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Every member of the Meyer family alighted from the luxurious car in front of their mansion after the party in the same way they went, and they all sauntered into the living room silently with so much silence that was stifled with heavy tension, through the grand double doors of their opulent mansion which swung open.

The family's footsteps echoed on the marble floors with their heels and shoes clicking rhythmically, with the force under their feet evident as they made their way in, each stride a confirmation of the restless anger coursing through their veins.

"Do you all believe what you just witnessed at that banquet?!" Ivy, who never took her time to speak her mind among everyone in the family, suddenly lashed out as soon as they all got to the living room.

"Is it even possible for someone to suddenly change within two weeks, and go from being a wretched lady from the countryside to the heiress to the Sinclair wealth?! Can you even comprehend the possibility?!" She continued with a huge frown, as she stormed her feet on the ground and held her temples with her hand, which was a way of coping with the headache that was threatening to split her head open.

"Malcolm, did you have any idea of this? I thought grandfather said she was his childhood friend's grandchild. How is she suddenly a part of the Sinclair family?" Isla turned to question her brother calmly regardless of repressed fury that was threatening to gnaw her from within, because she knew he was the only one that could have an answer to that question.

The shocking revelation that unfolded before them at the banquet hall was too much to not talk about.

However, Malcolm didn't answer Isla. He said nothing to his family either. He had a lot on his mind and he was contemplating heavily on what to do next.

"Did you guys see her dress? It cost millions and it is a limited edition. It is freaking expensive that you have to travel to Italy to purchase it only with connections to the brand owner!" Audrey almost lost herself as she marvelled in awe at the dazzling dress, which was the most stunning part of suddenly seeing Zoe stand before them.

However, Ivy's scrutinizing eyes which turned to her direction shut her up instantly as she smiled awkwardly. She was talking out of context in the heat of a serious moment, and it could make everyone more mad than they already were.

"I mean, she walked past us like she wasn't scrubbing our floors just until recently. She acted pridefully like she didn't know us at all. Am I about to lose my mind here in oblivion to this crazy encounter of Zoe as a heiress?!" Irina, the matriarch of the family who was usually poised and composed, finally lashed out angrily, her gaze burning with an intensity that could scorch the earth. It was hard for her to believe no matter how hard she tried to think of it.

"Calm down, Mum. You shouldn't stress out yourself too much," Isla cautioned her mother when she noticed that she started coughing after her lash-out, because Irina, was on hypertensive pills and could not afford to have something to stress her out.

"Maybe that was why she rejected the alimony? I mean, how did someone who grew up with her grandmother suddenly become Sinclair's only granddaughter?" Ivy questioned no one in particular again, as she tapped her feet anxiously on the floor at the recollection of how her eyes met directly with Zoe's at the ball, and how she was brutally murdered by her fiery gaze.

"I said that it could be some kind of action-packed revenge-related series. Do you think she might come back for us? With her grandfather to punish everyone here for making only her do the chores?" Aaron turned to ask his Mum without minding the rage that was flying in the room at that moment, and the jocular Mum was fast enough to clamp her palm over his mouth. She sent him aggressively to his room instantly.

A hush settled into the room as everyone seemed to have lashed out all their might even if they had no one to answer, and were all waiting for Malcolm to say something regarding the case. However, he said nothing, and didn't even meet their faces. He just sauntered out of their sight as soon as he took out his phone to make a call, leaving them to their restlessness and cluelessness. That was all for the day.

The night ended with the members of the Meyers privy to the truth behind Zoe's sudden rise in power and wealth, and it left them with bloodshot eyes the next morning which told tales of sleep deprivation that left imprints on their faces.

They were antsy all night!

……•••>>>•••……

Malcolm didn't allow his confusion to get the best of him in front of his family, and maintained his usual stoic and cold expression as he walked out of their sight without any answers for them. Immediately he entered his room, he phoned Edward instantly to get him moving that night, on finding the information about how Zoe was related to the Sinclairs.

By the next morning, he had his answers.

"Francis Sinclair is her paternal grandfather?" He asked with a loop that suddenly formed an apprehension against his throat, as he mentioned those unimaginable words even if he was questioning no one in particular.

Finding out that the only possibility of what happened at the ball party that he thought of all night was actually true, was rather too much to wrap his head around no matter how positively he tried to think of it.

'Never in his life had he been caught unguarded by the news before. Never in his entire life had he been in the dark about something so trivial before.'

'But since he never cared about the wife that he married for business sake, he would not have the need to know anything about her either. Besides, no one knew Emily, Zoe's mother, had a child for the son of such a powerful man like Francis.'

"Is this news confirmed and accurate?" He asked his assistant curtly who nodded instantly.

"Yes sir. She has been seen going on a few trips with him in his private jet, and the news is all over the press this morning to confirm the legitimization of it. Everyone is totally shocked too by the news, and even his board of shareholders. They didn't expect him to have someone like that as his next-generation inheritor," Edward explained everything to his boss in detail, even though he was also taken aback when he realized the new identity of his boss' ex-wife.

He knew things were just about to get crazier with the new turn that had switched Zoe's position, after suffering so much physical, mental, and emotional abuse from the Meyers. He wondered what the illustrious billionaire would do next.

Malcolm's lips twisted into her smirk as he began to think calculatively and smartly, of what he could do to make things not as hard as it might seem. Though his family had unprecedented power in the economic and political business, working with the Sinclairs would have gained them more power and territory. Especially, if it became known that he was the husband to the new heiress of the corporation.

His position would be unmatched!

But sadly, they just divorced two weeks ago.

"Have our divorce papers been registered?" Malcolm asked Edward instantly as soon as the next possible question occurred to him.

"We were out of the country throughout last week, so I was only chanced to submit it for processing this week," Edward answered instantly, as he stood so rigidly in front of his boss, trying to think of the possible idea that could be going on in his smart brain.

'Maybe something absurd?'

"Find out immediately, and stop it if it has not been processed. Now!" Malcolm ordered sharply.

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