CHAPTER 32ROBERT’S POV“What confession are you talking about Frank?” My brows furrowed as I asked.He looked away in somewhat fear, hesitant to talk. I couldn't help but notice that colour had drained from his face and his eyes looked like they were on the verge of tears.Realizing I had to make him feel comfortable to open up to me, I stopped what I was doing and got up from my seat. I approached him like a father to a worried son and held him by the shoulder, reassuring him. “You know you can tell me anything, right?”He looked back at me but struggled to maintain eye contact and nodded slowly. Whatever was bothering him must be something very serious because, in his nine years of working here, I have never seen him like this. He was an important member of this company. I didn’t want anything that would derail and make him not give his best for the company.“So then talk to me,” I said gently as I came closer to him, trying my best not to put pressure. “Whatever the problem is, I
CHAPTER 33ROBERT’S POVWhen Frank mentioned Scarlett was behind this, I thought perhaps it was one of Lily’s schemes to get back at her and make me hate her for exposing her deeds now that she was probably out of prison. But that phone recording proved me wrong beyond measure. Now it was all making sense why Scarlett has been spending a lot and constantly asking for a raise in her salary lately. Once I came across her transferring a huge sum of money to an unknown bank account. When I asked her who it was for and the reason for it, she had lied, saying she was repaying a loan she borrowed from a friend years back. I didn’t make a big deal out of it because I loved and trusted her. Little did I know the money was for silencing Frank and keeping his betrayal hidden.As Frank’s voice broke with regret, the weight of his guilt was palpable, raw and unfiltered. His remorse was genuine, so deep that he might have even accepted death as penance. But none of it mattered now. The damage has
CHAPTER 34ROBERT’S POVI scoffed in confusion and disbelief as my eyes raked the man standing before me from head to toe. Was he lost or something because it seemed like it? “Excuse me?” I cocked a brow, growing impatient as time was running out and I needed to get to Jake’s school. “Does this building look like a place for keeping wives and kids? If your wife and kid are missing you might as well go to the police station to report the case instead of wasting your time here.”Before he could open his mouth to say something, I turned to Martin and glared at him coldly. “How could you have let this man come into our house? What if he is a thief or something worse?”I heard the man scoff in infuriation over my words. But I couldn't care less. The earlier he left this house the better because I was losing my temper.“He’s no thief, Robert,” Martin said. I couldn’t help noticing his expression was becoming bleaker by the moment as if something bad had happened and he didn’t know how to
CHAPTER 35ROBERT’S POVAfter everything that happened, I was so heartbroken and angry I had to retire to bed earlier than usual. My half-sister, Ginny and one of the servants had informed me earlier that Jake was asking for me after he came back from school. He must have seen my car out on the driveway and known I was around. But I told them to let him know I was tired and off to bed. I didn’t have the courage to face him. I didn’t even know what to think or say to him. I couldn’t believe that for the past nine years, I had fathered and loved deeply a child that wasn’t mine. Sometime after he was born, people questioned his resemblance, saying he looked nothing like me. But since he had some of his mother’s features, we didn’t worry about that. Little did I know he was never mine. That it wasn’t the Wilson’s blood running through his veins. He shared similar features with Raphael – light brown eyes and tawny gold hair that fell in loose waves on his forehead. I had observed that cl
CHAPTER 36ROBERT’S POV “No Robert…” Scarlett shook her head desperately as tears streamed down her cheeks. But I should know better they were crocodile tears. “You can’t be saying all this. I love you…I came back because I truly love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you.”“If you truly loved me then you wouldn’t have hidden the truth from me.”I wanted to get up from bed and kick her out of the room like the vermin she was but she held me back on the wrist to stop me.“Can’t you see? Can’t you see that bitch Lily is the one doing all this? She’s out of prison by now and is properly orchestrating all these to get back at us for trying to secure her a death sentence and locking her away. Open your eyes and see the big picture, Robert!”“Let go of me,” I forcefully freed myself from her grip, causing her to crash back on the bed. “The only big picture I’m seeing right now is how much you’re going to suffer for what you have done. She was innocent. She was my company’s gr
CHAPTER 37ROBERT’S POV“Why did you have to come back? Was it so hard for you to stay in that shithole you call an apartment without me? You have succeeded in ruining everything for me. Are you happy now?” I heard Scarlett’s sharp voice echoing in one of the guest rooms as I strolled in. She and Raphael were there, taking it out on each other like a married couple fighting. They hadn’t seen me enter as their attention was solely focused on each other. After all these years, her bitterness towards him hadn’t changed. She couldn’t even at least show some gratitude knowing the father of her child was alive and well. She blamed the poor man for coming back for her and his kid she kept from him for a solid nine years. Only a cruel woman will do such to her husband. She was lucky Raphael overlooked that and her shortcomings and still wanted to take her back. If it were me, I wouldn’t take it lightly at all. I’ll blow up if I find out my wife or any woman I have a kid with hid my child f
CHAPTER 38 ROBERT’S POV “Mum calm down okay? She was just leaving,” I said as I tried to calm my mum. I came in between, stopping her from getting past me to Scarlett. She was so angry I could tell she wanted to strike Scarlett if I wasn’t preventing her. “You’re so shameless,” my mum threw her words like stones at Scarlett. “After everything this family has done for you, this is how you chose to repay us. You should have never come back from wherever it was you went yesterday or better died in an accident so I don’t get to see your disgusting face again. You are such a disgrace I feel like spitting right in your face. I can’t believe I thought of you as the perfect daughter-in-law and wife for my son…” “Mum please stop…” I kept urging her to stop but she kept rambling away, the heat that came with her rage palpable and unquenchable. For a long time, I haven’t seen her this angry. What Scarlett did really did pull a tight string in her. Yesterday, she was hell-bent on ca
CHAPTER 39LILY’S POVIt’s been a week since Cassandra burst into my office and threatened me. Miley told me it’s better I stay clear of her but truth be told, I wasn’t shaken one bit by her empty threats. I was ready for whatever she had planned out for me and more than ready to return the favour. Good thing she was suspended indefinitely and no longer coming to the office. So I had nothing to worry about.My shift just ended. I had to rush to my kids’ school in a taxi to pick them up. My car was being fixed at the mechanic and will be ready for pickup tomorrow morning. The school bus was also being maintained so they couldn’t bring school children back home and take them to school in the morning for the rest of the week.Taxis and unidentified vehicles weren’t allowed into our estate for security reasons. We had to drop at the bus stop close to the estate l. As we got out of the taxi and I paid the driver, I took my kids’ hands and we began walking into the estate. I couldn’t help