Married To A Powerful Domineering Billionaire

Cold Feet.

RAYNE’S POV

My mouth dropped as I saw the sight in front of me. Didn’t he say we were meeting his family? But the sight in front of me looked more like a ball than a family gathering. I was beginning to panic already. I’ve always hated crowds and now…

“Are you okay?” I heard him ask me and I nodded still staring inside the vast hall.

“Let’s go inside.” He said and I turned to look at him dumbly. He was staring at me with something that looked like worry in his eyes.

“Mm-hm.” I nodded, but my feet didn’t move from their position and before I could tell what was happening, I was brushed off the floor. My eyes were even wider when I realized what was going on. Eric had swept me off my feet and was now carrying me into the hall. All eyes turned in our direction and people were giving way as he walked through the crowd carrying me. Again, my heart began to race in my chest and I felt that it was going to explode. I looked up at his face, and his serious expression made me more nervous. He didn’t put me down until we were in front and the center of all attractions.

It was embarrassing how he had carried me into a room filled with dignified people. I was embarrassed, and it didn’t help that people were occasionally glancing at me and side-talking about me. I could hear most of their talks.

“Is this the wife Eric has chosen for himself?” A woman’s voice mocked amid a small circle. “She looks small and scared, like a child. He could have done better.”

“Love comes in different bodies and sizes, poor girl.” Another said.

“Oh! I bet this isn’t love, we rich folks know too well how these kinds of marriages happen. It must be a contract marriage. Speaking of contract marriage, who are her parents though, do they have a name here in the country?” The same woman continued. “It’d be a shame if she were a nobody.” She giggled and the group began to laugh.

Listening to them roused in me the urge to cry. I turned around and tried to stop myself from crying, but then a familiar voice called out to me.

“Rayne!” I turned in the direction where the voice had come from and saw Elaina walking in my direction with a big smile plastered across her face. Right! Eric had said she would be around for a few weeks. Thank God. I’d be needing every help I could get to distract myself from all of the happenings around me. As she walked toward me, I suddenly embraced her in a tight hug. Her body froze momentarily at my sudden action but then she was good after a few minutes.

“Are you alright girl, you didn’t even hug me when you first saw me at the registry.”

Yeah, she was right. That was probably because I hadn’t been this overpowered by my own emotions back then.

“It’s overwhelming, Elaina, I don’t fit into such a family,” I confessed to her. She pulled away from my hug and searched my face.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“I understand how you feel Rayne. Although not so much because I have never been married, I can tell how it is you feel. I had felt that way five years ago when I started my modeling career, on my first runway. Trust me, you’d get over it. You’d be fine, your husband is there to take care of you.” She said and I was taken aback. Wasn’t she the same person giving me lectures earlier at the registry, what changed?

“How are you suddenly convinced that he would?” I asked, surprised. Elaina shrugged and then winked at me, grinning wildly like a crazy person.

“Come on Rayne, I saw the way he picked you up and carried you in his arms all the way here. And that too amid such a crowd. Girrrl, that’s a real man’s doing. Besides, how did you meet a man like him?” She asked suddenly and I felt my throat dry out.

“Uh!…” I opened my mouth to speak but didn’t know what lie to utter to her.

“We met at the hotel.” I snapped back at the sudden interceding. Eric was standing behind me with a smile, and his eyes narrowed in at me.

Wait! What did he just say? I looked at Elaina and saw her brows raised in confusion. But he wasn’t done.

“She seduced me and made me fall for her.” He added and my mouth dropped open. How could he just spill the truth like that to Elaina as if it were nothing? Didn’t he feel the least embarrassed?

“She was sweet and innocent.” He said more to me than Elaina. But, he was audible enough for her to hear. Saying that he smirked at me and then strolled away. I bit my lip in embarrassment and then when I looked up at Elaina, her eyes were following his departing back.

“Does he always joke like that?” She asked, amused.

“Uh… Yes, he does.” I replied thankfully that she didn’t believe that.

“He is so hot , Rayne. How do you intend to carry his weight? It’s your wedding night, remember.”

Thinking about that, my heart skipped a bit and I could hardly control my cheeks from blushing.

“You see the reason I often tell you to eat more so you could gain some weight like me.” She said and I couldn’t help but look her over from head to foot to see if she had added any more weight than what she had been all these years.

“Your weight gain products barely even work for you,” I told her and she chuckled.

Elaina and I carried on talking and I felt my heart begin to beat at its normal pace again. But the feeling that someone was staring at me made my stomach churn and each time I looked in front, I could see Eric staring at me.

I looked away from him just in time to see a familiar figure walk through the doors.

Jessica. What was she doing here?

Oh! Right. She was one of Eric’s acquaintances. Our eyes met across the room, and she smiled at me.