Chapter 4  

I slept off without having dinner. I was so tired that I forgot that I didn't eat all day. Brandon Ford had come to check on me before going to bed, he saw that I was fast asleep and didn't want to interrupt my sleep, so he left.

The rays of sunlight directly shone on my face, I wearily opened my eyes and saw that it was morning already.

Soon, I heard a knock on the door “if you are awake, come to the dining for breakfast”, I heard the domineering voice and knew who it was immediately.

“Why does he care?” I muttered.

I had my bath and wore a simple dress. I went to the dining room and met Brandon Ford at the diner, almost having his breakfast.

“Good morning Mr Brandon” I greeted.

“Good Morning Miss Addison," Brandon Ford replied coldly.

Just then, my phone rang and I picked my phone to see the caller, I hissed after seeing that it was Anna, Annie's grandma.

After a glance from Brandon, I reluctantly picked up “what do you want?” I asked coldly.

“I see you've grown wings and do not know how to talk to your elders anymore. Tomorrow is your mother's birthday banquet, and you have to be here, the family is meeting after the banquet.” Mrs Anna said from the other end of the phone.

“I see, so you still regard me as a family. I'm busy and don't have time”, I smirked.

“You bitch, if you don't show up, just forget about owning a part of the company's shares.” Anna thundered on the phone that I couldn't help but put the phone away from my ear.

Hearing this, I had no choice. I'd have to go for the banquet, I can't let the Smith's have what belongs to her, I'd definitely fight for it no matter what it takes me.

“You don't have to go, if you don't want to,” Brandon said to me.

I sighed softly, “no, it's fine… I will go.”

I lost my appetite after receiving the old woman's call.

I stood up and was about to leave when Brandon Ford thundered “You didn't eat last night, and you are trying to skip today's breakfast again, if you fall sick, how would you fight them back?”

As if his words had an effect on me, I sat back and ate quietly.

Brandon Ford left for the company after having his breakfast, he had some things to deal with at the company.

His chauffeur drove him down to the company. Immediately he got to the office, he called Leo and asked him to find out everything that happened between Daniel Wilson and Addison Smith before they broke up including the man who slept with her.

A black Rolls Royce stopped in front of the company. A woman in her early twenties with a pair of designer heels stepped out wearing a black designer shade.

She wore a designer blouse on pink pants with a jacket that matched it.

Her hair was packed in a ponytail and she wore a golden wrist watch and earrings. Everything about her shows the elegance of a wealthy woman.

She stepped delicately towards the elevator and soon was at the entrance of the CEO's office.

Joanna glanced aggressively at the secretaries when she saw that none of them greeted her.

“Excuse me ma'am, who would you want to see?” One of the secretaries asked her politely.

She gazed arrogantly at the secretary and walked past her towards Brandon Ford's office. She pushed the door open suddenly without knocking and stepped in.

Brandon Ford raised his head to look at who dares come into his office without knocking the door. When he saw that it was Joanna, he became infuriated.

“Where are your manners? How could you barge into my office without knocking on the door?” Brandon Ford asked with his eyebrows scrunched together.

“I should be an exception to that rule Brandon, I'm your fiancee after all” she said, walking delicately towards him.

“Stay where you are,” Brandon said, giving her a deadly look. Was she planning to come closer to him? What nonsense.

Joanna was confused. What kind of man talks to his fiancee like this without a bit of romantic words? They've been engaged for three years and what they are expecting is to get married officially. He doesn't have to be like this to the woman he's getting married to.

“Why the hostility, Brandon. Are you not happy to see me?” Joanna asked, her eyes were already teary.

“What nerve do you think you have to just come here without informing me?” Brandon asked her.

“Brandon, I called you severally but you never picked any of my calls nor did you reply to my texts… I had to bring myself down here and I'm being treated like this? Joanna's face flushed red in fury.

“I expect you to be a proper woman and understand that I don't want to talk to or see you when I ignored your calls and texts. I don't like someone pestering me. Now I'm busy, when you are ready to leave, you use the door.” Brandon Ford stated.

He couldn't look at her because he felt sorry for her. He knew he would never fall in love with her. He has no place for any woman in his heart apart from Madison Spark, the woman he had been in search of for ten years.

Joanna Williams was dazed. She had never been humiliated like this in her life. Brandon Ford dared to humiliate her this way, she'd definitely make him pay. She picked up a tissue from her bag to wipe her tears.

Just then, Brandon's phone rang and he picked up almost immediately.

“Sir! Your wife just passed out.” Leo said and hung up.