Jasmine waited for Marshal to return after work, still contemplating if she should or shouldn't tell him about her findings on Mia. To tell or to not? Perhaps not because Mia has been her food friend for years now, the only one that had been genuinely sad when she passed away. Telling Marshal and ruining the trust he had for her for her sake would most definitely feel like torture to her and she didn't want her to suffer anymore than she had in the past. Keeping her at bays hand close to her was the almost perfect solution she could think of. While waiting, she couldn't help but soliloquize as well. What Marshall's granddad had said and the invite he had handed to her. She wondered if she was to attend. She would attend. She would honor his invite with Marshall's permission but only if Marshall were to tell her about the dinner. She knows her family and knew how often they threw company dinners to celebrate company achievements. This was an achievement to them. The Yugo famil
The hall was decorated in an uptrend with standing tables occasioned at most parts, while a huge space stood for the guests to stand. It was looking more like a showcase where guests had to come to drink wines, watch a show and leave. A woman walked across the hall as workers were still assembling decorations. She was bitter and it was all evident on her face. She reached out to a connected wire and tiptoed towards it with a plier she hid beneath her dress. She was going to chop at it so that midway during the party, there would be a power outage. It wasn't much but at least it would be something for her to do to disrupt the plans the Jaiswals had for their party. "What do you think you're about to do?" She was stopped and immediately as she turned to shout on the worker that ha the audacity to ask her such a blatant question, she was surprised and almost lost balance from the shock on seeing Mrs. Jaiswal. Behind her stood her secretary and she resigned all effo
As the night fell, the Jaiswal's company dinner was in full swing. The hall was filled with the who's who of the business world all dressed to impress. The sound of laughter and chatter filled the air, accompanied by the clinking of glasses and the soft music playing in the background.Maya was dressed in a stunning red gown and mingled with the guests, her smile and laughter fake, but convincing. She was a pro at hiding her true emotions, and tonight was no exception.Her dress glittered and was quick to tell apart, trust her to be the most talked about best dresser at her own family's company dinner.She couldn't wait for the party to be over and trend on the media as well as her story that was garnering sympathy from the netizens.Several reporters were also present at the party, all waiting for what personality would show up at the party for them to question Meanwhile, Marshall was dressed in a tailored black tuxedo and stood at the bar sipping on a glass of scotch. He scanned th
As the applause died down, Maya came down from the podium and she and Arun made their way off beaming with smiles. The crowd began to disperse, with some guests making their way to the buffet table, while others headed to the bar to drink while some stayed back to watch the entertainment.Jasmine still seething with anger watched as Maya and Arun were mobbed by reporters and well-wishers. She felt a pang of jealousy and resentment, wondering why Maya got to bask in the spotlight while she was relegated to the shadows, forgotten and only mentioned when something bad had to be said."She irks you don't she?" She turned to face her companion, her step brother who couldn't even recognize his forgotten sister anymore.He was drunk already. That was his lifestyle. From the smell of. alcohol that oozed out of his mouth as he talked, Jasmine needed no telling that he had had a lot to drink."I hate her as well" he continued blabbing from the shots he had had to drink. "She acts so pompous a
"What is that playing? Stop that! Make it stop immediately!" Mrs Jaiswal instructed her secretary who left immediately for the control room. She glared at Maya who's face was already too red from embarrassment. Across them was a lady who stood with her husband and had been angry before but on seeing the video that began playing on the projector, she smiled heartily knowing the heavens were on her side. "Oh wow. If it isn't the perfect daughter of the Jaiswal's and her sister" The projection continued with the sounds being heard. Arun sweated at where he was. Maya did too and regretted, more than normal, the reason she had invited almost the media houses in the country. She hadn't expected anything to go wrong. She hadn't expected anything of this sort. Not even in her wildest dreams. Arun couldn't tell who was responsible for the recording nor where it came from. He recalled the day the video being played happening but never did he imagine that he was being recorded. Jasmine was
Marshal saw a woman leaving the hall. The hairstyle was in a bun, but had a special appeal with the way it was scattered into a wolf cut and the bottom. There was only one woman he knew who could do that but he hadn't informed her of the party yet he couldn't let her walk away without checking the possibility of his thoughts being true. "Jasmine" he called out once near the figure.Jasmine stopped and turned. It was Marshal atleast. "You came" his voice came barely above a whisper "Didn't you want me to come before?" She joked while smiling. " You don't have to smile even while you're hurting" Marshal said knowing fully well that the smile she was plastering on her face was a facade. Her face might have changed but she was still the woman he knew and fell inlove with years ago. She was still the woman he watched over for years studying though he always got shunned out. "I'm sorry" his voice came above the noise in the hall, as loud as he could make them. "Please. I'm sure you
"I've loved you since we were children, Jasmine. It might sound absurd and as if I am saying things I myself do not seem to understand why but since childhood, your act of kindness towards me left an imprint in my heart Jasmine" Marshall opened up, fearing that she might take it to heart that he had used an issue that concerned her to regain back his lost reputation before the netizens. Jasmine only acknowledged his presence with a slight sigh on her face, speechless and unknowing of what to say as a reply to him. "You were the only person that defended the transfer student at the Elites Children Academy, Jasmine" His revelation struck a memory in her and she turned to face him, recalling well whom the person had been. "Yes Jasmine. I was that boy" he further confessed. Jasmine looked at him confused. How could he have been that boy when the Yugo's had always been rich for generations now. There was no way they could have had a grandson that suffered the way he did even up to th
Mrs Jaiswal and her husband managed to escape the mob of reporters who had wanted stoping her from leaving. There were plenty, all rallying towards them hoping for answers to their questions about her daughter. "Did her daughter learn from her or was just influenced by the media?" That was the question. Everyone wanted to know where Maya learnt such behaviors from. Everyone wanted to know why she did what she did to her sister. On arriving home with her husband and being ushered into their home by the security who didn't stop checking for any signs of reporters waiting at their gate, she noticed that they had forgotten their son back at the hall and he likewise forgot to follow then home.He must be drunk. She worried as she instructed a driver and security to go back in search for him, and she didn't want the prying eyes of the media to discover the addiction of her son, the one true heir. She turned to the living room to face her husband after the driver and security had gone on
Mr Jaiswal's face switched from the calm demeanor it had been to a busy heartbeat.What he had just heard from the news was not one that required him sitting down to hear. Something had happened since the day he was unconscious due to his poisoning.He picked up the remote controller and switched back to the news channel he had slipped before." A bizarre thing happened at the board members election of Jaiswal Corporations and his daughter revealed that she had been adopted. What made it more shocking was how she went on to reveal that the heir to the managing director position of the company whom everyone believed to be a true Jaiswal was also a fake. He was the product of Mrs. Jaiswal's fling with her then driver who happened to have died last week. Netizens are speculating that she might have had a hand in his death because of the time frame. But those are all speculations and no one can tell because Mrs. Jaiswal who has also been called by the police for questioning regarding the
Mrs Jaiswal's car arrived at a venue she had been texted and walked out cautiously out of her car, turning to check her back all the time to ascertain if anyone was following her or might have done so. "Are you sure this facility is hidden enough? I don't want the media or people to find out my son is at this place. Are you sure with it being empty and hidden?" She pressed the man at the counter so kept replying her in the affirmative. It was hidden enough, he couldn't tell why she was finding it hard to believe when it truly was hidden. He watched from the door as she entered the last room where her son was at. It was the only room having a patient, like she had requested.. The others were empty and only her son was a psychiatric patient at the facility. Mrs Jaiswal hugged her son tightly. She couldn't afford watching her only child go to jail over a meagre substance abuse case and had worked her butt off getting him freed illegally out of jail. Only this psychiatric facility
Another bullet was fired and this hit Maya before she could pull the trigger of her gun. A police man had gunned her down and she fell to the floor, bleeding as well, regret and anger etched all over her face. But her motivation still burned deeply inside her and propelled her to still aim at Jasmine even as she was unconscious on the floor. She had to kill her, to her that was all that mattered. Marshall used the distraction caused by Maya being gunned down to rush over to where Jasmine was and carried her. "Please save my baby" Arun managed to whisper as he held on tightly to Marshall's leg. "Save my child" he continued to plead but Marshal pulled his leg away from him and carried Jasmine and ran off as he could. Arun stayed back while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. The police had said they called them. No one rushed towards him, not even one person. Jasmine would have if this had been in the past. She would have rushed to him even if she were wounded. He was to be bla
"14billion!! For both Mother and child. You don't have to perform a surgery on her, just give me both and I will relinquish 14billion to you" Arun screamed on top of his lungs. "What?" Marshall shouted, angry with the way he was quick in pricing his woman as if she were some sort of property. He glanced over his wrist watch. Two minutes had passed and the police would probably be on their way. But his men would reach within the next few minutes so till then, he had to stall for some time. "Do you have any other solutions you propose Marshall?" Arun asked him desperately seeing that they had been cornered and Maya didn't care for whatever decision she was preparing to take next. For him he wanted both Jasmine and the baby. The mere thoughts of her being with Marshall gave him goosebumps that made his skin itch. This was an ample opportunity as well for him. If things were well, he didn't mind kidnapping her in the ending and running away with her. She was his from the onset. Marsh
Marshall had anticipated a day like this and had done a DNA masking surgery on Jasmine. And as if she knew Maya was cooking something sinister for her, she had come prepared as that was he only bullet Maya had at hand against her. "I'll go by the chauffeur ma'am. The men are coming here soon, please wait behind" her secretary said and made way to rush to drive the car to where she was at.It wasn't up to a few minutes after her secretary left to drive the car towards her that she felt a hand cover her nose. She hadn't anticipated that her safety would be compromised so she hadn't been alert and had allowed the security off her sight for a second. Slowly, she lost her balance and dizzied as the smell oozing from the handkerchief her nose was covered with took control over her. Arun's three s reached as he saw what happened and he immediately began chasing after the car that Jasmine had been put into. He had been trailing her the few days and for a brief second he had taken his eye
Maya's eyes locked onto Jasmine's with a fierce determination burning within them. "I think it's time we settled this once and for all so that those that have ajil terms to serve would continue" Maya said with her voice steady, subtly making a diss at Jasmine.The room fell silent with all eyes on Maya. She gestured to a technician from the DNA testing house she had invited. "Please, reveal the results."The technician nodded and began to explain. "We've conducted DNA tests on Maya Jaiswal. The results show..." The technician paused, scanning the room before continuing. "Jasmine Jaiswal is indeed the biological daughter of the Chairman Jaiswal."The room erupted into chaos with gasps and murmurs spreading like wildfire. Maya's eyes never left Jasmine's face with a mixture of emotions swirling within her.Mrs. Jaiswal's face turned ashen, her eyes wide with shock. "This can't be," she whispered, her voice trembling, pretending to be shocked even though it was all an act she hoped
"Isn't that the man that was reported dead a few days ago on the news?" A lady asked from the crowd and only them did it occur to Mrs Jaiswal that she had called two media women and a man to cover when her son would become acting cooperation president. She never expected anything to go sour and then still recording. "Make them stop!! Immediately!! Make them stop!!!" Mrs Jaiswal's lips moved at her secretary who was a meters close to her. "Make them stop? They're already live mother and whatever is happening here is already available and accessible to internet users. Wasn't that the instructions you gave them?" Mrs Jaiswal's face fell. Her plans were backfiring and working against her and she couldn't control it from happening. "What does this dead man have to do with what we're discussing here Maya? He is not even a politician or a well known person" Maya turned the speaker down with a flick of her finger."To you he might not be. Beloved mother, do you mind telling your board o
Maya's eyes narrowed while turning to her mother's direction. "Don't think you can hide it from us, Mrs. Jaiswal," she said with her voice dripping with malice. "We all know what's really going on here."The room fell silent, with all eyes on Maya and Mrs. Jaiswal. The tension was palpable, and it seemed like the entire room was holding its breath."What are you talking about, Maya?" Mrs. Jaiswal asked, trying to keep her composure."I'm talking about your son's addiction," Maya replied, her voice firm. "I'm talking about how you've been hiding it from the board members and the rest of the world."The room erupted into chaos with board members shouting and demanding answers. Mrs. Jaiswal's face turned bright red with rage and she looked like she was about to explode."How dare you!" she shouted at Maya, her voice echoing through the room. "You have no right to accuse my son of such things!"But Maya just smiled, a triumphant look on her face. "I have every right," she said. "And I
It was finally the D-day for the board to decide if Mr. Jaiswal's heir should begin working as the new CEO of the corporation. The CEO had been absent from work for a few days now but his wife was able to hide the news of his disappearance with a fake document of him travelling abroad for treatments. She had wanted to stage it as a death of the chairman but because his body had not been found regardless of how many divers she sent to the ocean to search for it in the past few days, none had found his body. This had caused her to call for the meeting with her board immediately, fearing that someone would be out with an incriminating evidence against her son. "Alright, we've gathered here today to vote if the new CEO should begin acting as one" the microphone man announced and Jasmine shared a gaze to her step mother who caught her doing so. They smiled. Jasmine too. She knew she must have already found out whom she was. Mrs Jaiswal fought hard to keep her composure calm. This wa