The next morning, after Ariel left the supermarket, she took a taxi back to the Anderson mansion as she wasn’t expecting to be called back by the old madam of Anderson.
Just as she entered the Anderson villa, before she could even reach the living room. Ariel saw her father, Timothy Ann’s car parked in the Andersons’ courtyard.
“What now?”
Ariel frowned and walked in before she could greet the old lady of the Andersons. Her hand was grabbed by someone! She looked at the person who turned out to be Elvira, her half sister.
However, she was usually a cold person to her and now she was warmly holding her hand. Just what are you acting on, she thought.
“Sis” Did you even know how much I have missed you, if it wasn’t for dad and mom saying you just got married and needed some private space, I would have come to find you already.
“Really Elvira!” knowing full well the type of play Elvira was playing out she was sort of interested in embarrassing her.
“Did you not say that each time you see me you hate me and what is the talk about mom and dad saying I need some private space. We are both aware that they are just scared of you losing your baby or did they forget you are pregnant?”
Elvira didn’t expect Ariel to embarrass her in front of the Anderson family.
“Sister, how can you say such a thing to me? I’m your elder sister! Elvira looked at Ariel with a wrong expression, turning Ariel to the villain. She forced herself not to cry.
“Eldest sister!”
Just as Timothy Ann was about made knowing his intention of where he needed the help of the Anderson Family, the sound of a wheelchair suddenly came from the door. Only then did the whole family look at the door at the same time.
Rex Anderson’s wheelchair was slowly sliding towards the living room with Pius by the side. “Honey, why did you not wait at home when I told you to and why didn’t your father tell you in advance before he come to the Anderson villa?
Hearing him call her so intimately, Ariel Ann couldn’t help but be happy in her heart. Before she could say anything, she heard a surprised shout, “Look who is here, the Young Master Rex Anderson”, Andrea said without hiding the sarcasm in his voice.
Suddenly, Ariel’s hand, which was being held by Elvira, was pulled away.
“Honey, what are you talking about?”Ariel lowered her head to look at Rex Anderson’s loving gaze. She would have mistaken the man’s acting as being real if he hadn’t told her he loved someone else. She would have thought he had fallen in love with her! What a pretender, she thought.
Old Mrs. Anderson, who was sitting in her main seat in the living room, was not stupid, but she didn’t plan to interfere in the issue with the Ann’s family. Instead, she was more interested in watching the interaction between the two people in front of her as that was all that mattered to her.
“Let’s eat”, the old Mrs. Anderson declared
Soon everyone resumed eating. They glanced at Rex’s plate and found that there was nothing on it. It was as clean as it was before.
Ariel didn’t forget to act as a good wife, so she stood up and served some food to Rex.
“Honey, are you not going to feed me?” his voice was deep and low as it was deliberately lowered, but it was still something that those on the table could still hear.
She took her used spoon and scooped up some food, feeding it to Rex’s mouth with a sweet smile plastered on her face. She also whispered “Oh, honey I would have loved to share a set of tableware with you”, seeing that Rex just stared at her without opening his mouth, she was anxious. So she kept nagging, “Honey, but you didn’t dislike me when you kissed me and you are so strong in bed, making me unable to have an hour’s sleep a day…” she pretended to be shy and her little face blushed.
The people on the table were a little uncomfortable, especially Elvira, who had never imagined the timid Ariel to suddenly have the guts to say something like that.
The man opened his mouth and swallowed the food on the spoon.
*******Ann house********
After breakfast, Rex Anderson asked Pius to prepare the car and he personally sent the family of three to the door but didn’t go in.
The moment the door closed, Elvira began to complain unhappily” Father, why did you not ask about Rex Anderson before to know if he’s different from all the rumours, with the way he doted at Ariel today’s, even if he’s crippled, I would still be willing to get rid of Damien child and marry him! Now Ariel has gained a lot of benefits, not only marrying into the Anderson Family and becoming the young mistress, but also showing her love to my face and now she sees us as nothing and she even embarrassed me.”
“I didn’t expect this either. From what we heard, even from Fidelis, it was said that he’s a monster.”
“Father, I don’t think you like me. If you did, you could have checked well.”
Timothy Ann frowned, he couldn’t help being a little irritated by Elvira’s outburst, “Can you stop messing around, did you not know how I was to you and how I was to her?”
“What’s the use of getting small favors? I don’t care, I want to be the one marrying Rex Anderson. I will tell Damein and I’m sure he will understand, he loves me, so he would do anything for me.”
In the evening, Tanya sat next to Timothy Ann and asked worriedly, “what is the solution to all this now? How dare Ariel not mention it to Rex Anderson to help our company and how could she poison the young master Anderson’s mind against us and also ridicule her sister, What should we do now? What else can we do for the company?”
Rage flowed through timothy Ann like lava.
Ariel is becoming difficult to deal with; she’s been disobedient and disrespectful to him.
But he couldn’t come up with a better way to threaten Areal to make her dance to his tune. What else could he do?
Tanya looked at Timothy Ann, who was in a daze. She smiled devilishly and suggested, “Honey, I have an idea, though I’m not sure if Ariel will work, since she now has the young master’s backing.”
“Go ahead, I’m listening” Timothy Ann sighed. “we just have to think and try so many ways now and not just rely on Ariel.”
Tanya paused for a while and said
“Since Damien Ford really likes Elvira a lot, I would suggest we first ask them for help. By tomorrow, let us go to the villa and propose an engagement. Don’t forget Elvira is carrying their child and then we can explain to them the reason why Ariel married into the Anderson’s family. Look at it this way if Damien and Elvira get engaged, would it not make a lot of sense, because when people learn that the Ann’s children marry into a wealthy family, we will have a lot of people that would like to cooperate with us and no one else will be able to look down on us again in the society and for Ariel we still have her mother’s ashes here I would suggest” Tanya paused and looked at Timothy Ann before she continued “we can threatened her with it since her aunt is no longer in care of the Ann, and how about talking to Fidelis Anderson”.
Timothy Ann’s face. “honey, I swear you are the smartest woman I have ever seen in the whole world. How could I have forgotten all this? Lets visit the Ford’s tomorrow and talk about this issue with them. Also, I will call Ariel once we come back tomorrow. Let’s forget about that man. He has forced me to sign an agreement the last time he invested in our company. Besides, I heard Rex Anderson seems to be the largest shareholder now.
“Tanya curved her lips, although she didn’t want to offend the Andersons’ family, she wouldn’t allow Ariel to be happy.”
The next day, Timothy Ann returned from the Ford family unhappy.
Seeing his dejected appearance, Tanya handed him a cup of water and asked, “How is it?”
Timothy Ann nodded with a no with sadness on his face. “Not only did the old man not accept the marriage proposal, he also refused to invest in our company.”
Tanya placed both her hands on Timothy’s shoulder to comfort him. “I did guess this would happen, since the old man picked interest in Ariel, it was obvious the old man of the Ford liked Ariel. How can he be biased towards my daughter?” Tanya said sadly with heaviness in her voice as she blinked out a droplet of tear.
Timothy Ann looked at his lovely wife and his heart ached; he held her hand and said, I’m sorry all this is happening because of me. I have let you and our daughter down, I have allowed you to suffer. I will make it up to Elvira; I will make sure I persuade the old man Ford, no matter what happened.”
Tanya wiped her tears with the back of her hand.
“I believe you can do it, since Arial is our only option now. Call her and let her talk to the young Master of Anderson”
Timothy Ann nodded in agreement.
However, no matter how many times the phone rings, the other party didn’t pick up.