“I want to kill her! I want the damned bitch dead!
Oh my goodness.
My baby boy.
My baby boy.
Mama is so sorry.
I swear I didn’t know.
How could I have known?”
On the other side of the city, things were worse in the Philips home.
All along, they had been lying to the Philips matriarch that it was Macy who didn’t want to come back home.
They told the old lady that Macy had refused to stay in the same house with Angela and when she tried asking Macy, Macy just went with the flow for she didn’t want to worry her grandma.
She also knew that if she told the old lady the truth, the other family members, her parents to be precise, would deny everything and back up their adoptive daughter whom Thwy treated better than their real one.
Macy didn’t want to argue with them and she was waiting for the right moment to drop the bomb and this was better than she had expected though she didn’t know that she would also revisit old wounds at the same time.
“But she might be under the influence of a drug.
Don’t you think that Macy did something to her?” I asked Mr Philips asked and his wife and mother threw daggers at him with their stares.
“Sometimes I wonder whether you are really my son.
Neither I nor your dad, may his soul continue resting in peace, was as dumb as you.
It’s all there.
You saw how happy she was saying all those things.
She knew long before us that she wasn’t a Philips and she kept quiet!
She even killed someone to keep the secret and you have the audacity to claim that she was under duress?
Are you an idiot?” Old Mrs Philips asked with a sneer at her son.
“Christopher, how many times did I tell you to tell me the truth but you treated me like a child?
I asked you to let her go live with her parents and what did you say?
Do you remember?
You told me that you would choose her ten times more than you would choose your very own daughter.
That’s your angel for you then.
That damned…. Ouch!” Old Mrs Philips didn’t finish what she was saying as she held her chest and closed her eyes.
“Mama? This is why I didn’t want you to know.
Look at you now.
Are you okay?” Christopher asked as he run towards his mother and held her with worry.
“Don’t touch me you idiot.
This is all you and your wife’s fault.
You kept that ungrateful child in this house.
She killed my grandson!
She even…..
She even….
Oh, I just can’t.
Just make sure that you solve this issue immediately.
I don’t want it affecting the company.
And you have one month to bring Macy back to this house.
Failure to do that, I am signing off your rights as the president of the company!” The old lady said as she looked at him as if she would strangle him with her gaze.
“Mama!” Both Christopher and his wife shouted at the same time.
“Don’t mama me the both of you!
Do you think it was right what she did to my granddaughter?
Do you?
Christopher, if you don’t take care of this mess and give me a satisfactory answer, I will strike your name off the registry of the Philips family.
I am still strong enough to work and I can take over the company.
If your father didn’t get cancer at an early age he would slaughter you!
Idiot!
Letting a nobody drag us down.
One month Christopher!
One month!
Janet, take me upstairs,” she finished and stood up and beckoned her personal maid.
Mr and Mrs Philips were left there speechless.
They knew that there was no way they could save Angela even if they wanted to though they didn’t want to.
They could forgive any fault she might have done but they could never forgive the fact that she killed their boy.
Mrs Philips could still remember the pain she went through when she found her boy in the pool and when the emergency response cree informed her that the boy was already dead.
After giving birth to Angela, who turned out to be Macy, she had been told that it would be difficult for her to get pregnant again.
She had known that it was true because she had even given birth to her girl prematurely and that was why she gave birth early in that hospital where the girls were switched.
She didn’t have time to go to her personal doctor for it just happened.
After that, she went for over ten years without conceiving again no matter how she tried.
She had seen all types of doctors and even gone for prayers and finally, when her baby girl was twelve years old, she got pregnant again.
She had to have total bed rest for her to be able to carry the pregnancy to term.
She did all she could and she was finally able to give birth to a healthy baby boy.
The baby boy became the apple of her eyes because at last, she had given the Philips family an heir.
Little did she know that Angela wasn’t hapoy though no one could tell.
Mrs Philips took the death of her little boy so hard that she needed years of therapy to be whole again.
And now, when the wound had barely healed, she finds out that her beloved daughter was responsible for his death.
She just wanted to find out where Angela was so that she herself could go there and strangle her with her own hands.
She couldn’t believe that she treated her own daughter like a stranger because of someone who didn’t care what she went through.
She thought that Angela genuinely loved them.
“The nerve of the little twert! Did she think that we would never find out?
Did she think that she could get away with everything that she had done?
And to think of all the things I said to Macy.
Oh my goodness!
Will out daughter ever forgive us?” Mrs Philips lamented as she directed all her anger at Angela.. She was the reason why everything happened and she would make sure that she paid.
“Let’s just make sure that wr find her first because I am sure that a lot if people are after her.
She has hurt so many people and I am sure that they are all baying for her blood.
Try locating her and I will call my assistant to sermon the directors of the company so that wr can strategize on how to control the damage.
She was the face of the company and it will be really hard to control the damage and we need to start as early as now,” Mr Philips said as he left his wife and went upstairs to his study to start a long night of calls and answering emails and writing press releases.
Downstairs, Mrs Philips was calling anyone she could think of to ask of Angela’s whereabouts.
She didn’t have Macy’s number and she didn’t know any of her friends that she could ask.
No one seemed to know where Angela was.
It was like she had just disappeared off of the face of the earth.
“I swear I will kill her when I find her.
Oh, Macy!
How will I even approach my daughter or even talk to her after all the awful things I said to her.
Cathy, you remember right?
You remember the awful things I said to her right?
I don’t deserve o be a mother.
Ai!” Mrs Philips lamented as she paced all over the living room and talked to her maid who was quiet and just listened to her mistresses ramblings.
The woman was very angry and Cathy knew better than to interrupt her when she was like that.
She feared for Angela because she knew if this woman found her, she would tear her to pieces.
“Oh, I know. Let us call that manager, Katina or whatever her name is.
Let us ask her if she knows and if she knows Macy’s number.
I want to talk to her as early as now even though I doubt that she will talk to me.
Bring me my phone,” Mrs Philips said as she sat down and Cathy rushed towards her and handed get her mobile phone.
She scrolled through the contacts and finally found Katina’s number. She dialed it and it rang for a while before it was finally connected.
The other woman sounded as if she was running.
“Hello? We don’t have any need on Angela and if there is anything, the company will call you all for a press conference,” she said thinking that she was speaking to one of the numerous journalists wjo kept calling her.
“It’s Mrs Philips, do you know where she is?” Mrs Philips said and went straight to the point.
“Oh, sorry ma’am.
I thought it was a…”
“Is she with you?” Mrs Philips interrupted and waited.
“No ma’am. We separated after the press conference for the movie and she said that she is taking Macy for dinner.
I haven’t heard from her since then,” Katina said and Mrs Philips breathed heavily.
“If you happen to see her before I do, tell her that I will kill her if she dares hurt my daughter,” Mrs Philips said and hang up.
Katina looked at the phone and she felt a shiver run down her body.