Betrayed by him, I finally decided to leave

“Miss Aria, are you sure you want to change the groom’s name on your wedding invitations?"

"Yes."

"B-but aren’t you marrying Mr.Xavier-”

“Not anymore..”

“O-Okay.” After moments of shock I finally got an answer from the wedding planner.

After hanging up the phone, a small sad smile hung on my lips as I scrolled through hundreds of messages I had sent Xavier for the past one year but not a single one of them was answered back.

At the same time an interview broadcast aired on television presenting an interview with Xavier, the CEO of Avalon Enterprises.

Wearing a high end luxurious piece that I bought for him with one year of my salary, Xavier sat elegantly in the studio, his calm and cool demeanor coupled with a slow smile that could make any woman swoon.

"Mr. Stone, now that we already have you here in Las Vegas- the city of love and sin." the interviewer smiled slyly before continuing. "How about we leave behind business for now and ask some spicy questions?”

“Alright.” Xavier’s lips curled in a lazy smirk.

“You are the most eligible bachelor in the country. The prince-charming of ladies all across the world, care to tell who is the woman you secretly keep in your apartment hidden from the world, can we expect that we will soon get a ‘Mrs Stone?"

I could hear my heartbeat in my ears.

Then with a soft chuckle he spoke the words that shattered me.

“What wife? That is just a maid who had nowhere else to go so I felt pity and kept her. When the real ‘Mrs Stone’ comes along, she will of course be asked to wrap up and leave.”

“Oh! How kind!”

“But Mr.Xavier, then what about the ancient pearl necklace from the Han dynasty you won in auction?

And about buying the naming rights of an asteroid, are those two only an investment…Or it has something to do with the new actress Julia Lest? Yesterday night you guys were spotted in the same hotel, many claim that you decorated the entire hotel with red roses for her.”

As soon as those words were uttered my eyes widened with shock.

Last night, when I desperately called him as a drunken man broke into our apartment, Xavier didn’t bother to answer.

Not the first time, nor for the tenth as I kept hiding in the closet, tears streaming down my face.

I fought for my life. Alone.

Xavier arrogant and unbothered, answered without a single ounce of hesitation, not denying yesterday’s events with Julia Lest.

“For now, I just say that those things are not an investment, they definitely belong to a very special person in my heart.

I promised to spend my lifetime with her, marry her and have a little daughter that just looks like her. In four days I will enter in a matrimonial alliance with her and then you all will get to meet the real Mrs.Stone. Afterall such a pure-hearted and kind woman like her is hard to comeby.”

And that’s when it finally hit me.

Ten years of love, Ten years of sacrifice and Ten years of being ghosted as if I was his lapdog was nothing.

“Only Miss Julia is suited for Mr.Xavier! Of Course they would be together!”

“JULIA! XAVIER!”

“Our leading couple!”

“See, there are too many fans already rooting for you too.” The reporter teased Xavier making everyone at the studio burst in cheers yet my heart felt colder than ice.

The audience gasped with the explosive news and just like that after moments the interview was done.

And soon the social media was trending with Xavier’s love relation.

#Xavier’s true love revealed#

#Who is Mrs Stone?#.

#Xavier and Julia#

My phone buzzed instantly with numerous messages from Xavier’s work account.

[Xavier: I just received a call from your father regarding our marriage. Your birthday is in four days and he thinks it is then that I will marry you. It would be better if you explain to him that there is no need to take this marriage announcement seriously.

Aria, you are my employee and right now our company is aiming to expand our influence in the film industry,

If anything your primary target should be to make our new star Julia Lest happy and make sure she is comfortable with our company since I have tried hard to gain her cooperation.

For the next few days I am transferring you to Julia as her assistant so don’t make a fuss and serve her properly.]

I felt something in my chest crack open at that moment.

Xavier and I first met in school, what developed as a puppy love soon evolved to something greater but my parents were not able to accept our love for I belonged to a prestigious family with no end of money while Xavier’s father struggled to make ends meet.

Yet, what had I not given up to be with this man? To make the world believe that our love can surpass all boundaries of status and money.

During graduation, I rejected my offer letter from Harvard and went to a common local college to accompany my boyfriend.

All these years my parents thought that I was in France working for my passion as a jewelry designer but no.

Three years ago, owing to my prodigal talent in fashion I got an offer from ‘Levant’ a high end luxury brand, to become their exclusive designer but foolishly I gave an opportunity that people fought and died for and chose to live my life as a mere secretary of Xavier Stone in a rented apartment.

I was the one who made countless watch designs for Avalon Enterprises that made Xavier’s stocks skyrocket and established his company as an international brand without taking any credit for the hard work I had put, yet all came down to this….to Xavier asking me to serve his mistress well.

It was only now that I realized how ridiculous I have been in the past ten years.

Four days later it was my birthday.

Four days later Xavier announced the marriage that he never wanted me to become the bride for.

So it was decided then, I will marry four days later…just not with Xavier Stone.

Thus I picked up my phone calling the biggest big shot in the country.

“Hello”

“I want to marry on my birthday.”

“As you wish Aria.”

Four days later our paths would completely diverge Xavier.

It would be my last goodbye to you.