Chapter One

Miles Jacobs in the media ^

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Previously on Forever His.

The house was silent when I walked in and I just had to ruin it. "Mum, dad I'm home!" I announced my presence.

"Victoria in here," I heard dad's voice call from the study.

Giddy with the good news I skipped to his office, "morning dad where's mum?"

I heard mum's light chuckle from the other side of the room. "What's got you so happy this morning?"

I grinned as I ran to her. She was standing by dad's book shelve, "you will not believe what happened last night.

Mum's grin matched mine as she held my hand, "tell me."

I opened my mouth to speak but dad's words cut me short. "Victoria after you can tell us the exciting news, right now I need your attention."

I whipped my head to look at him and he had on his serious face. I nodded and took a seat on the couch and that was when I noticed a familiar face on the couch opposite the one I was sitting on. It was the same guy I bumped into two days ago.

Now I get it, it's supposed to be a business meeting.

Mum came over and sat beside me, her grin gone now replaced with a frown and we all turned to look at my dad.

"Victoria," he started. "Meet Miles Jacobs, your husband to be."

The first thing I did was laugh, not just a chuckle or a small one, a boisterous laughter filled with snorts that nearly got me rolling on the floor, I didn't care if I was supposed to look official, this was the craziest shit I had heard in a long time.

After a minute my laughter died down and I looked at all three faces in the room. Mum's face was neutral and I could tell that she was also trying to hold in her laugh from how her eyes were telling me to shut it. Dad was now scowling with his arms crossed. Miles, my supposed husband to be had a small smile on his face as he bit his lip obviously trying to hold in his laugh.

"Okay, what's the real deal." I said with a small smile on my face.

Every one kept silent and I studied their faces again, I got nothing.

"Dad I know you can be funny at times but really, come on let's get to business." I crossed my legs.

"You think this is a joke?" Dad said, no hint of amusement in his voice.

My smile faded and I looked at mum. She kept quiet but her face said everything, this wasn't a joke.

"I can't marry him, I don't even know him." I pointed at Miles. "Also you know about Andrew and I. Speaking of which he-"

"You are going to marry Miles and that's final," dad began to walk out of the office but I stopped him with my words.

"Why?" I stood up and began to make my way towards him. "Why do you want me to marry a total stranger. For what?"

Dad sighed before finally walking out. I looked at mum, "is this for a business deal or what?"

She stood up and made her way to my side, "I'm sorry sweetie."

"And you're just going to sit back and watch it happen?" I took a step backwards. "What is this? The eighteenth century?" I flailed my hands in the air. "You of all people know that this isn't going to work and you just sit there and let him tell me who I'm going to get married to? Who are you?"

She tried to touch me but I walked away.

"Honey I'm sorry," mum's voice came out low.

I kept shut as I sat back on my seat, arms folded. I heard mum sigh before she walked out of the office.

This all better be a joke because I'm not going to marry a perfect stranger. Even if it means eloping with Andrew and leaving everything we have behind to start a life together, I'll do it.

I looked up at Miles and he was looking at me.

"I'm not marrying you," I told him and he nodded.

"Neither am I," his voice, dare I say was deep and sexy but that's not the point here.

"I have a boyfriend, scratch that, a fiance so if you can call this shit off from your side, please do, because there's no way in hell I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you as my husband." I looked at him from head to toe before walking out of the room and out of the house.

I dialed Andrew's number and he picked on the second ring. "I'm ready to leave."

"Be there in five," he said before hanging up.

I heard footsteps behind me and I began to walk towards the gate, even if it means standing outside for five minutes, I will.

"I can give you a ride," the voice of Miles said from behind me.

"I'm good, my fiance will be here soon." I didn't bother looking at him.

I heard a car door open then close then the car engine coming to life but no sound of tires moving came next. I walked to the gate and sat by the stairs of the gate house.

Five minutes after I heard Andrew honk and I stood up and ran to where he was basically throwing myself inside his car.

"Okay, I'll soon be there." He said before hanging up the call with whoever that was.

"Hey," he changed the gear and started driving. "I'll drop you home first, dad just called and said I should come over. I don't know wh-" he looked at me as he stopped himself. "Are you alright?"

No I wanted to say but said something else. "We can go to yours together, I don't mind, you'll just drop me off later."

"Okay. But you didn't answer my question." He kept stealing glances at me.

"Let's elope." I said and the car suddenly skidded to the side of the road and stopped.

"Okay what's wrong?" He turned his body fully to face me.

"I'm serious let's elope, run away to some country, leave everything behind, get married and start a life of our own. No one has to know where we are, it'll just be the two of us." I said in a rush.

Right now that's the only way to stop all this madness running in my family.

"What did your parents do?" He folded his arms.

"They brought his guy and guess what?" I chuckled dryly. "They want me to marry him," I scoffed.

He laughed, "that's not possible, they can't force you to marry someone especially when you have me. Did you tell them I proposed last night?"

"I didn't even get the chance to tell them that," I shook my head and repositioned myself to look at him. "I'm serious Andrew, let's run away." I held his hand. "Just you and me."

He smiled a little, "as much as how that sounds so tempting, we can still find a way out of this, there must be a way somehow an-"

"What if there is no other way?" I stopped him.

"Then we elope."

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My phone has been ringing non stop for the past ten minutes. I didn't bother picking it because it was just mum.

"Aren't you going to answer that?" Michael, Andrew's brother asked me. "It's kind of disturbing my movie," he pointed to the phone on the kitchen counter.

"Right," I stood up and began to make my way to the backyard. "Sorry."

When I was outside and a few foot from the building I picked the call. "What the fuck mum?"

"Honey please come home I want to talk to you," she pleaded.

I scoffed, "home? Home isn't where my parents try to force me to marry some guy."

"Victoria, please-" I hung up on her, not letting her explain.

The back door opened and Andrew walked out, he beckoned for me and I walked to him. He was scowling and when I walked closer to him he wrapped his arms around my shoulder and pulled me to him.

He leaned closer to my ear and spoke "we're getting on the next flight to LA."

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