Chapter 1



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Chapter 1

"Next!" The coordinator called out loud, as the surrounding light were once again dimmed and the spot lights above the make-shift ramp illuminated the stage, like a moon-lit night in a star-less sky.

"Natasha....1...2...3...." And the beautiful Spanish model, with dark hair and dark eyes walked out on the ramp with a slight gait to her steps that set her aside from everyone else in the room.



She was beautiful, but more than that - she had the passion - the attitude - that actually makes or breaks people in the fashion industry.

Though, technically she wasn't a model yet. But she would be one, very soon! Anna was sure of it. After all she- Anna herself had started her career, just like this - walking on one of these make-shift ramps, nervous and a tad-bit apprehensive.

And then she had met Nancy, the owner and sole-runner of her modelling-agency, who had taken her under her wings and launched her career as a world -renowned model, almost overnight.

And Anna had been a success! Or at least she had seemed like one, for a short period of time, when she had the world below her feet. With modelling contracts from companies like Versace to Gucci and Tiffany and co.

But her rise to fame had come at a cost that she had been unable to pay, and so her fall had come just as quickly and finished her off in a single slay. And she had suddenly disappeared from the fashion industry like a speck of dust disappears when the winds are high.

Because beautiful women are found in dozens here and one is just as replaceable as the next. With a single wrong step - she had fallen, her name ruined and she had become a no-body all over again.

And would have remained a jobless nobody, if not for Nancy, who had been a guardian angle to her, once again. She had picked up her broken pieces and glued them back together and pushed her back into the industry. But Anna hadn't been able to rise back through modelling step-ladder this time, but Nancy hadn't let her go and had instead, offered her a recruiter position in her modelling agency.

And the wheel of time had moved on, her chance had gone - today Anna was no longer on the ramp, instead, she was sitting at the front of it - along with her friend- slash -boss Nancy, who, right now, was glaring angrily at someone at the backstage. "Tom! Switch on the base lights as well! Or she is gonna fall on those spindly heels and break her neck, before we could actually launch her!"

Anna looked carefully at the model's feet and sure enough, the Spanish girl was wearing six inch pencil heels, walking through the almost dark room.

"What do you think?" Nancy had now switched her focus from the model to Anna. "Will she do?"

"I think she will do very well." Anna nodded, as she watched the girl walk back to the back stage.

"She had already signed the-" But her words were cut short as Tom was finally successful in switching on the base lights, that made the stage visibility way better.

The coordinator was shouting again, "Next! Angie! Go..." And another model was walking forward in yet another dazzling suit and spindly heels.

But Anna was distracted this time by her phone, which had suddenly started ringing in her purse. "Sorry." She apologized to Nancy. "It's Amber, from the reception....It will take only a few minutes."

"Hello..." She was out in the open corridor now, as she took the call. "Amber?"

"Ms. Miller, someone's here to meet you." Amber spoke back, although her voice sounded a little strange.

"Okay. Tell them to wait for a few minutes, as soon as the rehearsals end, I will come over..." with that reassurance in place, Anna was about to cut the call and return back to the rehearsals, but the receptionist didn't let her.

"Ms.Miller, actually it'll be better if you come now. They- I mean he says that it's urgent....and he - he looks very important!" The last words were whispered into the phone, with a nervous shake in her voice that made Anna frown.

'An important looking man, at the front desk wanted to meet her? Who was it? And what does he wants from her?' She wondered, a little apprehensively.

"Amber, did you ask his name?"

"I did. But her refuses to tell me anything, except that he wants to see you."

"Fine!" Anna agreed with a sigh. "I will come over now and see what's this all about."

And within minutes she was striding out of the lift and into the open spaced lounge cum reception on the ground floor and thereby, committing one of the biggest mistakes of her life.

Because she wished she hadn't! She wished, she had never took that call from the reception and made the colossal mistake of coming face-to-face with the man, she loathed the most in this whole wide world! She wished, she never had to see that handsome face ever again after he had destroyed her self-confidence, her career and then her life - all in a single stroke!

She hated this man, more than anything in this world! And yet she hated herself even more for have fallen into his trap a year ago, like a gullible little fool.

Her legs were shaking beneath her, about to give up! Shock, trepidation and pure full-fledged panic was attacking her from all sides, while the handsome Greek billionaire, Eros Kozakis stood like an arrogant tiger amidst a flock of deer's, his stance cold and hard, as he surveyed her from top to bottom.

As if she was a commodity kept on the shelf of a super-market.

"Hello, wife... gynaika mou..." He murmured with an arrogant grin.

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