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 clenched fist beside him, and a screwed face, Oswald responded to Huldah in an anger lazed voice,
"Well, I guess you would be surprised but she took not a penny from me."
Huldah shook her head unbelievingly, since Tess heard the voice of Oswald, she came out of the room to meet him. But upon arriving at the banisters, she heard him speak to his in a cold voice. As if, defending Elsie from his mother, he continued and fetched divorce papers folded from his pockets. And presented them to his mother with an angry look saying to her,
"You can look through yourself."
When he took a step away, Tess rushed back into the room with the thoughts,
"Is he angry because they are divorced? Why should he be? Aren't I the one that he loves? I should do something, something doesn't feel right."
Oswald went upstairs into his room and saw Tess seated on the bed in thoughts. He didn't think of anything and walked towards her and greeted,
"How are you doing this morning?"
Tess looks aside and murmurs that she is doing fine. He is about to pass by but she stops him by holding his hand. Tess looks him directly in his eyes and asked him,
"Oswald, Is it possible that I asked to move into your home and this was a little too soon for you? I see that your face doesn't seem happy. I could have left! But Huldah insisted that I must move in today, and I ...... you know Huldah she likes me a lot."
Oswald shakes his head and looks away and then replied to her,
"There's no such thing, you are thinking too much. I'm just a little tired from work, really, don't take it personally, okay, and by the way, I already booked our engagement ring a month ago."
"Really? Did you do that?" Tess asked in surprise.
Oswald takes her other hand and makes her look him in his eyes and said to her,
"Yes. What is important now is for you to get well. Help your body heal. Then we can prepare well for our engagement ceremony."
Instead of going to the bathroom, he turned and left the room instead. Tess looked at his disappearing back and gulped down the saliva in her throat. She shook her head and said to herself,
"No, I don't believe you, even if there's a feeling, I will need to get rid of it. One way or the other."
She picked up her phone from and dialled a number, the person picked up and called to her,
"Miss Tess, why did you reach out to me?" A female voice came over the phone.
Tess shook her head and said in response,
"I just want to make sure one thing, it was Elsie who texted me three years ago, you understand, or I'll cut off your financial resources abroad with your daughter."
Without waiting for a reply from the other side, she sneered and threw the phone back on the bed.
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In the office of Oswald, he is seated on his office chair and his secretary Rod is making a report to him. After he is done and about to leave, Oswald asked him,
"Is the ring ready? Has it been delivered from the designer?"
"It would be delivered in a week, the designer is famous and so, he has a lot of work on him. Even though we've paid a huge amount of money, we would have to wait."
Oswald nodded his head and went back to what he was reading through. Rod looked at his serious expression and thought,
‘I remember that when he was wedding Elsie, he never asked me to do anything for her. Not to think of ordering an expensive ring from a famous designer just to propose.'
As he was existing the room, he saw a desert plate on the table by the wall and he also remembered,
Elsie walked inside the office with a shining smile on her face and a desert basket in her hands. Oswald saw her a suddenly, a frown appeared on his face. he stood up and asked,
"What do you think you are doing here?"
"I came to deliver some deserts to you. I was thinking that you might be hungry after long hours of work." Elsie answered still smiling.
"And who asked you to be concerned about that? Get out of here, you are interrupting my work." Oswald interrogated in a furious tone.
The smile on her face was replaced with disappointment and she turned to leave sadly but he wasn't done. He also shouted behind her,
"You are not welcome here. Do not come here again to play this stunt."
‘Tess is a lucky girl.' Rod thought as the scene ended in his head.
Oswald was busily typing on his laptop when he heard his phone ringing. He didn't pick on the first ring when he saw the caller. But it rung again and again, when he couldn't handle it any longer he picked up and he said in an angry voice,
"What is it Ford? Do you have nothing to do this afternoon?"
"Just read the recent news you, coconut head."
He hanged up and Oswald looked at the phone blankly. He swiped to the web browser and searched the recent news to see it boldly written,
"Shock! CEO's Wife Divorced Him to Be With The Hot Super Idol!"
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
Julian was having a quiet time when she heard the horn of a car drive in. everyone was in the house but Oswald and so, she knew he was the one coming in. She looked up wanting to catch a glimpse of him but she saw him along with someone else. It was Tess, Oswald knew Julian wouldn’t want to see Tess but he had to bring her after all, she was going to be his future wife. Tess bought a few gifts to be given to Julian.The maid carried the gifts Julian but she said to her,“You can’t have them even though I don’t need them. Throw these rubbish into the dustbin where they belong.”Oswald wasn’t happy with this and said to Julian,“You can’t do that, why are you refusing someone’s kind gesture. That’s not like you, grandma.”“Oh but she was kind enough to drive my granddaughter in law out her home. And you expect me to be kind to accept a kind gesture from this kind of woman? No thank you.”Tess suddenly started crying, Oswald looked at his grandmother angrily but she looked away unconcern
In the office, Rod had read about the news about the accident and walked into Oswald’s office in agitation. He apologised to Oswald,“Sir, I’m so sorry about the leak of the video. I can promise you that it wasn’t leaked by the IT guy that we spoke about the last time. I settled him enough.”Oswald nodded his head as he watched the video leaked to the media. His eyebrows were wrinkled and his tie was loosed unlike his gentleman look he had on all the time. Rod knew he wasn’t happy about the news and so he said to him,“Sir, do you want me to let the news disappear?”Oswald shook his head and said to him,“No need for that, the Timothy’s must have planned this. They wouldn’t be happy if we tampered with it.”Rod nodded his head dissatisfiedly and was about to leave but then Oswald asked him,“What about the engagement ring? Have you received it yet?”Rod nodded his head and walked away without turning back.The next day, the party of Tess was a heated topic among the people in the city