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"Why do you want them apart. It is enough we now have different social classes, but our children are in love." Maybelline froned at Gregory words. She couldn’t believe there was a ti in her life that she had respected this man.
Gregory Peterson was nothing than a begger and social climber. She will never let him use her family like he used the Adkins.
No one wanted to be associated with them. They are despicable. Who tries to bite the hands that feed them.
For months she had witnessed first hand how they treated the mad heir. They had even forced her Ariana into it too.
"Why would I let my daughter be a part of poverty?" May spat.
"We do not want trouble Gregory, get your son out to sign the papers and bring my daughter out before I arrest you for kidnap." May said.
"Don’t forget..." She gestures her fingers towards them in warning. "You’re a nobody to the society. All you will dwell on now is past glory and nothing more. I can destroy you if I want to." May threatened.
"You co into my own house, to threaten ? Abby’s voice sounded from behind. She couldn’t believe at one point in her life she was close to this woman. She had treated her like her own sister, fought for her and stood by her.
She used her power to place her in places she wouldn’t reach. And all she gets in return is backstabbing.
"Past glory you said. But the sa past glory made you who you are Maybelline." Abby spat, pushing her husband aside. This was her fight now.
"I and my husband made you and..."
"We already had a household na. We didn’t dwell on other people’s na and glory. You didn’t make , the Adkins did. Like they made you too." Abby’s eyes were wide at her words.
"Don’t think because you gave a little position in politics, I’ll not worship you. How much do you need because I know you’ll be needing a lot.
But I’m not here for that. I want my child and I’m taking her away no matter what." May said.
"You co to my house to insult Maybelline after everything I’ve done for you." Abby’s eyes moistened. She could take any betrayal, but not this one.
This was too deep.
"Nobody cares about your stupid good works Abby, those are in the past now. So what if I’m despicable to you, weren’t you the sa with the madman?"
"Your wickedness to him got you kicked out of the mansion and family for good. You’re now an outcast in the society, I and my family can no longer be associated with people like you."
"Now, I want my daughter back before I get you all arrested." May said.
"Don’t think because we no longer bare the Adkins na that we are completely broke Maybelline. Chris and Ariana are married and unless the two decides to divorce you have no right to force it." Abby said glaring at the woman before her.
"What are you talking about?" Maybelline asked. She couldn’t let her daughter spend another night in a place like this. How can Ariana even sleep in here?
Chris and Ariana are married people just Incase you have forgotten." Abby repeated herself. This ti even a dumb person can understand what she had just said.
"Did you forget your daughter put us in this state. Ariana still has to help us through this predicant." Abby pointed at her size.
"That’s not my daughter’s fault. You should hold Penelope responsible for that." May shot back.
"Penny? But your daughter Admitted right before you that her vileness brought this upon us. We can no longer lose weight as normal people anymore Maybelline."
"Maybe you were too quick to judge for being evil, when you, I and Ariana are almost the sa people. Did you forget what you did to your own child for years? How you hate your daughter for your own mistake?" Maybelline blinked at her words.
"Oh yes, I rember because you told the real truth behind the rape and how everything went down that night."
"What is she talking about?" David asked his wife who suddenly looked frozen at a spot.
They were so close, and she had been vulnerable to Abby. She had no idea this witch would use her words against her today.
"I... I have no idea what she’s talking about."
"You have been accusing that man for so many years, you have lived with the lie you fabricated without telling the world it wasn’t an actual rape." Maybelline winked at her, gesturing her to stop talking but Abby just kept going.
She can never be the only one destroyed. She refused to be the only bad person. If anything, Maybelline who accuse her is as evil as she is. They’re alike the every way.
"How dare you accuse wrongly?" Maybelline barked angrily at Abby.
"You’re just trying to ruin because you’re ruined spreading lies about . Why would I lie about my trauma?" Maybelline cried out.
"I’ve forgotten soone like you with no conscience will fabricate sothing this big. Else why would you like against and try to destroy my life because I choose not to be associated with you?" May said.
Her relationship with David was already on an eggshell after she beat her own daughter. She was still trying to patch things up and now this woman was trying to ruin everything.
If David finds out about the truth, she has no idea what other actions he would take on her. Maybe the divorce he had threatened before might be real this ti.
"Lie all you want. But one day I’ll expose the truth myself. Trust." Abby smirked.
"As for your daughter, she cannot be divorced to my son unless she’s settled everything she did to us. She has to turn us back to the way we were, else, you and your husband have to take the sa thing she gave us." Maybelline frowned but she couldn’t say anything.
She was scared now because Abby might try to expose her again. She would find a way to deal with this leech, but for now, she needed to play it cool.
"Whatever, I want my daughter now. You will not keep her away from right?" May asked and Abby nodded.
"Of course I wouldn’t. But your daughter I not here with us. Didn’t she go back ho with you last night?" Abby frowned at her words.
She knew this would happen. This people were trying to keep her daughter
away from her. She will never allow this.
"Where else will Ariana be if she isn’t here?" May asked.
"She isn’t here Maybelline. She didn’t return the night before. Why would she co with us when she attended with you?" Abby asked.
"I cannot believe a word from that lips of yours Abby. I’ll need to inspect the house myself else, I’ll get the cops involved. You need to tell what you have done to my child." May accused.
"What would we do with your child Maybelline? Ariana has been with us all this while, why would we hurt her now?" May didn’t have the ti to listen anymore, she stomped into the cozy apartnt.
May’s eyes moved around the place as she searched for her daughter. The house was so little, so it wouldn’t be hard finding her child, but she still couldn’t find Ariana.
She pushed a room door open to see Chris on the sofa with his cellphone and stepped out. She didn’t have the ti for him, all she wanted was her child.
When May stepped out, she was even more furious. If Ariana wasn’t here, then where could she be?
Was she that hurt by the news that she ran away? But where would she go to?
"Let’s go David." May said and then turned to Gregory and Abby. "This is not over yet. I’ll be back if I do not find my child." She said and started walking away.
They needed to search sowhere else. Ariana may be with one of her friends. Abby had been a good and observing mother to know all of Ariana’s friends.
She couldn’t begin to go to their houses one after another. She would head back ho and wait for Ariana there.
By nightfall, her daughter should be ho.
It was sunset already and Maybelline had yet to see Ariana return, there was no sign of her anywhere. She took out her cellphone and started calling each family Ariana could probably be with. But no one said they had seen her daughter.
Maybelline was truly worried this ti. Where could her daughter be?
The last ti she had seen her was the ti she had excused herself to rest due to tiredness. While they left the mansion that day, she had not seen Ariana.
"Is there any news?" David asked and Abby shook her head. She couldn’t hold her tears anymore.
"I don’t know what to do anymore David?" She said put and David hugged her.
"I think it’s ti to inform the police about this. It’s been 24hours already. I’ll be back."
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