The Heiress Is Back!

“Oh, c’mon, Phoebe. I’ve already explained myself. And I’m really sorry about it, okay?” Adrian continued to chase Phoebe around the boutique. “Look, I’m already here. What are you still angry about? If I were you, I couldn’t get angry with my fiance if he’s this handsome!” he arrogantly explained which made Phoebe stop from briskly walking, then sharply turned to him.

They almost bumped into each other because of the lady’s sudden action.

Phoebe looked at him with raging eyes. “Can you stop being so full of yourse–”

“Phoebe, Adrian.”

Phoebe stopped from yelling at Adrian when she heard her mommy’s voice behind her.

“Aunt Amelia,” Adrian called her with a wide smile on her face.

Phoebe, on the other hand, rolled her eyes and glared at him. And when she turned to her mommy, her expression was changed from a grumpy one to a bright one. “M-Mommy…” She faked a smile to her.

“Have you already explained to my baby, Adrian?” Amelia asked. She was hanging a few pieces of dresses in her arm. She was looking at Adrian.

Adrian instantly cleared his throat as he nodded to his future mother-in-law. “Yes, Aunt Amelia. And Phoebe forgave me immediately because she told me that it is so hard not to forgive a fiance that is just as handsome as I!” he cheerfully exclaimed. Then he wrapped his arm around Phoebe’s shoulders then pulled her closer to him. “Right, my future wife?” He even asked her which made Amelia chuckle in amusement, and made Phoebe simply step on his foot. “Aww!” he groaned in pain.

‘Serves you right, jerk!’

“Oh. I’m sorry! I didn’t mean it!” Phoebe acted concerned.

Adrian simply glared at the lady. While Phoebe stuck out her tongue to him without letting Amelia see it.

In her mind, ‘May God give me lots of patience for this man.’

After a long ceremony of secretly teasing each other, finally, today’s appointments have already ended.

“Finally! I can go home and lay on my bed!” Phoebe exclaimed as she stretched out her arms after they reached in front of their car.

“Hmm… Why don’t we go eat for an early dinner first?” Adrian suddenly appeared beside her.

The heiress immediately frowned for his thick-facedness. “Go have dinner yours–”

“That would be a great idea, right, Aunt Amelia?” Adrian cut her off and asked for his fiancee’s mother’s opinion.

Amelia nodded in response. “I think that’s great. But can you take up somewhere new? I think I have already brought Phoebe to all of the restaurants in this city.”

Adrian snapped in excitement. “Yes, Aunt Amelia. I know somewhere nice.”

Phoebe looked at her mother with an unexplainable expression. “Mom…” Her voice was implying that must not have agreed with him in the first place. Bet Amelia just tapped her shoulders.

After a while, the old lady’s phone suddenly rang. “Wait for me. I just need to take this call,” she said before walking away to distance herself.

Phoebe pouted her lips.

This day was the worst day ever!

Adrian curved his lips when he saw how irritated his fiancee was again. He then walked towards her and leaned to their car. “Don’t you know how to smile?” he asked her.

Phoebe hissed. “Why do you care?”

“Of course, you’re my future wife. I don’t want a grumpy one. Don’t you know the saying, ‘If you don’t know how to smile, blessing won’t come in your way?’”

Phoebe flinched at his words. “Did you really say those words?”

“Yup. Why?”

“You don’t seem to be the person who would say such a thing,” Phoebe responded as a matter of fact.

Adrian chuckled at her response. “Why? Don’t I seem like a jolly person?”

That question made Phoebe stare at him from toe to head. And she wanted to punch herself when she stared a little longer when her eyes reached his face. And when she realized what she did, she looked away fast then cleared her throat. “Well, you look like someone who doesn't know how to be serious in life. You know, just the happy go lucky in life.” She simply pinched her hand after saying that line.

Adrian could not help but to smirk at her perception towards him.

“Uhm… Phoebe? Adrian?” Amelia walked towards them. She just finished the call.

“Mom?”

"I'm really sorry, but I cannot go with you tonight. I have an urgent matter to attend to," Amelia apologetically said. Then she glanced at Adrian. "Adrian, please take care of my daughter, okay? You'll be doomed to me if something bad happens to her," she seriously asked.

"But, mom! I'll just go with you--"

"I assure you that Phoebe's going to be fine with me, Aunt Amelia," Adrian interrupted.

"But--"

"That's okay, sweetie. You also need to go out with your future husband so you can get to know each other, " Amelia advised Phoebe.

And before the young lady could protest once more, her mother immediately kissed her goodbye and entered their car.

"Mommy!" Phoebe tried to follow Amelia inside. But the car already drove away which made her stomp her feet and groan in frustration. "Aishh! This is all your fault!" she yelled at Adrian.

"Chill, babe! I won't do anything to you. We'll just have dinner," Adrian said in defense. " If I were you, I would stop wasting my energy complaining. We'll just eat. And after that, I'll send you home."

Phoebe sighed in defeat.

Well, nothing's really wrong with the dinner. She was just really overacting, letting her emotions drive her.

"Fine. Let's go."

"As you said, milady," Adrian replied, giving her a curt nod.

***

Phoebe remained silent while they were on their way to somewhere she did not know.

"Are you sure there's still a restaurant in this part?" She could not help but ask when she noticed that they were already going away from the center of the city.

"Yup. Just wait there and relax," Adrian assured her, his eyes focused on the road.

That was why Phoebe was silent again and was patiently waiting for them to arrive.

And she was really shocked when they arrived at the place.

"We'll have dinner here?!" she exclaimed in awe.

Adrian smiled as he nodded his head. "Uh-huh!"

"Wow," Phoebe unconsciously blurted out. This would be the first time that she would have dinner on a yacht.

Adrian made a soundful smirk. "Well, this is just one of the benefits that you could get when you marry me."

'Oh, here comes the boastful jerk again,' Phoebe thought.

Instead of wasting her saliva on him again, Phoebe just faked a smile before she turned her back at him and walked first to the yacht.

"Be careful," Adrian reminded her as she walked to the ladder.

Phoebe really thought that she could successfully reach the yacht without stumbling herself. But she was wrong. Her heart almost dropped when she slid because of her heels. She thought that she would fall in the water for it.

However, Adrian was on the rescue. He caught her and wrapped his one arm around her waist, and the other one held her on the railings. “I told you to be careful,” he told her in a low voice.

Phoebe’s eyes widened not because of fear, but because of the shiver that she felt when their skin touched, plus his soothing voice with his breath that smelled like mint. It was as if her breathing stopped for a second. And she just came back to her senses when her body floated in the air. “Hey! Put me down!” she shouted at him, panicking.

But instead of listening to her, he carried her and dropped her when they finally stepped on the yacht.

The blushing lady instantly moved away from him. “I told you to put me down there,” she almost whispered after she looked away from him.

Adrian chuckled. ‘So, she knows how to be shy, huh?’ he mentally told himself. Then he put his hands inside his pocket. “I just did you a favor. I don’t have spare clothes here in case you fall in the water.”

Phoebe just frowned.

Adrian took a step forward to her. And before his fiancee could move away from him, he already leaned forward, their faces just an inch away from each other.

Phoebe gulped hard. Her eyes almost crossed because of that distance. In addition, she could feel his hot breath fanning her face. She wanted to faint right now. “W-What are you doing, A-Adrian?”

Adrian smirked at her. But inside of him was his rumbling heart. She looked more beautiful when she was this close. His eyes wandered from her eyes, to her nose… and to her lips.

‘Those lips are so luscious. Fuck!’ he exclaimed in his mind. And God knew how much he tried to stop himself from tasting those. He took a deep breath before voicing out the words that were different from what he really wanted to tell her. “Won’t you thank me for catching you?”

Phoebe blinked a few times. She wanted to poke her head for thinking that he would actually kiss her.

“Hmm? I’m waiting, future wife.”

‘Fucking hormones!’ Phoebe screamed in her mind.

“I–I… T-Thank—”

Phoebe could not finish what she was about to say because of what happened next.

The yacht just moved causing Phoebe to be out of balance. She was about to reach for the yacht's railings but Adrian held onto her first. The two were pushed at the side of the yacht, too close, face to face, and eye to eye.

And when the yacht calmed down, both of them realized that their lips were pressing onto each other.