Bride Wanted E-Book

Kris Buendía

• Herausgeber: Kris Buendia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Gabriel Wylde: Rich, philanthropist, good-looking and charming… for his bad luck, bachelor. Now that he's divorced he will not be able to take control of his father's construction company. The only solution is to marry again. Paige Rayven: she has opened a matrimonial company owing to a painful divorce. Everything in her life goes well until Gabriel Wylde becomes his new client with an irresistible proposal. The only problem is that Gabriel is her ex husband and she has to find a girlfriend for him. The proposal is on the table and the only thing they have to do is to pretend until their contract came to an end… But sometimes, contracts come with very small clauses that are very difficult to fulfil…

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Copyright © 2018 Kris Buendia.

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with the reality is mere coincidence. All the characters, names, facts, organisations and dialogues in this novel are or product of the imagination of the author or have been used in this work of fictitious way.

1ra Edition, December 2018.

Original title:

Se busca novia para mi ex

Bride Wanted

ISBN Digital: 978-99979-0-275-7

Design and Cover: EDITIONS K.

Photography: Shutterstock.

Traduction to English: Martina Gonzalez

Layout and Correction: EDITIONS K.

BRIDE WANTED

KRIS BUENDIA

Gabriel Wylde: Rich, philanthropist, good-looking and charming… for his bad luck, bachelor. Now that he’s divorced he will not be able to take control of his father’s construction company.

The only solution is to marry again.

Paige Rayven: she has opened a matrimonial company owing to a painful divorce. Everything in her life goes well until Gabriel Wylde becomes his new client with an irresistible proposal. The only problem is that Gabriel is her ex husband and she has to find a girlfriend for him.

The proposal is on the table and the only thing they have to do is to pretend until their contract came to an end… But sometimes, contracts come with very small clauses that are very difficult to fulfil…

1

"You have to be kidding me… Getting married again?" Gabriel said when he saw one of the clauses that aimed to be the new owner of his father’s construction company.

"No fucking way I’ll go through that again. My father clearly wants to cause me a heart attack. "

Gabriel couldn't go through it. He had been divorced for four years from the one who had been his wife for two years. Pretty crazy that. Well, they got married because they were in love, although some loves bring an expiration date. This is what happened with Gabriel Wylde. The rich man of twenty-eight years old, intelligent and handsome. Heir of a construction company at international level.

Gabriel knew about the world of engineering. He was that, an engineer who at his young age was already internationally recognized and, finally, his father was giving him the rank he deserved. Be a CEO1 instead of a second manager. Something that for Gabriel was a lack of respect form the first moment.       

"Get married again? " His best friend asked. Max, who knew that part of his friend’s life and knew that none of it was easy. He was practically his babysitter when Paige, his ex wife, broke his heart. Or was it the other way around?

He didn’t even know.

"First clause: It's important that the new owner of Rocco Altria, my son Gabriel Wylde, is happily married..." He paused briefly frowning, as Max did. "That seems to have my father’s voice in it, the context doesn't even make sense. Who the hell uses the word happilymarried in an employment contract?

Max laughed. A big laugh headed to his friend. It was true. That sounded too funny to be a legal paper, he had written it himself as the big Wylde was telling him. On the other hand, he knew that beyond his joke, his father, the big Patrick Wylde; was serious.

He had told him a week ago while he was in a meeting with his others partners. He would no longer lead Rocco, it would be the eldest of his three children, Gabriel.

"And what will I do now? "Gabriel asked, more for him than for his friend "Where will I get a wife? Because in no way I will marry Bella. She is not material for this.

Isabella Fears, a fashion designer, the perfect woman from head to toe if beauty was about, there were yet to discover their other attributes as a woman, in bed everything was going great, that was all Gabriel cared about. Not get to have anything else. His relationship was almost one year long, enough not to commit to another.

And that was to be seen.

"And what about you?" Max snorted. He knew that Gabriel’s relationships were strange and he didn't blame him, he had already failed once in love. And Isabella was everything, except a cutie.

Gabriel gave him an angry look. If someone could put him in his place, it was Max who knew him perfectly. To have divorced had devastated him. But he still didn't now what had really happened so that his marriage with Paige had ended.

"Were you thinking about her? "Gabriel asked him. "In Paige, you're thinking about her. From here I can hear your thoughts.

“Stop thinking about my ex-wife and help me find a new wife. In two weeks I have to catch up with Rocco’s command. I don't want to disappoint my father.

Max nodded. He was serious. Let down a Wylde was like earning a ticket straight to hell. He knew it, that he had been working as a legal representative of the Wylde all his life.

"You will get married, friend” He got up from his chair and walked to the the mini bar in his office to serve Gabriel a drink. "You’re getting married. "

Now he didn't now what to do first, if broke the news to Isabella Fears, break up with her even though he didn't know what, his bed relation was less than that. And he was sure that Isabella would definitively never be a Wylde, not in million years.

On the other hand, Paige Rayven finished her second coffee of the day. Natural jet black hair, but now that she was single, she liked to play with a new blond brunette. Unlike Bella, Paige was twice her size, a woman with curves, with full lips, green eyes and a good sense of humor.

Unique beauty and enviable style.

"…ISH"2 Her company of matrimonial arrangements or matchmaker, as she liked to be called, was a success after having been the cupid of many famous artists. It was to be expected that the client portfolio was efficient, extensive as important.

People from bankers, models, businessman and princes were inscribed in her program, waiting for the perfect candidate.

"Are you okay, Paige? "Asked her best friend and also her assistant. He had noticed her a little thoughtful since that morning. And no only that, Paige didn't drink coffee and she already had two cups that morning.

"I’m fine, Sam. Don't worry. "

"What's the problem? You’ve been surfing the internet for hours. "

She was about to explode. He was everywhere. The name of her ex-husband, Gabriel Wylde and her father-in-law.

"The distinguished engineer, Patrick Wylde of Rocco altria it retiring, leaving his son Gabriel Wylde on charge…"

"That my ex seems to continue to enjoy the glory for a while longer. Now it turns out that he’ll be the new owner of his father company. "

"The damn Gabriel? "Sam knew who he was and who Gabriel was for Paige "He’s a lucky jerk, of course m he doesn't have you. So then the damned guy doesn't have such good luck.

Paige smiled. Sam knew how to cheer her up, but this still sounded bad for Paige. On one occasion, the big Patrick confessed that the only way Gabriel could take control of the company, was married. By that time they were still married, but about to divorce. Paige was wailing for a long time. But afterwards she reflected and in no way was she going to be married with a man who had stopped loving her, and she wasn't going to save his butt for him to be a good businessman.

"Earth calling Paige "mocked Sam.

Patrick had been a good man with her. Even her mother-in-law, Haydi Wylde had become a great friend. In fact, after the divorce they still had occasional coffee breaks. Only that nobody knew, only Sam.

"He can't handle Rocco Altria without being married. His father told me once." Paige complained loudly.

"Maybe he’s already married. "

"Ni way.” Paige was crazy about the news, she would know if Gabriel was married. And he wasn’t. He only had a long list of his conquests—which were many—after the divorce. That was four years ago. They had fallen in love at the age of twenty-two, both met in society and had just graduated from university. They married that same year, and when twenty-four, divorced had. It was hard and when they were twenty-four. It was hard, very hard for Paige. But what she didn't know was that for Gabriel wasn't easy either. But he had too much pride to try again.

Now he was a different man. He didn’t believe in love, he had tried it, but nobody was like Paige and in the back of his heart he knew. And Paige was about to fall in love again, but that was another story. But that news was left to her by a flyer. Right now, he, her ex-husband, came to put her world upside down.

«No fucking way» Paige thought. She closed the page she was looking for and continued working. She needed to find a wife for a Sheik, so she needed to go for a walk and visit some of her girls.

"I'm leaving, Sam. "

"Take care, sweetie. "

Gabriel was looking at the photos of his ex-girlfriends since he divorced. Every time he saw their faces, he remembered why he called or dated them again.

Interested.

Hollow.

Jealous.

Fortune hunters. And the list went on. He wanted a beautiful woman in every word, intelligent, hardworking, fighter, with good sense of the humor, good lover in bed, good cooker and that his parents would fall in love with her as he. He didn’t care that she was jealous, he knew that if he came to love her, he wouldn't care about those things. In the end, love wins, right?

Paige Rayven came to mind. She had all those qualities, but failed in one. Paige was never jealous of Gabriel, in fact, she had become into a cold woman. Both went away in spite of sleeping in the same bed. There were no infidelities and what he love most about her was her self-confidence. She wasn’t woman of big complexes because of her figure, she didn't had to adjust to her clothes, and the clothes had to be suited to her.

Remembering her in her lace dresses she wore at night made his member hard as iron.

"This is new" He said to himself and looked down. "So now you need her? "He asked to his friend. He wanted to pretend that he didn't need her. Unlike his penis, he had a mouth and could talk.

But he didn't know anything from her. It was a promise wrapped with pride. Not to know about her, although did know a lot, even too much, about him.

When it was time for lunch, both ex decided to eat out of their offices and away from the thoughts of their mind. Whatever it isn't to remember their past and not dig into it.

"Welcome, Mr. Wylde” He was escorted be the hostess of the restaurant “Oxo” where he liked to go occasionally to eat. Of course he didn't go alone and that day at lunchtime was not the exception.

"I didn't expect to see you today, Gabriel.” Bella whispered in his ear while he helped her to sit down. Gabriel was a bit nervous, his lunch was less than a date. Was to break the news, or rather, to break up with her.

And entering through the front door as they did a few seconds ago, the hostess also escorted someone. Where does some second did it they, the hostess also escorted to somebody. But this person was alone.

"It can't be possible." Gabriel said loudly and caught the attention of his date.

"What's wrong, Gab? "

Gab, his stomach churned that happened every time she called him that way. He couldn't tell her that the person who had just entered was Paige, his ex-wife.

"Nothing, do we order?

She nodded asking the same as always. A Greek salad. And the same for Gabriel, he had no appetite but he should be courteous anyway.

Brown hair.

Tight black dress, highlighting her prefect and sharp curves. You could tell that she had lost weight and took better care of herself. Whatever she was doing it felt good on her. Paige Rayven looked better that ever.

"…And then George asked me to model for him. You can believe it? After so many years I wonder if it has to do with my new Hugo Boss commercial. What do you think, Gab? "

Her hands were beautiful. She wore a ring, but no in the forbidden hand that he had marked in the past. For some reason he felt relief. Paige checked the menu. She was alone, Gabriel wondered if she was waiting for someone.

But the reality was different. Paige was there alone. She just wanted a quiet lunch outside of the office and, why not, break the diet with a red wine.

«Always so serious and thoughtful» Gabriel thought.

"Gabriel?" Isabella's shrill voice made him look back at the only person he had to see. His girlfriend, although soon an ex, or maybe a friend.

"I’m sorry, Bella. I was thinking.

"What are you thinking about? "He felt the brush of her leg under of the table and that disappointed Gabriel. It reminded him why they were there.

"I will be the CEO of Rocco Altria.

Bella’s eyes lit up, you could almost see gold in her eyes. She liked p powerful men. The more powerful they were, the better. Gabriel was already powerful, but the fact that he was even more meant that maybe she could be the future Mrs. Wylde.

"Don't get me wrong, Gabriel, but I thought you were already."

"I was in control with my father. I knew that one day I would inherit the company, but I didn't think while he was alive. My father has decided to retire and now it will only be me."

He took a sip of water from his glass. The worst part of a wonderful news was still missing and he didn't know how to tell her. It was the first time he had to break up with someone. It wasn't even him who put an end to his marriage and that's why it was better for him that women break up with him. Although he was p Gabriel Wylde, nobody really did. So that women became objects for him, many times without realizing.

Things with Isabella worked in some way because she always was traveling, on runways and presentations of her brand. Their encounters were casual and exclusive.

"Well then congratulations, Gab. You deserve it, we have to celebrate! "

Isabella was going to stand up when Paige’s green eyes met Gabriel’s.

They were starting at each other more than necessary.

So long. So close.

Black hair.

Blue eyes.

His perfect suit.

«I can't believe that he still keeps that tie, it was a gift from me» Paige didn't take he eyes off him. He looked better in person than in photos and she wasn't surprised that he was accompanied by a woman like Bella.

"Bella, there’s something I have to tell you.” He pronounced without taking his eyes off Paige. There was his ex-wife, she could almost hear their conversation, or that was what he believed. The way she could read Gabriel’s lips was and she hated herself for it. Or was it that she had discovered something new about her?

"Tell me, Gab, what do you want to tell me? "

The waitress arrived with their dishes, as did Paige’s waiter. She felt embarrassed when they had a salad and she has a perfect meat with a salad and also red wine at that time of the day.

"Excuse me? "Bella's voice interrupted again. "I didn't order this, the salad I asked for was Greek without cheese and without gluten. This will make me fat one thousand kilos.

"I'm so sorry, Miss.” Said the waitress, taking p her plate again. "Would you like to change yours, Mr Wylde? "

Paige’s dish looked better. More perfect. A real meal.

"In fact yes” Unlike Bella, he kindly put it in. "I’d like what that lady over there is eating.” He pointed at her and Paige turned red as a tomato.

"Right away, Mr Wylde.

Bella’s eyes widened as she saw the woman behind her. Pretty elegant and beautiful, but not thin enough for her to worry about. She had no idea who she was. It was a secret of looks between Paige and Gabriel.

"I can't believe it, Gabriel. How can you want eat that? I will ask that to dismiss the waitress, she's an incompetent. "

"If that's what you mean by a real meal, you haven't lived Isabella Fears.”

She rolled her eyes and ignored him.

The way she treated the waitress and how she had given Paige a look was what he needed to finish things once and for all.

Yes, it would never be a bride’s material, much less a wife’s. He wondered what he had been doing there with her. And why he needed to see Paige that day. He thought he hated her, or rather, he wanted to hate her.

He knew that she did hate him. But he never expected her to look like that, beautiful and perfect woman in front of his eyes.

"It's not my fault, do you want me to look three more sizes? "

She was offended just by asking him. She worked very hard to look like this, she was the year’s image for Hugo Boss and her own brand.

"You’d look better with four more sizes, Bella. I don't understand women like you, how can they die of hunger to look like that."

Bella opened her eyes wide.

"I am sure that these," she touched her small and firm breasts stealthy. “will look the same today and in ten years,” She pointed to Paige. “they need a crane to look like this.”

"Isabella.” He pronounced looking at her straight in the eyes.

"Yes, Gab? "

"We're done. "

2

"We're done. "

As clear as crystal clear water. He was breaking up with her. She heard it and didn't not know how to anything other than get out of there. Now she couldn't even enjoy her lunch without having to be glared by her ex's girlfriend. She couldn't believe it. In four years they never saw each other again. Paige did her best not to frequent the places Gabriel liked and Gabriel, stupidly, did the same. Then several places had been left without their two members for thinking the same.

Precisely this day.

In that restaurant.

Was he breaking up with her? So typical of Gabriel.

«He probably already has another girlfriend in the line» She growled in her thoughts. But the reality was different. She didn't know it and neither did Gabriel.

But his father, who was at home, had something prepared with his friend Max.

"Are you sure this is legal?" Patrick asked Max. He was reading a booklet, he had taken a look at the website but he couldn't believe it. He heard about that place, but he had no idea who the owner was. Who would think to create a company like that? Definitively someone who has done badly in love.

"You are not reading the most important part.” He inquired more, pointing to the name of chief manager and owner of the company.

Patrick’s eyes widened when he looked at the name and also a picture like a detective. He smiled to himself. It was the same "but more beautiful" his former daughter-in-law.

"I can't t believe it. "

"You better think it over or change your clause. "He advised him as a lawyer." It's the only company in London suitable for what you want for Gabriel. The only bad thing is that his ex-wife will be the one looking for a girlfriend.

He smiled to himself. He wasn't sure if it was good idea because Paige loved him and he loved her too. She had been a great daughter-in-law, a great woman and he knew that she was still her wife's friend, behind him and his son. There was nothing hidden for the big Patrick, but he decided to shut up.

Imagine his son getting to his ex’s company, it would end up convincing him that having divorced had been a terrible idea. But it was done, there was nothing that could be done, could it?

"What are you up to, Patrick?" Max asked. He knew the father of his best friend enough to realize that when he remained silent, the silence betrayed hi, enough.

"I want you to take Gabriel to this place and make sure that it is Paige who’s in charge of looking for a girlfriend."

"That's fucking cruel. "

"More cruel is to let go of the right woman. "

He left that in the air. In Max’s life wasn't the indicated woman, what has indicated for him was to spend the night with a different woman, typical cliché.

"Understood, sir. "

Paige updated her portfolio of respective ladies. Each of them with their respective research. Civil status, current nationality, pensions and civilians background, among other things that any boyfriend could be alarmed.

Her girls were clean and her men also. Important professionals of different nationalities, it was incredible the requests and requirements of each one. Her ladies we’re not left behind, just as some preferred a man not so wealthy, there were others who didn't care about age. Everything always in the natural and legal margin. There wasn't no sick or pervert, as well as no opportunists with princess complex, so far.

"Honey, I brought you ice cream" Sam told her, bringing Paige’s favorite kiwi yogurt with him. After lunch he had noticed that she had returned annoyed, sad and a littlenervousas usual. Paige wasn't ready to tell her best friend that she had seen Gabriel, and not only that, he broke up with a girl just inches from her.

Besides having called her practically fat.

"Thanks, Sam. "

The two of them sat on the comfortable sofa in the small living room of her office. Despite being a company, they didn't have thousands of employees. Almost all of them were field workers, researchers. Those who were in charge of investigating the customers were Paige and Sam. And the one in charge of receiving them, Tillie, the reception girl.

Paige savoured her yogurt ice cream remembering that incipient beard of his ex, his suit perfectly ironed and at the height of designer, his eyes glaring. But it wasn't the way to treat that model that left her thinking, it was the way he looked at her. She almost remembered when they first met. A face of a fool in love, said in a few words.

«He couldn't feel anything for me more than pity, right?»

As much as she tried to decipher the way he saw her and how Bella's comment led him to come to her with a cruel and cold manner, he had left her bewildered. She never needed him to protect or defend her. She also didn't imply that they called her «Fat». She was a girl with curves and he had navigated them and never complained. But to think that her divorce had been a consequence of how a curvy girl with a Adonis like him looked together, broke her heart.

Her self-esteem was quite high. But when it came of Gabriel, she could never ask if he was comfortable with her weight or how they looked together. She never had the courage to do it.

"What’s wrong with you?" Sam said touching his face, a tear had escaped, revealing something was wrong.

She couldn't continue in silence.

"I have seen Gabriel Wylde. "

Sam’s eyes widened. Had they had a date? Were they dating?

"Explain before I have a heart attack." touched his chest, doing drama.

"I was having lunch at Oxo, enjoying my food when I saw him… accompanied. "

"No…” pronounce Sam.

"Yes. Accompanied by his girlfriend who automatically, after a few minutes became his ex.”

That was the news of the last moment. Exclusive.

"And he saw you? "

She would like no, but be had seen her. They had seen each other, more than a pure look meant.

"I’m still in a trance, Sam. The long-legged ruby model noticed it, so you can imagine. "

"If you tell me that she made some kind of misplaced comment I’m going to…"

"Something like that, but it's better not to remember it. Did you know he was dating Isabella Fears? "

He nodded.

"The bitch Fears, you mean. Nobody can stand her and clearly Gabriel doesn't either. Tell me that that idiot this idiot didn't do anything or I’m going to…"

"He broke up with her" She shut him up again. Sam was a little intense, but she understood. She also pulled out her claws when she had to defend her friend. "I think he was angry with her for having given me a look full of repulsion. "

Sam closed his eyes, he could already imagine what someone like Isabella Fears could say about girls who had more flesh in their bones than she did. She was an idiot ruby. End of history.

"Homey, I’m so sorry. "

"I’m fine" She lied a little “I was taken by surprise to see him.

Sam narrowed his eyes. He knew that look, he could almost say that she had liked to see him. She was no longer angry after having read that news. Rather, curious.

"He’s an idiot too. "

"I agree.”

They continued to enjoy what was left of their now melted yogurt ice cream. Paige looked her glass and almost felt that she could melt in the same way if she sees again a bachelor and changed Gabriel Wylde.

That same night, Gabriel met Max in his mother’s house. He wasn't in the mood for anything, much less to see his father after reading such a thing in the new contract as CEO. But he knew that at the end of everything, he had nowhere to go. Going to a club to have a few drinks and take a woman home wasn't bad, but even that, had been boring tonight. So he agreed to meet with them.

"Hello, mom" He hugged her to be the first to see him when he got home.

"Gabriel, son."

He was very serious. Already in his face as a businessman, wit brown hair and blue eyes, penetrating and sexy eyes, his himself his face of man of businesses, with brown hair and blue eyes, penetrating look and besides sexy, his seriousness gave him credit, but not when he was really angry. Then he was scary.

"Will you be at the meeting? "

His mother knew that between father and son was forbidden territory. She shouldn't get involved and less if it was business, they were just for what. But if she had to be a mediator so that her two men wouldn't kill each other, she would do it. She wasn't aware of that crazy clause of her husband, but today she would know.

"You know I do not like to see you arguing with your father, much less when it comes to the company. We are a family first and foremost."

Yes, but his father still didn't understand it at all. Having to marry against him is not what a family would do. But otherwise, all his dreams would fall apart and all the years has had devoted to his career and his company wouldn't have served at all. He didn’t care if he had to marry, he would divorce as soon as he took de lead of the company. He had nothing to lose.

His future wife would have no idea why he married her, a crazy moment and perhaps his long work hours will be enough reason not to want to be with a man like Gabriel. No one would know and he would be the same bachelor as always. But it was Gabriel, no woman wanted to let go despite his shortcomings…at least one could do it.

Suddenly in his mind he remembered the look of his ex p-wife.

«She’s really beautiful… it's not that before she wasn’t»

He threw those thoughts away when his mother took him by the arm to the office at the end of the big main hall of the house.

"Brother! " Her younger sister, Bárbara or Barbie, as she liked to be called since she was a little girl, ran to him to greet him. She was seventeen and that summer she would go to university, but she wouldn't get away from his family. And much less from her older brother, she admired him so much. Unlike her other brother Drew of twenty-two years old, the black sheep of the family. He didn't like business and went on tour with his rock band. They were a quite unusual family, and the one that had to mature at an early age, before going to college, it had been Gabriel, he had dreams. A family and to be able to dedicate himself to his family business, but he didn't realized when his dreams became those of his father. With a painful divorce and be his shadow.

"Barbie, I thought you would already be in college for this date. "

She frowned.

"I don't want to go, you’ll miss me too much.

"Of that nothing, Miss" He scolded her and then he hugged her “and yes, we will miss you, but not too much.

His mother smiled at seeing them like this, Gabriel had always cared for his little brothers, and on many occasions he was the one who showed his face when his father didn't. Gabriel could be everything you wanted, except a bad person.

"I hear that dad retires. Does that mean that you‘re the boss now? "

"No, that means you have to respect me more."

He didn’t continue talking to her about it. She was too young and he didn't her to worry about those things. That's why he said goodbye to her. Barbie continued reading her magazine and Gabriel arrived at his father's office, where he was waiting for him.

Upon entering, Max’s face was suspicious, he was smiling too much.

"Haydi, leave us alone, darling " he asked.

"Behave, boys" she gave them a warning look and left the office.

Gabriel couldn't help but avoid looking to his father's face. He was angry and felt betrayed. Of all his children, Gabriel was the one who was never let to make his own decisions, he didn't care what. Drew could go on tour and Barbie choose a fashion school. But Gabriel had to be the architect, the businessman with many masters to become the CEO of Rocco Altria.

"How are you, Gabriel? " Asked his father.

And how was he going to be? Between the sword and the wall, also tired.

"Well, I broke up with Isabella. You will imagine why. "

Patrick did the best he could do and everyone hated, to ignore when it comes to his children’s private life.

"I'm so sorry, but the rules have changed, I knew that Isabella wasn't wife material from the beginning. I don't even know what you did with her all this time.

"I know” Said Max.

"Are you really going to tell me about my son’s sex life, Max?” Patrick glared at him.

"No sir.”

Gabriel poured himself a drink from his father, listen to his father's mini-bar, listening him speak for the next few minutes it's going to be painful, so he needed a drink. As if that would help.

"You know that your clause doesn't intimidate me at all, but I had no idea that you were capable of doing something like that. I have dedicated all my life to Rocco Altria and I thought that when I took the helm, you wouldn't come with a surprise like that."