Elsie knew that the investigation of her father's death can't be rushed, now the first step was to find the mystery man. Sid proposed that they go home first, when they find the mystery man, then act.
When they came out from the bar, Sid proposed to let Elsie stay at his house, but Aires immediately objected. Elsie did not want to make them unhappy, so she proposed to go back to her previous home with her parents.
Sid finally agreed with her decision, he said helplessly,"I knew you would want to come back, so I had ordered someone to clean up early."
Aires found it was improper to object again, so he told Elsie that he was always there and he could protect her at any time.
Elsie was very happy with their thoughtfulness, and she was surrounded by such loving people. Why was she so obsessed with Oswald?
Fortunately, Oswald's determination made her completely awake.
When she saw the familiar environment, she could not hold back from heartbreak. Before her mother died, their family lived a very happy life, then her mother became ill and died, and her father married her stepmother so that she could have someone to take care of her, but he did not expect that her stepmother often abused her, but she did not want her father to worry, she all suffered everything in silence.
Until her father died, her stepmother finally showed her face, her father's company was robbed, she and her daughter no longer had money to enjoy a refined life, so she sold her to an old man, she took the money and immediately took her daughter abroad, but she, on the other hand, fell into another hell.
She went to her room, pulled open the drawer and her wedding photo with Oswald was recorded, she wanted to share the news of her marriage with Oswald, that's the reason why the photo is here.
But these memories suddenly kept attacking her like thorns. She placed the wedding photo on her chest, she had dreams of their marriage at first, but it all turned out to be a nightmare.
There was no point in keeping her, and as she was about to throw the wedding photo away, her phone rang.
When she saw the name on the screen, she angrily hung up the phone.
But the person on the other end of the line was just as angry, and the phone kept ringing. Elsie angrily put the phone through.
"Mr crofts, I remember we are divorced. If you continue to call me, I will think you found out that you are in love with me." Elsie said sarcastically.
"In love with you? Do you think everyone is like you, so uncommitted to love? Pretending to love me very much in front of me and being aggrieved, and then turning around and falling in love with another man." Oswald's angry voice came through.
Elsie knew why she said that, it must because Dwight had mentioned to him about her at the bar.
"Yeah, I'm glad I'm not like you, because I can tell who's a viper and who's a good guy. I wish you could continue to love Tess so strongly. I, on the other hand, am just very sober, and I hate to gouge my eyes out at the thought that I've loved you so foolishly for five years."
"You!" Oswald was about to continue lecturing her when Elsie angrily hung up the phone.
Who was he to blame her? After being the Crofts' maid for five years, he still thought he was her master!
But she wouldn't put up with his cold violence any longer! As if she didn't have enough to vent, she blacklisted Oswald's phone by the way
The phone rang again, and Elsie thought it was Oswald again, and she growled into it again."Asshole!"
"Elsie." but the familiar voice on the phone made her whole body tremble, and she cried out loudly without controlling her tears anymore.
"Grandpa?" Elsie asked again uncertainly."El love, how are you my princess?" grandpa's voice rang out again after a similar pause, and Elsie could hear grandpa's excitement."Grandpa?" she managed to whisper out of shock."Yes, my princess, come back home now. I have something very important to tell you.Elsie didn't ask what was going on, she was completely shocked again by the appearance of her grandfather, who had also disappeared after her father's accident, and she wondered where he had gone all these years.She hung up the phone and went outside before she could gather herself.A man dressed in a black suit and standing beside a Benz. When she looked in his way, he immediately pulled open the car door.The drove towards a vintage building and the car stopped. an old but gentle looking man stood in front of the door with a walking stick in his hand."Grandpa, it's really you! I thought I'd never see you again!!!""El love, my princess. grandpa missed you so much.""Grandpa, I'm s
In the bedroom, two maids are busily cleaning diligently, Huldah is standing in front of the door and giving out instructions as if her life depended on it."Hey, put that there! Remove that! Take that out of the room. You must make sure there isn't a hair of hers in the room."Oswald entered the house and walked towards the hall. He saw his mother at first sight, she was helping the maids bring out the wardrobe he made for Elsie after their wedding. He rushed towards her and pulled the wardrobe down. His mother stared at him with anger and surprise but that didn't concern him rather he asked,"What do you think you are doing here mom?""I'm cleaning the stain you brought in the house. I don't want to smell anything familiar with her. Tess wouldn't be staying in this room but yours but I still don't want her to see anything that would burden her. That girl, make sure she gets nothing from this family, that gold digger." Huldah responded with a disgusting expression on her face.With a
As if watching him, Ford calls back as soon as he finished reading the words. Oswald picks up and in angry voice shouts at him,“What is it again Ford?”“I don’t know, are you that foolish? I would have held her above all my riches. Why would you lose such a good, beautiful, intelligent and hardworking woman to a super idol? I can’t believe that you choose that proud woman? You were actually cheated on? The whole Oswald crofts? Oh dear, I pity you now and your near future.” Ford teased him in serious voice“Okay, did you only call to mock me? When have you been more sensible than me?” Oswald asked in an angry tone.“Well, I’m not sensible than you but I’m not the one who had been cheated and divorced and his ex-wife is throwing a party over the divorce. Ford in a laughing tone.”“What? Elsie is holding a party? And why do you know about it?” Oswald asked in a questioning and surprised tone.“It’s because your insensible friend has been invited as a special guest to the party. I haven’
Aires looked at Ford and nodded towards him, he held Elsie’s other hand and asked her to dance. Elsie smiled in his way and also nodded towards Ford, before he knew it, they were already on the dance floor. Aires swung Elsie slightly but since she wasn’t expecting it, she stumbled on her feet. Just as she thought that she was done for, she embraced a hard substance. She felt a loud sound in her ears and the feeling on her chest. She looked up in his eyes and was dumbfounded.Loud footsteps sounded from the gate but it stilled as the person watched the scene in front of him. The people in the room could feel the chill around him even from a distance. They watched him and saw his gloomy face, Aires looked away and looked in the way of the guests to see Oswald. He was watching them and his face looked like a cloudy cloud ready to descend cats and dogs.Elsie pushed up and stood on her feet, it was then that Aires told her that,“Your ex-husband has arrived. Would you like to go and greet
They both sat in the car as if they were total strangers. Elsie looked out the window with her palm on her cheek throughout the ride. Oswald wasn’t any different, he looked straight forward on the streets as if they were the most interesting things in the world. Through the silence, they arrived at the Crofts. When they arrived at the house, Elsie looked at the building with missed feelings but she contained herself as if she was the least affected.Oswald saw the housekeeper and asked,“Where’s Grandma?”Elsie looked the housekeeper and smiled slightly, and she thought to herself,‘They finally got themselves a housekeeper after exhausting the importance of me as a housekeeper. I guess they could now afford one and they didn’t need my help anymore.’Oswald saw her in her thoughts and said to her,“Let’s go to the garden, I’m told that grandma is there.”Elsie nodded her head and walked ahead of him, she saw the old woman in a swing chair with spectacles on her nose and reading newspa
Oswald was in his office busily working when he heard his phone ring. He hesitated to check the phone ring because he was too busy and didn’t want to be disturbed. The phone rang the second time and he finally glanced at the screen. He saw the caller and he stopped abruptly, he looked at the lit screen and he thought,“Why is he calling me now? We haven’t spoken about business in a long while. Is this call about Tess or is it about business?”As he thought, the call ended and so, he took his phone called back. As soon as the person answered, Oswald said to him,“I’m sorry, I was busy and couldn’t pick up immediately. How may I be of help to you Hubery?”I heard something from my daughter and I wanted to confirm it from you.What is it, sir? I’m all ears.Elsie caused her accident, three years ago?Oswald was speechless, Tess had said the same thing to him resulting him and Elsie’s divorce. But it didn’t end there, she also informed her father about this. But he thought about it that a
It came as a shock to Elsie to see the woman she called mother in law act the way she was doing. She knew the Crofts had a good reputation and they would do anything to keep it that way. But Hulda was acting contrary to that much to her surprise. She sighed several times to try to speak calmer so as not to be in the same lane as Hulda,“Hulda. I didn’t think that I would need to say anything to you ever again in my life. The last time you spoke to me you knew they were your last words to me as your daughter in law. So trust me, right now, I find your action ridiculous. I took nothing not even a penny from your son, I was ready to pay him off if he asked for it.”Hulda shook her head hurriedly and said to Elsie,“You, pay my son off? You must have gone crazy after my son left you. You have nothing, you orphan with nothing can shop in this mall and buy from the executive area? If you didn’t extort from my son, how could a poor orphan as you afford this place?”Elsie sneered and knew tha
Oswald arrived at the mall and saw his mother standing by a pillar with her hands crossed on her chest. She saw Oswald and rushed towards him, Oswald looked behind and around but saw no one but her. He looked at her and asked her,“Where are the people maltreating you? Mom don’t tell me that you were playing a prank on me. I left a serious meeting just to meet you.”“It’s okay, don’t act rude to me. I was telling the truth but she left with them when I called you said that you were coming.”Oswald looked as if his energy had been sucked out of his body but he controlled himself. His mother touched his hand but he backed away. He looked sideways thinking that they might not have left yet but he didn’t even see a shadow of them.“So, she left even though she knew that I was coming? That means she doesn’t want to see me right?”As he was thinking, he heard his phone ringing and he answered,“Have you found it yet? If you have, leave it on my desk, I need to have a look at it first.”“No
While the love birds were chatting in the car as they drove, the police car was chasing after a land cruiser. The posh car was driving at top most speed as the car could take it as the police car chased after it. the cars went in circles through the city and the people wondered what was happening. Alternatively, a salon car was also being chased by another police car from the airport to the city, some people took their phones and videoed the chase while others just watched on.Two more posh cars joined the chase making the situation difficult to understand. One of the cars was being chased from the city one other from the airport and the two other posh cars were chasing after the one being chased from the city. The two cars that were being chased stopped at the same time and an older man got out his car with his hands in the air as he shouted,Let my family go, they have nothing to do with anything. I committed all the crimes. They had no hand in anything, the salon car attempted to m
He walked into the dark room, the only source of light was a bulb that was lit and shown a particular point in the room. And that was on the head of a man, he was a middle aged man and he was in prison clothes. The old but gentleman dressed in suit took lazy steps towards the man tied on the chair. He had a frown on his face but it was like the person that was tied in front of him did not matter to like the sand that he was stepping on.He stopped in front of the man and held his chin, the man groaned slightly and the old man smirked. The middle aged man didn’t look up at the man even though he was in pain and that seemed to have irritated the old man. He hissed and forced his head up shouting at him,“Darren Norman, are you sure that at this juncture, you still want to keep your dignity? You were just a dog that I wanted to use to get what I wanted, now that you couldn’t, do you still think that you are of importance to me?”Darren winced as he tried to open his eyes, when he could a
Elsie expected the gate to open but didn’t. Confused, she tried over and over again, she pressed on the remote several times in frustration and shouted,God damn it, don’t tell me that I chose the wrong remote.She looked back and the guard was a few steps away. When she felt that mission failed she heard a loud bang. The guard stopped and removed his gun in a swift, but then the gate started opened in a slow pace. At first she was shocked and had frozen in place until she heard footsteps behind her, she rushed out and saw a taxi parked right in front of her.Just as she was about to climb into the car, she heard him call her,Elsie, where are you going without me?She looked back at him and a tiny smile appeared on her face. She sat in the car and the car didn’t move, she remembered that she hadn’t told the driver to wait for anyone. And so, Elsie asked,I don’t remember telling you to wait for him, why are you still here?Oswald entered the car and answered her question,It’s becaus
Are you going to take them back?He asked again trying to get the answer undiluted. Asking the second time seemed to have irritated Oswald as, he glared at him and said to him,You seem to forget your place sometimes, I told you to separate personal relationship from work relationship. If you don’t stay in your lane, you will end up getting fired.Rod sneered and asked,And if I end up getting fired, will we still meet up and drink our asses off? After all your best friend had lost his job.You know that I am a busy person, and so, I wouldn’t have found the time. Oswald retorted looking directly on the laptop.Rod smiled and responded to him,You would really find the time as you have signed off everything that you own to Miss Elsie, what will you be doing but drinking in day light?Oswald snorted and looked at his watch then he said to Rod, I will be done looking through this in a few minutes and I will be going that old man for my wife.Rod smiled and said as if speaking to himself,
Elsie felt that he was being too rude and so, he slapped his hand shyly and glared at him. The old man stood up and said to her,Let me get out of here before you butcher me for talking to him.Elsie quickly stood up and quickly took her phone and then rushed out of the place. Mr. Alfred watched her leave silently and shook his head, when she wasn’t in sight, he said to him on the other end of the line,She’s gone, you can speak now.He heard a long sigh on the other end before he spoke,I know you are worried about Elsie, I know she has got some feelings for me and she isn’t alone. I treated her badly because I was looking elsewhere but when I finally looked at her, I knew that I didn’t want to lose her. If there’s something to say to her, let me be the one to say it.Mr. Alfred removed the phone from his ear and looked at, he shook his head and said to Oswald,Do not think that I will be fooled by your slow words. You ae saying if there’s something to be said, you will be the one to
Elsie woke up the next with a bright smile on her face. she stretched her body and felt pretty tired, she looked at the door way of the washroom and sighed begrudged. She shook her head and said to herself, I wonder if I would allow someone to wash me up if I had help. Since I won’t, I will have to help myself. A few minutes later, she heard a knock on her door and she heard someone say behind the door, Sir said, you can rest for the day. He wants you down in five minutes for dinner. Your phone is with him and he would be answering all your calls. Answer my calls? Elsie thought, she shrugged and was about to lay her head down once again when she thought, If he is going to answer my calls, does that mean all my calls? Including that of Oswald’s? She shook her head and rushed into the washroom, in five minutes she was out and running down the stairs. The old man was already seated at the table when she arrived, in front of him and beside his coffee cup plate were three phones. She
Dwight along with Hulda and Oswald sat at the dining table the next day, everyone ate in silence until Dwight spoke, “Bro, I never knew that you would do something like this in the name of love. When did you fall head over heels for Elsie?” “It’s sister in law for you. I don’t know when I fell for her but I know that I can’t live without her.” Hulda glared at Oswald, she snorted and with a little anger in her eyes, “You love her so much that you were ready to sacrifice your life for her. Did you forget the rest of us? Do we mean nothing to you? Your father left me just like that and you intended to abandon us too?” Oswald shook his head silently and answered, “Mrs. Crofts, I believe we don’t have that relationship, when you gave all your heart to your husband and forgot that you had children, none of us complained. I didn’t want to bring up this topic, I am sorry if you get hurt by my words. Now, I understand what it feels like to make someone your world and later get the feelin
It was already dawn when they arrived at the house, Sid and Aires along with Anna came along with them. Elsie saw her and hugged her saying, I’m so proud of you for handling everything for me. I couldn’t have done this without your help. Sid pouted and complained, It’s not like she was the only one who kept the company in pace since you were gone. How long were you gone anyways? Elsie nodded and was about to embrace them together but Aires stepped away and said, I don’t need a hug from you, I can’t believe that you did that by yourself. I had different mindsets about what could really happen to you but look at you. It seems you didn’t care about us at all, all you think about is Oswald. Now that you are back, what are you going to do? Elsie laughed out and patted him on his shoulder saying, I don’t remember the last time you spoke so many words aside from singing. You must have really be agitated, I know you must have been worried but look at me, I returned hearty and healthy.
Several men are brought out of the house, some on trailers and others held by the waist, some carried in the arms and some covered with cloths to their heads. Elsie’s happy expression turned sour and she glared at the man who looked on with an unbothered expression. The soldiers turned to take them all away but then Elsie felt angry at what the man had done. She sneered and shouted, Don’t take him away, let him see how I end his wickedness by burning all that he had earned for being this wicked. Watch on you old maggot as I turn everything including your mansion into ashes. The man gnashed his teeth and attempted to escape from the soldiers hold but he swept him off the floor with his leg and he landed straight to the ground on his face. Elsie laughed out and walked closer to him, Oswald tried to stop her but she didn’t even take a look back. When she got to him, she bent on one knee and held his head with a wicked expression on her face, she questioned, What? Did you think you wer