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“Mother, people come and go all the time…” Derek tried to appease his mother but she was hearing none of it.

Derek held his mother dear to him. Don't get it the wrong way, he isn't a man's boy. Ever since his father chose to elope with another woman, he had taken it to himself to build the family business and cater for his mum and younger sister. With his grandfather by his side advising him from a very little age, he soon made a lot of wealth.

Knowing how his mother nearly lost her mind after losing her husband to another woman, he vowed not to make her go through any kind of pain. He had wanted to move out of his family house after he turned 20, but looking at his mother, he couldn't.

“You know I've never made any wrong decision before….”

“This might as well be your first wrong decision. Why leave a well trained and cultured woman for a random street girl, and worse you held a wedding behind my back. I've been planning what I'll wear to your wedding for years. And look at me now, I