Her night robe lay twisted about her thighs, impeding her feeble struggles which soon gave way to limp passivity. The flimsy material of her night robe ripped, leaving her body bare and vulnerable and Spencer lay between her thighs, her weight holding ashley down."there is no love in this" Spencer whispered against her neck in a slurred, husky voice, repeating what she had said before. "and I don't know why I have the need to your body." Ashley's eyelids felt as heavy as her limbs, but she half opened them and saw how the firelight made spencer more beautiful than ever. She moved then, instinctively, and Spencer's body moved along with hers posing in one rhythm, while Spencer's mouth abruptly covered her parted lips, stifling her half formed question.

Her mind was too tired and too drowsy to continue to have any control over her body and soon stopped asking any questions as Spencer moved slowly against her and her fingers inside her. She began to feel as if she were still dreaming as spencer's mouth moved across her soft cheek and down the side of her neck, to stop and lay kiss on her pulse that beat madly under her lips.

"there's no love in this," Ashley heard herself whispering against spencer's ear and then there was silence only of their breathing combine into one.

"I hate you spencer carlin" Spencer slipped her hand between their bodies and caressed her breasts and then kissed them as ashley arched up against her, between kisses spencer said softly "Hate's as strong an emotion as love, my sweet wife. Show me how much you hate me." And even though ashley's mind rebelled, her body had gone beyond its control and showed spencer, in a language all on its own. Drowining reason, wrong, Aiden and doubts as wave after wave washed over her and she felt herself sucked under, not wanting to return to reality until fulfillment brought her there at last, and she lay limp,shuddering, weak, fulfilled, and from there drifted into a sleep with a sly grin upon her face.

hours before

The small ballroom seemed to glow with light and color. People had gathered even though the wedding was of short notice. I t had grown noticeably warmer adding a flushed color on ashley's cheeks and her hazel brown eyes had become luminous. 'You can do this' her mind kept repeating, while she kept a smile on her face as she greeted people. And where was Spencer? She had not caught a glimpse of her since yesterday as they put the finishing touches to their wedding day, and she began to wonder if she had decided to just leave and runaway, but she couldn't because they made a deal and they had agreed to get along even if it were just for a couple days.

Instead ashley decided to go talk her sister kyla to ease up her nerves. While she talked. Across the room , her chocolate eyes locked with blue eyes a look of relief and pleading entered both of their eyes in that insistent.

Ashley was on the verge of crossing the room when she was stopped by a hand on her shoulder Eddy! "ah ashley I been looking for you I have something to tell you privately" Ashley did not get a chance to refuse before eddy dragged her out " okay eddy what is it now" eddy had a look of fear on his face "ash there is something you should know about the will" anger made ashley tip up her head to stare back at him "well care to explain to me what that something is" eddy stared at her and without hesitation began to talk " along with the will there was this list of expections that you have to complete like the first major one was to marry Spencer and then the second one is that you have to consume your marriage and has you complete each on I give you a new one until you have completed five of them and also you have to act like a happy married couple amongst other people because people will be judging until you finish your five expections then they will sign a document where you get your money" Ashley stared at him. Feeling her heart beginning to beat thickly in her throat. Great how was she going to tell spencer this ? Spencer is totally going to hate her more than ever. She heard her own voice emerge, sounding low and strangely husky "when did you find out about this , how am I going to tell spencer about this"

"what about me" sprung spencer from behind ashley. "spencer I was talking to ashley on how we were about to start the ceremony and that its almost time" eddy had manage to say , but ashley hesitated and responded " look spencer um there is something that I need to discuss with you ..." spencer lifted here blue eyes up to her and give her grin reassuring her that she was ready to listen to her " well you have my fully attention so what is that we need to discuss" ashley looked down on the ground for a brief second thinking on how to put in words the bad news that she received "eddy would you give me and spencer a couple seconds to talk before the ceremony" eddy give her questioning look before deciding to leave them alone " yea just couple seconds though because you guys do have a wedding to finish" and with that all that stood was blue eyes staring into brown hazel eyes " Spencer what I am about to tell you is going to make you mad and before you do that I just want to say it was what my FATHER wanted not me" spencer looked at ashley alittle skeptical and unsure of what she was about to say "is that what you wanted to say or is there more to it" ashley now looking into spencer eyes " you know how you have to marry me so I can inherit my money well my father knew me so well that he put more rules upon me before I get that money and they all deal with you and I being together" spencer started nodding her head to the side " no .. no you said that I just have to get married to you and that when you received your money I was free from you and from everything else which was related to you even your deal" " I know I promised you that spencer, but I need you to get me that money because its important to me and to other people" spencer uttered in disbelief "What about me..huh .. don't I get a chance to live my life the way I want" "spencer you're right I have no right to miss up your life, but I am asking you to just help me with this please... we only have to do five of these exceptions and I get my money." Spencer lifted her eyebrows and gazed at her with her teary blue eyes

"And if I dont do this will you still kill my family?" "spencer you need to do this for me or else I won't be able to hold my word that I promised you" " you are the cruelest person I have ever met, but I'll do it" Ashley gazed into spencer's eyes and had a sly grin "well lets go get hitched , but before we go in I also have to mention that we have to act like a couple in front of other people" glaring blue eyes bore into gleam y brown eyes "is that all or are there still more things that you would like me to do mistress ashley" " I am not your mistress and yea thats about it ..oh .. wait I have to tell you about how were suppose to consume our marriage" " WHAT other than complying to all your wishes now I have to sleep with you are you serious. Is this what your father wrote or is this what you want and is just using this as an excuse" ashleys head immediately snapped up "NO ... NO I ...um .. I would never use this whole miss just to sleep with you believe me I am straight and plus I have a boyfriend who I love so no ...no . I wouldn't do that spencer... the faster we do these things the less time we will spend togther okay so lets get this fiasco over with" spencer looked up at that face she'd thought so beautifully and yet she was still furious with her that she didn't deign to reply so she simply moved to the door "aren't you coming".