The Heir of the Family

002 - A 1 Million Dollars Fake Item

Once inside, Emma falls silent to see what Victor has prepared for her. Everything looks so well-prepared. But somehow, she feels so disgusted.

  

Victor, who is standing behind her, smiles with misunderstood thought. He could not wait for his wife's response, thinking that Emma must be deeply moved by the surprise he has prepared.

  

Without Victor knowing, Emma had just spent dinner with the other man in a luxurious restaurant. No matter how well the table is set by Victor, she couldn't imagine that table being comparable to what she had just gotten from the rich man who had just accompanied her outside.

  

She looks at everything with a despised look. When she turns around, there she finds Victor smiling by showing a glittering gift to her face.

  

Without second thought, she knocks the gift down.

  

“Don’t bring that fake jewelry to my face!” she shouts.

  

Victor is shocked, seeing a 1 million dollar ring has been thrown away. It’s not only about the ring. But also about his feelings, who has prepared everything for her, have just shattered to pieces.

  

“Fake? What do you mean by…”

  

“This!” says Emma, halting Victor by showing a necklace she is wearing. “This is what you call jewelry, a 5 grand item that you can never give to me, no matter how hard you work your ass off in that pizza shop.”

  

Victor’s gaze turns so serious after seeing what Emma is showing to him. He indeed never bought her such a necklace before. And he isn’t sure that Emma would use her own money to buy the necklace herself.

  

“How did you get that item? Who gave it to you?”

  

“Just so you know! I’ve just spent a luxurious dinner with a rich man, in a restaurant you can never take me in. And this, this necklace, this is not the only thing he has given to me.”

  

“You? You’ve been cheating on me?” asks Victor in a dismayed feeling.

  

The tears have been welled in his eyes. But as a man, he holds them up, walking straight to the table he has prepared.

  

“I’ve worked so hard to prepare everything for us. And you had dinner with another man? And still having no shame to say it out loud to my face?”

  

As if it is not enough, Emma throws everything on the table. All the cake, the food Victor cooked himself, and the luxurious vintage wine…

  

“No, no, no! Not the wine!”

  

Emma holds the wine, looking so confused with Victor’s reaction. “What’s the big deal with this wine? It’s just cheap wine!”

  

“Prang!!!”

  

Victor can only hold his head to see that vintage wine has been wasted that way. Now he finds Emma looking so angry with red eyes.

  

That’s when Victor believes that Emma is just upset and drunk. He knows that he indeed hasn’t been a good husband to her so far. Emma has also been to work hard to fulfill the need for them to live together.

  

Victor knows that she has the reason to be upset and disappointed. But all that is in the past now. He is now able to do more and to give more, where Emma no longer needs to work. Because in the next few days, their lives will change.

  

In fact, Victor is the son of a wealthy businessman. He chose a simple life just to show his father that he was not a spoiled child, to prove that he is worthy to accept a great responsibility.

  

Now he has succeeded in gaining his father's trust, and has just been entrusted to manage a branch company that happens to be in the city where they live. The last call he received from that girl named Viona, was a message sent by her father, on the appointment for him to be the head of that branch company.

  

His father has also lifted the ban for him to use the money he had saved since childhood. That’s how he was able to prepare everything for the wedding anniversary and to buy that 1 million dollar ring for Emma.

  

“Emma, I know you are upset. You must have a hard day at work. You don’t have to bring up a story about cheating just to show how disappointed you have been. I know it must be hard for you. But, we’ve been together for almost five years since we were still in college, and everything looked so happy so far.”

  

Victor picks up that 1 million dollar ring back, and shows it to Emma.

  

“Please, be patient with me. Everything will be different tomorrow,” he asks by showing that glittering jewel to his wife.

  

Emma puts on a cold face and despising gaze as she accepts the ring. It’s indeed that the ring looks so beautiful and expensive. But she still looks at it with a discontent look.

  

“Going that far to buy a fake item? Are you that desperate?”

  

Emma throws the ring out of the door which is still open.

  

“No, Emma!”

  

Victor rushes outside looking for the ring. Emma shows an ugly smirk looking at how pathetic Victor is currently in her eyes. After all, she has set her eyes on another man and no longer plans to stay with Victor for long.

  

Luckily for Victor, he finds that 1 Million dollar ring back. However, when he gets back inside, Emma is no longer there. She has gone to her room.

  

Victor tries to explain everything about him to his wife. But the wife has already locked the door.

  

“Emma, open the door! I need to tell you something!”

  

“Yeah, I need to tell you about something too. But watching you bring that fake ring just ruined my mood. Now just shut up and leave. Let me be alone for the night. Just sleep outside.”

  

Emma only shouts at him from inside the room without giving Victor a chance to talk face to face. Victor has no choice but to walk away.

  

Seeing all that he has prepared has been scattered on the floor, breaks his heart. He might be believing that Emma is acting like that only because she is drunk. But he still feels the pain in his chest.