4 days later, It was finally the day for Xavier's father's birthday. Vanessa cleared up all her schedules for today, so that she would be available to fulfil her own part of the deal with Xavier. It was already 4pm, and Vanessa had already dressed up. She was wearing a long green-gown which reached her feet, and black heels. To be fair, Xavier actually bought this green designer dress for Vanessa. Although Vanessa didn't know the reason why Xavier gave her the gown, she still went ahead and wore it. Plus, Vanessa wore light pairs of green earrings, and to finish up, she took the green purse that was in her wardrobe. “I better go out”. Vanessa muttered after she was finished dressing. She came out from her room and soon descended the stairs, where she saw Xavier. He was waiting for her in the living room. And he was also in a black tuxedo. Xavier was patiently waiting for Vanessa when his pair of brown eyes met with her blue eyes. Xavier felt his heart beating fast as he scanned
Vanessa was so surprised that she started imagining things. It's true that she hasn't seen Nicholas’ whole family before. ‘What the heck is going on here? So that woman that spoke to Xavier earlier, was definitely Nicholas's mom, right? She should be, after all, her face is so familiar that I wouldn't even forget it that easily'. Vanessa thought. “Are you alright?”. Vanessa almost jerked up after hearing Xavier's question. She turned to face him and saw that he was looking at her. ‘Oh, I must have been pacing out because of my crazy thoughts’. Vanessa admitted in her mind before she replied to Xavier, “Don't worry about me, I'm absolutely alright”. “Good. Now, let's go and present ourselves to my father”. Xavier suddenly announced, causing shock to grip Vanessa. In fact, Vanessa didn't even know what to say! Nicholas and Alexa, including other family members, were still over there with Mr Wilson, so why would she go over there with Xavier right now?!. ‘Oh my. Today should be the
Finn arrived outside the mansion with Vanessa. He took her to one of the closest gardens, and when he was about to explain himself to her, Xavier arrived and grabbed Vanessa's hand. “Let go of her, Xavier!”. Finn hissed and quarrelled since he was pissed off. “Calm down, Finn”. Vanessa tried to reason with him before she finally stared at Xavier's cold face and said to him, “Finn is my friend. He was just worried about me”. “You know Finn?”. Xavier's sudden question to Vanessa got her by surprise. “Yeah, we've known each other for years. To be fair, he's kind of my bestie”. Vanessa announced, and as she saw the way Finn was staring at her, she slightly shook her head at him. “That's right, Xavier. Vanessa and I have known each other since highschool! And I bet you purposely had a contract marriage with her, so that you could piss me off!”. “I've told you countless times, it wasn't my fault that Gabriella left you! When we were still friends, I remembered informing you to tell
Xavier returned to his mansion with Vanessa. All through the ride, he was still imagining how someone like Finn, was friends with Vanessa. “Aren't you planning to come down?”. Vanessa had already gotten down from the car, and since Xavier still remained inside the car, she asked him. “Don't worry about me”. As soon as Vanessa heard Xavier's reply to her question, she didn't spend a second and directly headed inside the mansion. ‘Who told you I was worried about you? I just wanted to act as if I'm caring. Hmph’. Vanessa thought on her way. Immediately Vanessa arrived inside her bedroom, her phone rang. She took out her cell phone from her purse before she tossed the purse on the bed. After that, she checked the caller and frowned her face when she saw that it was Alexa calling. “What does she want? How daring of her to call me. Tsk, I bet she's annoyed because she has found out that I'm still the chairman of my company”. Vanessa hissed and said. In no time, she threw her phone
Vanessa stared at Xavier for a while because she was still suspicious of him. Noticing how long she'd been silent, she finally replied to Xavier's question, “I met Finn at highschool. Actually, we weren't that close at first. But when Finn knew of my abil…. I mean, we accidentally bumped into each other at the school cafeteria. After that, we started getting close and became friends”. “Oh, I see”. Xavier replied to Vanessa. It took only a minute and he asked her another question, “Is there anything special going on between you two?”. At this point, after listening to another of Xavier's questions, Vanessa became certain that something was wrong with him. “Yes, we're besties. So, let's say that something special is going on between Finn and I”. Vanessa purposely said this and was secretly staring at Xavier's face to see his reaction. Xavier noticed that Vanessa was staring at him, so after hearing her reply to his question, he kept a straight face and didn't bother to ask her an
The Wilson's Mansion, After Alexa and all invited guests left, the servants tidied everywhere, bringing the mansion back to its former beauty. Mrs Wilson, Sofia, Nicholas, Benjamin, Thomas, Daniel and Olivia were all inside Mr Wilson's study room. Mr Wilson was also inside the study with them. He was sitting in the high chair and was closely watching all of them. It took a while and he finally started the conversation, “Xavier my last son got himself a really capable woman this time. I'm afraid he'd want to become the chairman because of his suddenly capable wife, who's the chairman of Diamond V company”. “We can't let that happen, father”. Benjamin spoke his mind almost immediately. “I know that, Benjamin!”. Mr Wilson harshly spoke, causing Benjamin to become silent immediately. Even Sofia was afraid because of Mr Wilson's harsh voice. “If only you idiots are capable and smart like Xavier, I wouldn't have given him any position in my company! If I dare to chase Xavier from th
After dinner, Mrs Charlotte took the twins to their temporary bedroom. The room had two beds and was exquisitely decorated, just like Vanessa's room. “Thanks for everything, Mrs Charlotte”. Both Eric and Derek greeted her as she left the room. Derek took the two blue-luggages and put them inside the big wooden wardrobe. Also, he didn't bother to remove the clothes from the luggages because he was feeling lazy to arrange them in the clothes hangers. While Eric, he left his backpack on the floor after he had taken his laptop from it. Furthermore, he went to the bed he had chosen and sat on it, before questioning Derek, “Did you remember to bring your own laptop, little twin?”. “Em, yeah, big twin. But why did you ask? Are you up to something again?”. Derek replied to Eric's question and also asked. “Of course I'm up to something, Derek. I must figure out Xavier's real identity, and his relationship with our big sister”. Eric replied sincerely to Derek since there was no point o
Eric and Derek's hearts started beating fast as they were still trying to come up with excuses. With the way Vanessa was staring at them, they were feeling really nervous. Just when Vanessa was about to say another word, her cell phone rang. She stared at Eric and Derek closely, before she went ahead and answered the call. “Hello”. “It's me, Nessa. You finally picked my call”. As soon as Vanessa heard Alexa's voice, her face darkened. In fact, she hung up the call almost immediately. “Gosh, Alexa is just getting on my nerves! I can't wait to deal with her by using my hacki….”. Vanessa immediately stopped talking when she realised that she almost gave her secret away. “Hacking?”. Eric questioned Vanessa with suspicious eyes. “What hacking? Who said hacking?”. Vanessa immediately defended herself before she added, “You two still haven't explained to me how you found out about Xavier and I”. “About that….”. Eric couldn't finish talking because Vanessa's cell phone suddenly bee
“Say something, Mr Xavier”. Vanessa demanded. “Yes. I loved you even before I made you sign the marriage contract agreement”. Xavier said to Vanessa, and that made her gasp in disbelief. “Yo- you didn't even deny it?”. She exclaimed, and was feeling anxious. “Why would I deny it when my feelings for you are true, Nessa?”. What Xavier said made him and Vanessa stop talking. They stared at each other for a few seconds. “I-” Xavier saw that Vanessa was pressured. He didn't want her to be overwhelmed, so he quickly assured her, saying, “It’s alright, Nessa. I won't ever force you to do what you don't want to do”. He added with a smile, “But you should know that my love for you is true. I would never take any advantage of you or betray you like Nicholas”. “I'll take my leave then”. Xavier left the room after glancing at Vanessa's face. He was going to the living room. Meanwhile, Vanessa couldn't understand the strange feeling she was feeling deep inside her heart as s
Xavier said nothing else after he had finished muttering. He was frowning as he made his way outside. Eric and Derek followed Xavier outside, as they were curious. But Mrs Charlotte remained inside the mansion. She suddenly began to wonder about something that had already been bothering her before, “Why are Master Xavier and his wife still staying in different rooms? And what day would I get to witness their wedding ceremony?”. Mrs Charlotte wondered about Vanessa and Xavier’s wedding ceremony because she knew that Vanessa and Xavier had enough money and were both more than capable of hosting a wedding ceremony. Again, she has yet to understand the reason behind them sleeping in different bedrooms. ‘Are they staying in different rooms because they haven't had their wedding ceremony? But haven't they already registered their marriage?’. She thought and was confused. “Ha”. She sighed in defeat when she realised that she had spaced out. She brushed off all her curious thoughts and
“Calm down, Claire. Stop crying. Give me some minutes, and I'll come and meet you today”. Vanessa said to her, but that only made Claire cry more.Claire thought that what Vanessa had said was an excuse to hang up the phone call. “Claire-”. “Do you hate me, chairman Vanessa? Is that why you purposely said those words to me so that you could hang up the call?”. Claire asked her, before her eyes widened in shock after she thought of something. She asked, “Did you call me by mistake?”. ‘Claire has never behaved like this before. I must have really broken her heart. Thanks to Zuri for framing her. And thanks to me, who believed that she betrayed me! I casted her aside! I'm also at fault’. Vanessa thought to herself. She gritted her teeth, causing the veins in her neck to pop out after she had done that. She felt the urge to vent her anger right now on Zuri. Fortunately, she suppressed and chained all the boiling rage she was feeling. She sighed and said to Claire, “Please listen to me
8:30am in the morning, “Should we knock again, Derek? We have been standing here for an hour”. Eric asked him, but Derek shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. They were standing outside Vanessa’s room, and had knocked several times on the door. But up to this very moment, Vanessa had not opened the door for them. Derek's fingers were on his chin as he wondered. He later said to Eric, “Maybe she's still sleeping”. “But that's unlike Nessa”. Eric said and frowned. He was feeling desperate and unsettled because he wanted Vanessa to tell Derek and him everything that happened last night. Xavier’s bedroom happened to be the closest room to Vanessa’s bedroom. He went out of his room, before he coincidentally saw the way Eric and Derek were about to knock on Vanessa’s room door. “Don't do that, twins. She might still be asleep”. Xavier said to them, causing them to retrieve their hands that had almost knocked on the door. Eric and Derek stopped facing the door a
“What should we do with her?”. Xavier asked Vanessa. There was a dark look in his eyes, and one glance at his face, one could tell that he was ready to unleash his wrath upon Zuri. While still glaring at Zuri, whose hands had become sweaty, Vanessa replied to Xavier, “We should leave her be, Xavier. At least now I know that Claire is truly innocent”. After saying that to Xavier, Vanessa got closer to Zuri and squatted on one knee. She grabbed Zuri’s jaw and raised it up, so that Zuri was staring at her. “Live well, Zuri. Don't you dare try to escape from this house after I leave. One day, I might have a use for you, thanks to your dreadful talent. If you try to escape from this neighbourhood, please know that you will surely end up in jail for framing Claire”. Vanessa let go of Zuri's jaw. She turned to Xavier, who was standing behind. She said to him, “Xavier, I guess there's no need for us to compensate our host for the door you broke. After all, our humble host has a debt to pay
Upon arriving outside the mansion, Vanessa and Xavier rushed to the same car that Xavier had driven to the villa. Using the car key in his hand, Xavier unlocked the car's doors, before he and Vanessa quickly got into the car. Xavier drove off after that. As he was drawing nearer to the gates, he sounded his car horn twice, causing the security guy to come out of his house and open the gates immediately, for Xavier’s car to pass through. Now, Xavier's car was driving on the main road. “According to the location of that strange person, we have to drive for a whole hour before we arrive there, Xavier”. Vanessa sighed in defeat as she said to him. Because of the long distance, her hunch was telling her that the strange person must have committed a crime, for he or she to be staying at such a far distance. Seeing the impatient look on Vanessa’s face, Xavier noticed that she couldn't wait to get her hands on that strange person. A smirk appeared on the corner of his lips, and he said
“Yes, twin brothers. Xavier knows everything because I told him”. Vanessa nodded and said to them. She didn't want Mrs Charlotte to hear their conversation, so she said to them, “All of you, follow me to my bedroom”. Xavier, Eric and Derek obeyed Vanessa and followed her to her bedroom. As they arrived outside Vanessa’s bedroom corridor, they entered the room after they saw that Vanessa had entered the room before them. “Make yourself comfortable, guys”. Vanessa said to them, and she was also the first person who sat down. She was sitting on her bed, while the guys sat on the sofa. “Eric, Derek, you guys should understand that I have told Xavier about our secrets and our hidden identity. So please, I'm not ready to explain further concerning this matter. I'm tired of explaining stuff”. Vanessa spoke her mind. Though they seemed to agree with what she had said to them, and that was enough to make her glad. “Concerning the matter I have tasked both of you guys with, I h
Many hours passed and it was now evening. Gabriella was forced out of her bedroom because she was starving. She needed something to eat since she felt like she was dying. As soon as she came out of her bedroom, she saw Jasper, who was standing in the corridor and was staring at her with a smile on his face. “Oh. Has my princess finally decided to go out of her room? Tell me, are you starving already, princess?”. Jasper asked her. He forced himself not to laugh at her after seeing the pale look on her face. Gabriella didn't say anything and was quietly staring at her big brother who was busy having fun teasing her. “My princess, stop staring at me like that. I was not the one who told you not to eat anything”. Jasper said to her, before he became serious and added, “Let's go to the dining room. It hasn't been long since I made dinner”. Gabriella nodded at Jasper and followed him to the dining room. As they both arrived, she apologised to Jasper, saying, “I’m sorry, brother, for
‘What did I hear her just say?’. Tracey was glaring at Alexa who was panting fast, as she thought. Mr Lincoln was also staring at Alexa. He was speechless because of what he had heard her say. When Alexa saw that both Tracey and Mr Lincoln were staring at her in disbelief, she suddenly covered her mouth in shock after she realised the mistake that she had made. “Fa- father-”. “What was the meaning of those words you said, Alexa? Since when did my father's company become yours?”. Tracey asked her. Although she was composed, her heart was burning with intense rage as she continued to glare at Alexa. Alexa, who had never seen Tracey's true colours before, flinched, because of how Tracey was staring at her as if she wanted her to disappear. She also saw that Mr Lincoln was staring at her with suspicious eyes, and that was enough to make her shed tears. “Fa- father. It's not what you think. Waah! I- I- I recently saw the news about your company. I was so heartbroken and rushed