Married To My Ex's Brother

She rolled to the other side of the bed having the bed cover on her body, her eyes narrowed to see the dim coloured light shining in the room.

"Goodness!" She forcefully sat on the bed,her eyes darting around the room to study where she was. She blinked and wiped her face. "This is not my room." She pulled off the bed cover only for her to discover her nakedness.

Her eyes flew open with mouth agape, she was shocked down to her spine.

"How? When?" She mumbled in question while covering herself.

She is Anastasia Grande, the daughter of one of the trillionaires in the states. Being invited to the birthday party by her friend, Jane...she ended up in a state she couldn't imagine.

Trying to recollect everything that occurred the past night in the party, her eyes landed on a sheet of folded paper, placed on the table near the bed she has been seating on.

She swallowed deeply, stretched her hand and took hold of the paper. Disclosed it in order to see what's written in it.

"Not me! This shouldn't be true." She cried out and tore the paper into two. Jumped down from the bed in search of her clothes, but it was nowhere around the corner.

'Thank you for the blissful night together.' The words written in the letter rang in her ears again and she covered them up.

Hot balls of tears rolled down her cheeks, she was unable to wipe them off. She made a long contorted face.

"It's not a one-night stand right? I can't do that." She bit her lower lips. "Was I raped? I can't remember coming over to this room? Did I end up being dragged?"

A slight smile filled with bitterness and pain stretched her lips, then she finally wiped the tears on her cheek.

Having no clothes to put on, she wrapped the towel she saw on the sofa around her chest to leave the room, but the tone of her cell phone drew back her attention.

She turned around in search of the cell phone she almost left.

"Dad..." She sighed when she stared at the screen, and then she picked up the phone.

"Why aren't you back yet, Anastasia? For goodness sake, why would you mess up yourself at a birthday party? I warned you to stay back home but you insisted on leaving-" Mr. Liam screeched at his daughter through the phone.

She glanced at the phone screen again. "What are you talking about dad? I only went to a birthday party with my friend."

"Birthday party my foot!!" The phone almost slipped off her palm on hearing him yell that way. "You attended a birthday party that's damaging your reputation. Tell me what happened."

"I don't really get it dad, it's a birthday party."

"Then you should be back home within ten minutes, we need to sort ourselves out." He hung up the call.

Her feet glued to the floor while she stared at her cell phone, still not getting what her father was talking about.

"Damaging my reputation?" She soliloquized, trying to get what's going on...but she recalled nothing. "Like seriously, I'm gonna leave this resort this way huh?" She scoffed and tied the towel tightly to her body, then made her way out of the door.

She felt not just ashamed but frustrated, walking through the empty hallway, lost in thought...not until she stumbled into a pillar that took her up from her feet, ready to hit her to the floor, but she ended up in the arms of a stranger.

Her eyes slowly opened to stare at the broad chest she found her head on, the shoulder and arms that had her in. His handsome face and curly hair made her gasp.

"Uhmm...I'm sorry...Uhmm..." She stammered, taking herself away from him.

He let go of her, but his eyes fixed on her body. "Why on towel?"

"I just decided to have it on, you can get going." She picked up her cell phone that was laying on the floor and twitched out immediately.

Her mind raced as she took a turn to any direction she saw,until she found herself outside the building.

Different faces and genders passing by took a stare at her and she became uncomfortable with their looks. Being less concerned, she headed to the nearby boutique situated in the resort.

"I'll make a transfer, just get me a nice cloth." She referred to the first attendant she met, but a lady came over with a package and handed it to her.

"Uh-huh!" She rolled her eyes.

"He already paid for it, about to get it for you before you came in."

"He? Who's he?" Her brows arched.

"He's anonymous." The attendant walked out.

Standing for a while baffled, she decided to have the cloth on. It's almost the ten minutes given to her by her father.

She admired how fitted the gown was on her body before leaving the boutique. In a haste, she drove back home.

"Dad! Dad!!" She called out after alighting from the car, but one of the servants announced that the father had already left for the company.

Instantly, she drove off again, heading to the company this time.

The workers were standby, staring at each other and murmuring while taking a look at each other's cell phones.

None of them could stare at her with a loud greeting as usual, rather they shifted for her to pass by.

She was getting insane seeing what was going on. These aren't the workers she employed, looking down on her like she's trash.

No time for bullying. She took the elevator that dropped her on the last floor, then she headed to see her father.

"My workers are acting weird, what's going on dad?" Her voice rising at each word.

The not too old man stood up. "Seems like you haven't taken a look on the Internet since today."

She sighed and unlocked her phone, then logged into her Instagram account immediately. The first image she came in sight with sent dread all over her body.

Goosebumps fell on her skin repeatedly...her mouth agape staring at her father without a blink.

"Anastasia..."

"Dad, tell me this is not true. No! It's not true right?" She took a heavy breath and slumped to the floor.

Anastasia woke up to find herself in the hospital, her eyes were reddish as a result of the tears she'd been shedding while unconscious. Several times, her father mentioned her name-the doctor tapped her but she couldn't regain consciousness.

She tried to get down from the bed, but a huge palm stopped her from doing that.

"You need to recover before taking an inch."

"But, I am not sick dad. I need to be sure of what I saw." She uttered in pain.

Mr Liam got seated beside her. "How did it happen? Were you drugged and raped?"

She sniffed and wiped her face. "I can't tell, I only woke up to find myself naked. And it came with an excruciating pain in my head."

The doctor walked in immediately and they exchanged pleasantries.

"I can leave right?" She referred to the doctor who only gave a nod. She gradually climbed down from the bed and had her footwear on.

Mr Liam took a glance at the doctor who gave him a signal before they left the hospital.

Anastasia counted herself as a dead living, seeing the way people looked at her...scoff and shift, she felt the ground would open and gave her in. A model like her has already turned into some irresponsible woman in the sight of people.

While they were driving back home, they read the news along the road.

'A fashion model who went partying, got fucked by a stranger and the sex tape leaked-only sluts do that. She isn't a model.'

Her naked images were shown in public causing her to cover her eyes.

"I can't bear this pain, but how did this happen?" She cried out.

Mr Liam patted her back. "You were drugged and raped by an unknown person. Let's take it that way."

Her eyes flew open. "Uhmm...dad...how did you know? Do you know the rapist? He needs to be punished severely...I need to get revenge for tarnishing my image this way." Flood of tears left her eyes. She recalled Jane and waved off her mind from such thoughts immediately. There's no way her best friend would do such a thing to her-the poor lady must have escaped for her life, or rather, less blinkered of what's going on.

Mr Liam said nothing to her until they reached home, they both got seated on the sofa in the sitting room.

"I'm scared that this might affect your company, so that's what you should be after now."

She nodded, still weeping.

"You have to be strong or your company will fall."

"I can't let that happen, neither will I let the culprit go scot free. I must avenge everything...we would better suffer the pains together." She yelled, throwing off the pillows on the sofa.

Mr Liam held her palm. "Then we have to visit the resort you found yourself in. They need to give us the CCTV footage so we can get the rapist with it." He took a deep breath. "But you shouldn't let this affect your business."

She gritted her teeth and stood up. "I need to visit the resort now."

Mr Liam stood as well in order to go with her. If getting the CCTV footage will make it easier to get the rapist so her name will be cleared that way, then they need to get it.

~

Reaching to the resort with her father, they were directed to the manager's office.

"The CCTV footage? What do you have to do with it?" The manager asked both of them.

Anastasia scoffed. "I found myself in this resort today, naked and in a different room. I had lodged with my friends in room 119, but I happened to wake up in room 458." She explained.

The manager took a deep breath. "So, if you get the footage, what will you do with it?"

"I need to see the culprit and clear my name. I am a fashion model whose image is about to be damaged."

He stared at them for a while and dropped a call for the computer engineer who came over to his office. He was ordered to get the CCTV footage as they wanted and he began searching for it.

"Room?"

"458."

"The footage isn't here."

She hit her palm on the table. "What the heck are you talking about? Are you trying to tell me that a CCTV isn't installed in the rooms of a whole resort like this?"

The manager stood up. "You need to calm down, he's only doing his work."

"Doing his work my foot." She slammed aggressively.

The engineer continued searching to be sure of what he said, but after several minutes of searching for the footage, it wasn't seen.

"I think we should go into the room and see for ourselves, all the rooms here have the camera so we need to be sure the camera is there." The manager suggested.

"It's either the camera was taken off." The engineer added.

They all left for room 458, but indeed the camera was taken off just like the engineer said.

"Fuck!!" She scratched her head. "What the heck is all this? Who's behind this drama?" She broke up in tears.

Mr Liam was speechless, all he did was to console his daughter who was weeping bitterly. They left the resort, driving home when a message bumped into her phone.

"What's wrong?" Her father questioned.

"It's my manager, dad...my contracts, I'm losing them already because of this, what am I going to do? What if the sales drop to the last?"

Mr Liam knew not what to say, he knew so well that her daughter was in a big mess already, a mess that's difficult to clean up.

"Anastasia...you need to calm down."

"Calm down when I've lost five contracts already dad, do you really know what that means?" She bit her lips in anger.

He heaved a big sigh thinking of a way to help her daughter out, even if it will cost him to lose everything...but he wouldn't mind if his daughter gets back her reputation.

"So, I won't be able to sell my design assets any longer? How will I get a contract if this spreads around the world?" She muttered in tears.

Her father was mute, still thinking of ways to help her.

They reached home and he dropped her off and revised, leaving again. Anastasia didn't bother to ask where he was heading to.

She badly needs to visit her company, but with all these going on...she's so ashamed of herself.

"Do you really mean what you're saying? I'll have to get married before I get the contract huh?" Reid referred to the young man standing before him.

He sat up from his chair, scratching his head in confusion. Losing such a contract isn't what he desires, but the condition associated with it is difficult.

"You have just seven days to submit your marriage certificate, or your company will lose the contract." The young man added.

"And don't forget that you'll step down from being the CEO if you don't get married." His brother, Felix, chipped in.

He clenched his fist, staring at his brother who was up to something which he didn't know.

Reid swallowed bitterly, this is beyond his expectation.

"But how can I get a wife within seven days? I can't just cope with having a woman by my side, those genders are devilish." He screeched and scratched his head.

"And that's the only option left for you now." Felix muttered.

The young man greeted and left the office, since he was done delivering the message as ordered.

"The government made a law that must be obeyed, all the CEO's, whether male or female, should get married so long as you're old enough for that." Felix whispered.

"Then you should get married as well."

"Come on man, I'll do that as well. I'm just eager to see you get married because of the company. And the fact that dad is in support of the law." Felix explained.

His gaze focused on a place, he was lost in thought about what to do. Heaven knows he isn't the type that wants a woman in his life...and he wouldn't want to lose his father's company because of marriage issues or whatever.

Biting his finger, his brother tapped him.

"I can help you get a girl who is worthy to be your wife."

"How will you do that?" He turned to Felix.

"I'll invite the girls over to my place, and you make your choice within them."

"Just with their physical looks, how will I conclude that she deserves to be a wife?" Reid queried, finding that option to be okay, but the consequences behind it.

He waved his hand. "Anyways, leave that topic for now, I need to put myself together." He swallowed his saliva.

Felix stood after some minutes to leave,but he called him back.

"I met a lady who was wearing a towel in the resort. Isn't that madness?"

Felix nodded. "She must be abnormal upstairs. Do you recognise her face?"

He shook his head, his lips pouted as his brows knitted like one trying to reminisce on something. "Not at all or rather, a bit. We only passed by each other...but I was shocked she was on a towel, that mattered to me more than her face."

Felix arched his brows. "You shouldn't let that bother you, not when you can't even recognise her completely."

The doorbell rang, distracting their discussion.

"A man is here to see you." The clerk announced, and before she could say something else, the man walked in.

They all turned to see the man that seems of the same age as their father walk in.

"I am Mr Liam Grande, and I'm here to see your father." He announced it to them.

They glanced at each other, shocked to see someone who wants to see their father. It's been a while since someone came looking for their father since he fell sick.

~

Mr Liam was taken to Blake Wilson by Felix, the two old friends had seen each other for a while due to the distance between them.

He had to take a flight in order to meet up with him, and here he's seated with his old time friend.

"Mr Liam is here for a purpose, isn't that?" Blake grinned, they both bursted into laughter.

"I was unaware that you had an accident, hope you're improving?"

Mr Blake nodded. "And you as the prime minister, how's the work?"

"It's good. I'm so happy to see you again."

They both chuckled and sipped from their drink.

"So, I decided to pay you a visit because of my daughter. She has marriage at the back of her neck and I wouldn't want her to marry anyone else other than your first son." He paused.

Mr Blake was all ears to hear him out.

"You know, we've been longing to keep this relationship going."

"Sure...of course..." Mr Blake chipped in. "Seems like both of them have the same spirit, Reid is ready to get married as soon as possible."

"And that will be a better match." Mr Liam uttered.

"She's a fashion model right?"

He nodded and placed the glass on the table. "Yes, and she's doing pretty well."

Mr Blake nodded. "Well, I'll talk to him while you talk to your daughter. Both of them are meant to be."

"And that will have an impact on the progress of the companies."

"Exactly, you got a better point." Mr Blake laughed so hard.

They interacted towards different issues before Mr Liam had to take his leave to the airport, in order not to be late.

He returned to see her daughter so busy with her laptop that she barely felt his presence.

"You're so busy."

"Yeah! I'm trying to see if I can pull down the pictures from the net." She replied.

He got seated opposite her. "That will take some time, why not hire a hacker to do that? The pictures are already viral so it won't be that easy."

She adjusted. "Dad, you never told me where you headed. Anyways, I got a contract from overseas."

Mr Liam was shocked.

"With the money, I can recover everything I've lost just within hours."

"Do you think the contract will help you alone? It's something that will come to an end, you need a steady backup." Mr Liam interfered.

Anastasia wiped her face. "So, what are you insinuating?"

"I visited the North to see my old friend, he's one of the richest and his company too. They're the sort of people that can restore your company and dignity."

She sighed. "Uh-huh? This contract that I just got is a very huge one, and it goes a long way."

"But that's for the meantime, you need a backup apart from contracts."

She took a deep breath. "Okay, what's your point now? Should I merge with their company? That's not easy."

"You should get married to his first son who took over the company."

She stood on her feet out of shock. "To hell with marriage." She shrieked. How on earth will her father talk about that in such a condition she's into? Who's that man that will get married to a damaged image like her without molestation? "I'm not getting married! I need to restore my company first..."

"You must, because an order already came from the business board that all CEO's are to get married or their company will be pulled down." Her father retorted. He has known his daughter as a stubborn lady.