Chapter 1

17 Years Ago, Mr. Leo Adams had married Mrs. Zoe Elliott, and she birthed a beautiful baby girl with brown sparkling eyes named Becky Adams. 

But after Becky was born, Mrs. Zoe had complications.

Mrs. Zoe cried that she wanted to give her husband more kids, but her husband assured her that his love for her would not change.

Two Years Later, Mr. Leo spoke to his wife about his intention of marrying a second wife that would bear a son for him since Becky is a girl. He wanted a son who could continue to bear his name and inherit his properties.

Mrs. Zoe got worried about another woman coming into her matrimonial home and turning her husband's heart against her. She spoke to her best friend named Gina Edwards, asking her to agree to marry her husband.

Gina and Zoe used to be childhood best friends, as they attended the same college and grew up in the same town.

Mrs. Zoe was a light-skinned 25-year-old woman, and she spoke to her best friend named Gina Edwards about agreeing to marry Mr. Leo.

She begged, "Please, Gina, can you please accept and marry my husband? He needs a son to take over his properties and to bear his name after we leave."

Gina Edwards was also a 25-year-old light-skinned woman like Mrs. Zoe, and she wasted no time and accepted to marry Mr. Leo Adams.

Mrs. Gina was previously jealous of Mrs. Zoe's marriage. Even though they were childhood best friends, she told Mrs. Zoe, "Yes, I will marry Mr. Leo."

Unbeknownst to Mrs. Zoe, Gina was jealous of her marriage and secretly admired Mr. Leo when she usually visited Mrs. Zoe's home to see Becky too.

After Mr. Leo married Mrs. Gina, Mrs. Gina finally arrived at the white villa to live with them. However, Mrs. Gina changed on the first day of her arrival.

Mrs. Gina told Mr. Leo to send Mrs. Zoe away from the master's bedroom since she was the new wife and could give Mr. Leo more kids, while Mrs. Zoe was unable to.

At that time, Becky was only two years old when her father officially married Mrs. Gina.

Mr. Leo got annoyed by Mrs. Gina's sudden change in attitude, and he told Mrs. Gina, "How dare you move into my mansion today, and you dare to quarrel with your best friend Zoe? I thought Zoe and you were best friends? Do you think that I agreed and married you because I love you? If Zoe hadn't spoken to me about you, do you think that I would want you? Get ready to sign the divorce papers tomorrow and leave my house! Becky is still my daughter, and she will inherit all my properties, even if Becky grows up tomorrow and marries a man, changing her surname to her husband's surname. Becky will still be my daughter."

Mrs. Gina frowned as she saw that Mr. Leo truly loved Mrs. Zoe much more than she had thought. She switched back to the good friend she had been to Mrs. Zoe, going down on her knees and begging Mrs. Zoe to plead with their husband to not divorce her.

Mrs. Zoe was a kind woman, and she knew that it was all her fault, as she was the one who had begged Mrs. Gina to agree to marry Mr. Leo.

Mrs. Zoe finally spoke to Mr. Leo on Mrs. Gina's behalf, begging him not to send Mrs. Gina away, not after marrying her.

Mr. Leo calmed down and finally accepted Mrs. Gina to continue living with them, but he took Mrs. Gina to a separate bedroom and told her not to cause any quarrels again. Otherwise, he wouldn't hesitate to throw her out.

Mrs. Gina saw that she couldn't claim Mr. Leo as she had thought, and Mr. Leo rather ditched her away.

Mrs. Gina finally stayed in the new room that was given to her, but Mr. Leo ruined her wedding night, as he didn't touch her that night and refused to see her too.

Days turned into weeks, and not able to bear the shame of being called a barren woman, Mrs. Gina finally went into Mrs. Zoe's bedroom one day and pleaded with Mrs. Zoe to ask their husband to perform his conjugal rights with her as her husband too.

Mrs. Zoe knew that it was all her fault, as she was scared of another woman coming into her home and turning her husband's heart against her. So she agreed to speak to Mr. Leo.

When Mr. Leo arrived that night, after their dinner ended, Mrs. Zoe refused her husband from touching her and sent him away to Mrs. Gina's bedroom.

She told him, "You cannot continue to avoid Mrs. Gina in this house. Please go to her room and perform your conjugal rights with her."

Mr. Leo could see the pain in Mrs. Zoe's eyes. As her words didn't reach his heart, he finally left for Mrs. Gina's bedroom and made sweet love to Gina that night...

Mrs. Zoe cried on her bed alone and finally drifted to sleep, as there was nothing she could do.

After that night, Mrs. Gina still wanted Mr. Leo to be touching her every other night, but Mr. Leo refused and told Mrs. Gina, "I cannot be sleeping with you every night. Only one night is enough to get you pregnant."

Mrs. Gina got annoyed, and after Mr. Leo left for work that day, she quarreled with Mrs. Zoe, calling Zoe a wicked woman.

She accused Mrs. Zoe of being a bad friend and told Zoe that she was depriving Mr. Leo of loving her too.

Mrs. Zoe later informed Mr. Leo about the quarrel when he arrived, and Mr. Leo got annoyed. He brought the divorce papers home the following day and ordered Mrs. Gina to sign it and leave his house.

But Mrs. Gina refused and told Mr. Leo, "I am pregnant."

Mr. Leo knew that he couldn't send Mrs. Gina away with his child growing in her womb, so he allowed Mrs. Gina to continue living with them.

After eight months of carrying the baby in her womb, Mrs. Gina finally welcomed a baby girl, and Mr. Leo's hope was shattered, as he had thought the baby would be a boy.

Mrs. Gina was happy to be a mother, and she named her daughter, "Mia Adams."

Mrs. Gina hoped that Mr. Leo would touch her again and get her pregnant, but still Mr. Leo avoided her, as he had sent her away to live outside in the guesthouse.

Time flew past, and after 14 years, still, Mr. Leo didn't touch Mrs. Gina again.

Mrs. Gina knew that she couldn't go outside to cheat on Mr. Leo and get pregnant by him to give him another man's child. So she made up her mind to kill Mr. Leo and his wife and seize all Mr. Leo's wealth and oil company to make it her own.

Mrs. Gina was tired of seeing Mr. Leo and Mrs. Zoe acting so lovingly all day in her view, as Mr. Leo avoided her and never accepted any gift from her hand.

With each passing day that Mrs. Gina yearned for Mr. Leo's love, she knew that he would never love her. So she arranged with a driver to ram into Mr. Leo and Mrs. Zoe's car.

Mrs. Gina knew that they were going to Lemon Hill High School for Becky and Mia's graduation ceremony.

As she was also going to the school for her own daughter's graduation too, as Mia was going into a senior class while Becky was graduating out as the best in her class.

Mrs. Gina attended the graduation ceremony alone, and she snapped several photos with her daughter while Becky waited all in vain for her parents to arrive.

Later in the evening, when Becky finally got home, she was shocked to receive the news of her parents' absence. She cried as she knew that her stepmother hated her the most.

She wanted to leave the house too, but there was nowhere that she could go.

Becky patiently waited for her uncles to arrive. And when her uncles arrived, they were rather asking Mrs. Gina about the oil company and other documents and the mansion too.

It was only three months after Becky's parents' burial ceremony ended. And Mrs. Gina wasted no time and arrested all her in-laws.

She accused them of being the ones that had killed Mr. Leo and his wife so they could claim all Mr. Leo's wealth.

Mr. Leo's two brothers had to sign an agreement never to disturb Mrs. Gina again, and they left and never returned.

No one asked about Becky again, and Mrs. Gina moved into the main mansion that Mr. Leo had previously chased her away from. She threw all Mrs. Zoe's properties away.

She burnt them outside, as she couldn't withstand seeing all the beautiful portraits and images of late Mrs. Zoe on the living room walls.

Mrs. Gina replaced the empty walls with her own photos while she left Mr. Leo's images on the wall.

Mrs. Gina sacked all five housemaids including the cook and turned Becky into her housemaid.

She told Becky, "I think you saw how your late father treated me and Mia when he was alive. Well, there is no money for you to further your education. So you will have to remain as my maid to help in taking care of this house that your parents left behind. "We cannot sell it to sponsor you through school. That would be very evil of you to sell the only property that we live in when we haven't seen the will or acquired another house..."

Becky couldn't do anything, as her stepmother withdrew her from her tutorial classes and turned her into a maid.

She was forced to learn how to cook, wash the dirty dishes, and wake up very early in the morning to tidy up the house.

She had to take care of the garden, her mother's farm, and trim the flowers too.

Becky cried, but her tears weren't enough to resolve the issue. She watched Mia resume going to school while her stepmother told her that there was no money for her to resume.

Mrs. Gina later invited the family lawyer to discuss late Mr. Leo's will.

When the lawyer arrived, he told Mrs. Gina that the will cannot be changed, and the will about the company stated that the oil company that was left behind by Mr. Leo Adams should be given to Becky Adams, but only when Becky had turned 24 years old.

Mrs. Gina got annoyed and sent the lawyer away, contemplating how she would turn the oil company and all other companies that belonged to late Mr. Leo Adams into her own.