MAYBE MEANT TO BE A BRIDE FOR MR ANTONIO

Angela sighed hotly, the hot afternoon heat was oppressive but not as oppressive as the loud voices of her sister and her friends going crazy over some idol.

"Antonio Montero! The youngest son of the famous Montero family! The unreal and awfully handsome hotshot of Hollywood whom many women idolised as their ideal husband".

The voice of a news broadcaster from the TV echoed in her ears, doubling the throbbing aching pain in her head.

"Even the rich and famous are awed by the wealth that surrounds them.

A family of idols and beauties. Of Course the saying the beautiful ones are not yet born doesn't apply to the Isandros because these besties are from the future and talking about wealth, you got that right, your own and favourite is once again at the top of the youngest billionaires chart, handsome Antonio Montero.a spectacular.. young.."

She sighed as the voice of the newscaster continued to mess with her head.

"Oh my gosh he is such an Angel, how can someone be so pretty and handsome at the same time".

Angela's immediate younger sister Kerry sobbed.

"He is so beautiful to be real".

Her friend Beth added.

"I wish I could have just a one night stand".

Christy, Kerry's other friend said in agreement.

Angela shook her head and folded the clothes she had been picking up for minutes now.

The twins were a lot to handle, littering their clothes everywhere.

I guess it's my punishment for spoiling them rotten, she thought.

"Hey Angela! Did you hear the news? Antonio Montero is coming to our town for a fan meeting, you can take a day off from your boring waitress work and have some fun".

Kerry called out to her big sister.

"Going to see some idol that doesn't even know you exist? How thrilling!"

Angela replied tightly with an eye roll, not hiding the sarcasm in her voice.

"Yeah you should give it a try, it's definitely less boring than your pitiful single lifestyle".

Kerry clapped back.

Angela's hands felt weak at that statement,resisting the impulse to cry her heart out.

Kerry's friends made a low gasp noise and whispered to each other, as the two sisters fought with their dead stares.

Few minutes lapsed

The two were still in the same position, Kerry's friends quietly took their leave and made the 'call you later' sign for Kerry.

As soon as the door shut, Angela let her tongue out.

"You know what! I am sick and tired of you being a child and drooling over some idol while I take care of the house,I pay the bills, I shelter and feed you, I pay the school fees for the twin and Jace, I literally adopted your twin babies, you don't take care about them,yet you don't see the need to help me in the house works or even contribute to the house keeping, all you do is gush over some stupid idol and open your legs for any good looking man that comes your way".

Kerry rolled her eyes aggressively, her legs closed and hands folded giving her 2 years older sister the 'do your worst' stare.

"All I see is a jealous big sister who is so bitter because no man wants her".

Kerry replied with a smile.

"Excuse you!"

Angela snapped, losing it.

"Men find me attractive, not my fault you have no man. Now you're taking out your anger on me?"

"I am not taking out my anger on you".

Angela yelled.

"Whatever, Jellyfish".

Kerry mumbled with mocking facial expressions and dropped down on the couch.

"Kerry I am not jealous of the type of life you live, all I am asking is stop! Enough Kerry, at least clean your mess afterwards. I won't be able to house another child that comes out of your carelessness again and it's time to get a job".

Angela replied in frustration.

"You are so annoying, I wish my mother was still alive,"Kerry muttered.

Angela's heart rate dropped at that statement, her eyes clouded, she hated a time like this when her feelings had to betray her boldness.

"I am trying Kerry, for the past 7 years of the accident that took our mother , I am trying to make a life for all of us,I am trying to fill that void, all I am doing is for us to be together like we used to,but it's never enough for you, why not help me huh?".

She dried her face and angrily took the laundry basket out of the room.

Kerry's eyes followed her till the door slammed shut.

Angela returned to her room, she slammed the door shut and sighed heavily leaning against the door, unsure to cry or yell out her anger, she slid down to the floor and buried her face in her arms.

"Why can't she be a little bit helpful".

She sobbed, then got up and headed into the bathroom.

She put on a shower, and closed her eyes letting the warm drops soak her body.

***

VENUE: Heavenly Ecstasy Bar

Shelley,a beautiful American model, whose beauty seems to be a light drawing all the men in the bar attention towards her, stared across the bar table at Antonio Montero.

Antonio was a mixture feminine and Masculine,he was considerably much taller than her seven feet height,Jade green eyes, neatly sculpted lips and high- ridged nose and perfectly outlined jaw,his features would be compared to that of a fallen angel.

Though casual his clothes were excellent and sense of fashion top-notch,the white slik hugged on his hard chest and the unbuttoned front revealing a thirsty grip of his hard abs with a locker necklace hanging in between.

He is the sexiest man for most women. They rest consider him too beautiful to be straight.

"Okay let's get this straight pretty boy,You want me to pretend that I am your fiancee for how long?"

"You sound either too cool,I expect you to say yes without further explanation"Antonio replied roughly but yet his voice was as deep as the ocean and had this sensual triggering to it that sent something shivering over Shelley's nerves.

She licked her lower lip.

"Well don't get too full of yourself,I can still say no if I want to".

His glance shifted to her cleavage, secretly he compared her full bosom to the girl he had last night.

Apart from her cleavage, her pale flawless face and long Blonde hair that goes well with her light blue eyes doesn't seem to impress him.

"We have a deal then."

He said with one eyebrow quirked.

Shelley smiled back and shook her head with a cigar clamped in-between her teeth.

Antonio clicked his fingers and the serious looking man on black suit standing beside him gave her an envelope.

"It's interestingly fat."

She chuckled with excitement.

"100,000 USD will do that to any envelope" he smiled.

Shelley peeped into the envelope in doubt but the sight of the thousand dollar bills cleared every air of doubt,she looked up with a long grin on her face.

Exhaling a cloud of smoke from her mouth ,she chuckled softly.

"I didn't expect less from Antonio Montero himself."

"Good for you then ,so all you have to do is come into the room next morning and get into your character".

"Why not take me with you tonight Montero or am I not good enough for you."

He stopped and his eyes moved around her body lustly as if they were stripping her,in quest to win him over with her sexiness, Shelley massaged her massive boobs licking her lower lip.

His eyes followed the moist pink of her tongue.

"You are average even for a one night stand, I go for the best"Antonio stated with a mocking smirk on his lips.

"That's rude,I have dated princes and men richer and more good looking"Shelley boasted trying to hide her annoyance.

"When it comes to sex,not every man is gifted with the gift to maintain standards so I am not surprised with your honourable mentions,"he smiled.

"You are one spoiled brat", she sneered, followed by a deep sigh,"What if I do it for free."Shelley persisted.

A night Antonio Montero is something she can't possibly choose to let go,no sane woman could!

"That's not the issue,I would rather if you say...you want to show an appreciation for the contract that I gave you"he smiled.

"I have never had difficulty in seducing a man no matter his class not to talk of a womaniser like you"Shelley confessed and leaned back on her chair.

She ran her fingers across her hair in frustration.

"Giving in for a trial won't be bad,meet me in the hostel room slut, better make me happy with your skills,I hate boring ladies."

Shelly's finely curved mouth shifted into a double edged, frankly sensual smile.

"What can I say,I am honoured".

A night with Antonio Montero is something she can't possibly choose to let go,no sane woman could!

Suddenly the door of the bar opened and uniformed men entered the bar, creating a scene.

Two women carried an old lady in a wheelchair and approached them.

Antonio was dumbfounded at the same time, stuck to his seat.

"Grandma? How did she find me?"

He whispered.

People in the bar were fast to recognize the former beauty queen and the grandmother of Antonio Montero.

They started taking shots but the security guards were able to stop them and control them.

*****

Angela walked into the same bar, uncomfortably.

Being a very expensive place,there was not too much of a crowd there but she felt really uncomfortable going to the bar due to the catcalls and dirty stares from men at every corner.

"Welcome my lady, what can I get you?"

The friendly bartender smiled at her.

Angela needed that, she was a bit at ease finally.

"Thanks but I am okay with just water, I will be waiting for someone".

He nodded and got her a bottle of water.

"Thanks".

Angela smiled at him then sighed and her date's number again for the fourth time ever since she came into the bar and he was nowhere to be found.

For the first time she had gotten out of her shell to go on a date,although a dating site is not a good idea but she had no choice, desperate to prove her sister wrong, she had agreed to go on a date with the first man that chatted her up.

He was the one who chose the expensive bar.

After three hours,her phone beeped,it was a message from the man, explaining his change of mind about their date.

Angela smiled sadly to herself as tears rolled down freely.

Kerry was right afterall.

"I need a drink!"

She waved at the bartender.

And from there she kept on drinking and drinking.

Shots after shots.

"I need another glass please".

Angela requested unable to see the blurred out face of the bartender.

"Are you sure you can handle it,you are already drunk".

The man replied and looked over the other side unsure why people gathered around a particular table.

"See I have the money to pay,just give me the fucking cocktail!"

She throws bills at him emptying her purse until no penny is left.

"Please..I have a lot to get off my chest".

She sobbed.

The bartender shrugged.

She licked the last drop from the glass and heard a female voice call Tony from the back. The name of her date is Antony,she had to check her phone to be sure.

"Antony?"

Angela gasped.

She got up from her seat and started walking towards the table.

She staggered through the throng,drunkenly.

"Hey, watch it!"

Someone pushed her, she fell dramatically into Antonio's arms and burst into tears.

All eyes went to her and Antonio,who was tempted to throw her off his body but since he was in a public space he had to play a gentleman.

Angela looked up at his blurry face and burst into tears.

"Why...did you call me out here and then dump me? Am I not enough? It's not fair..."

Antonio, his grandmother,Shelley and the rest of onlookers watched her speechless.

"Who is she?"

Tony's grandmother asked with a brow raised.

Antonio had no idea what was going on but he had no other choice.

This is what his grandma wanted afterall. A bride for Antonio.

He went on his knees.

"I was scared about my grandma reaction to our secret relationship,but since she is here,Angel will you marry me?"

The next morning, Angela woke up and opened her eyelids slowly, her eyes went to the fluffy white mass gathered above her.

How pretty it reminded her of the clouds.

She tossed it on the bed,it felt more comfortable than her bed.

She groaned slowly, as a hammering sensation ached in her temple region then slowly turned her head to the side, and the blue sky beyond the window and the curtains reassured her that she wasn't dead yet.

Her blurry gaze continued wandering from the king size bed with royal purple curtains to every corner of the room as she tried to think or remember where she was and she got to that place but the harder she concentrated, the harder her confusion became.

She then decided to sit up and see if it can help with her stressed brain.

Her glance shifted to the opposite direction only to see a giant man in black suit on a giant royal chair, his legs crossed in a masculine manner and a hand resting on his jaw , head tilted to the side, his position reminding her of those hot vampires from webtoons.

His eyes were so dark and that evil smirk on his face,he must've been watching her sleep.

"Who are you!"

She snapped,her eyes wide open, startled and scared to death.

"I should be the one asking the questions here, who the heck are you....?"he snarled,his laser-beam gaze piercing into her eyes.

"Eh?"

Angela gasped more confused that she had been before.

Antonio stood up and made to approach her.

Suddenly Angela's eyes grew big with shock like she just saw a ghost when she realised the man in front of her.

"Oh my goodness ! He is Antonio Montero".

She muttered to herself in panic.

"Don't come close to me! Stay away, I am warning you! I am no fragile woman! I got a weapon in here, how did you get into my room?"

She snapped out.

"Look around you bitch, this ain't no pig pen of yours, you are in my house".

He suddenly cursed a hand slapped on his face.

"I can't believe I am talking to some..low life".

"Pig pen?....."

Angela muttered a bit annoyed at the offensive words then suddenly paused and looked around the room.

The expensive curtains,the king size bed and large space in the bedroom, this is not her bedroom!

How did she end up with a man in a bedroom not to talk of a man like Tony Montero!

Her eyes widened and her hand covered her mouth as a loud gasp escaped from her lips.

"Where am I? How did I get here?"

She realised her clothes had changed too.

"What happened to my clothes please don't tell me you changed my clothes".

"Oh please there's nothing in that body of yours that could definitely turn a man on, not to talk of me", he continued to mock her with a calm tone that even annoys her the more, " clothes don't hide beautiful figures,you don't have one so don't worry I am not interested,you dream too big by the way, you are like a 3, I will never hit that".

Angela's jaw dropped at the statement.

How rude can he be! How can someone so good looking be lacking character?

"I would have believed that if it wasn't coming from a pervert and a womaniser who sleeps with everything on a skirt,"Angela sneered.

Antonio lifted one dark eyebrow in a mocking arch.

"Do you expect me to believe you've never had your clothes taken off by a man before? What are you, a thirteen year old virgin?"

"I ..have been undressed... undressed by ..men ..a man...before...my boyfriend actually "she lied , "not a stranger who decided to do it by himself without my consent that's sexual assault".

"You wish....women like you would kill to have me take your dirty clothes off your little slutty body".

"Oh my gosh you're right,I am really lucky, so lucky don't you see me crying because of joy?"

She replied sarcastically.

"Quit acting like you don't like being in the same room with me, it's everything that you've ever dream off, sharing a room with a hot idol and young billionaire as famous as me and knowing that almost every woman in the world would like to take your place,is a pretty powerful aphrodisiac, not even a fairy godmother can make such dreams come true".

A little sense of responsibility and respect didn't appeal to this man...it was written all over his good looking face.

He is nothing like Kerry and her crazy friends had described him to be,she thought.

When Antonio saw she was having a silent mental breakdown.

"The maid got you changed, believe me there's nothing interesting in your body, I would puke".

"That's a very rude thing to say Mr...Antony".

"Antonio..."he corrected,"You messed up my proposal, what were you expecting, a Queen's treatment?"

"I'm sorry, excuse me?"

Angela blinked, unsure if she heard those words right.

"I messed up what?"

"You don't remember anything from last night, do you?"

He asked.

"No I don't".

She replied slowly.

"Maybe the diamond on your finger will ring a bell".

"Diamond?"

Angela muttered absentmindedly then her eyes got a glimpse of a sparkling object on her finger, her heart skipped.

She looked at it, her eyes almost burst out of the sockets, terrified.

"A ring!"

She yelled out like a handicapped victim in a horror movie.