[Sold]

She was exhausted. Her body aches all over. She looked at the other side of the bed and saw the man beside her, sleeping quietly.

She gritted her teeth. She surrendered her body to the man she hated the most.

He was the heir of Cross Realty Corporation, Andrew Cross. Their company buys lands both legally and illegally. His father wanted to develop the area where her family's business was located. They already got everything except her family's ramen shop.

They never agreed to sell the shop to them, especially her. It was the only memory her grandmother left with them. Her parents worked hard to take care of the business when her grandmother died of leukemia. The business was there for generations. She wouldn't allow anyone to get it from them. However, a few months ago, Cross Realty started to buy the lands in the area. They said it was to develop the place around Northbay City Mall.

She met Andrew for the first time when he tried to persuade them to sell the shop. Their first meeting wasn't that nice. He's arrogant and so full of himself.

"Five million dollars. We'll buy it!" He said.

"No! Never!" She answered.

"Your place doesn't really cost that much but I'm already giving you a huge amount. Consider it as a reward from me." He said, smirking.

She really hated him so she went to the kitchen and threw water to his face.

"We will never agree to sell the shop! Over my dead body!"

His face went dark and started to smell the water she just threw.

"What's this smell?" He asked.

She started laughing and grinned.

"Oh you don't know? Why? Did your mother never teach you how to wash the dishes?"

"You! I swear one day you'll be begging in front of me!" He yelled while walking away from the shop.

She was so proud that she hadn't imagined that one day, she would be asking him for help.

They met a few times after he became friends with the rich kids she hung out with. She tried to be nice to him since Alora, one of her friends, asked her.

She doesn't really hate rich people, only Andrew and maybe some other kids who bully the weak. She was friends with some of the richest kids anyway. Alora, the Ice Princess, an heiress and who was recently engaged to the richest guy on campus, Luke Wilson, Emily and Peggy, who are also one of the top 10 richest kids in Golden Oak.

She was envied by many because she was close to them. She was included in the Bronze Class and those rich kids were in the Platinum Class.

In Golden Oak School of the Elites, the students were divided into four classes. The Platinum Class, they are the richest heirs and heiress and the royalties in the world. The Golden Class are those living in the limelight, the celebrities and models. The Silver Class where student's parents are professional workers of those above them. And then there's the Bronze Class who were accepted by scholarships and sponsorships of the elites.

She got accepted because of a scholarship. However, only the tuition fee is free. All other fees were to be shouldered by her family. They couldn't really afford everything so she started to run errands for the rich kids. She basically does everything for them. From projects, homeworks, even cleaning their shoes. She needed the money anyway so even if Alora told her not to do it, she still does. Her friends are willing to help her but she doesn't want to be a burden to them and take advantage of their kindness.

She stared at the man's face beside her. He was really good looking, she thought to herself. He has jet black hair, a set of black eyes, pointed nose and luscious lips. He's 5 feet 11 inches tall while she was  just 5 feet and 2 inches.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. She swore she had never intended to sell the shop and herself to this man.

Looking back, she was so desperate back then to save her younger sisters.

"If you won't pay, we'll get your daughters. All of them!" One of the men said.

Her father borrowed money from a loan shark and they were asking for ten million dollars as repayment. They didn't have that amount of money. They were already struggling as the bills of the shop and their house continued to pile up.

"No! Don't touch my sisters." She yelled and as she tried to grab her sister, Nika, from one of the men, she slapped him as hard as she could.

The man got pissed and hit her hard on her face. She felt that there's something ringing in her ears. Her cheek hurts but she ignored it. She looked at her sisters, they were crying. They were only 6 and 10 years old. Her father was beaten and her mother lost consciousness from fear. Who will save them? They were nobody. No one could save them.

Then the door of the shop suddenly opened and Andrew came inside. From his reaction, he didn't expect to see that scene.

She ran towards him and begged.

"Please help us." She said softly.

"What's happening here?" He asked, frowning.

He looked around the shop and it was a mess. Her parents were on the floor. Her father seemed to be beaten badly and her mother fainted. Two men were holding two little girls who were both crying.

"Mind your own business kid. This man owes us. He couldn't pay so we're getting his daughters." A man with a scar on his left cheek said.

"How much is it? I'll pay for it." He said.

She was surprised but relieved at the same time. Will he really help them?

"Ten million dollars or we'll get these girls and sell them to the underground cartel." One of the men answered.

"Please help us. Please save my sisters." Nina begged.

Andrew looked at the girl who was begging in front of her. Her face was tilted up looking at his face. Her hazelnut eyes were sparkling from tears. Her red plump lips had a small cut in the lower part and her left cheek was swollen. Did someone hit her? He gritted his teeth but tried to hide his reaction from her.

She wasn't like the other woman he dated. She wasn't classy or sophisticated but there was something in her that mesmerized him.

"How do you plan on paying me?" He asked.

"I'll do everything you ask. I-I'll give you myself." She suddenly blurted.

She was so innocent. She doesn't even know what was playing in his head when she said that. He brushed his hand to her cheeks and wiped the tears flowing from her face.

"Then I'll buy you and your shop for fifteen million dollars. From now on, I own you. You belong to me.." He said with a wide grin on his face.

All her life she never imagined giving herself to a man he didn't love. She hated him. But she owes him. He saved her family, especially her sisters.

The day she needed to leave her family was the most painful day of her life. Her mother and sisters were crying. Her father couldn't look her in the eyes.

"Nina, don't leave us. We'll be good sisters. We won't argue anymore. Please stay here." Nika, her younger sister, cried.

"We're sorry Nina. We should've run when you told us." It was Naomi, her other sister.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It's my fault. I'm an irresponsible father." Her dad said while bowing to her.

"Hey. It's okay. I'll be fine. I don't think he's a bad person. I just need to work for him, right? Like cleaning and laundry. I'll come back when all the debt is paid." She said, trying to sound convincing.

She doesn't really know what she will do to pay him. He said he own her. He sounded like she was an object he just bought. But half of it was true, she basically sold herself to him.

"Dad, mom, here's the five million dollars. You can start over. Live far away from here. You can still open a ramen shop somewhere. I'll come and find you, I promise!" She said.

She hugged her family for the last time and went inside the car. She sat there, sobbing. When the car started to move away from the place she grew up with, she burst out crying. She turned around and saw her sisters running behind the car. Her heart was crushed but she couldn't return from them anymore. She belongs to Andrew Cross now.  And he owned her until he let go of her.

She was brought to a hotel room by a man who seemed to be Andrew's right hand. He left her there without saying anything.

Inside, she saw Andrew sitting on the couch. He was wearing glasses, a laptop in front of him, wine on the table and a cigarette. So he's a smoker, she thought.

She stood there, looking at him and waiting for him to tell her something.

"Are you going to just stand there? Sit." He said, without even looking at her.

She sat on the couch across from him. She felt nervous. It wasn't the first time they were alone. When they helped Alora find her psychiatrist, she rode in Andrew's car because her friends rode with their boyfriends.

"Here." He handed her a three-page paper.

She looked at it and it said 'contract.'

"What is this?" She asked.

"Don't you know how to read?" He answered back in sarcasm.

She read the papers and was surprised by what was written.

"Are you insane?" She exclaimed. She didn't expect what she just read.

"Do you prefer to just serve me in bed forever?" He asked.

The contract says that she will have to marry him once she graduates from college. She will be his fiance once she signs the contract. She will also need to satisfy his sexual needs whenever he asks her. It's also written that she's not allowed to have any romantic or intimate relationship with another man except him.

"Why do I have to be your fiance and marry you?" She asked, confused.

"I need someone who I could divorce after 5 years. We don't like each other anyway so that's fine. My father is forcing me to marry any girl or else he won't hand the company to me. It's written in the contract, we can divorce after 5 years." He said in a straight face.

She couldn't believe it. She expected she would be serving him sexually but she didn't expect she needed to marry him.

"What if I don't agree?" She asked.

"You don't have a choice. You sold yourself to me, remember? That contract was just an agreement that we will divorce after 5 years. I just wanted to make sure that we will separate quietly after. The rest were just for you to read. I can do anything I want with you even without that contract. I could even have sex with you right now and you can't do anything about it."

He didn't show any expression when he said that. He's heartless and bold. She despised him.

She felt nervous when he mentioned about having sex with her. Her face was red, her cheeks burned from embarrassment.

"Are you going to force me? Then that's ****!" She mustered the courage to raise her voice.

He chuckled. "Don't reason with me, Nina. You asked for my help, you offered yourself to me. I paid your father's debt without hesitation. Do the end of the bargain. You just have to act as my fiance and marry me. Then we'll go our separate ways after 5 years of marriage."

If she counts the 5 years plus her time from now with him until she graduates from college, that would be a total of 10 years. That was really too long. But she doesn't really have a choice. She also doesn't know Andrew well or what he's capable of. He might changed his mind and take back the money. What will happen to her sisters? She will do everything for her family.

"Will you let me know if you will-" She bowed her head and suddenly got embarrassed from what she would ask him.

He looked at her and he was amused by her innocence. She was going to ask him when he will have sex with her but was ashamed from her own question so she didn't continue. He enjoyed seeing her getting flustered.

"I won't. I'll just do it whenever I like. Don't worry I'm very much experienced with women. I'll be gentle." He said.

He was staring at her and she was blushing again. The conversation was giving him a hard time to control himself. He wanted to do it with her but he decided to take it slow since he knows she's still a ******. He had dated a lot of women, most of them were older than him. He doesn't really like fragile and innocent women but Nina was an exception.

The first time he met her, she threw dirty water to his face. She wasn't really fragile, she was fierce. She wasn't afraid of him. He started to get interested on how long she could keep that stubbornness of hers.

When he started to hang out with her and her friends, he found out that she belonged to the Bronze Class and was doing errands for the rich kids in exchange for money. He knew her family needed money. She was just too proud of herself and couldn't admit it.

He doesn't really care about the shop. It was just a small piece of land anyway, but his father insisted on getting all of the properties in the area. So when she begged him, he found a way to get the shop but didn't expect that she would offer herself to him. Of course, he wouldn't miss that opportunity. She was the exact opposite of all the women he had but she was a ****** so he wanted a taste of her.

He saw her pick up the pen with a trembling hand. She was just wearing a blue faded dress without any makeup on but she still looks pretty.

When she bit her lips before signing the contract, he wanted to tie her on the bed and ravage her. But he kept his cool and moved his eyes away from her.

She handed him the paper and he could see fear in her eyes. Maybe she thought he would take her now.

But to her surprise, he took the paper, stood up and walked out of the room.

He went out with the guys to drink. His friend Luke was having a hard time dealing with his fiance who has multiple personalities so he asked the boys to go out. Andrew needed to get some air so he agreed to come.

When Nina signed the contract, he was tempted to have sex with her, but he still controlled himself. He wasn't that bad. He never forced any woman to sleep with him. She offered herself so he was just doing what she asked, right?

His father was really asking him to marry any girl. He knew his father had chosen a girl already, it was Ella. She was the daughter of a Senator. She's a supermodel and was very famous in her career. They went out a few times and had sex, but that was it. He wasn't really interested in being tied to any girl. He was going with them for fun, nothing more nothing less.

When he insisted that he didn't want to marry Ella, his father asked him to find another girl so he would not force him to marry her.

Nina was on perfect timing. He was actually looking for a girl who would pretend to be his fiance, marry him and stay with him for at least 5 years.

He was in deep thought when he noticed a woman looking at their table. She was brave enough to walk towards them.

"Can I sit with you boys?" She asked.

She was wearing a red body hugging dress. It was so short that if she bent down, you could already see her underwear. She was pretty but wore a lot of makeup. He thinks she's 3 years older than him.

"They're all taken but I'm not." He said, smirking.

The woman smiled seductively and whispered to his ear. He smiled back and stood up. Luke and the others were shaking their heads when Andrew and the woman went to a private room.

The woman started kissing him on the neck. She tried kissing him on the lips but he avoided it. He had sex to a lot of women but he never kissed anyone. For him, kissing was for a real couple. He will only kiss a girl if he has feelings for her. But he might make an exception with Nina. Once he announced that she was his fiance, they needed to convince his father and everyone else so he might need to kiss her.

Why is he thinking of her anyway? A sexy woman was sitting on his lap and he's thinking of another girl.

He started to touch her body to pleasure her. She was moaning loud, it was music to his ears when a woman cried in pleasure because of his touch. She took all her clothes off and kneeled. She gave him a **** *** and he admits that she's good at it. Then she rode him and moved her hips to position herself. She held his **** and brushed it to her entrance before slowly stroking it inside her.

When they're done, the woman gave him a calling card.

"Call me anytime. My name's Bettina." She said before going out of the room.

Nina was walking back and forth inside the hotel room. She thought she would lose her virginity tonight. But Andrew went out without saying a word.

Maybe he doesn't really want her, she was not that pretty after all. She wasn't like the rich girls. She wasn't like Alora who looks like an angel, or Peggy who looks like a princess, or Emily who looks like a model, her face doesn't look like a doll like Sophie's. She's just a simple girl. She thought to herself.

Her stomach suddenly growled. She remembered she hadn't eaten anything since afternoon. She doesn't have any appetite since it was the day she needed to leave her family.

She went to the kitchen to look for food, but she couldn't find anything. So she decided to cook pasta from the ingredients she saw in the kitchen. She was done cooking when the door opened and Andrew came in swaying.

She frowned. Is he drunk? She thought.

She wanted to just ignore him but he couldn't even walk straight.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

He looked at her and tried to walk towards her. She got nervous but she still went closer to him. She doesn't really know why but for some reason, her feet moved on its own and walked towards him. He was about to fall but she caught him.

"Hey. You're drunk. Come on, I'll help you." She said in a gentle voice.

He couldn't say anything when Nina put his arms to her shoulder and her arms to his waist. It was the first time they were that close. The smell of vanilla coming from her was making him crazy.

She helped him lay down on the bed and went back to the kitchen. He was observing her. She came back to him with a towel. She started to slowly wipe his face, his neck and then to his arms.

She was about to unbutton his shirt when he suddenly grabbed her hands.

"What are you doing?" He asked, frowning.

"Taking your shirt off. You should at least change or you'll get sick." She simply answered.

"Do you realize what you're doing to me?"

"No. I just want to help." She said innocently.

His head was starting to hurt. This woman is so naive. He thought inwardly. He lets her do what she wants and just focuses on controlling himself.

She frowned when she saw a kiss mark on his chest. She doesn't have any experience with a man but she's not stupid. So he was with a woman. She felt disappointed but she ignored it. Why would she get disappointed? It says in the contract that she's not allowed to be touched by another man but it doesn't say he wasn't allowed to have sex with another woman.

"Are you hungry?" She asked.

As soon as he shook his head, his stomach made a rumbling sound.

She giggled. She stood up and went back to the kitchen again. She was carrying a food tray when she came back.

"Here. I cooked pasta." She said.

"Are you trying to poison me?" He asked, frowning.

She rolled her eyes which made him smile. Her heart suddenly skipped a bit when he smiled at her.

"I was hungry so I made it. It's tastier when you eat it with someone." She answered, ignoring the feeling she just had.

They ate together for the first time. When they were done, she washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Andrew stood up since he's not drunk anymore and sat on the couch.

"By the way, in a few weeks, we'll have our engagement party.." He blurted.