child very much. She reminded him of that woman and that pissed him off.

"Ariel, the Anderson's are the richest and most powerful family in Oakland, so many women would have been lining up at the Anderson doorstep day in day out if Rex Anderson had not been disfigured"

Ariel looked at her father with a pained expression.

"Why should I take Elvira's place in marrying the devil? I will not marry him."

"Oh my dear daughter, tell me, do you think you would have gotten the chance to marry him in your sister's stead if he's not disfigured? And besides, your sister is carrying Damien's child, so Damien wouldn't be marrying you."

Ariel felt dizzy with the news circulating around her, she swirled and fell on the floor again with her tears running like a river.

Meanwhile, Elvira's mother, Tanya Albert, hugged her daughter tightly. She kept patting her head, after her angry shout the other time she decided to say something again.

"Ariel, you must have thought so highly of yourself. Only god knows how many men you have slept with" she looked at her body disdainfully.

"I never believed you liked wild men. I have always thought you were innocent, but who would have thought that you would like to enjoy yourself with wild men? Ariel, tell me, is it my precious daughter that you want to marry a man whose servant can't even stand because of his disfigured appearance and temper?

Both mother and daughter suddenly had tears in their eyes.

Timothy Ann looked at his wife and precious daughter who were crying in each other's embrace and the anger in his heart suddenly turned to frustration as he hugged the mother and daughter.

"Honey, do you think I will allow our precious daughter to marry that crippled man? The Anderson family has promised to help us pay our debt and also cooperate with our company and now I have decided to marry Ariel off as the bride.

"I won't marry that crippled, ugly and perverted man, everyone knows about that! No woman in Oakland dares to accept the Anderson family proposal as no woman dares to get married to that man. We all know he was involved in an accident ten years ago. Besides ruining his face, the accident also changed his personality! He's a monster inside and out that his maids can't even stand him. We've both heard that he likes to torture his previous fiancee. I won't allow Myself to be married off to that monster. I have my own human rights."

Ariel Ann's voice resonated in the Ann villa.

"You have no choice, Ariel. I have said it once and I will say it again. You are the eldest daughter of Ann's family, so it's your responsibility to help us out of our trials. You must take Elvira's place and marry into the Anderson family or get ready to become homeless with your mother's ashes.

Timothy Ann commanded and threatened Ariel in a stern and cold voice as he embraced his wife and daughter, whose act could be seen through at a glance.

Ariel bit her lips and her face turned pale. the only asset she has from her mother was her ashes and to keep that she was now told to marry someone she didn't even know and the only thing about him was rumours. She looked at her father and Damien with hatred in her eyes.

"Ariel, as long as you marry Rex Anderson your mother's ashes will be kept safe here in Ann's mansion and we will stop paying for your Aunt's treatment."

Elvira crossed her arms and said in a tone of disgust,

"You can think about it, your mother's ashes will be flushed down the toilet. Don't you care about your mother's remains and your bed-ridden Aunt?"

Ring! Ring!!

"Pick it up"

Timothy Ann commanded coldly and she did.

"Hello Ariel, we are calling from the hospital are you miss Ariel Ann, a relative of Joana Emrys?

Ariel nodded, wiping a film of tears that threatened to fall from her eyes.

"Yes, I am how is she?"

"She's suffering from pre-renal azotemia. I'm sorry to say that she is in critical condition. She needs treatment now.

Something snapped in her. It was as if the strings holding her up had been cut off by the doctor's words. Her legs, which had been soft before, gave way as she collapsed to the ground and she dissolved into sobs. She knew her aunt had always been in poor health due to fire burn she had been in the hospital for almost eight years. She never expected her condition to worsen so suddenly, especially to this extent.

"Doctor, my aunt has been with you for a long time. You have to save her. Please" she said, tears streaming down her face. The doctor at the other end of the call breathed in a deep breath before he continued.

"Of course, we will try our best as it is important to treat the condition before kidney damage happens, but if there's no payment for the treatment, I'm afraid we can't proceed with the treatment.

Ariel's heart sank.

"How much would it cost?"

She hoped that it would be something she would be able to afford but knew it was all a joke as anyone with common sense would know that the Ann's would not give her the money for the treatment.

"We are estimating the cost of daily dialysis at about seventy-two thousand dollars, so the overall treatment will cost about seven hundred thousand dollars for a year.

Her mind blank out.

Where would she get that much money from? The Ann's won't spare her such.

Her hands clenched into a fist, it seemed her father was aware of her Aunt's condition and used it to force her.

The cost didn't matter. I have to save the only family member I had left.

Ariel looked at the people in the room and felt nothing for them but hatred. She said firmly but with grief, "I will marry Rex Anderson. But I want my mother's ashes and one million dollars for my Aunt's treatment in exchange."

"Deal"

Timothy Ann replied as he stood up with his beloved wife and daughter, leaving Damien with Ariel. .

"Ariel, if you want to blame someone, blame me. Scold me, beat me as you like if that will help. I have always loved your sister, but I don't know how to tell you. I don't mean to set you up. But she is pregnant; the baby is mine and she threatened to abort the baby. That's the reason why I agreed to the plan. I'm sorry Ariel."

Ariel stared at the man in front of her. She suddenly felt the Damien Ford whom she had known for ten years was different from the one she was seeing now.

Her childhood sweetheart connived with her step-sister to ruin her life and, to make it all worse; he was going to be the father of her step-sister's child.

Meanwhile, she became an item sold to the Anderson family.

"Damien Ford, well played, very good", Ariel turned and left without sparing Damien a glance.

Meanwhile, at the flower garden villa, Rex Anderson was pacing up and down in his study with his assistant Pius.

There was a frown between his eyebrows, he fished out a box of cigarette from his pant pocket and lit one, he exhaled with a small sigh as he tossed the lighter and the box of cigarette onto his desk and it made a banging sound.

"How long will it take you to locate a girl?" he was losing his patience.

His assistant was sweating profusely in order not to offend the devil. Silence befell the room once more.

Sometimes later, his assistant was beaming with joy. "Sir, we found her ". He was happy about the fact that he had not offended the devil even though they had both been friends since their childhood. His boss's parents treated him as their second child. They also make it their responsibility to cater for their family.

He really can't finish paying for their goodness in this lifetime.

He was still beaming with joy when Rex's cold and thunderous voice sounded again.

"Who is she," he finally took a seat on the cushion chair.

Pius quickly printed the information and gave it to him. He honestly did not want to get scolded. He had made a mistake yesterday and his boss had not gotten even with him. He can't afford to make another one.

Rex Anderson collected the folder and opened it with his left hand, his right hand putting out his cigarette on a crystal tray.

His eyes widened when he saw the information about the girl, the illegitimate daughter of the Ann family. Age; twenty years old, he remembered he had asked the girl how old she was and she had answered him twenty-two. He closed the document; his eyes were cold as ice.

When Pius saw the look on his boss's face he knew there was fire on the mountain. He quickly approached him before he could call him.

"Pius, you seem to be so comfortable these days, since you are less busy and being idle has also made you forget your job. If I remember correctly, you have not been to the forest for a very long time. How about you pay the forest a visit this weekend?"

Hearing the word forest, Pius shivered all over his body. He jumped up in fear.

"Sir, please tell me what command you have for me. I'm more than ready to carry it out."

The forest Rex referred to was created by him and it's a very scary place to stay.

No matter how brave you are, you won't be able to stand there a day and a night, but the devil himself spends most of his weekend on that dangerous field called a forest.

"The information didn't tally with the information we have. Do more findings"

"I'm on it sir", Pius hurried out of the study room with his long legs to avoid being sent to the forest.

Rex Anderson is someone people don't want to get closer to. It was rumoured that he was crippled and had a very scary scar covering part of his face. There were so many rumours about him that some even exaggerated them to the extent that he

ate women's flesh, while some said he was gay.

His own family members also believed he had been crippled for almost ten years and the burn scar on his face was also scary, because he had been attending family gatherings in a wheelchair and a mask that covered part of his face.

This time around, without wasting time, his assistant came back with a folder.

"Sir, here is all we can gather."

Rex Anderson stretched out his big and slender hand and collected the documents.

His hands trembled immediately. He opened the first page of the information; even Pius, who was standing not far away from him, could see the fear and pain in his boss's eyes.

On that page was a picture of a woman. Timothy Ann's first wife died ten years ago. His whole body trembled when he remembered how the woman was lying in the pool of her blood. The woman died in his stead. The woman fought with the people that

Kidnapped him then and also received the bullets that were meant for him.

The woman has told him to take care of her daughter and he has forgotten the promise and sets his mind on nothing else but revenge.

He had planned this revenge for a very long time. His uncle had been his main target while Timothy Ann was his accomplice, but now it was clear that Timothy Ann traded his wife for money. He kept opening the information until he got to

a page which stated that Ann's clothing should be handed to Ariel Ann once she had clocked twenty-three, the person he met yesterday was the woman's daughter and she was supposed to be celebrating her twenty two years and not twentieth birthday and also Ann clothing originally belonged to that woman and not Timothy Ann, now he has to acquire the Ann group and handed it over to the rightful owner to fulfil his promise, he thought, as he dropped the file on the table while beckoning Pius to come over.

"Pius, please find out who drugged Ariel yesterday."

"Sir, the information is also in the file". Pius replied quickly.

He picked up the folder again and opened it.

Damien Ford, Ariel's childhood sweetheart. In the file where pictures of Ariel and Damian turning to another page he saw some pictures of Damien and Elvira coming out of the hotel.

When he opened the last page he found a pregnancy report attached to it, he laughed out loud, the body guards at the door and Pius, who was standing behind him, felt a chill all over. He had planned to marry Ann's favourite daughter and date the other one outside his marriage make them fall in love with him and use that to cause a rift between them, but who would have thought that she would dare get pregnant was the Ann's planning to make him a father to another man's child?. He was the one that gave the Ann a project knowing they wouldn't be able to carry it out and he was also the one that withdrew his capital, which made them almost bankrupt and nobody was willing to lend them money. He did all that and he was also the one that offered them ten million dollars on the condition of marrying their daughter to him, but it seems he underrated the Ann's.

"How on earth did I miss out on such information?"

Pius lowered his head, knowing fully he was the one that messed up.

Ariel, don't worry. I swear I won't hurt you, I will surely get the company back to you, he thought.

"Sir, I guess Timothy Ann will change the bride"

Pius said, and Rex Anderson chuckled coldly.

"Let's wait and see. If they did, then we would change our plan."

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It was nine o'clock when I came back from visiting Aunt Joana at the hospital. I opened the door and went into the house. Well, I'm grateful they didn't lock me out after all the drama in the morning. The house was in total darkness so I switched on the light to take a look at the house I would be leaving in two days' time. The lights from the crystal chandelier in the living room casted my shadow on the floor to ceiling window. I put on my household slippers and walked up the stairs to my room. As I walked, I heard a woman moan of ecstasy.

I was surprised they have no shame of doing that where everyone can see it's disgusting,

Standing by my door, I could clearly hear their cries of ecstasy in the room. The door was barely closed.

I unconsciously looked over and Elvira glanced at me with a trace of provocation in her eyes and her cry of ecstasy became louder.

My tears couldn't help but threaten to fall, my vision blurred that even my breathing could make my heart ache at that moment. My childhood sweetheart was holding another woman in his arms. He was infatuated in lust with her, not to realize I was by the door or was he doing that on purpose? I held my hands tightly, suppressing the urge to rush forward and scream at them to stop.

Elvira's eyes were seductive. Her voice was even more charming than I had ever heard.

"My love, did you think what we did to Ariel was bad? Don't you feel pity for her?

Poor thing"

"Why would I feel pity for her? I love you and our baby and that's all that matters." Damien spoke in a deep voice while his hands wandered around Elvira's body.

"What in case she sees us doing this kind of thing? Don't you think she will be sad?"

Elvira looked at me provocatively with a smug sneer at the corner of her mouth.

"So what's the big deal? There's no difference between doing it here and what we usually do in hotels.

I'm sure she won't come back early. Besides, how will she see us?"

Damien Ford continued to touch Elvira and she giggled with excitement.

"Since you don't like her, how did you put up with her for ten good years?"

"My love, if it wasn't for the love I have for you why would I tolerate such a stupid person? It was a difficult task but I will do anything for you, my love."

Damien Ford said these words nonchalantly as he gently pinned Elvira under himself.

"Love, Ariel is really here. She has been standing by her door since."

Damien looked at me with a trace of panic that was instantly covered with anger. He tore away from Elvira and at this moment I could sense that his lust had disappeared.

Elvira wrapped her body in a quilt and looked at me with a sneer.

At this very moment I knew I couldn't suppress my tears any longer, as anger and hatred for the Ann's family and Damien surged inside me.

I wanted to vent my pain, my anger and hatred so badly, but what could I do? I'm a weak and stupid person, so the only thing I could do was to go into my room and cry my eyes out.

Each time I cried out, anger and hatred filled me to the core. I was just a stepping stone for them in their relationship. In the last ten years, I have regarded

Damien Ford as my sweetheart and that bitch, Elvira, as my sworn enemy. After ten years of friendship, I initially thought we would get married and I would finally have the family I longed for, but what now? The dream, the hope, everything I mean, everything was shattered. My tears continued falling as my mind was in disarray.

What happened kept replaying on my mind. Just in one day, I found out my childhood sweetheart had got together with my sister behind my back. They were even expecting a child. I was conspired against and sent to another man's bed by my childhood sweetheart and that same night I witnessed them both having sex. For ten years, I have never suspected Damien because he was the person I loved most.

How sad and ridiculous my life was.

I have always thought these things always happened on TV but here I am experiencing the way the real world operates.

I have been betrayed by the one I said I love the most, and the person they called my father didn't care about my feelings instead he is using me as a bargaining chip for his company and family. The more I cried, the more hatred I have in my heart for all of them.