Twisted Fate

“Scrap!”

Alex turned furry and Festus chuckled. He dropped the topic and said nothing else about it.

Ella smiled when Greg said she’s prettier than ever. She had lost count of how many times he’s said the same line of words since they came for lunch.

Her entire day has been filled with smiles. She smiled, laughed and smiled again. Her jaws have begun to hurt her.

“Thank you Greg. But you do know that you looked cuter than that boy I used to know” Ella complimented him too.

They had their lunch and Greg said he would take her out on a date the next day. He wished they shouldn’t part ways but he had to return to work.

The next day would be Saturday and he would be work free. They would go around town and ask her if she was still single, and he really hoped so.

If they could have a future together. Spending every single day of the rest of their life as a couple. He really wished he could get a positive reply.

But a part of him is telling him that sometimes we don’t get what we want. But he wished that he gets what he wants this time.

He escorted Ella to her car. He waved at her and she smiled. When Greg got back to his car, he was happy.

Ella is a symbol of sunshine, a new dawn in the lives of those she encounters. He spent the rest of the day optimistic and looking forward to his date the next day with Ella.

Now that her lunch was over, she needed to meet her mother and tell her about the good life they have ahead of them.

Khalid drove Mrs Foster to her mother’s place just as Alex called again and asked him where he had taken the madam to?

“She’s at her mother’s place” he replied and the boss hung up. He was employed to be a chauffeur and in exchange get paid.

Why is he feeling as if he was doing an extra job that has nothing to do with being a chauffeur? Was he employed to discuss the Madam’s life and movement to the boss?

He is married and happy at that. He doesn’t know the kind of relationship or marriage that the boss and his wife have, but he doesn’t like it if he keeps asking him his wife’s whereabouts.

He is a man of integrity and self esteem. He doesn’t want to say anything that will cause some kind of ruckus in their marriage.

He doesn’t want to be the one to say or disclose any information that will bring about a misunderstanding.

“Mum, we are rich now” Ella declared as soon as she got in. Her mother heard her voice and carefully walked out of the kitchen.

“Ella my child” Sara chimed. Ella’s presence makes her joyful. She never gets tired of her.

She saw the looks on Ella’s face and her and that made her smile too. Smiles are contagious and Ella’s smile is not different.

Ella came over, hugged her mother and made her and supported her to the sofa. She couldn’t hide her feelings anymore as she spilled the beans.

Sarah’s smile vanished immediately as she was taken by surprise. Her father in-law loves her daughter that much?

“I have become a shareholder in the Foster corporation and Starlight holdings. We have a beautiful Mansion grandfather acquired, identical with the one my father sold when he eloped with his mistress.

Not only that, we have become billionaires from the savings grandfather made for me and the interests accumulated from the shares in various companies…”

Ella went on explaining to her mother. And as proof, she produced the various copies of those documents and handed them over to her mother to see.

Sarah was yet to process all her daughter just said. Her brain was too fragile to process everything she just explained to her.

Hence she quietly was absorbing every single sentence her daughter made. If she heard her correctly, her daughter said she had become a billionaire.

Does that sentence imply that her suffering was over? They weren’t going to live each day of their lives like someone who struggles to meet up with the present demands?

“… so you will be leaving this apartment soon. And I will be getting you servants mum” Ella chimed.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

Sarah heard the last sentence. She smiled through her teary eyes. She doesn’t know how to express her excitement and her tears were that of joy.

She held Ella’s hands in hers and gave it a soft squeeze. She hoped her daughter could pay Alex Foster off and return to be with her.

“Everything will be just fine from this moment on, mother. You and I will be fine henceforth. And then, we would think of what we can invest our money on…”Ella explained.

Sarah nodded. If only Analdo Smith was still with them, if only he didn’t let his lustfulness take over this reasoning, they would have been happier.

“I wish you didn’t marry that man before you knew of this”Sarah said, looking away with a sorrowful stare.

If Ella had known about her inheritance, perhaps she wouldn’t have gotten herself entangled with the Marriage she now finds herself.

She did it because of her. Now that she had this, she would discuss with her on how to refund Alex Foster’s money to him, and if possible with interest and then end the marriage.

“If I hadn’t married Alex Foster, I wouldn’t have been entitled to the inheritance mum. My grandfather had placed a condition on it, that I must be married before I can own the properties.

Can’t you see now, that everything works to my favour? You are alive because I married Alex Foster. And because of the same marriage, I got what grandfather left for me” Ella chimed, shaking herself in a dance rhythm.

“You are right dear,” Sarah agreed and next made a shocking demand “I want you to pay Alex Foster off and end your marriage with him”