Arranged Marriage With The Billionaire

Dylan had already called the help back to the house to assist Blair when he wasn’t around to help. His break had ended the moment they got back home and although he wanted to stay home with his wife, his office called him.

“I brought Donna and the rest of the help back, Blair.”

Blair’s eyes widened in surprise. She missed having them around the house.

“Really? Oh my goodness, Dylan. Thank you so much.” Blair engulfed him in a tight hug.

“It’s an okay baby. I just thought it wouldn’t be so lonely if they were here with you. Besides, Donna wouldn’t let you stress yourself trying to make breakfast and dinner all the time.” He explained.

“I appreciate it. Where are they anyway?” She got up to check the kitchen and the backyard but she didn’t find them.

“They probably went to the market or something. Donna complained about the fridge and the storage room being empty. She must have taken Clara and Aaliyah with her to the market as well.”

“Oh. Typical Donna, always wanting to fill the fridge with anything she can lay her hands on.” Blair laughed.

“You know it.” Dylan laughed as well.

She was happy that the people that kept her company at home were back to the house. She also missed the food that Donna prepared for them.

“I’ll be in my office, in case you need me.” He got up from the couch and kissed her cheek before leaving for his office.

“Okay, I’ll bring you a cup of coffee.” She shouted at his retreating back.

Blair took her duffel back to their room and took out its contents. She arranged some of them and put the dirty clothes in the laundry basket.

Blair thought of her parents as she settled in, she decided that she would call them after she was done.

She undressed and changed into something more comfortable; shorts and a big tee shirt. She packed her hair into a bun on top of her head.

Blair tidied up the room before she left to make Dylan’s coffee. The kitchen looked different, sort of, as if it was rearranged.

She turned on the coffee maker and placed the flavor that she used for Dylan in its compartment. Sometimes she made coffee for him without the machine and sometimes she used it.

She took his coffee to him. This time she didn’t knock on his door, she just opened it.

“Who’s that-” he was cut off when he saw Blair step into his office. He wondered who would open his door without knocking but then he remembered that his wife was home. Blair was the only one who could do that, no one was allowed to.

“Your coffee.” She placed it on the table, far from his paperwork.

“How’s your work? Are there any issues? Is everything okay?” She asked curiously.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Dylan smiled, he knew she was worried because of what happened the last time.

“Everything is okay, Blair, I promise.”

He assured her.

“Alright then, I’ll just leave you to your work. I’ll be upstairs.” She went over to him and gave a quick kiss on his lips.

“Okay. Take care, Donna should be back soon.”

“See you later.” She left his office and went back to the kitchen.

Blair opened the fridge and took out a bottle of juice, which she poured into a glass.

She went back upstairs and into the bedroom. She placed the juice on her lamp table and picked up her phone to dial her mom’s number.

“Blair? Darling?” Her mom picked after the second ring.

“Yes, mom. It’s me, I’m sorry that I haven’t called in a while. How are you?” Blair asked.

“It’s okay my dear, you must have been busy. I’m good dear, just been busy as well.”

“Yeah, I’m good too. Um, I’m sorry about our last conversation. I’m sorry if I hurt you in between.” Blair apologized.

The last time she spoke to her mom was when she thought Dylan cheated on her. And she was with Richard, she wasn’t thinking straight and lashed out at her mother. She hadn’t spoken to her since then and she missed her mom already.

Apart from her wanted her to know about everything that happened and the things that were happening at the moment. But she knew that she shouldn’t drag her mom into it. Involving more people, especially the ones she cared about was unnecessary and dangerous.

“I understand, Blair. I just hope you learn to confide in me sometimes. I felt that you were keeping something from me and that maybe you needed space to think. That’s why I didn’t bug you or call.” Her mom replied.

“Thank you, mom. And everything is okay, we’re fine. I just wanted to let you know.”

“Alright then, I believe you have control over your life and you can deal with whatever comes your way. And how is Dylan? Are you two okay?”

“Yes, mom. Dylan’s fine, he’s working on his study. And yeah we’re both okay. How’s dad?” She asked.

“Oh, your dad is alright. The same man you left, he misses you a lot these days but he’s scared he might be disturbing you, that’s why he hasn’t called.”

“Oh! I miss him so much too. I will call him.”

“Alright, my dear. I was thinking that we should have dinner sometime? I don’t know when you’ll have the time, I just miss having you around the house.” Her mom confessed.

“Oh, I like that. I will attend the dinner. I can be there early to help you prepare.” Blair squealed with happiness.

“Really? I would like that sweetheart. Thank you for agreeing to this. I know it might not be easy but I’m happy that you’re making an effort to do this for us.”

“It’s okay, mom. I miss you and dad, besides I miss cooking for you.” Blair smiled.

“Thank you, honey. I’ll call you to confirm the date, okay? And you can invite Samantha as well, I’m sure she’d be happy to come.”

“Uh sure mom, take care. I love you.”

“I love you too, take care.”

Blair dropped the call and dialed her dad’s number immediately.

“Dad?” Blair bit her fingernails

“Blair, dear. It’s so good to hear from you.” The man was indeed happy to hear from his daughter after a while.

He contemplated calling her but he didn’t want to bother her Incase she was busy. So he waited for her call instead and when she finally called he was happy.

“You to dad. How are you? I’ve missed you a whole lot.” Blair told him.

“I’m doing great, dear. Although, I must say that work is starting to bore me and make me tired. I miss you too my dear. How are you doing? Is everything okay?” He asked.

Blair’s father had people to help him with the company. At least until he found someone who can run it fully. She didn’t know why he chose to stress himself.

“Don’t stress yourself too much dad. It’s not good for you. I’m so sorry that I haven’t been checking up on you. I’m good and everything is okay, Dylan is fine. He would have loved to speak with you but he’s working.”

“Oh, it’s okay. I know that you might have had things to do. I hope you take great care of, Dylan? I would have loved to speak with him too.” He laughed.

“Yes, dad. I do take care of him, he’s fine.”

“Alright, it’s so nice that you called. I was told that Samantha dropped by yesterday evening. I wasn’t home when she came and neither was your mom. She probably came to greet us.” Her dad said.

“It’s okay, dad. Did you say Samantha was at our house? Why? Did anyone say why she was there?”

Blair’s heart almost jumped out of her throat when she heard that Samantha was at their house. Maybe that was the reason her mom asked to invite her to dinner.

“I don’t know the details, we were informed that she came to see everyone.” Her father said.

Blair believed that she wouldn’t be able to ask about her and Dylan because everyone believed she should know how they were doing.

“Okay, dad. It’s fine. I saw her yesterday, we went shopping.” She told her dad hoping to get new information from him about Samantha’s visit.

“Oh! Really? We hadn’t seen you and that was why she came to see us.”

Blair knew that she wouldn’t be able to ask them because she would have to lie. Samantha knew that Blair spoke to her parents and told them things. She would have guessed that Blair told them that she went shopping with Samantha.

She praised God that her parents were not around. If not they might have told her that they hadn’t heard from her in a while.

Blair sighed internally.

“Yes, dad. Anyway, Dylan and I are coming over for dinner soon. I don’t know, mom said she’ll get back to me on the date.”

“That is nice. It’ll be nice to have you both around.”

“Yeah. I have to go now, dad. It was nice talking to you. Take care, I love you.”

“Take care, my dear. I love you.” He said and hung up the phone.

Blair sat back to analyze the situation. Why did Samantha go to her house? She asked herself.

What was her aim? What was she planning? She thought she should tell Dylan.

While she was deep in thoughts, someone knocked constantly on the door.

It took a few seconds before she snapped out of her reverie.

The door opened and Dylan came inside with Donna; she stood by the door.

“Blair! Are you alright? Donna said she has been knocking on the door for minutes now. She came to get me because she did not get any response from you. What happened?” He asked, worry was written all over his face.

“Oh, I’m so sorry Donna. I was so deep in my thoughts I didn’t realize. I’m sorry, Dylan.”

“Thoughts? What thoughts? Donna, please can you excuse us for a bit?” Dylan asked.

“Yes sir.” Donna left the room immediately.

“What’s going on Blair? Is everything okay?” He asked her.

“I don’t know, Dylan. My dad said Samantha was at our house last night. Although they weren’t home so they didn’t see her, she met the help, thankfully.”

“Did they say what she was doing there? Did she ask any weird questions?” He asked her.

“I’m not sure she was able to. Besides the help cannot give her so much information, I haven’t been home in a while and she knows.” She explained.

“Thank God. It’s a relief your parents weren’t home.” Dylan said.

“Yeah but my mom wants me to invite Samantha for dinner. Although she didn’t make it compulsory, she just said if I want to. Should I invite her?”

“Hmmm, I think you should invite her. If she finds out that your mom invited her through you and she never got the invitation, she might suspect that we know something that we shouldn’t.” He reasoned.

“Yeah, you’re right. I should invite her. We just have to be careful about how we act there. To Samantha, my parents don’t know that we have any issues. I told her that my parents don’t know we are about to get a divorce.” She said,

“Exactly, she has to see that we don’t want to have anything to do with each other. I should tell the detective about this plan.” He picked up his phone to call the detective.

Dylan walked into their closet to speak to the detective.

Blair paced about in the room, left and right, deep in thoughts.

After a few minutes, he came out of the closet.

“I already spoke to him. He said we should be careful because there are parents and there’s Samantha. We have to be careful about everything we say and we also have to act up.” He explained.

“How do you mean ‘act up’?” She asked.

“Yeah. We have to pretend to not be on good terms in front of Samantha and then we have to pretend to be on good terms in front of your parents so that they wouldn’t suspect anything.” He explained.

“Damn, I wish this would be over soon. This is so complicated and it’s all because Samantha decided to hate me. It’s so frustrating and sad that the friend I’ve had for years is treating me this way.” She lamented.

Blair sat on the bed and placed both her hands on her head.

Dylan wished he could drown her pain, cloud her mind with something stronger. The thought of Samantha’s betrayal weighed heavy in her heart and he could see it clThe annoying part was that Sam did not even feel an ounce of remorse for what she did and what she was making Blair go through.

All the more reason for him to lock them up or make sure they can no longer threaten them.

“I’m so sorry, Blair. I wish I could make all of these go away instantly but I made you a promise that I would do it the right way and not my way. I’m so sorry about this.” He gave her a tight hug.

Blair sobbed in his embrace, her tears staining his shirt but they cared less. It was too overwhelming for them and she was so unsure of herself. Unsure that she would come out of the situation unscathed.

Even Dylan tried his best to be strong for her but sometimes it frustrated him too. He wished he did not promise her to only fight using her method.

But there were just wishes, he was tired of them. They weren’t coming true and until things started to go their way he wouldn’t wish for anything.

“I love you, Blair. Look at me.” He held her face so that she looked into his eyes.

“Nothing will go wrong. We will get through this time together. Samantha cannot separate us, we’ve been through worse things and she’s nowhere near them. She cannot break us.” He said.

Blair kept staring into his eyes, his blue eyes that held her at a particular spot anytime she looked into them.

“Look at us, we’re stronger than ever because of her. She has failed, Blair. The only thing left is for her to know that she has no power over us and she’s not stopping us.” He continued.

“You’re right. She has no power over us. This situation just got me tired and frustrated. I’m sorry for breaking down like this.” She dried her eyes with her palms.

“It’s okay, my love. It’s okay.” He hugged her back while patting her back softly.

“Thank you, Dylan. You have been my strength ever since. I love you so much.” She kissed him and hugged him back.