Chapter 53 CHAPTER 53

Chapter 53 CHAPTER 53
That name.
No one was more familiar with it than she was.
No one knew her better than she did.
No one understood her better than she did.
Because she bore that name for seven whole years.
Sonia was Cathy.
After divorcing Baron, her mother changed her name to Lucy in the hopes of forgetting her past life and starting a new one. After she married Bob, Sonia offered to change her name in order to ease her mother's conflict with her new grandparents. Since her mother's second marriage, they had severed ties with their original family and became members of the new family wholeheartedly.
However, did she actually become engaged to that ice guy?
Wasn't this the biggest joke of the century?
How come she never knew about it?
He was eleven years old then, while she was only six years of age. At that time, Elizabeth took her son and daughter and became part of the family. Sonia and her elder sister Alice were too busy fighting with Valery and her little brother, so she knew nothing about this. It was a political marriage arranged by the adults. The children would know about it when they reached puberty.
Hearing him mention her childhood nemesis, Valery became a little furious.
Cathy had always been more beautiful, smarter, and more brilliant than her. She was better than her in every aspect and stole her thunder at every turn that Valery was doomed to live in her shadow forever. Ever since she found out that Daniel's grandfather chose Cathy as his future granddaughter-in-law, she had been looking for the every chance to kill her, but the woman luckily managed to escape every time. Fortunately, her mother had finally become the legal wife and kicked Cathy and her mother out of the family. She was no longer a threat to her.
"She has not been a part of our family for a long time. Who knows, maybe she has been living like a sparrow in the slums." Valery said.
Daniel's father's expression remained unruffled. After all, he wasn't known as a powerful king in business circles who had weathered countless storms for nothing. He could tell that Daniel didn't really want to marry Valery. As stubborn as he was, he would not change his mind no matter how hard anybody tried to convince him otherwise. Ever since Valery got pregnant and Elizabeth came to pressure them to get married, he washed his hands off the matter and let his son solve the problem by himself. However, this strategy went beyond his expectations. Daniel used to play hide and seek in the past, but now he went for the direct attack and took a wife home. This was not his usual style.
Stunned by what she heard, Mary felt the onset of a headache. Since the couple had already obtained a marriage certificate, it would be extremely difficult to drive Sonia out of the house. She had known Valery since she was a child and treated her as her own daughter. Now that she was pregnant, she couldn't just stand by. Daniel had always been cold to women, with the sole exception of Leila. The woman whom he had married must be such an exemplary character to have captivated someone like him. He was so obsessed that he gave her the family ring and even obtained the marriage certificate.
Valery was no competition for Sonia, so she definitely had to help her out!
At that moment, Valery rushed towards Daniel to look at the document. She was unbelieving until she saw the clear photo and name on the marriage certificate. Hysterical, she clamped her hands over her ears, screamed like a banshee and promptly lost consciousness.
Daniel alertly caught her in his arms before she crumpled to the floor. "Call the doctor," he instructed the hovering house help and then carried her into a guest room.
Of course, his sole concern was the baby, not the mother.
Elizabeth and Mary also followed him to take care of the patient.
Sonia stayed in the living room alone. It was unnecessary for her to enter the room, anyway.
Albert did not move an inch; he only took a sip of tea and examined his daughter-in-law.
The girl spoke not a single word from beginning to end. She was quiet like a breeze, seemingly trying to shrink until she was out of sight, but the fact was she had always been the center of attention. What surprised him more was her unflappable calm throughout the discussion. Even with all of the barbs and provocation that Elizabeth and her daughter spouted, her expression did not change at all. How could his son be blind? The woman he liked must be very special.
In addition, he liked the girl. She was pure like the first strand of faint blue in the horizon at dawn, just like someone he knew.
Sonia was uneasy at first, but Albert's gentle, doting look helped her calm down.
In this family, the one who was difficult to get along with was not this powerful leader, but his wife.
The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had always been a headache.
Sonia realized that Mary wanted to insult her by soft words.
Considering Valery's poor health, Mary asked the mother and daughter to stay in the house for a day and instructed the kitchen staff to prepare chicken soup for the expectant mother.
Daniel took Sonia to his room and asked her to rest.
Since he came back from United States, he had been living at a different house outside of the villa, returning only to visit during festivals.
As soon as the door was shut, Sonia's face darkened.
She hadn't forgiven his cheating yet. The intimacy that they showed just then was pure acting.
Restless, she walked over to the window and looked out at the sparkling lake in the distance.
The plot changed so fast; she didn't even have time to digest anything before she had to head to battle with her gun. Now, it was time to calm down.
Daniel came to stand beside her. A frown on his handsome face, he said in a frustrated voice, "If, from the beginning, I told you who I really was and the matter between me and Valery, do you think you would have been able to face me so freely?"