Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
Isabella must have sensed the thickened tension in the air also
because we heard her mutter,
“Oh boy. Things are about to get ugly,”
I gave Niles a long look as if to say, “Like father, like daughter”
And the man in question must have sensed it too because he told me, “Do you want to watch the video in peace or we should do something more useful?”
Uh no, I rest my case. So I quickly snatched my gaze back to the video just in time to hear,
“I saw her on your daughter’s wedding day, remember?”
Oh yes, of course. How could I forget that day? Father was lucky enough I didn’t chase him away from my wedding – the nerve.
“So tell me, Valentino,” Nadia didn’t let him speak, “Are you planning on getting back together with her especially now she’s separated from her husband, huh? Is that it? After all, you’re single now and so is she, there’s nobody to stand in your path anymore,”
“Nadia -” Father tried to speak but she wouldn’t let him.
“No, don’t worry,” She interrupted him, “I’m not a clingy ex and I wish you well in your pursuit of happiness -“
“She has cancer!” Father screamed it out this time.
I didn’t know who shouted “What?!” Me or Nadia because it both came at the sound time.
“You heard me right, Angela has cancer. I only brought her to the wedding to see her daughter one last time since it was apparent Reina wouldn’t bother to let her in – their feud runs that deep,”
“Oh my God,” I gasped, sitting up at once while the rest of the video played on – not like I cared. At the moment, I didn’t know how?I was feeling. Something was not right, what was going on? Did a bomb just land on my head?
“Reina,” I could hear Niles’ voice but it sounded so distant and there was a tightening feeling in my chest…
“Reina!” Niles came on a little too strong, cupping my face as he said, “You have to calm down, you’re hyperventilating right now,”
Everything Niles said was gibberish to me. All I knew was that I felt stuffy inside and it was as if the air in the room had thinned so much I had to gasp to inhale one.
“Yes, that’s it…..” Niles guided me, “Long, deep, breath,” I followed his instruction and in no time got back to normal.
“I heard something Niles,” I glanced up at him questioningly as if searching for confirmation. It was almost like a dream to me.
“You heard it right, Reina. It seems your mother has cancer,” Niles confirmed.
I jumped down from the bed at once, feeling molten anger in my veins, “No, no, no,” I shook my head stubbornly, “She can’t go like this! It’s too easy! Karma is so unfair!”
“Reina,” Niles embraced me as I broke down in anguished tears.
Why was I even crying?
The third point of view:
“I can’t believe they came?” Ailee wrapped her arm around her chest as her twin, Allen, and Neon stared specifically at two kids.
“Who are they?” Neon was curious, staring at the beautiful raven-haired girl making conversations with other kids. If he wasn’t mistaken, he could almost say she had hogged all of the kids’ attention.
“That’s our cousin Grace and Phillip,” Allen took it upon himself to answer just as Ailee said,
“More like the legendary two bullies,” She sneered.
As expected, the triple trouble was dressed up for the birthday party but they never expected to see their both cousins here.
Though both kids were family, the intense competition between them from birth had strained their relationship.
Their grandfather Sakuzi had three kids from his wife, Nadia, out of which one called Maxwell- you know the history well – was dead. The rest was the eldest called Finley and the third – since Maxwell was the second son – called Victor.
Their cousin Grace was twelve years and the eldest daughter of Fin, the eldest son of Sakuzi and possible heir to the Falcon Gang, hence the reason the airhead was so arrogant and audacious. She had another sibling called Charlie but he was only two years old and could not make it to the party tonight.
Philip was Victor’s only child and son at the moment and he was eleven years old. Perhaps the fact that he and Grace were almost in the same age bracket, they clicked well. Just like they said, birds of the same feather flock together, there was no difference in their character.
Although Reina was only their half-sibling, Fin and Victor acknowledged her and worked well with her, but the same couldn’t be said for their kids.
The twins and their cousins were like fire and ice; they disliked each other to the core. Perhaps, that had to do with the fact that the twins were exceptionally gifted from birth and the fact it was no secret that Sakuzi favored them more than the others.
Since her father Fin would be the inheritor of their gang, Grace was naturally pompous and loathed the siblings because of their talents. It wasn’t that she wasn’t gifted, but everything she did, the twins always found a way to do it ten times better and that exasperated her so much. She was the firstborn and supposed to be greater than the others, moreover, those peeps were not even her real cousins. Who gave them the right to flex with her grandfather’s riches.
Phillip also shared the same ideology, the twin’s mother was just his father’s half-sister. What right do Allen and Ailee have to compete with them?
Hence that thought drove them into loathing the kids, not that the twins cared. As much as the cousins hated them, they couldn’t lay their hands on them in fear of incurring their grandfather’s wrath. So they could only look for subtle ways to torment them.
Just like now, the cousins had successfully stolen the attention the other kids had been giving them. Although this was supposed to be a small party, some of the gang members had brought over their family – everyone wanted to make an impression on Emerald, the second in command to Sakuzi. It was a rare and big honor.
“As if this would faze us,” The twins saw through their plan. Grace was a big show-off and knowing that she took the spotlight off them would thrill her to the moon.
“She’s pretty,” Neon blurted out, staring at the girl with a dreamlike fascination.
“What did you just say?” Ailee glared daggers at him.
Neon gulped, shivers running down his spine. It looked as if Ailee wanted to kill him – Thank God she couldn’t shoot out lasers from her eyes. But then, why did he do wrong?
“Nothing,” He replied abruptly.
“Good and it better remain that way,” She warned yet murmured underneath her breath, “Beautiful my butt. What was so pretty about that blackhearted witch anyway?”