Arranged Marriage With The Billionaire

Dylan was fuming. He kept pondering on the reasons why Blair left. What did she find? He couldn’t say for sure, in fact he didn’t know. The only thing that was left for him to do was to find the apartment that she was in. In a way he struggled to act, he knew where she was and could easily find her now but he could not bring himself to go.

He became scared, especially because he learnt that she left on her own. That meant a lot of things to Dylan.

Dylan didn’t tell anyone about the situation, the only person that knew was Samantha and he was sure he warned her not to alert Blair’s parents. At least until he was sure of her whereabouts. He didn’t even tell his friends and he was sure they suspected him of doing something in secret.

“Fuck!” He screamed and threw his phone on the wall, shattering it to pieces.

“Fuck this Blair.” He held his head with his hands sobbing.

The problem Dylan had at that point was not the fact that he had a hard time finding her but that she left on her own.

And he didn’t have a clue as to why she left like that. That made him really scared and he did not know why.

Dylan worked like a ghost for two days, no one saw him but they knew he did his share of company work. He didn’t pick calls, rescheduled all his meetings. He was either at home or in the office.

He also couldn’t eat properly. He kept staring at the ring that he was supposed to give Blair. He called her phone many times but it was still dead, he called her like a mad man.

He thought he was going to go crazy.

The door to his office opened revealing his best friend.

“Dylan?” He called sitting down in front of him.

Dylan did not respond, he only stared at the ring.

“Dylan!” He shouted, banging the table in the process.

“What is wrong with you man? You haven’t been yourself for days now and I have been walking on eggshells around you. What’s going on?” He asked, sounding worried.

Dylan groaned loudly. He rubbed his face violently and pulled at his hair.

“Blair has gone missing” he spoke softly.

His friend’s eyes grew wide.

“She what? What do you mean by “she has gone missing?” His friend asked carefully.

“Yes, she has. The night we were supposed to have a date…” he explained the whole ordeal to him.

“Woah. You should have said something man, I mean we’re all friends and it’s not cool to keep stuff like this from each other.” His friend complained.

“I know I just thought I could do it on my own without dragging people into it.” Dylan said.

“So what are we gonna do now? We need to find her.” He reasoned.

“I already did,”Dylan answered.

“You already found her? Are you serious? You surprise me man. So how is she? Why are you sulking?” His friend asked him.

“Yeah I did but I can’t go yet. I don’t know why. I found out that she left on her own, I don’t know what to think. Something made her leave and the thought that I could be the reason scares me” Dylan explained.

“Oh wow. Now I see what the problem is. The only way you can find out is if you actually see her and talk. You can’t keep sitting here and feeling scared Dylan.” His friend countered him.

Dylan being scared was new information he just got. The Dylan he knew would never ever let fear take over him.

He was kind of surprised to see Dylan in that state and in a way the fear rubbed off on him too. If Dylan was scared then he had good reasons to be too.

“Fuck, I feel so damn useless right now. I’m trying my best to be calm but I just can’t.” Dylan combed his hair with his hands repeatedly.

“You have to Dylan. I’m sorry about all of this” his friend replied.

Dylan gave a long sigh.

“We should go see her tomorrow, Dylan. She might also be in danger, you know.” His friend also felt that going there on her own might be because she was threatened or something like that. Although he kept that to himself, he did not want Dylan to feel more frustrated than he already was.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

His friend left him after many attempts to make him feel better.

Dylan continued his work, he decided to stop thinking about Blair for a while.

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Blair stayed in bed all day. She only came out to eat a bowl of cereal and drink some water. She had a hard time getting her appetite back.

She tried to force some food down her throat but she threw it up. She felt weak and tired. And she missed Dylan. Funny that she was the one that ran away but he was also the one who pushed her away.

Blair sighed. Her phone was still off and she didn’t care. She knew she would have a lot of texts and messages but it didn’t really concern her.

She didn’t want to be put in a position where she would have to reply texts or answer any call.

She wasn’t prepared.

Blair had changed her bandages herself as well, she didn’t want to inconvenience Richard so she successfully carried it out by herself.

Her hands still hurt, she had scars and it wasn’t pretty.

Richard on the other hand was in his home office, working. He was tempted to check up on Blair but after their conversation last night, he didn’t know if she would want him to even talk to her.

He contemplated the whole thing and after several attempts of whether or not he should go, he got up to go see her.

But before then he decided to prepare dinner for her. He made pasta and sauce for her and he took it along with some fresh orange juice that he made earlier.

He knocked quietly on her door and waited for her reply. He entered the room after he heard her soft ‘come in’.

“Hey, I made you dinner. Can you please sit up so you can eat properly?” He asked.

“Hey. Thank you but you didn’t have to. I was about to come and make my dinner.” She answered by attempting to get up from the bed.

“Really? No Blair, you can’t possibly want to make dinner. Did you forget about your hands? Besides you can’t reject this, please just eat. You still have meds.” He countered.

Blair stared at him for a while trying to decide whether she should eat his food or make hers. She sighed going with the first option, deciding that it was no use trying to punish him.

“Okay.” She muttered and looked at her toes briefly.

He dropped the tray beside her.

“You have to eat.” He reasoned.

“I will, thank you.” She responded.

He stood there while she ate, the food wasn’t a lot so it didn’t take long to finish it.

“Are you going to keep standing there? Don’t you have anything to do or anywhere to be?” She asked, she wiped her mouth and her hands with the napkin that was provided for her.

“No Blair. Can we talk after you’re done?” He asked.

She was taken aback by what he asked because she literally wanted to talk to him last night and his whole demeanor changed.

She wondered what made him decide that he wanted to speak to her suddenly.

“Uh, yeah sure. We can talk, it’s fine.” She answered him.

“Alright then, thank you for giving us a chance to talk again. I’m really sorry about last night and I wasn’t ready to talk about it, that’s why I reacted that way” he said.

“If you can’t tell me about it, it’s fine with me. I can’t force something like that out of you. And maybe you also don’t owe me any explanation.” She responded.

Richard knew then that she didn’t have any feelings whatsoever for him anymore. She was willing to free herself from anything that had to do with their past.

Hurt flashed in his eyes after hearing her response. He regretted leaving her and now he was going to pay for it forever because she wasn’t in love with him anymore.

“It’s fine Blair. I will just help take these to the kitchen, I will be right back.” He forced a smile and took the plates to the kitchen.

He held the counter top of the kitchen tightly and shut his eyes.

He opened them after a few minutes, took a very deep breath and went back to her room.

She looked up from what she was doing on her bed.

“So uh, Blair I- I’m sorry. Honestly I don’t know what to say or how to tell you about the issues that we had in the past. Just know that it’s my fault and I should have done better. I’m sorry for putting you through those tough times.” He explained and apologized.

” Richard, it’s in the past now. Yeah I remember what you did and how I felt but at a point I was able to forget it. I don’t feel hurt by it anymore. I decided to love someone else and that person made me forget.” She told him.

Ouch.

“I’m guessing that person is Dylan.” He said.

“Yes Richard. I only now feel hurt because that person might have deceived me, used me. And I can not do anything about that.” She continued.

Blair never understood why people make promises and break them. She believed that if one can not keep a promise then that person should not bother making them.

If not everyone will get hurt.

In her own books, she could only make promises that she knew she could keep. Like choosing to love Dylan, it was a promise she made to herself the moment she knew she had fallen for him.

But that wasn’t the case for Dylan, she thought. He had used her for his gain, for his purpose and he succeeded in fooling her. Breaking her heart into pieces.

She still regretted not listening to Samantha and she didn’t even know how she was going to face her later because she warned her strictly.

But Blair wanted to give him a chance. A chance to change and a chance to love her. That’s all.

“What exactly happened between you too?” He asked, wanting to hear it from her lips.

Richard had always loathed the man. He had everything he wanted and didn’t have to beg for anything, he thought. The only thing that got him angry was the fact that he was able to steal Blair away from him. He managed to make her fall in love with him too.

“He has another woman.” She answered with a small smile.

“Woah. I’m sorry Blair.” He responded half heartedly.

“I’ll be okay I guess.” She said

“Yeah, you will.” He answered.

“You should get going now. I’ll try to take my meds and go to sleep” she said.

“Yeah, I should go. Goodnight Blair, thank you for talking to me. And thank you for thinking of me when you were in that situation.” He smiled genuinely this time.

“Goodnight Richard. Thank you for dinner, I appreciate it.” She responded with a smile as well.

He gave a small nod before heading out of her room.

Blair shivered as soon as he left. For some reason she couldn’t feel completely comfortable with Richard and even though she ate his food, the air still felt weird around him.

She laid back in bed and looked out her open window, the moon was out and it was half. It shone brightly still and she suddenly felt jealous.

“Damn you, Dylan.” She said and a tear slipped from her eye.