Chapter 5
1007 Words
I was exhausted, and I'm not just talking physically because I've just got off a plane that took hours but emotionally and mentally as well because I was about to confront my past.
This is where my old life played out. This is where l was taken for a ride like the stupid naive fool that I am.
My hands trembled and it felt like a sign of weakness because I have carefully constructed my composure in all these years but all of a sudden I felt weak because of the overwhelming memories and emotions that I felt.
They were celebrating steering LC in a new direction forsaking my father's vision for this company, and I will never let that happen.
I can't even stomach the fact that Lawrence will be the CEO of my father's company. the very same man who ripped my life apart.
Even though I didn't want to remember but the memory seared itself into my mind. I thought I could be strong enough not to think about that day, at least not today, because I can't afford to be weak, but I seem to be failing.
I took a slow but measured breath and tried really hard to get my wits together, and I managed somehow.
I can't let the past get in the way. my past doesn't define me anymore, and it's not the person I am anymore.
I took a step inside, and somehow, I managed to block the voices in my heart and concentrate on the pain that had been locked away for years.
I let that pain empower me as I walked inside, but the air seemed to thicken as everything went quiet.
it's strange because when I was still outside, I could hear them laughing and glasses clicking, but now all eyes were on me.
Old me would have gotten shy and hid away like the coward that she was, but new me is not to be messed with, and I don't hide from anybody.
I imagine it must be hard for some of them to process because I have been considered dead for a really long time, so it was almost like seeing a ghost.
Good. Let them see who l have become. I'm not a shallow person, but I know I am hot and beautiful, so that comes as a bonus.
Rhe dress I chose today was a true definition of the person that I am now. It was a daring, backless silky black number and l know l ate with the outfit.
I didn't cower like a coward in front of their eyes. Instead, I held their gazes. I want to even let them see a flicker of the pain I have indured.
A familiar voice broke through the awkward silence, and I almost laughed because I just managed to keep a room full of billionaires quiet.
"Ma'am." I didn't have to look to know who it was, but I was deeply satisfied with the gasps that I heard echoing throughout the room.
He was impeccably dressed as always, and he held the same dark smile that I had, and it just seemed like we were a match made in Heaven.
"Steven." I acknowledged him sending shock waves throughout the whole room because I know how much they respect him because he is the face of all my companies but what they don't know is that he just holds my proxy.
" Let me introduce you to a few people, ma'am." I know that Steven was enjoying every bit of calling me ma'am because he knew the effect it was having one everybody.
I was about to say something, but I couldn't move my mouth when I came face-to-face with him.
I fisted my hands out of pure instincts even though I didn't want anybody to see my weakness.
Everything was now playing out like a movie in my head because Lisa and Martha were next to him.
They looked so happy.
My little sister. The one I would have destroyed the whole world for because I thought she loved me as much as I loved her and my mother, I trusted her implicitly the day my father my father died because I was sure she would hold my hand till the end of time.
I can try but I can never forget that day. I can never forget seeing the car burning with me inside it as the man that I loved left me to die.
I can never forget seeing them together as they mocked my love for them.
I kept my attention on him in order to hide my tears. I didn't want to cry. I couldn't cry even if I wanted because somehow they took away my ability to cry as well.
I hadn't seen him in 8 years, and I wish life had been fair to me, and I would have never had to face him again, but I needed to right the wrongs.
I took him in from head to toe. he still wore the same tailored suits and expensive watches, but he could not hide his slightly puffy face or the belly pot.
I wanted to crumble as the pain threatened to tear me up at but I held my head up high as he approached me.
he carried his signature smile and his arrogant face along with my daughter's eyes, but there was something else this time. I needed his approval in anything I did, so I did everything to see myself in his eyes, but today, I saw it without even doing anything. he didn't look at me like he loved me, but he looked at me like he couldn't even recognize me, and that's exactly what I wanted.
He opened his mouth to speak, but he was too surprised to even utter a word. I don't know what they all expected, but I guess they didn't expect me to be one of them.
He was utterly speechless.
Good.
Because this is just the beginning.
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