Angle
" Yes, of course " he was saying the truth. Anyway, the Rey group was just a tool he was using to destroy those stupid Davis. If she wants, he can put an end to it.
" Very good, on the news I heard that Clara's husband was the president of the Rey group. I pray he goes bankrupt, that ruthless man should just become very poor so that he won't have anything to bully my Clara with."
Xavier was speechless. For the first time, he was grateful she had lost her memory and that he wasn't involved with any of the media rooms. If he had not, his pictures would've been everywhere.
Looks like he needs to destroy the company as soon as possible.
****
" Madam, get into the car ", Tony ordered coldly, without even a hint of guilt.
" Thanks, but no thanks " Clara replied coldly while she continued walking to the bus terminal where she would get a taxi.
" I know you're thinking that I wronged you, but I won't apologize for what I did. "
" I thought you'd wronged me ? " Clara chuckled like she had just heard the funniest joke. Seriously, because of his recklessness, she almost lost her baby.
Tony was stunned , this woman glared at him as if she had a great grudge towards him. Why would her mood swing so fiercely?
" Okay, maybe I've wronged you, so please get into the car if not forcing you won't be nice, "gnashing his teeth, he said, gesturing her to
enter the car.
This woman was clearly in the wrong. Why should he feel guilty dealing with her?
Having no strength to argue with him, Clara reluctantly hops into the car . Come to think of it, what do they think of her? They all call her madam but treat her like a slave .
" Does your boss have something else to say ?" She asked immediately. Tony started the car.
After thinking for a while, he replied "No, the boss has something else to say. "
' Is that so?,' the real lady of the house is back, so she will need to vacate her position very soon. She would be a fool if she hadn't thought about this and allowed him to throw her out himself.
" Madam, I know what I did this morning was wrong but you were also very disgusting. " Tony felt guilty about what happened, but he also, blamed his boss for not stopping him. He allowed his anger to get the best of him but, as her husband, he shouldn't have allowed another man to hit his wife in his presence.
" I'm aware Judith was very rude to you, but that was not enough reason for you to tell your brother that she was a spy. Do you know why the boss didn't do anything when he finds out that you knew? He was very worried but he wanted you to choose. If you had chosen wisely, he would have respected you, but since you chose wrongly, you deserve to be despised by him. This was not the first time something like this would happen. Why are you not learning?"
Did she deserve to be despised by him?
She was not learning?
Why wouldn't she learn from her mistake and she was here expecting something from him there?
" Why do you think I told my brother ?" Clara asks. She needs to know what she did wrong for her to become their suspect.
"Huh!, she still wants to deny it" .
" Madam, according to the CCTV footage, you left the house immediately you got a call from your uncle and, thankfully, the boss went out earlier to meet with a client at the same restaurant, so he saw you and your uncle there. " he finished talking but Clara's expression remained blank.
She giggled softly, fighting back her tears.
" So, my getting to know that I still have a father and that he went missing, was something wrong ? I suddenly became a suspect because I came to know that the man I called uncle all my life was actually my biological father. " she said, now chuckling foolishly.
Tony was stunned by what she had just said and, in fact, he was suddenly overwhelmed with guilt. He was wrong, no they were wrong.
"What did you say madam ? " was all he could say.
" You don't believe me, you can investigate, right ? Maybe you should look into it. Who knows ,you could help find him. Yes " she replied nonchalantly. Yes, she didn't need to worry about anything or anyone else. They didn't deserve it. All that she got in return was tears, she only needed to start thinking about herself and her baby. She had no one else to rely on.
No family
No friends
No parents, even though she just heard that her biological father was alive, to her, her mother and father dead in that accident.
Tony felt really guilty for misunderstanding her and he even hit her.
After some minutes of silence, Tony found himself telling Clara how he and Judith joined the organization .
" Madam, I and Judith were picked up from the street by the boss at a very young age. Judith was a street thief back then and was being manipulated by those big bad guys, making her and other kids do bad deeds for them. That day after the boss found me, he was walking on the street, when. He ran into him, it was said that she said something to him that made him adopt her, but no one in the organization knew what that was. Since then, both of us have done everything to please the boss and after we finished with our studies, we decided to work beside the boss. Because every member of the organization, Judith was the only one who could call the boss by his name.
It was only today he understood why the boss adopted Judith back then and allowed her to address him informally. It wasn't because what she said was her voice, there was no difference between her voice and that of his Lilac.
Of course, after listening to the story, Clara also had the same idea. It must be something related to his little love, that person was not that nice.
His heart was already filled up by his Lilac that even a grain of sand wouldn't be able to fit in.
The lovers separated by death have miraculously been reunited. Why can't she be happy for them ?
Why doesn't she want her to come back ?
When did she become like this?
She was never a selfish person, all her life she never thought she belonged anywhere or longed for something that wasn't hers.
" Do you like her ? " Clara suddenly asked.
Tony stole a glance at the woman through the rearview mirror and he was stunned by what he saw. She was looking out of the window, her face pale, her eyes were lifeless, but her expression was as calm as the sea but frightening at the same time.
For a moment, he thought she was someone else.
" Does she like you?" Clara asked again, as if she was talking to herself while looking out the window.
" I don't know yet " Tony replied, absent-mindedly. Loving someone who doesn't feel the same way can be very torturous. In fact, he also witnessed how the purest woman he once knew transformed into a sophisticated broken soul. Why does he feel that she has slowly become someone else now? How did she notice his feelings for Judith? Something he hid very well .
" Must you marry her? " the question didn't stop coming, but the questionnaire was mindlessly drawing heart-shaped symbols on the window.
" Yes if I can. " he answered immediately, trying to keep the conversation going and ignoring this uneasy feeling he was having about her.
"Go to the Davis building " she ordered after a few minutes of silence.
Tony was surprised but, remembering that she had yet to receive any information from her uncle about her missing father, he turned in the direction heading to the Davis building.
The Davis building was far more magnificent than that of the Rey's, but it was expected of them since they once ruled the domestic market, but the attitude of the workers towards their work was very poor when compared to those in the Rey groups.
Even though the secretary had informed him of her arrival, Ryan was still buried in his work.
"Hello Uncle.." Clara greeted him, cheerfully, as never before, startling Ryan.
" Clara? What's up?."
" Did you come because of my brother? But I still don't have any updates on him. I promise to..."
" Uncle, you actually guessed what I came for?," she asks, cutting him short.
" Clara, if you are here because of Judith please drop that idea, " he finally admitted.
"Remember how you won the Neo contract and what your stupid niece had to pass through because of you. Remember you at least owe her this much, right?"
Ryan was speechless when he heard her. Why was she acting strangely today?
"These must be Xavier's words. See Clara, don't trust that bastard, he's only using you. Once he gets what he wants, you will be..." Since he used her, Ryan felt very guilty, so he vowed he wouldn't let anyone hurt her feelings again.
" He's doing this because he wants to destroy our family, but if the person he was doing it for should come back, I don't think he will continue " she replied, smiling miserably.
" How can someone who is.... forget it? I will do as you say , if I am not scared that you won't want to see me again."He finally gave in.
" Good boy," said she, pinching his cheek before turning to leave the office.
" Clara ,if ever you need something, just call me. I promise I won't ignore your calls again. For the past thirty years of his life, the only thing he regretted was destroying her view of the world.
"No thanks handsome, she will be needing your help."
****
After receiving a call from a certain someone, he immediately ran to Clara when he saw her coming out of the building.
" Thank you very much madam and am sorry for this morning. He never thought that she came here because of Judith and now the police say it was a misunderstanding.
" Let go, I can't breathe" she struggled to say and he quickly let her go.
" What did I do? And why are we here?" Clara asked, looking around her confused.
Tony was taken aback but pushed it aside, thinking that she was purposely playing dumb.
" I know you did it. You let Judith out, thank you so much." Tony still thanked her.
" I did...?" Clara asked, dumbfounded. She was only thinking about it, she never took any action on it. But looking at how happy Tony was and the fact that she just stepped out of the building, he couldn't possibly be lying.
" Don't inform him about this and my father " she, hurried, said before entering the car. She sure needs to consult a doctor.
***
Watching her walk into the house, Tony concluded that he needed to help her.
When Xavier finally returned home he couldn't find anything belonging to her in their room, not even a single hair.
" Where's she ? " He asked Mrs Leah.
" The madam left this afternoon with her things, she said it was your idea " she slowly replied.
Xavier ran into the security room and he saw her leaving with her bag at exactly 5pm .
" What were you guys doing when she left ? " he thundered. The guards were all frightened.
" Sorry boss but she said you permitted it ".
" Tony, when you dropped her did she say anything ?"
Tony narrated what happened to him, omitting Clara's father and Judith's case. He should have known better when she was smiling.
" Find her!" He roared like a mad man.
" Yes boss ", his men accepted the mission.
****
" Madam, here is the cheapest apartment we have ". It's just three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Clara looked around her, the place was very dirty. If it had not been that she invested all her money in the restaurant, she would still have millions of dollars in her account. She didn't use the money she won from the competition because she didn't go out.
She thought she had found herself a sister and a friend and she donated almost all her money to the business. Who would have thought it was all a game the heavens played on her?
" Madam, this place is okay for you, the supermarket is not far, though the local market was just a few miles from here." The agent continued talking, trying to convince her.
" If you don't believe me, you can ask the other tenants."
This place was not nice to bring up her child, but where would she stay tonight? She never knew that renting an apartment would be so expensive. Three thousand eight hundred dollars for a week. How would she cope without a job? She didn't want to step foot inside the restaurant again because she was sure he would be visiting and she didn't think she would remain calm seeing them together .
" Since you don't like it, you can go look for another agent, I've done my best. " the man said furiously, seeing that he misunderstood her and taking her silence for a no, Clara quickly replied.
" No, that's not it ". Hearing this, the man smiled, but because he backed her, she didn't see that sinister smile curving on his lips.
" I..."
" Don't want this house " another voice answered behind her, finishing her statement with their own interpretation.
