Clash Of identity

CHAPTER ONE 

Maria walks out of her lawyers office, she bangs the door on her way out, and walks straight to the gate. She had been looking for this Henry guy for the past three days but haven't been able to find him.

She was tired, the whole issue was frustrating her. Maria's silver shoe glittered as she walked under the sun straight to the blue lamborhini she had packed outside that matched her extravagant blue dress. 

She wore a silver chain and wrist watch to match her blue dress. Maria was known to wear matching dress that would match with her car. As she walked to her car, the people present in the office bowed in front of her greeting her. She ignored them completely and walked straight to her car.

She wore a long face as she drove to the address her lawyer just gave her. She would look at herself in the front mirror and would admire her beauty. She isn't just beautiful,  she is slender, has cute ash eyes, a pointed nose, and a very beautifully curved lips.

She cross checked the address written on the paper as she came in front of the compound. It was the same address her lawyer had given her, she decided to horn. The loud sound of her car horn was enough to tell anyone she was angry. 

The gate opened and the security in charge of the house walked out of the house to see who it was that was horning so loudly outside his gate. 

"Good afternoon ma'am", he greeted Maria who forced a smile.

"I am here to see Henry", she said with so much authority in her voice.

"Do you have an appointment with him?" The gate keeper asked her.

"No, but it is very important", she replied.

"We do not usually let unknown people into the house just like that, but I will see what I can do.. probably calling my boss to inform him", the gate keeper suggested.

"Do I look like I have the time for all of that? Do I look like I'm some kind of jobless woman who would come here looking for your so called boss for something petty?" She fired at him.

"I am so sorry about that ma'am", he apologised.  

Seeing how confident she sounded, the gate keeper decided to let her into the compound. He called his boss after opening the main gate for her. He didn't want to let her into the main mansion without the permission of his boss.

Henry walked out of his house wearing a simple brown short and a white shirt. It was a Saturday so he didn't go to his office, he was only relaxing in his room when his security called him to inform him about the visitor, and he decided to go see for himself who the extravagant visitor his gate keeper had talked about was.

The sight of the blue lamborghini with the plate number written Maria Cliff would tell everyone that she wasn't just anybody.

Henry watched anxiously as she alighted from the car. On sighting her his heart skipped,  and his mouth went wide open. At first he thought he was dreaming, and later on he thought he was hallucinating. He wiped his face and had another look at her, he pinched himself, shook his head, shut his eyes and opened them again but she was still there.  

"Mary", he called emotionally as he rushed to meet her and hugged her passionately, he took his lips to hers and kissed her for about five minutes. 

Maria's eyes went wide open immediately his lips met hers, her heart beat tripled, she thought the man she had just met is handsome but that wasn't an excuse to kiss her. She was so shocked and wondered what gave him the ordersity to kiss her without her consent.

She pushed him away forcefully and gave him a resounding slap that got his ear ringing. 

"You pervert", she cursed him and wiped her lips off immediately. 

"You are really a psychopath Henry, the fact that we mistakenly got married doesn't give you the liberty to act this way", she queried him fuming in anger.

"I am sorry Mary, I am just so surprised to see you. Where have you been? What happened to you? Why did you abandon us so suddenly?" Henry asked taking a few steps closer to Maria to have a clearer look at her and truly it was her. 

"I never knew I would meet you again after four years Mary, I never knew the universe would bring you back to me. How were you able to locate my new flat? I hope you are fine Mary? What about all these wealth? What happened to you? Why the sudden change?" Henry kept asking the confused Maria so many questions. 

"I am Maria not Mary, I have also come here to talk about_" she paused for a while. "Never mind that, I would contact my lawyer to talk to you instead, you don't look sane and would be a threat to my life and health", Maria addressed him and walked back to her car.

She got into the car, slammed the door and drove out of the house roughly. 

Maria was confused, she wondered why Henry hugged her so passionately, why he kissed her and why he behaved as if he knew her before. Truly they got married unconsciously four years ago, but there was no strings attached.

They may be married by law but that doesn't give him the right to act that way with her. She kept up with her rough driving as she returned to her father's house jamming Bilie elishe's bored in her car.

Henry was as confused as Maria was. She was confused at the way he acted with her, he also was confused about the way she treated him like a total stranger.

Henry stood at the spot with his hand on his waist and his mouth wide open. He was still trying to process what had just happened in his head.  Why did Mary act so cold towards him? Why did she call their marriage a mistake? Did she suddenly forget all they had been through together including the son they had together? 

How did she come about the flashy lifestyle she now had? It doesn't seem as if she just got wealthy, she seemed to have been in it for a while. 

Why so much change within four years? What was going on?