“Octavius, can you be serious for once? You are my fiancé and you should behave like one!” the woman said as she followed Octavius.
“If you want to be your own fiancée then it is fine. Maybe I should remind you that my fiancée is a Sanders while, you are just adopted! Or should I say that your mother was adopted? You don’t think that that family belongs to you, right?” Octavius asked coldly as he turned around to look at the woman who had been following and disturbing him for weeks.
“What's the meaning of this? We both know that their daughter ran away and my grandparents hate her so much as he was selfish and did what she wanted without caring about anyone’s feelings. They adopted my mother as she looked like her but my mother is way better than her. She is filial to them and she has even been taking care of the company all these years. Don’t tell me that you expect her to come back! You are so naïve!” the woman said with a sneer as she didn’t think that Celestine was still alive especially after being told that she had been injected with poison and she didn’t have a cure for it or even know its name that she could have made an antidote.
“Oh please, don’t give your mother the credit that we both know doesn’t belong to her! She found the company in a great state. When it was facing crisis, Aunt Celestine was still here and she was the one who took it to higher levels. Your mother just took over a few years ago and instead of taking it higher and higher than how she found it, the company’s performance has been decreasing. Don’t say that she took care of it while it was more than ruining it! Have you ever asked why after your mother vanished? Your grandparents are nowhere to be found but still, the will they left behind claims that you can’t be the owner. You don’t even have any shares in that company but you still think that you are a Sander! So naïve!” Octavius retorted.
“Oh, Octavius. Are you expecting that the real daughter would come back? Even if she does, can she marry you? She is your mother’s age and there is no way she can marry you. Stop being naïve and know that you are stuck with me,” the woman said with a smug on her face but there were traces of coldness in her eyes.
“Cecily, if you think I will marry you then you are mistaken. You aren’t a Sanders by blood and neither do you have anything to prove that you are from the Sander family. Not your blood or do you have their heirloom with you? I will never marry an imposter so all the plans you have on your mind, it is better you give up cause it won’t work! I am not easy to fool. Where did your mother come from in the first place?” Octavius asked coldly but there was a mocking smile on his face.
When the woman heard Octavius' words, she was shocked and trembled in fear that their identities were discovered.
She didn’t need to be reminded that her mother’s death was mysteries and it was believed that they had been exposed. However, she stayed ignorant to that as she had not heard anything or any family in the capital talking about it thus she also pretended not to know that they had been exposed as she had a task to carry out and the only way was to do it after getting married to Octavius.
Although it was believed that his dead wife was a Sanders, she still didn’t believe it as there was no evidence. What she wanted to do after getting married to Octavius was to look for the evidence first that she was the one.
“So you also don’t know? Maybe she even got tired of this life and went back to her family. Or did they come for her?” Octavius asked as he narrowed his eyes at the latter who was trembling more as she heard his words.
“But don’t worry. Our family has always been generous and I can pay a few millions for people to search for your mother and where she came from. That way, you will be united with your real family and stop going overboard. After all, I understand you are doing this cause your mother ran away. By the way, is it true? I heard that but didn’t believe it. Maybe she was taken away by her family or the people she had been staying with before she was taken in by the Sanders,” Octavius said with a mysterious smile on his face but that smile was like a torment to the woman.
“No,” that was the only thing that she could bring out of her mouth.
“No? Anyways, I don’t care about that but please don’t bring your issues to me as I have my issues! If you need help in finding your mother my family will lend a hand as I understand that the person who took over your mother’s position in the company doesn’t even want to see you and have thrown you out. How then will you get help from them to find her?” Octavius added as he took what he was doing as revenge for the latter always getting on his nerves since she came from ‘abroad’ which they were all suspicious of and thought that it was most likely she had been in that organization and had been sent after her mother’s death reached their ears.