MELISSA
"Fuck!" I exclaimed the moment I got into my room. I locked the door to avoid any disturbances, we were only allowed to lock our room doors once every week, when we extremely needed to... according to mother.
That whole dinner was nerve wracking, I didn't know how I was able to keep my cool, my heart almost leaped out of my mouth because of how nervous I was.
It was already dark by the time I left the dining room, papa had work he was going to attend to tonight. He was a very busy man afterall.
I changed into my night wear and sat on my dressing table, cleaning off whatever make up I had left.
I heard the main door open downstairs and I looked outside my window, I saw Mr Salvatore talking to papa, Mrs Salvatore, Blake and Mariam went into different cars... of course, they were billionaires, Oliver was standing close to one of his car, probably waiting for his father.
Just then I saw Nora running to Oliver's arms, clinging to him like a leech and smiling stupidly. I still wonder how she would be in love with a 30 year old, whose reputation was nothing to write home about.
Only in our world though... In the underworld, I heard he was a mafia lord, at thirty, I wonder how he even got to such a position. Probably by killing alot of people.
His parents clearly hate him for that though but he doesn't seem to care much. By the time I raised my head back up to look through the window, I saw him walking away already.
He looked amazing in that suit. It fit him so well, like it was made just for him. His shoulders were broad, and you could tell there was muscle underneath... strong, solid muscle. As he moved, I could easily see the shape of his back through the fabric, smooth and powerful.
The suit followed the lines of his body, showing off how his back down to his waist. There was something about the way he stood and walked that made it hard to look away.
He looked back and up to my window, although I had turned the light off to get ready for bed but for a moment it seemed like he could see me even in the darkness.
I stared at him from my window and he stared back into darkness, then I heard a gentle knock on my door that made me swing my head to the door.
"Melissa dear, are you okay" mother asked like she cared.
"Yes, I am" I replied back through the door, unwilling to open it.
"Open the door let's speak for a moment" mother said.
"I'm tired tonight, I want to go to bed"
"Melissa i..." She started.
"Go away" I yelled at her.
She must have been shocked for a minute because I didn't hear anything for that whole minute before she mumbled "okay" and I heard her receding footsteps as she walked away.
I hadn't talked to mother like that in all the years she had known me.
I went back to my dressing table with a book and a pen, I searched through the net for some coins that I could buy that could rise.
This was my best plan, but I had no idea which coins to buy, I never involved myself in these kinds of things in my past life. Plus I only have a few hundred dollars in my bank account.
I rested my head on my hands and I was crying internally because I didn't know what I was doing.
I went back to my bed deciding to take a rest for tonight. It would be my first night back, I had to make the most of it.
*
I woke up to the sound of my alarm blaring like a police siren. I was excited to start my new life. In my previous life I had let myself go, waking up late, I barely ate anything after the marriage because Blake once called me "fat". I literally had or still have a size 4 UK sized body. Fucking bastard.
I was very excited, I took my bath and went to my walk in closet. I sighed when I saw all my designer clothes, bags and shoes again.
I had taken these to the Salvatore manor when I had married Blake, but they all went to waste because Blake never wanted me to go out to anywhere, he wanted me to be a stay at home wife.
At some point I almost started doing the house chores too, if not Mrs Salvatore that thought it was too absurd. "What would people think?" She had said.
Of course she only cared about her social life. What the other other women in society thought of her. Honestly they were all women with no real jobs.
Well I didn't plan to be like any of them, I am going to live a fulfilled life from now on, anything that makes me happy.
I picked a pink sleeveless satin dress that with a length that was below my knees. It hugged my body perfectly, showing all my curves.
I was going to dress as sexy as possible from now on. In my old life, I let Nora outshine me. That two faced bitch. Always pretending she wanted something when all she ever really wanted was to take everything away from me.
If I remember correctly, after the first dinner with the Salvatore family, papa got me a necklace to congratulate me on accepting the marriage with Blake, but Nora, said she wanted it to badly that papa gave it to her, promising to get me another but he never did, I was going to get that necklace today.
By all means.
I sat on my dressing table and combed my hair after blow drying it. My lips were bloody red and my eyes was dark and sharp. I smiled at my reflection in the mirror, finally I was ready for today.
I walked out of my room hoping to get breakfast early, just as I walked past Nora's room, I heard she and mother talking.
I decided to eavesdrop on them.
"Mum, you have to get Lisa to marry Blake by all means" she spat.
"Don't worry my dear, mother will do anything for you, just trust me, I will make sure that ungrateful child gets what she deserves" mother said. The nerve of this woman, calling me ungrateful.
"If Oliver doesn't marry me I'm going to kill myself" Nora said. The bitch is just whining, she loved herself too much that she would never do anything as stupid as killing herself.
I know this because in my old life, she and Oliver never got married, for some reason I didn't know about. But she was alive five years later to kill me.
I went into her room to 'fake apologize' to mother for my behaviour yesterday. I don't want them catching on, I can't let them find out I've changed.
"Good morning mother" I said faking a smile.
Mother and Lisa was shocked for a second as they quickly stopped their conversations.
"Lisa, how are you my dear" she stood up and came to hug me,
"how are you feeling today" she continued.
"Good" I said "I want to apologize for my behaviour yesterday, I'm sorry mother"
"It's fine dear, I understand that you might have been frightened" she laughed.
"Lisa, you have to accept Blake, you know Papa's rage knows no bounds" Nora chipped in trying to convince me.
"So... Do you still have that little crush on Oliver?" I said nudging her, completely ignoring what she had just said.
I saw her face turn red, but she quickly tried to mask it.
"Why are you wearing that dress Lisa, it's showing too much skin and curves, you'll get married soon, what will the maids say?" She smiled but I could see how fake it was. There she goes again, trying to make me dress bad and dull so she could take all the compliments. Sly bitch.
"I don't care what people think, Nora" I smiled as I turned to take my leave. I could see the surprise in her face, but I didn't care.
What did she see in that man that she liked so much. Although Oliver and Blake might be twins but they are very different from each other.
I was going to take my revenge on all of them, one by one.
Since she wanted me to marry so much, she can marry my husband.
I will make sure of it.