CHAPTER 1 Excerpt

Before she knew it, they were inside the house. He put her down in the middle of the large living room. She looked up at him with a million questions in her eyes.

Then, before she could open her mouth to ask,

"Close your eyes, Luna," he ordered.

"Huh? Why?''

"Just close your eyes and don't open them until you hear my signal."

Luna could only comply.

Second, ticked by and her mind was running around like a handled chicken, trying to figure out what he was up to!

The next moment, Luna heard the fire alarm siren roar loudly inside the mansion. Her eyes opened wide but before she could move, water began to sprinkle from above.

"You wanted rain, right?" he smirked and Luna's mouth dropped. What on Earth just happened? What did he just do?

Well, he did what she thought was impossible. He made it rain…inside the house!

"Mr. Qinn, I love you!!!" a woman's voice echoed in the dimly lit, cold concrete understood garage, startling Luna so that her phone almost fell from her hand.

She was just on her way toward her parked car but who would have thought that she would witness a confession in this dark, cold place?

"What do you say?"Luna heard a cold, husky, and deep voice and she flinched even though she was not the one the man was talking to. Perhaps, she reacted like that because the man sounded so damn intimidating.

His tone even seemed heartlessly cold. What seemed like a romantic confession, sounded more like a misunderstanding!

"I said I love you," Luna heard the woman's voice again," I love you so much! I already fell for you the first time I saw you." The woman sounded so emotional.

Luna held her breath waiting for his response, but only silence followed. She wanted to peek but she thought it was not the right thing to do. She waited until finally, she heard the man reply.

"Is that all?" was all his response causing Luna to gasp in disbelief.

'Wah… he's so curly.'

"W... what?" the woman sounded like she was utterly shocked.

"Tell me, what did you want?"

"I... I've been in love with you since the beginning. I've been your girl for two months now but you have never said anything about how you feel about me. Mr. Qinn, I… all I want is... I just want you to love me back."

Luna could tell from the voice of the lady that she was on the verge of breaking down, and yet, the man's voice didn't soften even a little bit after hearing her. Instead, he sounded even more menacing as he responded to her.

"We are done," he said nonchalantly without a care in the world. There was simply no trace of warmth in his voice at all.

"W... w... what?"

"I won't repeat myself."

"W... why? Mr. Qinn, what are you saying? This is not… the contract I signed clearly stated that I would be your girl for three months! It's only been two months, but now you are saying we're over? What do you mean by..."

"Miss more...didn't you properly read the contract?" the man's tone became colder, almost harsh. "Scott, come over and read the condition she didn't read."

Luna was shocked to her bones hearing their shocked conversation, " A contract? Oh goodness, what are they saying?"

She could tell that the situation was getting worse so she wanted to leave but if she moved now, they would see her. Without a choice, she could only stay hidden and listen even if she didn't want to.

"Miss Moore, here is one of two conditions from that contract you signed." Another man started talking.

The contracted girlfriend can demand anything except for one thing; love or affection. Once the contracted girlfriend demand to be loved in return, the contract will automatically become null and void.``

Luna was so shocked she couldn't stop herself from taking a peek at them. She just couldn't believe what was happening. She couldn't believe that something so outrageous as this was happening in real life. This was absolute madness to someone like her.

When she was the girl, her hands flew to her mouth. Isn't that Ina Moore? A famous actress?!'

She couldn't believe her eyes. Why does a beautiful woman like her beg for a man's love? More importantly, their relationship was contractual?!

This beautiful diva, Ina Moore, was some ruthless man's contracted girlfriend?!! The entertainment world would be shaken if they found out about this!!!

Luna's widened eyes then shifted to the man but she couldn't see his face because he had his back to her.

"I warned you long ago. I don't do love and never will. And you of all people should already be well aware of how I dare with anyone who breaks my conditions in the contract." the man said and Luna shivered as she watched Ina Moore fall to her knees.

The goddess that every male creature out there praised now looked like all her blood was being drained all at once as she heard him.

Then just like that, she was dragged away by a bulky man in black towards another car. When the car that Ina boarded was gone, Luna finally came back to her senses and quickly hid again.

However...

"Come out. I know you are there. Now!" The man ordered and she was so shocked that she just froze for a long while.

She knew he was talking to her and she knew that he was a man who didn't want to repeat himself so holding her breath, she finally stepped out.

"Come over," the man commanded and Luna slowly lifted her face. She was incredibly nervous. She couldn't remember if anyone made her feel this scared and nervous before in her entire life.

As soon as their eyes met, Luna almost gaped. The man before her was so damn looking good... no, good looking was a huge understatement.

She was sure that he was a hundred times more handsome than any celebrity she had ever seen in her life. He was tall. His dark hair looked like it was combed by his fingers and swept back away from his face.

He had a strong, defined, and masculine jawline... it was perfection in her eyes. He just looked too good to be true. She was utterly impressed, and she had never been impressed by a man's beauty like this before.

How could a mortal man look this stunning? No wonder such a beautiful woman like Ina Moore begged for his love!

But this stunning creature was glaring down at her. His eyes were hostile, making her want to shrink to the floor and disappear. The way he looked at her was the definition of the phrase, looks could kill.