There were grand preparations going on in the mansion that evening, as every kitchen servant kept moving back and forth from the kitchen to the dining room. Eleanor had sent a text message to all her children hours ago, about the dinner feast she had decided to host without telling them the real reason why. Emma, who was bringing her boyfriend home to meet her mother, had the strong affirmation in her heart that she was in love with him, and was ready to get married to him regardless of what anyone would say. She had actually hidden her status as a daughter of the Miller's family from him, since his home was in Scotland and it had been a very long time since he visited America. She knew that the chances of her mother rejecting him was higher, because he wasn't even as wealthy as she would have wanted, or had a high class family that would match their family's class level. But she was still convinced in her heart that Dalton would support her, regardless of whatever tantrums her m
Collin's mind remained incoherent for the rest of the day since he met Aria, and he was not able to focus on everything he had planned to do for that day. Nothing was more painful to hear than the fact that she was married to Dalton Miller, rather than she being married to someone else. He pondered so restlessly about how of all people that she could get married to, it had to be the man who would neither love her or treat her well in the marriage. Though she brushed about the few hate incidents that involved the other member of the family, he knew it would be worse than all she had told him in a few words. Watching how she acted, talked and rarely smiled, it was almost like her usual self. But, something seemed to be greatly wrong with her even with her charming look. As she talked to him about divorcing her husband in any way she could, she rolled her eyes in anger so many times like he was actually standing there. Then again, Collin continued to wonder if she was allowed to l
No one seemed to notice the extreme hot and high tension that fell into the room, immediately Emma introduced Damon as her boyfriend right in Ellen's presence. Maybe if fainting was something Ellen could do so easily, she would have landed with a great thud against the floor in shock. As Emma smiled to every member of her family and introduced Damon before he could even say a word, his sweaty and trembling hands fumbled to search for his phone in his suit pocket. Quickly, he typed in very fast letters to Ellen, before she would throw problems into everyone's life that evening. Especially his own. Seeing Dalton at a very close level in the same room helped him to realize better, that he really wasn't any man to mess with. And he could not ruin up his relationship with Emma even if he was at fault, knowing well that he was benefitting in every way from her. He would definitely not allow his little play game with Ellen to destroy everything."Talk, and I'll reveal the video." Ell
The seriousness in the room was so palpable, which was heavy with the bated breath of the last daughter of the Miller. For the first time in a long while, she was in a one-on-one sitting arrangement with her mother with a glass table as the middle partition, who was sitting on the twin chair across the other side.To make it a more awkward and uncomfortable situation, they were sitting in her room of all places. Emma was a hundred percent sure that her mother had called and texted her, to talk about the guy that she brought home for introduction the previous night. Early that morning when she woke up, she had seen so many messages and even mails from her mother requesting to see her urgently. If Eleanor didn't approach the matter in that hurried manner, she knew Emma would procrastinate the issue and choose to visit her at the odd hour, when the pressing issue was no longer important to talk about. And it definitely worked like magic because Emma was sitting in her room for more th
Aria was sitting behind an intricate carved wooden table, on a chair that matched the antique appearance of the table. She was now wearing a simple white dress that Dalton had bought from a nearby store, and made her change to after so much arguments and hardheadedness from him. It was when they arrived at their destination that she found out what kind of place they had come to, even if she had no idea why they were in some place like that. It was a simple but beautiful outdoor vacation closet with constructed water falls as its scenery, that was behind the secluded mountains they had passed through which was not far from the city. It was extremely beautiful to watch clear waters underneath the floor space, and different species of fishes swim through like they were in the ocean. Having no idea about why she and he had to come there together, she just sat down carefully and went with the flow of things. If something was helping her to get rid of the thoughts in her mind, she w
Things had been so quiet and down at the Millers, with everyone's head buried in their own sadness and forlorn. Emma had taken a break from the house because of her mother and lodged at a private suite, while Ellen travelled to Chicago for a random meeting she informed her mother about, on her way to the airport. Dalton and Aria were back on their non-talking terms because she said she wanted that, and he told her he would only let her go after the four months that was left for their marriage to end. That sure was more infuriating for her to hear from him, because he was playing her and she knew that it was for his own selfish gains. Right in her bedroom, was Aria sitting on the bed with a laptop that had a USB drive inserted to the side of it. She found some pictures and edited videos on the drive that the private investigator dropped, and they were the few ones from a party the family held a year before and some few ones from two years before. The one where someone had de
"I am pretty sure we all did not gather here because of Aria's father right?" They all heard Eva's voice ask from where she was sitting, which was certainly very weird for her to interface in such matters. Naturally, they were so shocked about the show that had occured before them, and heated words that Aria had exchanged with her father. It made them realize that she was not in any way kidding, and was ready to thrash at anyone that would treat her like trash. Worst of all was that Dalton had her back. He even watched her leave everyone's presence and didn't do anything, which ended up with her father leaving in shame. 'Was there anything that they didn't know and no one was telling them?' Quickly, the two sisters organized themselves and took their seats apart from each other, while the mother who was looking so gloomy and really angry cared less. She had called all of them and told them different excuses, which were reasons why they all came back to the mansion in a few
No one told Aria as usual about the upcoming celebration, and she did not care to even know about it or to participate in it. She only noticed the extreme preparations, changing of interior designs and the decorations of everywhere around the mansion. And most of the attention was focused on the banquet hall, which was just a few miles away from the mansion and was built for mainly family anniversaries. It was one of a kind that could not even be compared, to many of the luxurious banquet halls that were usually booked by elites for celebrations. Appearance and presence of people were strictly based on invitation. Regardless of how Ellen was really pissed at her mother for spilling what she told her not to tell Emma, she was still the one who helped her mother to collate the list for invited guests. Then Alex was the one that made the final arrangements for how it would be stamped and sent to them. Eva on the other hand donated expensive art from the ML gallery, to create a gr