Chapter 8

Evelyn enters the house and sees several maids greeting her and they are all very busy. Most of the maids approached her to collect her bags but she just waves at them to continue their work and goes to her room. She busies herself with arranging her new clothes and throwing most of her old clothes which were passed to her by her younger step sister, despite the fact that she is the elder one.

She understands why her mother in law bought a lot of clothes, as the walk in closet is huge, basically the size of her old room. As she continues to arrange her walk in closet, she receives a notification of a message. She picks up her phone to see that it is a message from her father. The message states that she should come to home the next day that he wants to see her.

She just tosses her phone back on the bed. “Home?” She thinks. “When as that house ever been my home, I wonder what he wants to say or ask.” She says and continues with her work.

Meanwhile in the Hawkins residence, step mother is currently ranting about how Madam Andrews treated her. 

“Is it because their family is a little bit well off than hers. Is that why she looks down me? Her son is just an ordinary cripple, how dare she look down on me.” Step mother shouts angrily throwing vases, cups and things in her way.

“You should better calm down. And so what if she looks down on you, don’t you also look down other wives that you are better than. You should better not do anything that will make them target our company. Do you understand, woman?”

Step mother glares at her husband angrily,” Are you not supposed to comfort me? Is it only the company that you know?” 

“I don’t care about what you think, don’t let your actions affect my company or you will see my other side.” Mr. Hawkins says threatening

“You should not forget that it is not your company, it is your dead wife’s company. If your daughter finds out that she is the real owner of the company, can you think about what she will do to us.” Step mother retorts angrily.

Mr. Hawkins angrily raises his hand to hit her but later drops it after thinking. “You should watch your tongue; if she finds out do you think it will only affect me. It will affect you more as you don’t have any blood relations with her, so if you want to continue to enjoy your extravagant lifestyle, you better keep shut”. Mr. Hawkins says in a low voice

Step mother forcefully calms down, “That your daughter, she saw her mother in law talk to me in a bad manner, but she just stood there enjoying the insults thrown at me. Is this her own revenge?” Step mother says angrily. “She has also changed, anytime she talks to me, she looks at me with disdain and disgust. How dare she.”

“Let go of this matter then, you should not relate with her that much. We must make sure she does not find out about her inheritance and we must make her sign the shares transfer agreement as soon as possible so that we can send her away.” Mr. Hawkins says rubbing his brows tiredly.

“Then make sure she is still under your control because with how I see her she does not care about you or anybody else”

“Let us leave that matter, what of Ayla. How is she?”

“She is currently enjoying herself in another country, she called me yesterday. I don’t think the Andrews will easily find her or if they will even look for her. Anyways, I have sent her a little amount of money.”

“She can enjoy herself for a while, but once we find a suitable husband she must get engaged. I will not care about what you think that time, do you understand?” Mr. Hawkins says sternly and leaves

“He only cares about the company every time” She murmurs discontent.

Mr. Hawkins worries about what his wife said about Evelyn. So to make sure he still has control over her, he texts her to come to the house the next day.

In Michael Andrews’s manor, Evelyn finally finishes arranging her clothes and also her shoes that were delivered earlier. She looks at the time to see that it is already late, she wonders why her husband has not arrived.

As she was thinking, she hears cars honk and notes that Michael Andrews must already be around. She tidies up her appearance and goes out of her room to meet him. She sees his P.A wheeling him inside, she smiles at him. Michael is very surprised to see his wife smiling him, he notes in his mind that her smile is the prettiest he has ever seen, he quickly shakes away the thoughts.

Evelyn moves toward the man and takes his bag from his secretary and also tells the P.A to leave the wheelchair as she wants to push it.

“You are welcome, how was work? Hope you are not very stressed out.” Evelyn asks the man worriedly.

“Work was fine it was as usual.” The man answers in his characteristic cold voice.

“That is nice.” Evelyn says to the cold man beaming with happiness.

The man looks at her, “Well, why are you so happy today?” He asks the woman behaving strangely.

“Why can’t I be happy to see my husband after a long day? I am happy to see you my husband.” Evelyn says looking at man still smiling.

“Um… I am happy to see you too.” Michael says evading from her prying eyes. Evelyn breaks into a brighter smile hearing the man.

“My mother told me that she took you for some shopping today. How was it?” 

“It was fun shopping with mother in law.” Evelyn answers

“Give it to her.” Michael says to his P.A. Daniel brings out a black card and gives it to her.

Evelyn looks at the black card, “What is this, why are you giving it to me.” Evelyn asks the man

“It is a black card, it has unlimited spending limit so you can use it as you please.” Michael explains to the woman.

“Umm…….. I don’t think that I need this much money.” Evelyn says to the man trying to return the card.

“You should take the card. You are now an Andrews, you don’t need to worry about spending all just spend as you want and don’t be frugal with your expenses.” Michael tells the woman.

“Then I will gladly accept it. Thank you very much husband, I will make sure I spend it well. Evelyn says smiling at the man. “Let me take you to your room so that you can freshen up and come to eat.”

Evelyn pushes the man to his room and leaves the room. She then goes to set the dining table.

After setting the table, she sits down and waits for her husband. Shortly after, Michael wheels himself to the dining table. Evelyn serves his food and they start eating. Both of them eat in silence and after eating Evelyn tells the man that she wants to talk to him.

They go to the living room and Evelyn dismisses the servants and faces the man.

“I just want to ask you. Are you really going to continue to wear this mask even inside the house, I mean am now your wife don’t I deserve to know how my husband looks like. We are now married that means that anything that affects you will affect me, so I can’t do anything that will affect me, don’t you think so too? So you should be free to share you matters, I mean I am definitely not a spy. Wait, do you really think that I am a spy.” Evelyn says ranting to the man

“No I don’t think that you are a spy, I just don’t think you will be ready to accept me after seeing how I really look like.” Michael says looking at her expressions intently.

“So you think it is better to just live with you without knowing anything, I will definitely accept you. I mean seeing that we are stuck together forever. I cannot leave you, and I married you knowing that you might not look too good. So you can definitely show me.” Evelyn says to the man with her hands folded.

“Ok, I am going to show you now. Don’t freak out.” He says while gradually removing his mask. Despite having braced herself for the reveal, Evelyn finds out that her heart is beating too hard and her breath is hitched waiting for the reveal.

Michael removes the mask and on his white smooth flawless skin is a thin line of black running from beneath his eyes to his cheekbone.

“Oh my goodness, why are you so handsome?” Evelyn asks so surprised. She was expecting a very messed up face just to see a beautiful face with just a thin line of scar. Michael is surprised to hear what the woman, he knew his face was not that bad but nobody has ever said he was handsome with the scar.

Evelyn moves closer to the man. “Can I touch the scar?” She asks the man but the man is too surprised to answer so he just nods his head. 

“Wait, this is poison.” Evelyn realizes after touching the scar, she says it under her breath but Michael hears her. He raises his eyebrow, “How do you know that it is poison?” He asks suspiciously.

“I know my poisons, I have a little bit of experience in poisons. I will explain everything to you later” Evelyn says slyly. “I told you that I had a friend that can help you, my offer still stands I can call the person over. Think about it.” Evelyn tells the man and then yawns,

“I am very tired; let me take you inside first.” “You can go in, you don’t have to accompany me.” Michael tells her.

“It is no work, let me take you inside.” Evelyn wheels him inside and says goodnight and leaves.

As soon as she left, the man in the wheelchair suddenly stands up and goes to his desk and sends a message to someone. “Find out more about my wife.” His eyes turns dangerously dark and thinks about his new wife, he definitely underestimates her.