The next morning, the door of the room opens and Mika opens her eyes, jumping slightly at the sound.But it's only Luc with two ladies behind him. "Good morning, you seem to have slept well."She smiles wryly. "Been a while since I slept so comfortably.""Maybe because today is a pretty special day." He nods and the ladies walk out from behind him bearing a small but beautifully decorated cake that read "Congratulations on clearing your name!" on it."You can't make me cry so early in the morning." She states as tears begin to well up in her eyes.Luc walks and sits beside her on the bed. "It's a good thing, it's called tears of joy so cry it very well, okay? When you're done, freshen up and join us downstairs." He pecks her on the cheeks before standing up.Mika pulls her lips in a thin straight line as she notices the countenance of the ladies bearing the cake. They look at one another and smile to themselves in a way that was like "I told you so." That kind of smile.She just watch
"She might have seen us or at least, her child might have?" "I've never seen the child so the chances are quite low."Mika relaxes. "Anyway, it's kind of unlikely, she might think they are your children so basically, I'm supposed to be working here so I don't think she'll think they are mine."Luc nods. "I agree, it's unlikely but if she sees them, she'll know they are yours surely. They look so much like us."Mika laughs, her mood leveling.Their looks turn back to the television."Here's the video fully uploaded yesterday night..." The voice of the anchor fades out as the video comes live.The camera angle is quite perfect as it catches everyone's face perfectly, there's no way they could have caught their faces together so there must have been more than one camera doing the recording the past night.Mika's voice starts and it's the loudest from when she turned to face the crowd to admit her innocence after her five year silence on the issue."Yes, it's me. Mikayla Anderson who use
The next morning, they are all well dressed, formerly, but well dressed. The drive down to the mall was quite eventful with Maya wanting to try every alcoholic drink in the back of the limousine.They had a good laugh though each time she was rejected.Even Miles laughed a few times.When they arrived at the venue, there is quite the large turnout of people.For Mika who chose the chose the spot, she marveled as soon as she sees what Lucas Santinello has made on the place. The sign bearing the name of the mall is covered in black tarpaulin and there's a long yellow line in front with a scissors, rather, a large ass scissors on a plaque in front of the mall.There's a large round of applause including live cameras, videoing and boradcasting the scene live. It captures just as Mikayla and Lucas get down from the car, leaving the twins inside to watch from the car parked right in front of the building.Don't be worried, all the alcohol has been taken away from the car and replaced with f
(The Previous day at the Woods)Early in the morning, still reeling from the events of the night before at the gala and how Mikayla had embarrassed her in front of the entire elite guests there, including her own friends, Lily stays up all night, thinking of how she can enact her revenge on the woman.She gets up quite early and makes breakfast and because it's a Saturday, it's pretty early in the morning so no one is awake yet, at least as far as she's aware of.In the room she shares with Price, he turns on the bed and sits up, signing. Obviously, he had not slept overnight either. His eyes are heavy and he's sporting baggy undereyes. He stretches slightly before getting off the bed. He remembers what Mika had said the day before...He raises his head and looks aimlessly at the top of the room. "Why hadn't I questioned it then? Why had I simply just believed Lily? But who can really blame me? She had seemed so pitiful for me and offered to marry me so I won't feel the hurt... But no
In the middle of where she stands, there are many shapes and colours of glass shards from the broken plates in her hands.There's multiple cuts on her leg because she's barefoot. Price sees these and rolls his eyes, wearing his clogs, he helps to take her out of the circle with the glass all around and he sets her down outside it. Her eyes are still glued to the television where there's a whole lot of things coming out into the open.She suddenly scrambles for her phone and goes to Instagram where they said the video had originally being posted first the night before. She searches for "Anderson scandal" and there it was, the first result, with the most likes.She clicks on it and gasps. The whole video was right there, edited slightly because it was obvious it had been done with two cameras so the video had been edited to include both women's faces as each thing was being exchanged between them but the video had dramatically enhanced Lily's shocked face when Mika had pointed to Price
(The day of News at the Andersons. Reese and Stellas.)"Good morning honey.""Good? How is the morning good? Didn't you see how that good for nothing girl blew me off yesterday?" Reese vents, pacing around the room, his steps slow and tired.Stella looks around him and sees his haggard looking face. "Don't tell me you didn't sleep all night because of that? I even had a dream that she became a pauper. That's a good dream if you ask me."Reese blows her off. "That's what you think. Do you think that raising a child that is not yours for over twenty years is a child's play? I spent all that money and resources on her for her to ruin the only thing I ever wanted from her, a marriage into a wealthy home.""Well, Lily achieved it instead of her, didn't she?""Do you think the Woods are the biggest? I wanted Mikayla to marry the Wood guy so I can became a great wealthy man so our own daughter, can marry into an even wealthier home. But did you see the man she was walking with yesterday nigh
From Saturday till Sunday, all four people and two couples stay overnight at the hospital, doting on their son, biological son and grandson.Lily does the most fussing though, that even when the boy woke up and cried for the pain, she had hollered the hospital down to they will attend to her child and "take the pain away from him."Price just stays in a corner and watches as she puts on a show all through the night. For someone who had not slept the night before and now tonight as well, he's pretty exhausted but he sees his inlaws looking at him and whispering amongst themselves every once in a while so that's enough to keep him awake.Since his own wife for five years, Lily Anderson can do that to her own sister to marry her man, what's to say the family will not connive to unalive him? Just those series of thoughts are more than enough to keep Price awake all night, exhausted, yes, tired? Yes but sleeping? Oh no. He has to live through the night.He also does some checking in on his
That particular day of a ton of events, including the grand opening of Mi-nello, it was completely spectacular.As soon as the mall was opened, people flocked the place like bees to honey.Mikayla, holding hands with Lucas walks into the massive building that had only been a mass of incomplete building and no recognition to it just a week before has been completely transformed into, non disputably, the biggest and most beautiful mall in all of Brooklyn.She looks around in awe as she takes it all in. There are different sections to the place and there's a reception on every floor, helping people to know where to go, attendants ready to answer questions and massive workforce already in place."Do you like it?" Lucas asks, looking down at her as she looks around.She beams up at him immediately. "Like it? I love it. This is beautiful. It must have taken ages to interview and appoint all of these workers. Then the stocking up, the shops, jewelry, fashion and every other thing... Consider