It was running late and her chauffeur hadn't arrived yet.Maya didn't know if she were right to panic or worry and which of the moods fitted her position. She felt uncomfortable and began sweating even though she was in an air ventilated hotel. Only the worst case scenarios filled her head. Had her chauffer gotten into an accident on his way or something bad had caught up with him that was making him run late. The man's impatience has stretched all over his face and she herself was growing tired of trying to convince him to stay to wait for her driver who was coming with the money she has promised to give him to use and bribe other board members to her side. She picked up her phone to call her chauffer when she grew too impatient. "The line you have dialed does not exist" she disconnected and retried calling gaslighting herself into believing that it was all in her head and the issue the call wasn't connecting was because of the network. She hesitated before dialing the number t
The hall was filled to its brim with all board members being present. Except for one person who was absent. "We will begin the voting" a lady dressed in a suit announce and brought out two boxes which two ladies carried and stood at the edge of each side of the table. The door creaked open and Jasmine walked in. She was so elegantly dressed and her gold jewelries glittered in the morning sun. Maya's face went sinking immediately she saw her but her mother's own could not be compared to hers. "I heard that a board meeting was held in my absence a few days ago Mr Jaiswal. Is this how this company treats it's majority share holders?" She calmly asked while smiling all sheepishly. There was an agreement to her point from the crowd and Mr. Jaiswal immediately apologized to her much to Maya's disgust. " That is a matter of the past now" she said and walked over to where Mrs Jaiswal sat. There was no seat left for her to sit on except at the extreme end of the large table. Mrs Jaisw
"What did you just say?" Maya inquired. "Mother?" She hesitated before adding. Mrs Jaiswal was not in the mood to reply her anymore as she appeared to be satisfied from the bomb she dropped already. Maya surveyed the boardroom and was at ease a bit when she realized they were still alone. "What did you mean by what you said, mother?" She pressed on, her knuckles turning white with frustration. "It's exactly what you heard Maya. You're not my daughter. I merely adopted you from a cleaner who worked at the house years ago" she said with an air of indifference. Maya swallows the hard pill she had dropped still not believing. She wasn't going to be put down by such false statements. Her name was on the family register and everyone knew her as a Jaiswal, her mother can't come up with a different story now that she is vested in achieving her dreams. " If I was adopted, then does father have an intuition about it?" She added. "I wouldn't be worried even if he were to find out now, M
Maya walked out of the boardroom, the heavy wooden door creaked shut behind her, separating her from the woman who had just shattered her world. The cool air of the corridor enveloped her, but it did little to calm the storm brewing inside her.Maya's mind was reeling, her thoughts a jumbled mess of emotions. She felt like she was floating outside her body, watching herself move through the familiar corridors of the Jaiswal headquarters. Everything looked the same, yet nothing felt the same. The revelation that she was adopted and that her whole life had been a lie left her feeling lost and disconnected.Her eyes stung with unshed tears as she walked, her legs carrying her forward on autopilot. She didn't know where she was going, she just knew she had to get out of there, away from the woman who had just destroyed her sense of identity."Ohh fuck shit, things just decided to get messier" she muttered under her breathe as she saw Arun by the corner of the corridor. "You're adopted
Arun's eyes widened in shock, his mind racing with the implications of Maya's words. "Jasmine...has my shares?" he stuttered, his voice barely above a whisper.Never in a million years did he imagine the possibility of that. Nor of her still being alive but since it was what was being said by Maya, he knew she wouldn't lie about something like that. She was their mutual enemy. There would be no cause for her to.Maya nodded, a triumphant smile spreading across her face. "Yes, she does. And with that, she has the power to destroy you, Arun. To destroy us. She has already started doing so with Marshal Yugo's help" she continued spreading her venom, trying to convince him out of eyeing a divorce. Arun's face turned white with rage and fear. He knew that if Jasmine had control of his shares, she could ruin him financially and professionally.What was more was if she decided to expose the secret of what had happened in the past."How did she...?" Arun began, but Maya cut him off."That's
Maya looked at the parcel that got mailed to her address. It came from someone at Jaiswal Corporations, her mother probably. She wondered how she had been able to locate her down to the hotel where she currently stayed but her thoughts on that strayed away when she saw an envelope in the box that had been mailed to her. She picked up the envelope and went over to her table where she had other documents lying.Opening it, she found photos of a little child. A little child she could identify as herself because she had the same photos of herself as a child, she brought hers out from her locker and the faces were exactly the same thing.She picked another photo after the first and saw the same child, herself, but this time she was being carried by a lady, a lady who didn't look like her mother.Her grip tightened on her photo, realizing her mother had been telling her the truth.She picked up a tiny diary that was underneath the diary.A page stood out. The lady had given birth but kn
Arun sat in the reception of Jasmine Companies nursing a glass of whiskey. His mind was racing with thoughts of Jasmine and the revelation that she was still alive and well."How did she manage to acquire my shares?" he wondered, his eyes scanning the shadows on the wall."How has she returned so calmly that no one noticed her not when she took advantage of his shareholders short selling" Maya's words kept echoing in his mind: "She has more shares than you do in your own company." The thought sent a chill down his spine.Arun's thoughts drifted to his past, to the events that led to Jasmine's supposed death. He had always felt guilty about what happened after her death but he had never imagined that Jasmine was still alive, seeking revenge."What does she want from me?" Arun asked himself, his eyes narrowing in thought.Revenge? The need to destroy him? That was what most women in her place would want to do to him but with Jasmine,he didn't know what exactly it might be that she want
"Maya?" Maya repeated, the realization the woman knew whom she was settling in. She couldn't keep her eyes off her. The man, her former chauffer who had betrayed her when she most needed him and ran away with her wealth illegally acquired money didn't even seem to grab her attention anymore. It was just the woman. The woman whom she was to believe was her mother, Monica Cajetan. She hesitated, unsure of what to say next. She knew whom she was, and has probably watched everything about her on TV. Did she know she was going to find them one day or had she hoped that day wouldn't have come. Mayaaa... The kept hearing her voice call her name. Admitting perfectly that she had sold her off a chunk of change as if she were a cheap cabbage being sold at the slum markets. She had wanted to believe she had been forcefully taken from her. It was stated in her diary that she had stolen from the madam of the house and she had vowed to deal with her for it when she wanted. She didn't think she
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