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BLAIR'S POV For the next two weeks, Steven was placed on dialysis, to cover for his failed kidney and the absence of the other. Every time I looked at him, I was filled with pain. If it was true that Mr. Williams was Steven's father, Steven had displayed the height of love- exchanging his life for father he never knew or met. If on the other hand, it turned out that Mr. Williams was not his father, Steven had put himself at the risk of death, because of a stranger. Steven had opened my eyes to an entirely view of life. I had truly never met a man, to have love, purer than Steven does. He put his life on the line, over and again and also had remained so loyal to Brian, even after knowing that they weren't blood related, the whole while. Steven had the purest heart that there was and at this point, I considered him an angel. His heart was too pure to be human. There was no way anyone was going to convince me otherwise. My father on the other hand was recovering pretty fine. H
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BLAIR'S POV I drove with anger boiling in my bosom and releasing its vapors through all my veins. My whole life was a lie, carefully constructed by this evil woman, Jane. A lie she had prepared, even before my birth. ‘How could someone have this much evil in their heart?’ I thought. I drove at a speed I had never done before, exceeding my limit by far, and I found no atom of fear in my body. I hurried to the mansion. “Where is she?” I yelled in the premises. “You deceitful woman!” I kept shouting and shouting, but the house only echoed, sounding pretty empty. I got into the car and drove off to the office. To my surprise, it was equally locked.The gate had a big chain around its gates, as well as a massive padlock. I found this extremely worrying. What was worse, was that I couldn't find myself reporting this to my father. Despite that he had undergone treatment for his renal failure, he had a weak heart and I wasn't sure what this would do to him, especially since I was
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BLAIR’S POV “When I found out you were family, I didn’t know how to tell you.I wasn’t sure how you’d react, because heck, it took months and I also didn’t know how to react. I wanted to be mad that father never looked for me, but with a daughter like you, how could I be?It’s sad that things have to end like this,But I am just glad to have met you and also shared moments of bliss with you. Jane is not who she says she is. She owns a couple of properties that you could trace her misdeeds to, Down town…”I listened to Steven’s message over and over and over again. The first part of his message always brought tears to my eyes. It was a voice message, delivered in his last moments, without the knowledge of Brian and my father. Since Steven did not give them the permission to listen to it, I didn’t either. The message was on Steven’s iPad and it had automatically become mine. It had been seven days since Steven’s demise and his funeral service was two days ago. In all the days
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BLAIR’S POVRight after dinner, my father followed me to my room and continually tried to persuade me to stay. “We all just can’t leave,” he said,“Someone would need somebody,” “Well, I am afraid, I cannot be that person, father,” I countered. I did not want to stay. I couldn’t. My heart was set on uncovering Jane’s schemes and I had her thoughts at the back of my head, all through the period of our mourning. I had kept the information I had on Jane as a secret and all that Steven was trying to uncover, just before he passed. Deep in my heart, I knew that this was up to me. It was the reason Steven delivered the message to me, and not anyone else.We both knew that Brian was likely to react violently, taking the law into his hands, and my father was likely to not believe a word that we said, unless we had concrete evidence. As far as Ashley and my father were concerned, Jane was an angel, and until we are able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that she was not what he thought
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BLAIR’S POV “Happy Birthday, my love,” Jane gave my father another peck. No one was more confused than I was. My father seemed pretty surprised too, but if he was, who told Jane that we were going to be returning today?I watched my father’s confusion slowly melt into a smile. He then gave Jane a tight hug and followed with a kiss on her forehead. “Thank you so much, my love,” he appreciated. “Aww,” the crowd exclaimed and clapped, like they were witnessing some top tier love story. I was blown away with disgust. ‘How could my father be so welcoming of her?’ Jane had abandoned my father in the hospital for weeks. She hoped that he would die, after cutting him off every medical service. Now she shows up with a surprise birthday party and that was it?Everything was blown away, just like that?“Common, everybody, the party is outside,” Jane announced. Everyone delightedly went out, except me, who just headed straight to my room, the attic. I couldn’t bear to watch this eye sor
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BRIAN’S POV I was more devasted than I had ever been. ‘The sting of betrayal from Stacy and her stupid cousin?’Well, to be fair, that did not surprise me much.‘The death of the longest living family I had?’Steven had been the most instrumental person in my life and I never imagined my life for a day without him. Living days, running into weeks without him felt very surreal. I keep wishing everyday that he at least told me, before taking the decision of exchanging his life for Mr. Williams. However, I understood his decision not to.Never in a million years would I have consented to him making such a switch. As much as Mr. Williams was important to his family, I still didn’t think that Steven was a fair price. I still thought that it was quite a heavy price and an unfair trade. Coming to terms with it was not a reality I was willing to adopt. I spent all my days at his grave side in the mission, and fully ran the company from home. ‘Blair turning down my marriage proposal
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BLAIR’S POVWith a public declaration of war, I could not comfortably live in the house. It felt like I was walking on egg shells and constantly had to watch my back, since it was impossible to tell what Jane had up her sleeves.I spent most of my time around my father and while I kept waiting for him to at least, question Jane on why she had to lie about my identity, he said nothing. My heart sank into worry, with every passing day and I had nothing to do, but continue living in the peace they were all trying to pose. Father never questioned her lying about my identity and Ashley went about, being the perfect daughter to Jane and my father. Every time I would complain to my father about not questioning Jane’s running of the company, or any of her decisions at all, he would say, “Jane has equally been through so much,Making tons of sacrifices for the family and company.She deserves a break, but because of me, she doesn’t get any.I know it’s hard for you, Princess,But try to g
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BLAIR’S POV “I’m sure you were never at the company, Miss. Williams,” Jennifer said, right after I narrated my both encounters at the company to my father. “What?” I blurted, my jaw dropped.‘Was this a joke?’ My mind was running wild. “I was at the company a few weeks ago, and you personally told me that the company was in a bad place,” I said, my tone was gradually rising and I was losing all my mind. “Uhm, Miss. Williams,” Jennifer called softly. “I haven’t seen you in the office since forever,” she said, “But I am sure that even if you were here, I couldn’t have given you the report of a struggling company,” “Mrs. Jane Williams manages the company well, and we have not had a reason to struggle.”“She works tirelessly to see that the company runs smoothly and even without paying herself, she reinvests to boost the company’s capital.” Jennifer said, avoiding eye contact with me. When I observed critically, I noticed her gaze was more distant than it was. She was scared and
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