Four Brothers and a Bride

Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Chapter 1

DEMI

"Demi! Demi!! Demi!!!"

The shrill sound of my aunt's voice cuts through my foggy brain and stirs me awake from a deep sleep. My eyes still closed, I hear her swing my door open and barge into my room with her daughter in tow. It's usually bad when they enter the small boxy room that is my escape hatch from their hateful glares and harsh words.

I have been living with my aunt ever since my parents died five years ago. They were unfortunately inside a faulty elevator in a mall that fell from the nineteenth floor and crashed. Aunt wasn't pleased to have an extra mouth to feed by accommodating me. She hated her sister, my mother. Jealous is more like the word. They had both wanted my father and my father chose my mum over my aunt. Long story. My aunt and her daughter, Kira, have been making my life a miserable one ever since I moved in with them.

"You're still in bed by ten in the morning, huh girl? Did you forget you're an orphan and a freeloader in my house? An adult who is yet to start contributing substantially to the expenses in this house?" My aunt snarls.

I sit up on my bed thinking how I have been submitting my pay checks from working at a book store to my aunt at the end of every month, for the last two years now. The light from the window is harsh so I squint my eyes. My head aches badly and my aunt's voice is only making it want to fall off my neck. Why do I feel this way?

"Where were you last night? Kira heard you come in by two this morning. Where the hell were you?"

"I told you she has started prostituting herself." Kira draws close and sniffs me.

"Eww. She reeks of alcohol and her breath stinks mum. She's clearly drunk."

"What's that?" Kira asks. In a flash, she snatches a paper crumpled by the foot of my bed. I continue to cradle my head in my hands when Kira shrieks. "NO WAY! NO F*CKING WAY." She rushes to show her mum what the paper says.

"A marriage certificate?"

me. "TO ASH ROLLINS??? This can't be right. The Rollins brothers would never...Demi could never manage

the paper and reads intently. "Is this real? No, it can't. Speak up Demi. What is the meaning of this? Who did you get

and Ashal all went by the short form, Ash Rollins whenever they were in public spaces to preserve their mystery. No one could really tell them apart by looking at them. Very few people have had the privilege to fraternize with them and I am not

to blame me for neglecting his needs and driving him to the edge with my decision to wait till marriage. Fresh

"I...I don't remember."

marriage certificate, dragging Kira with her. I dig around for my phone and flip through it. There's no clue in it. No pictures or sloppy drunk videos. How much did I drink last night? How did I end up

for work but I am hoping Mr. Rahl would be forgiving. I have never turned up late before. He would be more concerned than mad. Liam, one of

do you think

towards her. "To the

think so." She's all dressed up. Kira

"What? W-Why?"

entertainment blogs are eating it up. There's a new article about your marriage every

Indeed, there's an article about my marriage on Billion-Err, a very popular blog in Danvarr that's notorious for uncovering wrongs done by wealthy families/businesses and calling them out for it. I don't mind other small blogs running the

to bursting seeing the crappy photo Kira added of

I must have had too much to drink. The

the Rollins family?" Kira shoots back, snagging her phone from my hands. "They have too much of it as it is. Mum is

carried it. How can this ever be

for putting up with you. You better play your part. The paparazzi

here?" I ask with a hand over

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