Chapter 64: "I didn't realize I needed a spokesperson to communicate my thoughts." A few seconds passed and the tingling pain from being slapped across the face didn't hit so Luke opened his eyes slowly. Theresa's hands were flaring in the air awkwardly and her eyes and mouth were wide open in shock. "T-t-there are two… two of that bastard." "It's called Twins." Luuk rolled his eyes. Tess snickered at Luuk's comment. Theresa cleared her throat and collected herself. She turned to Tess and spoke, "So this is the reason brother took you back in his arms? You brought another bastard to the family." Tess remained calm while faced with Theresa's provocation. "Luke, come here." she waved her hands towards him, wiping the streak of tears at the corner of his eyes. He was such a cry baby. "Pretty boys shouldn't cry." "Can you just stop crying everytime like a wimp? Also, what do you mean younger brother? I refused to be humiliated like that." Luuk added. "Mother, Luuk is bullying me."
Chapter 65: "You're so naughty Mrs De Vries.Tess returned to her room, surfing through a De Vries mart shopping app to order a new batch of junks. She was seated on a soft sofa, her back turned against the door with earphones in her ear, listening to intense soul music. Her body moved to the rhythm softly, this particular song had a unique choreography, the fans of the artist had a signature move of slumping their shoulders in a second time interval and Tess imitated the move. She didn't notice when Ruben opened the door as her ears were plugged with loud music. Ruben observed Tess calmly, her shoulders shook continuously and he thought she was crying, his heart winced in pain. He thought of various things to say or things to do to pacify her but his head went blank. He couldn't think of anything, he felt helpless. Tess was immersed in the song, she shook her shoulders faster, anxiety rose within Ruben’s heart. He cursed Theresa silently under his breath. He brought out a chocol
Chapter 66: "Eyes off, that is Ruben’s wife. Unless you want to disappear without a trace, don't mess with her."Tess woke up to the sound of her phone chiming. The space beside her was empty as Ruben had left for work, leaving his warmth lingering on the bed. She propped herself up, sitting with her back against the bed frame. She reached for her phone, and many notification messages had popped on the screen. Taking her time to go through everything, her eyes caught sight of a mail from her private investigator on Ruben’s company. She had a hypothesis that the investigation of Ruben’s company was linked to the situation surrounding the separation of her twins. Her intuition told her the same person was pulling the strings and perhaps she would get a breakthrough in her investigations if she looked into Ruben’s company. Her original reason for coming to the Netherlands. Tess opened the file, strings of a unique code came to sight but Tess read everything swiftly like it was the al
Chapter 67: "I love it so much I want to take it off of you myself, admiring every piece that tears under my fingers." Tess' gaze swept across the familiar faces. They were all present at her wedding ceremony with Ruben eight years ago. She remembered it as clearly as yesterday, their faces were brimming with smiles and respect as they handed her gifts and praised her endlessly. But it all ended when her father died. Tess observed the crowd, they all stood a distance from her, watching her with weariness, their eyes held a tinge of envy at her stunning appearance. Luke misunderstood Tess's actions as fear, he wrapped his small hand around her pinky fingers and tugged it softly. "Let's go inside mother, I will protect you." He said with firm resolution in his blue eyes. Tess laughed, flashing her white perfect set of teeth. She rubbed Luke's head in adoration and spoke, "Mmh, mother trusts you." Unlike the previous times where a butler came to receive Luuk and Ruben, the butler di
Chapter 68: "Extract the necklace with minimal damage to the shoes." "What? Y-you, are you sure?" one of the aunties badmouthing Tess before came forward to ask. "Yes, I saw her, she took the diamond necklace from the old Madam's dressing room. I didn't say a word because I heard she is young master's wife but I was wrongly accused just now." The maid servant went on her knees, sobbing pitifully.The other maid servant saw her friend was doing well. She took advantage of the situation against Tess. "Yes yes, it was her. She told us to keep quiet or our lives will be in danger but we decided to talk because the old madam had been so good to us."The old madam walked in, an angry frown was evident on her usually warm friendly face. Someone had stolen her 'mother pearl' necklace. A necklace made from the pearls freshly extracted from a rare oyster. The necklace is over a hundred years old and the market value exceeds 50 million dollars! Even more in the black market value. People once
Chapter 69: "I'm sorry but are you dumb? I just said glue doesn't work on it, why would I try to glue it to my precious shoes then, do you know how much they cost?!" Tess was faster. Her thin left hand grabbed the chubby aunty's wrist, holding it in a firm grip. She turned her face from the old madam to the aunty who was standing by her left side and narrowed her eyes dangerously. "You would lose your wrist if you tried that again." The first aunt felt true terror for the first time in her life. Her limbs were visibly shaking and she went mute. She was trying to retract her hand from Tess's grip but it didn't budge. She was at least three times Tess's size but she couldn't use her weight to her advantage. She looked at Tess as if she was staring at a monster. Pain shot from her wrist and blood rushed to her face as her expression contorted in pain. Her wrist was about to be broken, she could almost hear the cackling sound of her bones breaking but Tess let go at the last minute. Th
Chapter 70: "Great grandmother, little brother doesn't talk a lot." Luke sprinted towards Tess, running into her arms. His hands wrapped around her and he raised his face up, giggling. Luuk shook his head in shame at the sight of his doppelganger. He longed to scream – dont use my face for weird things at Luke's face. The crowd gasped again, a lot of mind blowing things happened at this event and it would be unforgettable. "Th-there are two of them." The first aunt spoke first, her eyes widened in shock. Luuk stared in disdain at the people he seemed morons. He wondered if they have never seen twins before or if don't know the term twins exist. "How is this possible." the first uncle joined in with his wife to express his shock. "It's called Twins." Luuk finally said the word itching at his throat. The crowd burst into laughter at his sarcasm. The first uncle's face contorted in anger but he kept mute as he could feel Ruben’s overbearing gaze on him. He felt like a heavy bould
Chapter 71: "Use the X1-654 method." Ruben ordered a bodyguard to bring a computer. The computer was placed before Luuk who was still glancing through the text exchange between the maid and the perpetrator. He shook his head in disgust at the poor skit. The purpose of the show was to humiliate and embarrass Tess and at the same time, get rid of the necklace. The sender had emphasized on putting so much adhesive glue on the shoe that it makes it difficult to remove the necklace without damaging it. A glint flashed past Luuk's eyes, only one name came into his mind–Theresa. He decided not to act based on assumptions and began to work on the computer to discern the location of the sender and if the signal goes through, he would ring their phone. Even if the signal doesn't go through, he could easily install a virus on the phone and ring the phone with that. First, He ran the number through the family database but the number used was an unfamiliar number as it wasn't a part of the dat