Daughter-in-law Strikes Harder

“I do not think anything that Hailey would say or do now, would actually have an effect on Dalton or change his perspective towards Aria. I can say that, hmnnn……” Emma sucked in her breath in an attempt to mull over her next word, so as to use the right word for it, “Maybe he is love?”

“Hunh hunh. Isn’t that too much of a word to use? Especially when their marriage is ending in a few months. Love is a big word I tell you,” Ellen said and stood up immediately to grab her MacBook from where she put it.

She had made an order for event planners at a well known agency for her birthday party, and she wanted to check if the progress of her plans were going smoothly. For the makeup artist and hairdresser, she had made a reservation at the best place in the city.

“It doesn’t even matter to me. I am just happy in my heart, at the fact that Dalton actually has some warm place in his heart, and the capability to fall in love. It is so surreal that I thought I’d never see it,” Emma smiled.

“He was always not a bad person. Life was just too cold,” Ellen replied.

“Maybe Eva can too. I mean we do not even know anything about her personal life, talk more of knowing if she has even gotten married secretly. She is completely capable,” Emma let out a loud laughter in reaction to her statement, and Ellen who could not hold hers joined in too.

“She cannot. She is just like mother. The real reflection of her,” Ellen uttered.

“Does that mean Mum never loved Dad? Genuinely?” Emma asked in surprise, as she tried to decipher what her sister was talking about, without having to sound so offensive about the matter.

“I do not know about that, but they had so many fights in the past when we were younger. Grandfather did not support their marriage right from time, and still does not like her wholeheartedly till now.”

“I think our family is really a mess,” Emma said with great sadness and a loud sigh.Content is © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

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The young billionaire sat in the private suite with a look of peace inscribed on his face, with the feeling of some kind of exhilaration he didn’t think he had felt before. He had only thought of working through his entire twenties without rest or compromise, and had kept to his rules and personal obligations for years.

He had never had a reason to think he would stop working or growing the Miller empire, or take a break even if he was just for the sake of his peace. Work would always be deeply engraved upon his heart.

However, Alex told him right after the board meeting they attended at Singapore, that his schedules for the half the year were cleared up already. He also informed him that the remaining meeting that might be crucial to attend, would be done via the internet in a meeting space.

Hearing that he would have no reason to stress much about work for a few months, made him feel good even with the reality of being with his irksome family.

The company percentage graphs would keep looking great regardless, because he was finally on his way to the complete takeover of every one of his grandfather’s million dollar assets.

He suddenly wanted to spend more time with Aria instead of working, and the thought of the kind of look she would pass onto him, if he ever said that to her made him chuckle. She never failed to give him expected reactions.

Alex had booked the suite he retired to for the day till the next morning and they had departed for a while, but the diligent head butler and assistant would still come back to give reports. Though he was still lacking in many ways, Dalton could inwardly agree that he was pretty competent.

And as expected, a knock was heard on the door at exactly 9:00am and Alex entered inside smartly, as he approached where Dalton was sitting to report to him. His boss had been quite on the edge since they left the states, but he seemed to be in a good mood which made the tired assistant lighten up a bit.

“Sir. Mrs. Eleanor Miller has arrived back at the mansion today, in the fullest preparation for Miss Ellen’s birthday that is coming soon.”

“I trust that you have informed the accountant about unfreezing the cards right?” Dalton asked, his eyes deeply closed as he meditated in his sitting position.

“Yes sir. Everything is back to normal,” Alex answered.

“You can return back to your room now. We’ll see tomorrow,” Dalton stood up on completing his sentence, and strutted to the dining table to get a glass of water.

The assistant realizing that his boss had nothing more to say thankfully left, glad that he would be able to gain his own peace too even if it was minimal. He had even also planned to get married to his girlfriend, before the end of the year after Dalton’s divorce.

With his extremely demanding but well paying job that had made his life so busy, he had been able to pay his family’s debt that had accumulated over the years.

And with that, came the price of having many unstable relationships, because of how loyally he had served Dalton and his family without having time for himself.

For the first time in his life, he found a lady that understood his job nature and circumstances, as she had always been a motivation to him too. Her job as a nurse was demanding too, and they enjoyed their little time with one another.

He couldn’t help but be more than sweet to her by doing everything that pleased her, which had been working so perfectly for both of them.

But with everything being put in place with his plans, he would probably have to stop working for Dalton after his marriage. The anxiety of that day to break the news was still lurking in his heart, on how he would separate from where he had been his entire life.

The cold breeze from the large windows soothed Dalton’s body more than the cold air in the room, as he moved to the open balcony of the suite with a bottle of wine and a glass cup.

He took his seat gently on the fancy chairs positioned and poured himself some wine, and allowed his mind to reminisce on the recent things, people, events in his life that had made him genuinely happy. That opened his heart to more than just delight. All he could think of was the lady he left back home.

The way he had seen so many emotions from her in different days and moments, and how much they that affected his own usual demeanor too. The unsaid feelings of different sort that they had shared, even if it was not to be easily spoken out to one another. Attachment of her that was hard to get go in his heart.

His eyes continued to dart to his cell phone that was lying on the table as he sipped gently on his wine, with the strong urge to pick up the phone, call her and observe her response.

‘Or he should video chat her instead of a phone call, and see how she would react to it while rolling her cute eyes. No. What would she think of him? What if she decided to snub him and crush his ego?’ his brain countered the desire of his heart instantly.

His hand kept on tapping on the table a few inches away from the cell phone, as he chugged down the contents in the glass cup that he was holding. It was hard to stop himself from calling her.

‘He really think that he missed her. Yes. It had only been less than a day, and he probably was.’

And finally Dalton made up his mind to call her after realizing how much he wanted to hear her voice, as he picked up the phone to dial her phone number hoping that she would just decide to be humble that night.

A mail suddenly dropped on his notification icon, and he clicked on it to check what it was about. It was an unknown sender which had a very weird email name, and it turned out that the person had sent some kind of file.

Cautious that it could be some kind of scheme to corrupt his secured files and phone, Dalton was about to delete it but halted when he saw what the caption of the email.

In a disorganized manner, he quickly downloaded the file that was sent to him, and it turned out to be a comprising picture of Aria and someone in the pool. Hot blood surged through every part of his body immediately, when he saw what had been sent to him.

‘She was messing around with other men?’