Leonardo & Juliet

Juliet Calland

I walked into the restaurant and looked at Leonardo with hatred. I can't believe that he called me yesterday to tell me that we're going to get married by the end of this year. I forced him to come to Paris to say it to my face.

All the employees bowed to me and greeted me formally. I walked to Leo and gestured to all the employees to leave us alone.

Leonardo smirked looking at me and he gestured to me to sit down. I said down across him and put my bag on the seat beside me.

"I'm not going to marry you." I said and he suddenly put a paper in front of me. I looked at the paper and then I looked at him in disbelief.

"Do you think I want to marry you?" He scoffed and I laughed dryly.

"So.. you're giving me this marriage contract hoping that I will agree and sign it?" I asked.

"Why? You want to stay married to me forever?"

I grabbed the glass beside me completely wanting to throw this glass to his head. He's freaking crazy! Leonardo here or should I say the future King of Denmark, never liked me. He hates me with every single cell in his body. You can say that we're childhood friends because our family loved to go on vacations together.

But.. me and Leo never been civil with each other.

My twins, Jayson, and Leo are quite good friends. Jayson wanted me to be with Leonardo because he said that Leo is a good man, decent and really considerate. He's not like Carter who loves to fuck around town with every girls that he sees. People said that Leo was meant to be King and people loved him.

I can't help but agree about that part. He is smart, generous and quite wise for his age.

"I'm not going to marry you, Leo. You're sick for suggesting this contract." I said as I teared the paper into two.

"Our parents will set us up sooner or later so why not we have this agreement beforehand."

"You hate me, Leo. Why don't you find another woman? I bet there's tons of girls out there who would want to marry you." I smiled sweetly at him and he shook his head.

"Girls giving me headaches and I'm not planning to settle down now. I just want to take over the throne and find love later on."

"And what about me? You're selfish, Leo. You only think about yourself and for your own good."

"That's why I want you to tell me what you want, we're here to change whatever you want in the contract. I will try to cooperate with you." He smirked and I wanted to slap his fucking handsome face.

"I will not marry you, Leonardo. I will make it clear from this second that I will never marry you. We're not in love with each other and besides I don't want to get married with someone who hates me with every single cell in his body."

"Fair enough.. how about this.." He put his hands on the table as he leaned forward.

"You find me a bride."

"Me? Finding you a bride? What am I? A matchmaker? I'm a designer and I have no time to find you a bride!"

"I bet you have decent friends for your to introduce them to me." He said as he raised his eyebrows and grinning evilly to me.

"You're sick! Ask your sister, Aria, I bet she has a lot of connections." I said as I leaned back to my seat.

"Aria is busy."

"And I'm not?" I eyed the vase beside my glass completely wanting to throw it to his head.

"Ah! You're busy fucking boys around.." He said as he clapped his hands once. That's it! I got up from my seat and walked to his side planning to slap him. He caught my hand before it landed on his face.

"Why? I'm wrong?!" He asked me in a cold tone as his eyes darken.

"It's my life, I can do whatever I want!" I said as I tried to pull my hand away from his grip.

"Not anymore.. you're going to find me a bride or you'll be my bride instead, Juliet." He said seriously as he pulled my body closer. He slipped his other hand around my waist making me look at him annoyed.

"I'm not going to be your bride, Leo. You're sick!"

"Find me a bride then.. introduce me to all your friends who you think is decent enough to be my bride then I'll let you go." I pushed his chest trying to get away from him.

"What do you say Juliet?"

"I don't want to be involved in your crazy ideas, Leo. Find someone else to do it for you because I'm busy."

"Ah.. busy." He said nodding.

"I'll let you be busy but don't forget that we'll have our wedding soon, wife." My eyes widened hearing him calling me wife. I felt so weird hearing it from his mouth.

"There will be no wedding for us! I will-" Leo shut me off by crashing his lips to mine. I was caught off guard and I never imagined this situation in my life. Leonardo, the person who hated me the most, is kissing me.

"Are you crazy?" I pushed him away and he looked at me smirking.

"I'll tell you one last time, Juliet. Find me a bride or you'll be my bride instead.. it's your choice. You only have 6 months or else you and I will find yourself married to me." Leo said as he sat down on his seat again.

"Fine! I'll find you a bride.. give me a week and I'll go to Denmark to give you the list." I said as I walked back to my seat taking my bag.

"I can't wait to see the list, Juliet." He said as he held on his glass of wine.

"Promise me that you will leave me alone after that.." I said and he turned his head to me.

"No promises, wife."

"Don't call me that!" I looked at him in horror.

"I will stop calling you that after you find me a decent bride."

Leonardo Nielsen

I laughed so hard after I got into my limo to go to the airport after seeing Juliet. I wanted to laugh seeing her expression when I told her that we're going to get married by the end of this year.

She thinks she can get away from this marriage? There'll be no chance for her to get away from me. It's my time to trap her.

I never hate Juliet, it's impossible to hate her. No one could ever hate her, she's too perfect.

The reason I never act civil around her is because she always makes me go crazy. I've known her since she could walk and we spent a lot of time together with our family.

She's always been sweet and she has the charm to make everyone loves her. She's sweet, fun to be with, beautiful, talented and the only girl who can make me leave everything I'm doing to be with her.

It's a bad sign for me.

When she turned 20, her parents threw a really big birthday party. She showed up looking so beautiful in her sexy red dress. My heart almost popped out that day seeing her looking so beautiful. She grows up very well and turns into a really beautiful woman.

One thing that I don't like from her is how she can easily take people's breath away with her smile and those beautiful eyes.

Men lined up to be with her and she always loves attention from them. I hate how she can easily fall in love and be with anyone who can take her heart. She changes her partner like she changes her clothes. I hate how she acted like Carter sometimes.

I like her.. I've always like her but I tried not to.

I will make her go crazy, I will make her hate me, I will think of me, I will make her love me and I will make her my bride.

This is a good opportunity for me since our parents will arrange us soon. I will make her my bride by the end of this year.

A week later..

"Your Highness, Princess Juliet wants to see you." I smirked hearing that she's here.

"Bring her in." I said as I kept writing my journal. I heard her steps walking into my study room and I looked up to her. She brought a big black file with her and she was wearing a black short skirt with white shirt.

"What? You want me to bow?" She asked and I just gestured to her to sit on the chair in front of me.

"You bring the list?" I asked and she put the big black file in front of me.

"I have 7 candidates for you."

"Only 7?" I raised my eyebrows and she gestured to me to wait. She put her bag on the ground and she opened the file in front of me.

"First candidate, Maria Colombo." She said as she pointed at the first picture.

"She's Italian-American, she's the daughter of Rossi Colombo. You know Rossi Colombo right?" She asked as she looked at me.

"Pass." I said gesturing to her to tell me the next candidate. I honestly have no interest. I want the woman in front of me to be my bride but I can't just tell her that directly. We have to play games.

"I'm not finish, Leo." She hissed looking at me and I found her glancing at my lips. I wanted to laugh at her so bad for being so obvious. I know that she's trying so hard to keep herself sane.

"I don't like Rossi Colombo, he's a crazy man. I don't want to have a crazy father-in-law." She rolled her eyes and she showed me the next candidate.

"Castella Constine."

"Sounds like a cake name or a bread name." I said and I looked at Juliet. She looked like she's going to kill me instead of laughing at my comment.

"Just because her name sounds like a cake, it doesn't mean she's not decent. She's one of the richest businesswomen in Paris. She's a really nice person."

"Leonardo and Castella! It's like me and a cake.. I like Leonardo and Juliet better." I said and Juliet sighed.

"Don't be an idiot!" She said as she opened a new page.

"Jessica Deyes." Juliet pointed at the next picture and I put my head on my hand looking at the picture completely bored. I'm more entertained seeing Juliet explaining.

"She has a beautiful name!" I flinched hearing her shouting at me.

"Why are you shouting at me?" I looked at her disbelief and she sighed.

"You're not listening!"

"I'm listening, wife."

"Don't call me that!"

"Why wife?"

"Leonardo!" She smacked my desk and I put my hands in front her asking her to calm down. I got up from my seat and she plopped herself on the chair. She sighed and I chuckled looking at her.

"You know this Jessica Deyes?"

"She's my friend from Swiss. She just graduated from Harvard last year so she's a smart girl. She can keep up with your love for books." She said and I looked at her photo. Jessica Deyes looks beautiful but I'm not that interested.

"I like smart girls." I nodded.

"She can keep up with your boringness." Juliet here.. is the only one who always complained how boring I am as a person. It's my habit to bring books everywhere I go even I'm on vacation. She always called me boring every time she had the chance to.

"Ahh.. I'm not that boring, Juliet. Do you want me to show you that I'm not that boring?" I smirked as I walked to her. She got up from her seat at the speed of light.

"What are you doing?"

"I will show you that I'm not as boring as you though I would be." I said as I walked closer to her.

"You don't need to.."

"Why are you walking away?" I smirked as I kept walking closer to her.

"Why are you walking closer to me?" She pointed at my legs.

"I'm going to-"

"Don't even think about kissing me again!" She cut me and I raised my eyebrows.

"What?" I laughed hearing her bursting at me like that.

"You think I'm going to kiss you? Oh Juliet.. if you want me to kiss you so bad, all you need is ask. I'm willing to give you, wife." She threw a pillow from the sofa to my face.

"I hate you!"

Juliet Calland

I'm starting to have a headache talking to Leonardo. He's making me want to rip my hair off. I drank my glass of water and sat down on the sofa in his study room. Leonardo is currently looking at all the candidates that I've picked for him.

"Tell me which one you like and I will introduce you to them." I said as I put down my glass on the table.

"Jessica looks okay and I quite like.. uhmm Emilia." He said as he closed my file.

"Pick one, you're not going to have 2 wives." I said as I looked at him.

"I'm going to have 3 wives. I'll let you take the position of my first wife, Juliet." He smiled at me and I rolled my eyes.

"Just give me one name and I will arrange a meeting between you and her." I said, sighing.

"Are you sure they're a good candidate?"

"Yes, Leo. They have never been involved in a crazy scandal and they all have pretty good images." I said and he nodded.

"Why don't you prepare me another set of list?" Did I hear him right?

"Leonardo, I'm a busy woman. I'm a designer, not a full time matchmaker. Ask your sister, she's a model."

"She moved to America 2 weeks ago." Leo said and I facepalmed myself.

"If you don't want to find my other candidate is fine, we can start planning our wedding and-"

"Fine! I will.." I said cutting him. He grinned knowing that I will give another set of candidates.

"I'll be waiting, wife." He said and I got up from the sofa. I picked the black file from the table.

"I'll come back here again when I have the candidates."

"Nah, I'll go to you. Tell me if you have the new list, I'll go Paris." He said as he got up from his seat.

"Very well." I said as I slung my bag to my body.

"Stay for dinner."

"No thanks, I need to go back to Paris as soon as possible." I said as I took out my phone from my bag. I walked to the door but Leo grabbed my hand.

"What?" I asked as I keep my eyes to my phone.

"Juliet." I turned to him and crashed his lips to mine suddenly giving me a peck on my lips. My body froze and I looked at him speechless. He kissed me last week and now he kissed me again.

Last week, I got a lot of nightmares because of it. I kept thinking about the kiss again and again. It kept me awake at night and I cursed him for that.

"Have a safe flight, wife. I'll be waiting for a good news.. or you and I will say 'I do' in 6 months." He patted my hand and I slapped his hand away from me.

"If you dare to kiss me again, I will kick your balls and curse you to the end of the century." I said looking at him coldly. I wiped my lips and put a fist in front of him.

"Oops.. I thought you wanted me to kiss you." He teased me and I scoffed disbelief. I turned my body around and walked out from his study room. I walked out from the palace and got into the car to go straight to the airport.

"He's crazy!" I mumbled.

I landed in Paris and go straight to the office for a meeting. I have a big launching event in 2 weeks so I have to be ready for that.

I love my life in Paris, especially being in the fashion industry. I've been working with some famous brands for my next project and I'm hoping that people will love my new designs.

Preparing my events and preparing Leo's candidates at the same time was a really bad idea. I can't believe I'm working as his matchmaker. Because of him, I have a constant headache and lack of sleep.

I don't want to be his wife!

He's too boring to be with, too conservative, too formal sometimes and not to mention that he loves his books. He doesn't socialize a lot except mingling with his own people.

He hates me anyway so why the hell he wants me to be his wife?

Curse you Leonardo! I will find you a damn wife so you can stop bullying me. I will find a better candidate this time and I'm confident enough that he will like my new sets of candidates. I have some girls on my mind right now and I bet he will love it.

I closed my eyes to rest it for awhile before I have to go on a 3 hours night meeting. As soon as I closed my eyes, my brain replayed the kiss from earlier. I opened my eyes in horror.

I rather see a ghost than thinking about the kiss!

Ugh!

Curse Leonardo!

"Ms. Calland, your coffee." My secretary gave me my cup of coffee and we walked to the meeting room right away.

"Buy me a medicine, I'm having a bad headache." I said to her and she immediately left the meeting room. I checked some files before start the meeting.

My phone rang from my bag and I picked it up without looking at the caller ID.

"Allo." I answered in French.

"I never thought you sound so sexy talking in French, wife." My eyes widen and I looked at the caller ID.

"What do you want?" I asked him in a cold tone.

"That's not a good tone to talk to your future-husband, wife."

"Stop calling me that!" I hissed.

"My parents want to see you and they called your parents too to talk about the wedding."

"I'm not marrying you!" I said it loudly and my employees looked at me confuse.

"Just cooperate.. they don't know that I asked you to find me a bride."

"I don't want to cooperate with you. I don't want them to get the wrong idea."

"If you don't want to cooperate with me, we will proceed the wedding in 6 months." I sighed hearing him.

"Fine! When?"

"That's my wife, come to Denmark next week."