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CHAPTER SEVENTY.
Aliya didn’t have any sleep the entire night, she was completely restless and she needed to talk to someone about what happened between her and Adele.
The next day, she made an appointment with Danielle to tell her about her plan that had backfired. They two women met at a popular lounge in the city to discuss.
“Mother, you look very distressed.” Danielle pointed out when she noticed the distressed look on Aliya’s face.
Aliya took a big sip of her wine and placed the glass on the table. Letting out an exasperated sigh, she looked up at Danielle who was eager to hear what she had to say.
“This Adele and Jamal’s issue will be the end of me. I have tried my best to talk Jamal out of pursuing that girl, but he doesn’t want to listen to me. I have cried, I have emotionally blackmailed him, I have done everything in my power but my son’s mind seems to be made up.” Another heavy sigh followed. “Convincing Jamal was a mission impossible, so I said to try Adele. I wrote her a check of two million dollars, hoping that when I offer it to her, being the gold digger that she is, she would accept it and leave Jamal alone, but the brat tore the check into pieces and said no to my face. She even called me the devil!’ Aliya lamented and Danielle was shocked to the core.
Two million dollars was a lot of money. Any girl in her right mind would take the money and disappear or so she thought.
“No, she didn’t. Two million dollars is huge and I’m positive that she’s not worth up to one tenth of that money. Why would she refuse such an offer?”
“I don’t know, maybe she just loves Jamal too much to let him go.”
“No, she doesn’t. I am the only one who has the right to Jamal.” Danielle cried. “I can’t let her win. I’m going to persuade her to take the money. I’m going to force her to take the money and leave my Jamal alone. He is mine and mine alone!” Danielle lamented in agony.
“You should, but while doing that, make sure not to go overboard. You know she’s backed up by Jamal, anything you do to her will certainly reach his ears and he won’t take it lightly.”
“I know mum, and I know how I’m going to handle this situation.”
“Alright then, I wish you all the best. Danielle, it is my wish that you marry my son. I don’t want that girl Adele in my family. You are the only one worthy of being my daughter -in-law and no one else.” She told Danielle, who blushed very hard.
“I understand mum, and I promise I will do very thing in my power to make that dream of yours come true.” She assured Aliya with all confidence and Aliya smiled.
Aliya’s main reason for wanting Danielle as her daughter-in-law was because she had a lot of influence over Danielle. Danielle respected her a great deal and she did whatever it was she told her to do. She knew that with Danielle as Jamal’s wife, she would still have access to his money as much as she wanted because she would always know how to manipulate Danielle into getting money from her husband to give to her.
Adele on the other hand was not someone she could control. If Adele got married to her son, she would be completely shut out and she did not want that to happen.
That was the main reason why she was hellbent on making Danielle her daughter-in-law.
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Another guest came to see Adele and this time around, she wondered who it was. The same guard who had taken her to see Aliya the previous day was the one who was taking her again to see the person who had summoned her and this time around, it was Danielle.
They couldn’t come and ask for her directly because they didn’t want people suspecting that she was in any way related to the Dominick family.
They were trying to send her out of the family, not spark up rumors about her marriage to Jamal.
When Adele and the guard arrived at the parking lot, the man led her to a Black Porche and opened the door for her to get in.
Adele peeked and snorted when she saw Danielle comfortably seated in the backseat with a pair of black sunglasses on.
“What’s wrong with you women? Black cars, mysteriously sending for me and black sunglasses, is this some sort of cult?” She asked and Danielle turned to face her.
“Are you coming on or not?”
“I’m not, if you have anything to say to me, you have to get out of that car, except you don’t mind shouting from it.” She calmly stated and Danielle heaved out an exasperated sigh as she got out of the car.
The guard who had brought Adele stepped away for the two ladies to talk.
“We meet again.” Danielle announced as she stood a few meters away from Adele from, with a sickening smile on her face.
“You make it sound like it’s some sort of pleasure for me to meet you.”
“It should be, not every low life gets the privilege to meet a supermodel like me one on one.” She blasted and Adele chuckled.
“I’d rather be the lowlife who can make a man fall head over heels in love with her than be a supermodel who can’t get the man she loves to love her back.” Adele fired back and Danielle swallowed dryly, nervously.
Adele sensed her nervousness and smiled wider.
Adele-one, Danielle-zero.
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.”
“You don’t have to pretend. You heard me right, so do whatever you think you can do to me right here and now.” Adele dared, giving her a firm look.
She was ready for anything.
Even a physical battle.
Danielle had silently hurt and humiliated her for a long time, she was ready to get her revenge on her in any way possible.
“Mrs. Dominick told me about the offer.”
“I figured she would.”
“You must be stupid to refuse such a huge amount of money.”
“And since you are so clever, why don’t you accept the “huge amount of money” and get lost?”
“I’m not the one who had to get lost!” She denied.
“Then who’s the person?” Adele asked with raised brows.
“You, of course! You are the one who has to get lost! You are the one who has to disappear and leave my Jamal the hell alone!” She scolded at the top of her voice and Adele laughed at how desperate she sounded.
She couldn’t believe a girl like Danielle could do a thing like that.
“I won’t. So do your worst!”
“Please Adele!” Danielle called as went down on her knees before Adele and the tears in her eye broke loose.
Adele took a frightened step back as she looked down at her in awe.
“Adele please, just take the money and leave. I have loved and wanted Jamal all life. He is the only man I want to be with and you are the one stopping that from happening. Please, just take the money and leave. If you want more, I will give it to you. Just name your price, please.” Danielle cried like a baby, but Adele felt no pity for her.
Sowly, quietly, she stooped down in front of anielle and stared at her deep in the eyes.
“You don’t get it do you?”
“Get what?” Danielle asked in a teary voice.
“Get the fact that Jamal doesn’t love you and he most definitely does not want to be with you. Danielle even if I take this money and leave, you will never have him! Not even after ten years. He will never desire you, he will never make you his wife. Never!”
“That’s a lie!” Aliya scolded. “He’s going to learn to love me when you are out of the picture.”
Adele laughed at her confidence.
“Danielle I lost my baby because of you. Because you had something Jamal needed to save his reputation, to save his life, you turned him into your slave. You repeatedly put his ass on hot coal by blackmailing him over and over again. You called late night meetings even when you knew he had a heavily pregnant wife at home. If you hadn’t called that night, we would not have fought and I would not have lost my baby. Our son would be a year old by now. But because of your greed and selfishness, all of that was lost. Right now, I hope you feel the pain when someone makes you lose someone you love and cherish with all your heart. I hope you feel it because that’s how I felt when I lost my baby. You are fighting a lost battle, Danielle. Just give up already. Jamal is my man and no amount of money in world will make me leave him.”
“No!” Danielle’s scoldied in agony as Adele rose to her feet and walked away.
Satisfaction!
That’s all she could feel at that moment.