“Rose are you very sure of this? You mean I am not the father of the child Mara was Carrying? So she still has some feelings left for that scvmbag? Gordon asked surprised.
“Yes I am very sure, Xavier wrote it inside that letter that he sent and Mara confirmed it when I confronted her with it, so we should plan on using that to our advantage”She said
“But why don’t we tell Mrs Astrid? She is a scheming woman she might use it for her advantage and we’ll eventually benefit from it” He admonoshed.
Roe shot him a deadly glance “You can say that again Because you have been gaining from it, Mrs Astrid got the company and you got Mara so I should tell her this again and you two gain again and what’s my Gain? We asked angrily
“Then what did you suggest we do? Gordon asked
“Simple! If I have your support I know how to use this to your advantage and to my advantage let’s just work together and keep this from that woman she can’t just use us to her advantage and think she could go Scott free,” Rose adviced
“I am ready to support so far there won’t be any limitations this time around I am determined to get Mara really well this time, I wont let her know that j have got this fact.
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Mara skipped happily toward Rose’s room, she was smiling broadly, she had thought Rose is having a change of mind at least and the harbinger of the most glorious and thrilling news she had missed, she didn’t she was a traitor in league with her husband and that together they planned to keep from her the knowledge that her father was dead and use her pregnancy for their own advantage.
She had write to Xavier. A long, long letter, throbbing with passion, with all the pent up emotion and ecstasy and sorrow that laid locked up in her heart. She would give it to Rose, even though she h@tëd Rose but this favor is the best thing she had ever done.
“Xavier, sweetheart, what heavenly news Rose brought to me, I was so happy, your baby is also happy, I am sorry for leaving without telling you where I was and why I left, all I can tell you for now is that don’t trust your aunt or Rose, they had no good intentions for us. I am not stupid, I should have fight for our love, I can take them all down with just one blow of mine but, my baby…. You…. My friends are in danger. Hang in there darling, I’ll be with you Soon……. I should have called you but I can’t use my phone for now…….
Pages and pages, Mara wrote with her heart aching and throbbing, the tears rolled down her cheeks.
She took the letter she had written, a letter that held half her heart’s blood, and went along to Rose’s room. She was surprised because Rose had dressed up already somewhat surprised, Mara glanced around the room and saw all Rose’s luggage was packed and strapped.
“Why are you dressed already? You said you’re leaving by the evening?
“Ys I have to get to Los Angeles by afternoon, I was just called for a urgent shoot. Rose looked very calmly and little scornfully at Mara. Mara understood her eye signs but she kept quiet “If she knew what I can do then she will be on her knees begging me by now, spoilt brat! She thought.
Mara said in a breathless voice, “I have replied the letter pls make sure you give this to him”
Rose ignored the letter.
“No I am not going to give the letter to him but was I going to tell him you’re alive”
Mara was taken aback, she told transfixed; amazed at the demeanor of this girl whom she had thought changed her mind.
“Rose! She exclaimed “Why Rose? Why are you doing this? Don’t you have a ounce of pity? I am trying my best not to hit you several times but you’re obstinate if you know you’re not find to deliver the letter Why did you bring his letter here then? She asked angrily
Rose smirked “So you just remembered to be sympathetic? You should have left when I asked you get Lost but you brought this upon yourself by living with Xavier and even carrying his baby, don’t you know how long we have been together? Rose replied
“You’re wicked Rose! Have you forgotten who I am? I am Mara! The unbeatable fighting goddess and you still have the gut to face me like this? Have you forgotten that I can ruin you all within a whim if you tried rubbish? I have been trying to be god because of Xavier’s love but I’ll loose it all if he stop doing so! Mara retorted.
“Let’s be frank with each other, you better hear the truth and let it set you free, I am no your friend, neither I am going to be nice, useful messanger network you and the man I love. I love Xavier and I have been in love with him for years and you came suddenly and stopped everything and now I want to marry him too” Rose blurted.
Mara smirked “You should be ashamed of running after a man despite your beauty”
“What more? Rose continue colly, “Xavier is now in love with me!
Mara can’t hold her laughter “Continue with your dramas I am enjoying your speech i guess you stayed up all night practicing this? She asked
“Yes I say! He was only infatuated with you! You are a gold digger, you saw that he was rich and threw yourself on his bed. You had no right to love him, it’s not love you only want him! Don’t try and tie him down with your useless pregnancy”Rose said while she curled her lips vicisously.
Mara was at the verge of tears because of what she just say, indeed it was infatuation, she was the one that insisted on living with him anyways so it was just as if she seduced him like Rose said.
“Okay, tell me what did you want? What did you want me to do for you to live me and Xavier be? She asked
“Now you’re a good girl, take his paper and write another letter to him and give me this love letter your have written” She said collecting the letter from Mara and burning it in the ash tray and gave her another paper.
She made Mara write another letter with heavy heart and pains then she departed. even though Gordon already know what happened instead he pretended to be a nice person by petting Mara even though she was back to her formal self, crying and thinking.
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Xavier was lying around bored at home since he had nothing to do at the company, since Mara left he he’d refused to go there and his aunt had orchestrated everything by making herself the acting president.
“Xavier you won’t be able to handle the company in your condition how about I handle it for the time being? She had asked
“No problem Aunt… Do wh@tëver you wanted” that’s what he told his aunt then.
Just as he was about to go and cook, rose came in… She was wearing dad face.
“I told you not to go why will Mara be in Egypt of all places? He said when he saw the sad face she was wearing
“If I didn’t find her then it will be better than what I saw” She said pathetically
Xavier looked at her in wonderment “What did you mean? You met Mara? He asked dropping the cup in his hands
“Yes Xavier I saw Mara with my own eyes, she’s pregnant and happy with that fool Gordon Veriland. Even though we used to be close before he left, he didn’t want to see me now and Mara? She had always h@të me before this time she tore the letter you gave me and write me a reply”She said sadly with the lies flowing freely from her lips. Rose was a good lier. So she had practised her fake cry and sad face well.
Xavier collected the letter from her quickly and read it with pained heart…..
“Please forget I ever existed and don’t try to see me or communicate with me again. I want to settle down with my husband, I am absolutely Happy with him and now that is Gordon who is the father of my coming baby Good-bye. MARA
Proff enough, all that Rose said was true, it was indeed Mara’s handwriting. Mara wanted to be forgotten isn’t she? Alright he wasn’t going to crawl to her and waste himself on her. He had wasted too much agony and heart break over her as it was. His Mara was a farce !
He tore the letter and laughed sadly “To hell with it! I didn’t love me at all? He shouted.
Rose too smiled secretly, her plans are working then she let out her pent up fake emotions “I am so sorry, don’t be sad… I have always known that Mara is a cheap slut”
Xavier was demented, “I loved her, I adored her, she was the first to show me real love” he cried
“You’ll get over it Xavier, don’t let her have the laugh at you, show her how little you mind”
“I wish I could! He shook from head to toe he saw raw disappointment with misery.
Then rose decided to play her last card. She out her arms around his shoulders, she leaned her golden head against him and with throbbing voice.
“Xavier I am terribly in love with you, that gold digger Mara is too much, she’s happy with Gordon, let’s show her that she isn’t the only one that is supposed to be happy”She said then she continued “I am not ashamed to say this, I can’t bear to see you hurt like this that rotten little beast Mara has let you down, let me comfort you”
He looked at her white upturned face , it looked attractive, why not show Mara rather Mrs Mara Veriland that she can’t take him for a fool.
He caught Rose in his arms “You really love me?
“Terribly, she said panting”I have always wanted to marry you Xavier… Since Childhood”
“Will you marry me then?
Her heart jumped
