He questioned mockingly, "You were saying?"

"I-I… I…" She opened her mouth to utter something, but words failed her as she stammered, unable to say anything substantial.

"If you must know this, Ariana, I don't take no for an answer and I always get what I want. I want you and I must have you," said Kelvin with a tone full of firmness. There was no way the former would allow himself to lose to a mere professor.

The latter wasn't even as rich as he was. He wondered what she saw in him. He was dirt poor, ill-mannered, rude and undeserving of a woman as beautiful and sophisticated as...