CHAPTER 131HUDSON’S POV“I don’t know about us been mirrored souls or not, but you sure do look like you’re running away” those were the words that had been continuously replaying in my head ever since she walked off, and so nonchalantly at that! Like she didn’t alter those crazy ridiculous words about her feeling some type of way for me.Like what the hell was that? And why right now?!Right now, when I was still trying to pick myself up from all the crazy feelings I had been having lately? Does she even know how long I had been waiting for her to show up at the house? How long I had been discreetly glancing at the front double doors? Despite knowing I shouldn’t?! despite trying so hard not to do it?She doesn’t know anything! And then finally! when she does show up, she just went right ahead to come bullshit me about her feeling something for me. Which we all know were lies!Horrible lies!It was okay if I kept having crazy thoughts about her, it was okay. It was all inside my head
VALERIE’S POV*Sound of phone buzzing*“Ohmm, stop calling me…” I groaned sleepily and turned to the other side of the bed to keep the sound away. But it just kept buzzing, even when I had thought in relief that the person finally gave up. It only continued buzzing after few seconds again until I finally gave up and reached for the object under my pillow.“Hello?” I said with a groggy voice, half asleep. But the thunderous voice that followed had me almost jumping down from my bed, “VALERIE! Where in heavens name are you?! I have called you 15 times already!” I quickly checked the ID, cussing myself for not checking earlier.“Ugh, Nanny… stop yelling! You’re making my headache worse” I groaned out while holding a fist full of my very very disorganized hair. “Where are you? Are you hurt?” she asked instead, but this time her voice was much calmer. “Did those people hurt you again? Because I swear to the heavens, I will get all their asses locked up! I already called the Chairman, he’s
CHARLOTTE'S POVThat stupid bitch! Ughh!” I cussed loudly, slamming the door of my supposed room shut and moving to my dresser.“I’m going to kill her; I’m going to kill that bitch!!” I bellowed some more and threw all the stuff on the dresser down just in time for Lucia to walk in, “Hey! Relax, you’re going to hurt yourself.” Lucia called out, rushing to me at the sight of my bleeding palm. “It’s all that Valerie’s fault! That bloody bitch and her stupid superior attitude!” I cussed some more seeing as a bottle spray had cut my palm when I threw those down.“Here, this should stop the blood” She muttered and wrapped my palm with her handkerchief. I whizzed a little she pulled at the ends a bit tighter. “You shouldn’t let her get you so worked up like this”“I just can’t stand her!” I responded, still angry at the thought of Valerie mocking me downstairs. “She’s like a disease, a virus that has no cure! I want her gone and out of this house! Out of my life! Out of this family! Out of-
CHARLOTTE'S POV“I am pregnant, Charlotte! I won’t have you doubting or making remarks that could jinx my baby” Mathew’s wife interrupted. “And besides, you shouldn’t even be bothering yourself with talks about the family’s succession seeing as there is still no ring on your finger! You are just a mistress and still a mistress without the ring.” She said snobbishly and my fist immediately clenched hard on the table cloth from undiluted anger.The same statement Valerie made yesterday as well. how dare all these people think they could talk to me like that! Hudson was my man long before he was forced to marry Valerie! He decided to do right by me and marry her in name only, how does that make me a mistress?! If anything, Valerie was the mistress!Having the old man on her side she took the position that rightfully belonged to me!“Exactly! And everyone knows Grandpa’s stand when it comes to illegitimate children,” her husband added, sharing the same smug smile with his wife. I looked a
VALERIE POV “How do you know this plan of yours will make it? How do you know this isn’t just a trick you are playing with yourself and risking your life for nothing!” Papa boomed after at least the fifth time since I explained things for him. “I told you I don’t want you to have anything to do with that man! If you must then it has to be because of the kids! We agreed! C’mon Val, what is all this mess?!” “Pa, calm down and stop scolding me like I’m a child!” I snapped at him, raising my voice as well. “I already started it and there’s nothing you can do about it now. So quit shouting, watch your BP and come sit down!” I ordered like I was his parent. He stood there, stubborn as ever but after a moment he released a breath and reluctantly sat beside me on the couch in the living room. “Good. So, are you going to support me or not?” I asked firmly, staring him dead ass in the face. “Do I have a choice here?! You already went ahead to jump into the pile of shit without informing firs
VALERIE’S POVWith no assistance he walked towards them, his steps faltering but I let him be, not letting his close aid move to him either. A few steps away from them he stopped, just taking in the form of my very much oblivious kids with his eyes. I could only imagine the thoughts going through his mind right now. He most probably wouldn’t believe they were real; that they were right in front of his eyes. I remembered how he would always give me supplements that were good for child bearing back then, he couldn’t wait for me to get pregnant. Always wanting to know if I felt weird at any time, always so hyper when I say I wasn’t feeling good. He had wanted Great grandkids for a long time and his only hope had been on whoever Hudson would marry since he was his only grandchild.The thought of it all brought tears to my eyes. I had to repeatedly blink when I noticed Miley saying something. She had finally felt another presence other than her brothers, “Hey, do oldies’ also come to the
CHARLOTTE’S POV“Seriously? The company might be run by someone else soon?” Lucia asked in surprise as she placed her glass of juice down to focus on me. This was what I loved most about her, her absolute attention to me. So, I easily let out my concerns to her. “If I don’t give birth to a boy soon” I added with an eye roll.“Those greedy family members have been pitching it in for a while now. But this time, they have taken it to a whole new level, by mentioning it in front of Grandpa! It’s obviously to remind him of the family rules and cut off my arms and legs as well!” I complained, feeling my annoyance coming back to me just at the memory of it all.“Hmm, is there really no way around it? Maybe Grandpa can change the rules, can he not?” Lucia suggested, repeating the same question I asked Hudson yesterday as well. But unfortunately, that too was a dead end.“He won’t do that. If I can’t have a son, then company and all the family fortune will go to the next family. That is, the s
HUDSON’S POV“So, all of that has been dealt with?” I asked for clarification as I scanned through the documents in front of me. “Yes Sir, all of it except these copies over here” a suited-up man responded calmly before gesturing to a brown file.My eyebrows furrowed as I stared at the seemingly light looking file, compared to the ones I was handed earlier, that one looked almost empty. “What are those?” I asked, my eyes flickering back to the man that responded earlier. “They are…they are from De Hernandez Dreamz. It was sent over earlier today, in anticipation for this meeting” he said“And? Are we supposed to explain that to ourselves?” I questioned sternly, maybe a bit too stern actually. But it just came out. Hearing the name De Hernandez Dreamz alone had me on edge and I knew exactly why. But I was also trying to ignore that as well. “No-no sir!” another replied and I turned my attention to him, my expression stoic as I took him in.“A representative was supposed to arrive here
THIRD PERSON POVValerie’s every word went like several bolts of lightening to Charlotte’s brain cells, completely destroying every bit of the confidence and determination that Charlotte had guarded herself with earlier today when she thought of meeting the supposed mistress.Who would’ve thought…Who would’ve thought that Hudson would return to and cheat on his current lover/partner with the very woman he once divorced! Who would’ve thought?! Charlotte most definitely did not see this coming. She did not anticipate that a man she had so skillfully kept at her side would turn around, to return to the very woman he had left to be with her. A woman he divorced to be with her! His very own ex-wife!Hudson was cheating on her with his ex-wife!Wat was the world turning into? What was her life turning into?!So, all these years…all this time he had been with her, that they had lived together under one roof, raising their daughter together meant nothing to him? She wasn’t worth anything? Th
THIRD PERSON POV“Woah, isn’t that Miss Hernandez of De Hernandez Dreamz? She’s a parent too?”“She really is something! Check out those thighs…hm, so yummy!” another man close to where Hudson stood complimented, his eyes viciously taking in the features of the still smiling woman from afar. “I wonder how she does it, CEO and then a parent! Amazing.”The entire atmosphere buzzed with chatters mostly centered around the new addition in their midst. But not everyone could partake of these thought-provoking conversations. As to some persons like Hudson Rodriguiez, who had arrived a while ago. He couldn’t stop thanking the heavens internally for making him attend this function, to be able to stay this long that he was granted the opportunity to see the very woman that had set his heart on fire.Only the heavens knew just how worried sick and lonely he has been the past few days that he didn’t hear from her. His world had felt so dull and colorless these past few days, that the only thing
THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEWWhat was that people often say about karma? That it is a bitch, right? Well, they were so right I tell you!I mean, who could’ve thought a mistress that replaced the main wife of a wealthy man, would turn out to also get so agitated by even the slightest chance her said trophy man would have another woman in his life? Another mistress I mean.Haha! It looks like no one likes the idea of her man having a mistress, especially Charlotte in this regard. One would think since she took the same route to barging her way into the life of a newlywedded couple, causing several conflicts and misunderstandings that ultimately led to a divorce, that she would be more understanding if some other woman was to show up in her man’s life using the same tactics.But no, she has proven to be of quite the high morals at the moment. A true believer that a man should absolutely have no one else in his life except his partner! Alas, been in the position of a current main wife has t
VALERIE’S POVIt was relaxing to hear and I hoped he stayed true to his words until the end. In no time, he disconnected from the call, leaving Rob and I. And looking at his relaxed form, all cladded in casuals as it way past work hours. I couldn’t help but remember how he comforted me that night at his place. How he refused to let me know about it the next morning, probably because he didn’t want me to worry over it.He was so good to me… so good that I wished I had more of him in my family than those ruthless people I called family members. How good that would have been… “How are you? Have you had dinner?” he asked, staring at me like he didn’t deliver me a truck load of food earlier today when I didn’t even ask for it.I was about to give him a sassy comment, when I noticed something on one of the screens and almost immediately, my phone vibrated with a call I couldn’t take. “Everything okay?” Rob asked, reminding me we were still on call. But I just waved him off and ended the call
VALERIE’S POV“Please…”“I’m begging you, don’t push me down again. I will leave! I won’t come back here again,”“I promise you; I won’t come back here…just don’t hurt me anymore, please”“No,” “No! Don’t push me down again,” “Please don’t!”“Don’t!!”“Val! Calm down,” “It’s me. It’s Rob… you’re okay now”“Val?”“Valerie!!”And just like that, my eyes snapped open. A loud gasp emitting from my lips as I roughly hit down a glass of water from the table, I had apparently fell asleep on. Frantic, I looked around the environment and sure enough everything pointed to one thing; that I was currently in the underground in the house outside the city and breath of relief left my nostrils.Although, my heart was still pounding loudly in my chest, my forehead wet from sleep sweat. Other than that, everything was the same.“Ugh, goodness me…” I grumbled as everything came flooding back in my mind.I had apparently taken a time off from the world to meditate here in my game room. it was a ploy
HUDSON’S POV“What? The cops are here? What for?!”“Sir, they found Madame’s car at a hit and run scene last night” Paul explained, his words confusing me further. “What the hell are you talking about? How can Charlotte be involved in a hit and run incident?!” I asked, with furrowed eyebrows as the words refused to settle in my brain.What the hell was this new problem now?! I already had too much to worry about, I don’t need her adding to it. I haven’t even been able to come to a conclusion on how to handle her recent behaviors and now she went right ahead to get involved in a hit and run?! Just what is going on with that woman?!“The issue is all over the news, Sir” Paul added, turning on the TV and there it was on the screen with the craziest headline. ‘Popular Real Estate guru Hudson Rodriguiez’s supposed wife was rumored to have been involved in a hit and run scene that looked like it came straight out of a movie!’“What th-“It’s not looking good Sir, but our team are on it to b
CHARLOTTE'S POVEven Raymond had been unable to give me any information, saying he was still working on it! “So much for trusting him to help me out” I grumbled darkly as I rigorously washed my hands in the bathroom sink. I have actually been here for quite some time. It was high time I go back into the bedroom. Maybe even have a third round with Ethan so I could kill this anxiety brewing inside of me.We had met up earlier today as I needed a real good fuck to clear my head. Otherwise, I might just end up going crazy inside that mansion! Hudson didn’t even take his mom’s calls so I had no way of pacifying my annoyance. My only option being Ethan’s dick.Of course, I would love for him to be Hudson right now but I had to make do with what I had presently. The next time I would meet Hudson, heaven knows I will have him tied up so I can have my way with him!“Let’s see how he would avoid me then!” I said out loud and finally turned off the sink so I could dry my hands. I was just about
CHARLOTTE’S POV“Kiddo, hold on!”“I will look into it okay? No need to disturb the boss”“But I saw it with my own eyes, Raymond! There was eyeshadow stain on his suit!” I insisted, my voice rising from both anger and frustration as I tried to move past him so I could go into the living room. “That eyeshadow didn’t get there on its own, some woman was busy rubbing herself on him! He is seeing another woman under my nose! We need to find her!”“Kiddo! Wait!” he yelled, hurriedly running after me after I had pushed my way through. “Yes, we need to find her and we will! But the boss is meeting with an important guest right now, you can’t go there”“What? Even you too?!” I shot at him, my fury rising at his words as I paused to glare at his aged face. “My father is meeting with important guest, and so what?! Am I not important? Is my matter not more important?! His soon to be son- in law is now seeing another woman, shouldn’t that be a problem for him?!” I yelled, my voice rising and ech
VALERIE’S POV“G-get lost?”“H-how can you be so mean to me?!” she shrilled; her brown eyes red rimmed from shedding so much tears and more still continued to drip. Her mascara was far gone as it had already formed a long streak down her both cheeks since I stepped into the office. I already knew she was crying.She had most definitely seen the makeup stain on his suit, just like I had planned and now nothing will hold back her doubts and fears. I knew she wouldn’t accept that Hudson was cheating on her so easily if she hadn’t seen it with her two eyes. He was after all loyal to her all these years, not once having a scandal or looking at other women. A man with such devotion, what woman would believe he was cheating without concrete proof? No one!And as such, I had to create one for her.I couldn’t show myself just yet so telling her about it was out of the question. Hence, my reason for intentionally applying a bit of my makeup on his suit earlier this morning before we came to his