A Beautiful Secret
With secrets kept within for so long, two souls live their lives normally, well at least that's how it seems to other people. No one, except their families, knows the pain they nurture everyday.
Galaxia Chrystal Arthur, a billionaire, a very beautiful business woman. The owner of the most prestigious fashion agencies world wide, it seems as though she has all she could ever need–money, fame, beauty, everything. But that is very wrong, she seeks something very important, something money cannot buy, PEACE. She is haunted by secrets of her past, only known to her friends and family.
Xavier Percy King, another successful billionaire in the business world, another unexpressive hurt soul. Doesn't reveal anything to anyone whatsoever but is kindhearted and drowns himself in his work. Only family members and close friends know how truly he is.
Read to find the secrets these two keep running from and when they meet, will they destroy each other's walls or make them stronger?
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Chapter: Chapter 18–Abrupt Encounter IXavier's POV"Come on, Xavier, grow up. You're physically mature but mentally childish"."What? Ryan, all because I said I don't wanna go clubbing with you, you choose to insult me?".He rolled his eyes and replied"You and I both know you're trying to avoid the advances the ladies there make at you. You're just being too serious with your job and sulking in a corner, watching your life fly by before you. You need to get up, get out there and live your life to the fullest, man"."Wow, I didn't know you became a therapist? I must admit, that was a good therapy session, but I'm not buying it. Sorry"."Really? Xavier, really? Out of everything I said, my amazing therapy advice was the only thing you could grab onto"."So you suggest going to the club and having fun with almost naked ladies, living my life to the fullest? I thought you were better than this, Ryan". I groaned and loosened my tie."Dude, don't blame me for having
Last Updated: 2020-11-16
Chapter: Chapter 17–Irksome Yet AgainGalaxia's POVIt was currently Friday night and Anna was busy rummaging through my closet trying to find 'the perfect outfit'. Sophia and I were seated on my bed watching her with bored expressions.We spent the whole week together. Going to my company together, talking about meaningless things, going shopping and visiting the cinema.Of course, I had Crawford inform the malls and cinema of our visit and have them all cleared out for us. At first, Anna and Sophia didn't agree to it, but after remembering my phobia, they accepted."Guys, you know I'm not going with you to the club, right?".I said, trying to clear things out. Anna suddenly stopped and turned to us with a death glare. Sophia flinched under her gaze but I still kept my bored expression.She sighed and moved closer to us"Why are you both so boring?". She said exasperatedly and continued,"We're in New York for Christ's sake, loosen up, live, have fun. You both are j
Last Updated: 2020-11-16
Chapter: Chapter 16– FriendsGalaxia's POVI was dressed up and in my car, on my way to work. Whenever I remember that man and what he did to my car, I just got more pissed off. If he's lucky, then I hope I never meet him ever again.This was what happened yesterday, Sunday.(Flashback)Ding DongI heard my door bell ring. It was 6:30a.m in the morning and I just finished my work out session. I went downstairs and opened the door to see a man with a toolbox."G-good morning Miss Galaxia. Miss Crawford said you needed me so I c-came as early as possible". He tried to sound brave but I could clearly see through his pretense.I walked out and went to my backyard, ignoring his greetings. I showed him where my car was and the damages."One heck of a bastard did that to my car". I said, my hands automatically fisted at my sides.I took a deep breath and unclenched my fists. I turned back to him and said,"Fix all of that. I don't want to see a single scratch
Last Updated: 2020-11-16
Chapter: Chapter 15–Meeting HimGalaxia's POVI left the Crowne's house and started heading home. I turned on the radio and started listening to the song playing. Never Be Enough by Loren Allred was being played. The singer, Loren Allred kept repeating the chorus, Never Enough and I couldn't help but feel as if she was talking about me. All I had never seemed to be enough for me.I got lost in my thoughts. Thoughts that I had been constantly pushing away started coming back. Saddening thoughts, thoughts that had been haunting my dreams ever since that tragic day.I couldn't help but feel contemptible. I felt like I was just breathing but not living. I felt incomplete and I didn't know why. Other than being constantly haunted by my past, I felt like something else was missing, something very important and that surprised me. I mean I have everything anyone could ever ask for.I have wealth, fame, beauty, authority, dominance, you name it. Hell, anything I wanted was just within my reach
Last Updated: 2020-10-25
Chapter: Chapter 14–Get Together IIGalaxia's POVI arrived at the address and got out of my car. Looking up at the mansion before me, I took in the architecture. The mansion was fairly big and the exterior was contemporarily decorated. From the outside, you could see that the mansion was intricate. Other cars were also parked in the drive way, probably my brothers' and whosoever they had invited. I walked to the entrance and pressed the doorbell placed at the front door.A woman with brown eyes, caramel skin and shoulder length jet black hair and has a height that was almost the same as my mom, opened the door. I guess she must be Mrs Crowne."Good evening, Mrs Crowne".She gasped in shock "Oh my gosh, Galaxia, is this you?". She asked while placing her hands on the sides of my face and examining me. I pulled my lips into a tight smile, trying to hide how uncomfortable I felt, being touched by someone other than my family and friends."Yes ma'am. It's me"."You look so beauti
Last Updated: 2020-10-19
Chapter: Chapter 13–Get TogetherOne week later (Saturday)Xavier's POVFor some reason, King's Empire had been making huge amounts of profit lately and the rate at which our services were being required had skyrocketed. I mean it's a really good thing and I'm very glad that such blessing had befallen us but it has been a while since we had experienced such...what's the right word to use...breakthrough. Yeah, breakthrough. And I was hoping that whatever was causing this blessing would continue to do so.I was looking intently at the green arrow that advanced upwards on my laptop screen, indicating the level of our profits as the difference between the present percentage showing boldly on the screen and the previous one was great by a total of 76.82%.Still looking at the continually elevating arrow, I couldn't help the smile that appeared on my face as I sipped my coffee and continued working on my laptop. It was 8:30a.m. and I was currently in my office, working. A knock comes f
Last Updated: 2020-10-15
Bound By The Erstwhile Chains
"You can't handle it. If you try too hard to understand me, what you'll unbosom, that is if you're able to uncover anything, will drive you mad. Because my mind is a dark labyrinth, never understood".
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind”.——Dean Roontz.
A dark, lonely, numb soul wanders the face of the Earth in search of peace. Running and hiding from her hunters and her captives. She's trying all she can to feel something, anything, at all as proof that she's living but all to no avail. She's neither human nor werewolf, Satyr nor mermaid, she doesn't seem to have a place to fit in. Her only mission and the goal that drives her very being is how to get rid of the curse she was born with. A curse that seems to spread its wings of death over any one she dares to care about. A curse that doesn't hesitate to suck the happiness out of all beings of close proximity to her.
Will her strive to break this curse be fruitful or futile? Will she be able to protect others from getting consumed by this curse that plagues her very existence? Will she thrive over this seemingly unbreakable curse?
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Chapter: SIX><><><><>~♥♥~<><><><><“But really, you've got to admit yesterday's unforeseen event was scary; terrifying even!”. Fiorella whisper–yelled as she leaned closer to Leigh's ear.“Fiorella! You're going to make me deaf. And yes we all know about yesterday, we were there, remember?”. Leigh replied annoyedly as she glared at Fiorella who didn't seem to notice the glare as she continued to gush about what had happened the previous day.“It was so surprising to find out that the seal of the gods was broken, totally destroyed. I was stupefied!”. She shouted again, making the group of friends walking together to begin the first activity of the day, sigh frustratedly.Leigh, rather than complaining, had resulted to pinching the bridge of her nose with her fi
Last Updated: 2020-11-16
Chapter: FIVEShe was awoken by the same ear-piercing shrill that haunted her both in reality and unconsciousness. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as she took deep gasps of breaths.She remembered the strident tone in her voice and her cries of anguish that had always revealed her endless pain and agony. Because she could hear her broken voice, the only thing she couldn't control, revealing her pains to attract unwanted pity or sympathy like moths drawn to a source of light.Every other thing she could mask but her broken voice was uncontrollable, it was the one thing that could give her away. The pain and unrelenting agony she had gone through all her life, continued to seep through her voice, endlessly. Therefore, she had chosen to sacrifice her right to speech and the last words that had left her mouth were “Mom! Dad! No!!!” from that tragic day.Getting up from the strong, wooden mahogany bed frame supporting an extremely soft bed foam coated in deep blue b
Last Updated: 2020-11-06
Chapter: FOUR"What?! Never, that, that...thing cannot stay in this camp. We can't possibly allow him to stay. If he insists on staying, then he'll be locked up in the dungeon. There's no way he's going to be a camp member. No way!". Professor Ethan, the hand-to-hand combat/obstacle course teacher shouted.A meeting was being held by the dean alongside the other camp staff regarding the acceptance of the intruder and his conditions and demands. The meeting had been going on for about an hour now as the dean had been trying to convince the staff members but the arguments between the staff didn't wane one bit. The teachers, especially Professor Ethan, were bent and strongly inclined on not giving this intruder a chance to stay at the camp.“Dean Lee, professor Ethan is right. We can't risk letting an intruder, someone we know nothing about, into our camp grounds. Not only are the lives of the students in jeopardy but the entirety of the camp as we know it. If we allow this to happen, we
Last Updated: 2020-11-04
Chapter: THREE“There's no one else here but you and I. Are you going to tell me who you are and your purpose for being here or not?”. Dean Lee asked impatiently.They both had been in the dean's office for a while now but the intruder had not shown any sign of wanting to divulge any information whatsoever and he was growing impatient.They had been sitting in silence and the stretching stillness and sedentary act of the intruder was becoming very irksome.She knew she had to say something as soon as possible but she couldn't seem to come to terms with the idea of telling him anything. She was a person very chary and circumspect in her dealings with people. Whether he might be able to help her or not, she couldn't take the chances of leaving hints about her life because like everyone else, he was also a lackey serving under the reign of the powerful. No one could be trusted, that was the harsh truth she had grown to know and live with all her life.The dean sat, lookin
Last Updated: 2020-11-04
Chapter: TWOWhat other good first impression is there than breaking the unbreakable protective seal set around the camp on your arrival. Yeah, exactly, no other entrance could be considered to be as grandiose as that. That is definitely sure to be forever imprinted in the minds of the members. Who knows, it might even make it to the historical records of ‘never been seen before’ events.It seems none of you know the gravity of the seal's powers, allow me to expatiate.The seal had been around the camp for decades, maybe even milleniums. It was placed there together with an invisible magical dome by the seven elders of Arietis called The Stanchion in order to protect the camp from any threat whatsoever.The camp used to face attacks and the founders, The Stanchion had thought of a way to protect the camp from intruders, thereby merging their powers to forge what we now know as the seal.The camp had been found for years now, precisely it had been in existence
Last Updated: 2020-10-30
Chapter: ONE"Fear and darkness loomed over the whole United Kingdom. For about twelve years now, after the monstrous event that shook the whole of the United Kingdom occurred, the weather had been oddly very cold and gloomy.The day was almost as dark as night as though every source of light had been obliterated. Parents locked their children up in the house for fear of being consumed by the darkness lurking in every corner of the place.People, young and old, male and female, lived in fear every millisecond of their lives. The formerly cheery, happy and bustling streets of England, previously filled with laughters and exultant cries of males and females was now a hollow shell of what it used to be.A natural curfew appeared to have been set upon every nook and cranny of the country, causing every lingering being to rush to the safety of their homes once the sun set. Multiple door locks, hushes and whisperings are what was heard after, before complete silence befell ever
Last Updated: 2020-10-27
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