Rich had just come from a meeting with his shareholders. They still had doubts about his leadership and felt that he was deviating from the path that his Dad had set. Already he was accepting collaboration with companies that his father had rejected to work with in his time because of their substandard work. Rich was more interested in enlarging the company and not thinking in the aspect of whether they would make profits or losses.One shareholder had walked out vowing to sell his shares because he wanted nothing to do with the company if Rich took on the latest project. This project would end up bringing a huge loss for the company but Rich refused to see reason.Taking some painkillers from his desk drawer, he poured some wine into a glass and was about to take it when his assistant knocked on the door.“Sir, we have a problem,” he said as he came him holding his phone.“Please deal with whatever it is. I don’t want to hear it” Rich said as he swirled the chair to face the window.
Two days later, Megan was summoned to the living room. She had not fully recovered from the attack so Logan had given her some days off to attend to her wounds. During that time, she had locked herself in her room to avoid the family and had organized for the maid assigned to her to take Benny to school and pick him up in the afternoon.As she came down the steps, the first person she saw was a disheveled Liana, hanging on to Rich's hand like she was an undetachable part of his arm. With unkempt hair and a haggard face, she looked like she had just been snatched from the pits of hell. Megan sighed, knowing that the drama was about to unfold.Beth, the matriarch sat on her seat, a rocking chair that had been gifted by her late husband on her birthday last year. The chair was custom-made for her and had a therapeutic massage control for her neck and back. Cindy who always had her headset on was lying, relaxed on the sofa next to her mother. Thankfully Buckley and Aaron were missing, ma
Liana had noticed the change in Cindy. She needed to get back to her good books because she was the only one that she could depend on to get rid of Megan. If Cindy was to lean toward Megan then Liana would have lost a very capable ally."Can I help you with that?" She asked as Cindy washed some fruits to prepare more fresh juice for Megan. Cindy was feeling terrible for having treated Megan so viciously before, all in the name of supporting Liana but now felt like the darkness that had been surrounding her had been shattered and all she saw was light; Megan's light of suffering."It's okay, I got this," she said just as Liana reached for the knife in her hand.Liana could feel the distance widening between them and panicked. "You know, I love your brother so much and I know that once we get married, the two of us will be like sisters. We can be twinning every day and I will introduce you to my circle of friends. I am sure that you will like them." Liana's friends were all socialites w
Liana should have been an actress and she would have been great in whatever role she got. Right now, she was on her way to the Waynes with a freshly baked strawberry cake. She knew that the limited edition bracelet that she had ordered for Cindy had also been delivered.Since it was a weekend and Megan was yet to fully recover, her mother had asked her to go home with Benny. The fresh air on the farm would help in the healing process. Also, Benny loved the outdoors so much.Her father was packed outside the gate when Liana arrived. She knew every bit and piece about her rival so she came down from her car.“Good morning Bill” she greeted cheerfully.He pushed up his spectacles and looked at the young lady leaning towards his open window. “That is Mr. Fodert to you young lady.” Liana squirmed under his gaze and excused herself after making the slip-up. She did not understand why the family was so stuck up yet they were so poor and not worthy of her time.As she entered the wide front
Megan sat on the swing in the backyard, her slender feet barely touching the ground. She swayed slowly as she kept an eye on her son who was running around after Betty the goat with their family dog barking after them.It was a clear Sunday afternoon and they had just come from church because her religious parents always believed in joining the fellowship at the local church. Meeting the townspeople again after months of being away was refreshing. They were the most loving and caring people who never judged and accepted people as they were. This was why it was easy for her to return home after her first divorce. She wondered if they would still welcome her back after a second divorce.Already a sweet-smelling aroma of baked bread and roast meat wafted out of the kitchen window to signify that mother was almost done with lunch. It was a family tradition for mother to handle lunch preparation alone for the family every Sunday where she set a menu that had been handed down from a line of
Mr. Wayne requested a meeting with Megan. He had his own personal reasons for this deal and she was the right person who could help him and of course it came with perks that would be beneficial to her and her family.He had watched Megan grow up cause Bill had worked for him for so many years and in his heart, he had always thought to pair her up with his son who seemed to be running amok by the day.A quite lady who was not up to recognition from the society would make the perfect wife to his son who unfortunately had linked up with a super model that he really despised. He had seen through Liana a long time ago and there was no way that he would ever allow a pretentious gold digger into the family.“All I need is for you to marry my son and I shall take care of the rest.” He said to convince her. "Benny will be well taken care of and there is nothing that you not your family shall lack”. He knew why she was hesitant. After all, who did not know about his son’s character.Megan, stil
Megan stood looking out of the window overlooking the crisp gentle river. It had been two weeks since she went back to the Wayne residence and so far things had been quiet, like the calmness of the river outside. Beth never bothered with her and rarely spoke a sentence to her while Rich assumed that she didn't exist in that house.Back in the countryside, Logan had tried to convince her to move in with him. He lived in a huge five-bedroom mansionette but only one of them was occupied. His master bedroom covered the whole second floor holding a huge jacuzzi, a small bar, and a walk-in closet.Three guest rooms were on the first floor, all of them master bedrooms, and an extra bedroom was on the ground floor where the housekeeper lived.Logan had enough space to accommodate Megan and her son and he was even willing to change schools for Benny and enroll him in the nearby private school. This would have worked well for Megan but she had never been one to take the easy way out. Moreover,
Liana sat in her room fuming. Things were not going her way and she hated that. In the time that Megan was away, she had tried all means to get Rich to ask her to move in with him. She had even hinted at spending the night on the evening of Megan’s return but Rich still sent her away with the promise that soon, things would fall into place and she would have her rightful place by his side. She had boasted to her friends how she had her boyfriend in the palm of her hands, ready to grant her every wish but her desire was never granted, causing her some humiliation. She needed to come up with a plan that would push Megan away for good.Her head was pounding as she remembered how she had tried to coax Rich into going for a romantic getaway just so she could show Megan her worth because she thought that trampling on her dignity by openly having an affair with her husband was a sure way of chasing Megan out of the mansion.Rich, not moved mumbled about how he was up to his neck in collabor