SERA
Seventeen years. For seventeen years I've kept that secret of my daughter Samantha not being Martin Dave's biological daughter.....but it took this man mere hours to uncover it.
I've worked so hard and done everything possible to keep that secret hidden....even if it meant killing someone.
Emily Dave, Emma's mother....she found out that Samantha wasn't a real Dave, and I couldn't just let her expose my secret.
She had to pay with her life do that my secret could remain hidden...for my daughter and I to enjoy a comfortable life. A life meant for Emma and her mother.
What could I have done? Growing up poor made me that way. My late mother was a prostitute and my father abandoned us both when I was just a child.
I had a horrible childhood... I craved for a better life.
I didn't want my daughter to go through what I went through.....so to give her a luxurious life, I had to sacrifice that of Emma and her mother.
Sam lived the life that was meant for her....and I wanted her to marry into a wealthy family as soon as possible.
The Hunt family.
The wealthiest family in this city, if not to Draken Hunt, the youngest son, then to the eldest....David Hunt.
The arranged engagement between the two families was because of me, Martin Dave listens to whatever I whisper into his ear.
It was final, if Sam became the President of Dave Corp and reached the age of twenty four, she could marry whoever was the President of Ouracle.
But what I wanted didn't come true.
I was selfish and thought that every secret of mine would stay hidden forever as long as Emily was dead...and Emma wasn't a part of our lives anymore.
The untold secrets.....
These same untold secrets that will ruin everything I've tried to protect for all these years.
Emily's death was unfortunate but necessary.....I thought that once she was gone, Emma would be so easy to deal with....but that girl's fate is luckier than I thought.
She was blessed with such a husband who would do anything for her, even if it means ruining the lives of others.
So formidable and dangerous.
I guess it's my karma....and I have to accept.
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"Tell me something Mrs Dave, did you have fun making a fool out of all of us..... especially my wife?"Draken asked.
"President Hunt, I sincerely apologize....I didn't mean to hurt your wife"Sera replied.
"You didn't mean? But you did! And that is something I'll never bring myself to forgive you for"Draken's voice was cold.
"I don't deserve your forgiveness President Hunt.... please do whatever you want with me, but spare Sam.....for the sake of your old friendship you had with her, please"Sera replied.
She had been kneeling on the cold floor for long, but the ruthless man before her wasn't showing her any mercy for her.
In fact, he enjoyed watching her kneel and beg....just like she made Emma kneel before.
"Sera Dave, what kind of friendship....you mean the one you forced on me and my older brother?"Draken coldly asked.
"I....I....d... didn't"Sera stammered.
"I'm not as stupid as my brother who fell for your tricks! Why spare her, she's the main cause of all of this.....we wouldn't have to see this day if it weren't for her"Draken said.
"You should be more worried about yourself and walking out of here alive Mrs Dave....that is if you'll even be able to" Draken continued to say.
LATER.....
DAVE CORP
EMMA
"Meeting adjourned, you can all get back to work"
Tiring...
It's so tiring to be a big company's leader. Now I understand why Draken's always busy....it's not easy being one.
To think that it was my mom who had all this responsibility before.....but she gave it all up for a man who ended up cheating on her and replacing her so easily.
A man who abandoned us like we meant nothing to him at all.
I can't say the same for Draken. He's completely different from my father..... he wouldn't do such a horrible thing.
After everything we've been through, he'd rather die that do anything bad to me.
He wouldn't abandon me.
I got back everything that rightfully belongs to me and my mom.
That place she used to call her home is also gone now.
I'm worried. So worried about Draken...I don't want him dragged along in this mess of my family's home burning down.
"Let go of me! I want to see my sister!!"
That voice....
"President Hunt, Ms Sam is making a scene outside your office....she says she wants to see you"Joyce rushed in with a worried look on her face.
Didn't I kick her out here! She's here to embarrass herself even more...
"Let her in Assistant Joyce.....and don't let anyone else in, even Shaun"
This will be fun.
"Emma! How could you do this!"
The look on her face the moment she stepped in.....so priceless.
"You kicked me out of my own company...is this a joke to you!"she yelled.
"The feeling is mutual right, when your whore of a mother kicked me out of my own home"
It irritates me.
"Don't talk about my mother like that! So what if she kicked you out.....you deserved it"she replied.
Her words don't mean anything anymore.
"Just like you deserve it now....."I said.
I hate her.
"Everything, you took it all away from us! How could you do this to your own family?!"She asked.
The nerve.
"Family!! I could also ask you the same question....when you kicked me out and abandoned me, wasn't I family then!!"
So annoying.
"But we're sisters...."she tried to say, but I cut her off.
"Sisters? Don't make me laugh....we were never sisters and I'll never consider you to be one!"
Impossible.
"I knew you never wanted me as a sister... that's why you stole my fiancé.....you seduced him and made him marry you!"Sam said.
Fiancé!!!
"Draken was never your fiancé, don't you dare speak about my husband like that or you'll regret it!"I shot back at her.
I'll tolerate what they say about me but not him.
"He doesn't love you, get over your crazy obsession and grow up. He chose me..." I continued to say.
"I'll make you pay for taking him away from me...." Sam tried to attack me.
She pulled out a knife ready to stab me with it.....but I was more than prepared for it.
I pulled out a gun instead and pointed it straight at her.
It was just the two of us inside, even Shaun wasn't there...
Draken told me to be more careful and taught me how to use a gun and protect myself of things ever came to a situation like this one.
"What! You thought you'd come here and try to threaten me, I'm not the old Emma you used to walk all over...I won't hesitate to pull this trigger!"I said.
"You're crazy....you want to kill me"Sam wore a pitiful expression.
Pathetic.
"Says the woman who wanted to stab me just a few minutes ago" I replied.
"I'll say this once.....Draken is my husband....get that through your stupid head."I continued to say.
So pathetic.
"Get out of my company....or else I'll have security throw you out again. Take your disgusting expression somewhere else!"
"Before I go, I just have one question....was it you who burnt down our home?" Sam asked.
"You hated that place, you had every reason to burn it down and make us homeless like we made you before, right?"she continued to ask.
"I did hate that place....but it wasn't me. That was your karma haunting you for everything you did to me, I'm glad that place is gone" I replied.
I'll never tell her or anyone else the truth, it's between Draken and I. She doesn't have any proof that we were the ones who did it.
"If there's nothing else, leave now.....I don't want to see your face ever again"
Their condition now is nothing compared to the pain I've felt for the past years....all alone with no one to help.
They deserve this.....all of it.
"Emma please... don't do this, don't kick me out again!" Sam begged.
What was she playing at this time?
Shaun was just behind the door.
I could have him throw her out again like the last time.
I already hate the fact that we share the same father.....I can't get that man's blood out of her vains. I don't want to share anything else with her.... not anymore.
But then again, this wasn't enough. Taking everything they had was too easy.
Way too easy.
What I'm doing to make them suffer has only just begun.
It was just the beginning.