"You did the same thing to me three years ago, it's time you pay back," he said as he stared at me harshly.
"But I never meant to, I never meant to destroy your relationship with my best friend," I said as I pulled up the sheets trying to cover my naked body.
"But you did, you made her hate me, made her call off the wedding and made me a laughing stock to everyone."
"But that was never my intention?" I said trying to justify myself.
"It was your intention and so don't worry my dearest cause I'm here to do the same thing to you and whether you like it or not, you must marry me. I mean it when I say it and you will marry me."
His footsteps were slow and deliberate as he crossed the room towards me, each oneof his steps reminding me how he'd pinned me down the entire night in this bed, I felt like a crab on the plate waiting to be devoured.
The sheets in his room were silk, a true ironic luxury in this moment of my utter misrry.
I tugged the silk sheets higher, but it was futile.
He wasn't looking at the fabric; he was looking at my bare chest that I was about to cover out of his sight.
"You think covering yourself now erases what you did then or what we've done the entire?" His voice was sarcastic as it dropped, losing the sharp edge of anger and gaining something much more dangerous: a predatory warmth.That is it, it was predatory eyes.
He reached at the side of the bed, his shadow hovering above me.
I could feel the heat from his body before he even touched me.
"Mr Qin, please," I whispered at him, my plea tasting like ash.
"It was my mistake. A moment of weakness." That's a lie, even my ancestors wherever they are can vouch for me it's dead lie if I wasn't head over heals with him
"Mistakes have consequences, Li Qingya," he murmured, and his hand settled on the edge of the mattress, boxing me in.
His eyes held a chilling mixture of pain and triumph. "And my consequence is you."
He didn't push the sheets covering me away, nor did he immediately try to possess me again.
Instead, he simply leaned down, his face close enough to me that I could see the tiny, fleeting flicker of the man I once loved beneath the hard mask of the man seeking revenge.
"You ruined my engagement back then," he breathed, his gaze intensely locked on mine. "Now, you will wear my ring.
You will answer to my name.
You will forget that soft accountant you were planning a safe life with.
Because this time, I am staying.
And you, my dearest, naive Lilya, are going to learn what it means to be utterly and completely mine."
He straightened himself just enough to signal his dominance over me, not with aggression this time, but with absolute certainty. He was damn sure.
The air between us crackled, filled with the last three years of not seeing each other, betrayal, and the terrifying promise of a future I was being forced to accept.
The marriage was not going to be about love; it was about ownership, a twisted, agonizing exchange of pain.
"You owe me everything, Lilya," he stated, his voice final. "And tonight, we start collecting the debt."
Meet Li Qingya...
She is a shy helpless virgin who made the mistake of falling for her best friend's CEO fiancé.
Now she's forced to work as a new maid in his mansion.
Meet Qin Mochen...
He's the only heir to Mega Stones industries, he is sexy, rich and talented and he is every girl's dream.
At least to Li Qingya, he is the love of her life, she met him first at college, wanted him and loved him but she never got the chance to tell him because her wilful best friend Xia Míngzhu caught him and hooked him.
And Li Qingya at eighteen felt so sad and longed for him secretly, it was on the night of their engagement party that she finally confessed and one thing led to another and she had a one-night stand with him, with a forbidden man.
Her best friend and parents had caught them both and they had cancelled the wedding with Qin family, while they sent her away from the villa.
Now three years later, she is happy with her new found job and fiancé, ready to put the past behind her but Qin Mochen is not so willing to do the same thing.
He wants to have revenge for what she did to him and what other way could he have done it than to do the same thing to her.
This time he wasn't to leave like she did, he is determined to stay in her life and to marry her whether by hook or by crook.