BREAKING NEWS: THE BODY OF BILLIONAIRE HEIR; ZADE DELAMONTE, FOUND ON THE BEACH.Edgar's eyes were fixated on the screen as though his life depended on it. It seemed as though everything would disappear if he blinked for even a second. This wasn't a rumor. It was on the biggest TV news platform. The Delamontes were there to retrieve his decaying body. The real heir was dead. This was the answer to all his questions about the mysterious man who looked just like Zade Delamonte. Ray was nothing but a doppelganger. He was no man of influence. He had nothing. Just a barn and a woman who was supposed to be his wife.Edgar felt stupid. All hail efforts to get on the good side of the fool had been in vain. He even let go of the love of his life for the nameless idiot!Burning with inexplicable rage, he phoned his secretary to prepare a sack letter for Ray. For wasting his precious time and enjoying his resources for free, he was going to pay double.To think he has already given the idiot
In his life, Ray had been insulted a couple a couple of times but this had to be the height of it. Asking him to leave the table and eat with the servants in the kitchen so he wouldn't make their guests uncomfortable. The Larrys had quickly accepted Ariane's fiancee because a win was a win. The man was still getting married into their family. Elsa was allowed to sit as Ariane's sister.The more he stared at Edgar, the more he questioned everything. He had been hardworking and diligent. Edgar himself confirmed it. So why was the man suddenly firing him?Elsa walked to her husband's side. She was not going to eat amid people who scorned her husband. “Honey, let's leave,” she whispered to him. He nodded and walked out of the house with her, pretending not to hear the mocking laughter that escorted them to the door. “I knew that man was up to no good. His sudden kindness to us was questionable,” Elsa seethed on their way to the barn.Ray felt so ashamed of himself. Instead of betteri
Life was hard and it wasn't even a joke. Ray and Elsa had to move from the barn and the Larry's property all together. Although Mr Larry said they were free to use any other building, Elsa kicked against it. She knew her family. Eventually, they would claim they wanted to rear new animals or stock more feed or start sone business. Any excuse to get them to leave. She preferred to sleep on the streets than swallow the insult and humiliation. They were currently moving into the store he got for her. Luckily he paid for it instead of renting so they had nothing to worry about.It was their property. It lacked a lot of essentials like space, bathroom, kitchen and even a free corner to drop their belongings and lay their heads but they couldn't complain. It was better than nothing. Ray didn't relent. He began job hunting once again. He knew that nothing was guaranteed in business. There were going to be days where they barely made sales and he would need to provide for them. Aside tha
It was just exactly as they thought. No one wanted to buy anything from them the next day but Elsa wasn't bothered. They managed to auction off everything last night, only a few were left for their personal consumption. She was grateful they bought the property as well. If they hadn't, there was a possiblity the owner would come demanding back his property. With everything gone, there was enough room for them to move around the house. The room was spacious now, enough for them to fit in more properties if they wanted. In the process of fixing thevplace up, she realized that Ray and her were yet to consummate their wedding. Her cheeks heated up at the thought. What would he say to that? Would he want to get intimate with her? It startled her that she wasn't repulsed by the thought. In fact, she was looking forward to it if it was eventually going to happen. ‘But he has never talked about it,’ she pondered. ‘Could it be that he doesn't find me attractive?’It hit her harder than s
Elsa had to resort to the one person her father taught her to look down on. The traditional healer. All her life, she had been made to believe he was some sort of diabolical man. Many said he summoned demons to heal those who came to him for help in exchange for their destinies.None of that mattered to her at that point. If he wanted her destiny, she would give him. She didn't care if he had to summon a legion of demons to achieve that but she needed Ray alive. If her father could turn his back on her, it didn't matter what a spiritualist would do to her. Toyi was the town outcast. The only man with a trailer home. Anyone outside would have considered it decent but the town folks were different.His strange collection of objects and leaves made things worse. When he introduced himself as a traditional healer, they immediately assumed he was some spiritualist with mystic powers.Especially when he healed a boy who had no hope of seeing again. One day, a cancer patient was brought
“I don't believe this. My brother cannot be dead. There had to be some kind of explanation. He can't just die like that,” Elizabeth told her father. Over the week, she had been hiring a lot of private investigators to dig deeper into Zade's disappearance.Even though the body they buried days ago was unarguably Zade's, she didn't want to accept it. Her relatives termed it grief and decided she would eventually snap out of it and accept the truth but Elizabeth refused to give up. “Liz, I understand you. Zade was more of a brother to you than any of your brothers and the bond between you too was so strong. I understand, trust me. He was my favorite nephew…”“Your only nephew,” Elizabeth chipped in and the man chuckled. “Fine, my only nephew but he was also like a son to me. Since his parents passed away, I took it upon myself to raise him to be the son they wanted. It hurts me deeply that he had to die at such a young age but denying the fact won't change anything,” he continued.“Yo
“You mean there is a chance that my problem might still be I've and not dead like everybody thinks he is?” Elizabeth could barely contain her joy now.“Don't forget the possibility that he could also be a doppelganger and nothing like your brother.” She didn't say that to ruin Elizabeth's mood. It was so she wouldn't get her hopes too high to have them dashed in a second. He could be Zade but there was a higher chance he might not. “But what if he is? I have a good feeling about this, Helen. My brother could really be alive,” Elizabeth chattered on without paying attention to Helen. Helen wondered if she made a mistake. Perhaps she would have found some other way to get the DNA test done before informing Elizabeth. The girl was way too happy to bear any form of disappointment.“I only beg you listen to me first. You can believe whatever you want to but Toyi said we have to get some of your grandfather's hair for tests.” “That's easy. I just need to give him one of those teddy bea
All attempts from Toyi to calm Elsa down were futile. She was pacing frantically and sobbing, claiming that Ray was leaving her for another woman.Nothing Toyi said penetrated her ears. All she knew was that Ray was leaving her. The confusion on his face when she called him her love. The denial came shortly after that. Her heart continued breaking over and over. The tears continued leaking from her eyes with nothing to stop it. “Elsa, you need to calm down. This is not something you should panic about. The accident was fatal. He's suffering from amnesia. He will be fine,” Toyi tried once again.He knew the truth already. For Ray to mention Adera, only meant that he was indeed the Delamonte heir. He was going to send words to Helen but Elsa’s emotional state made him hesitate. He could see that the woman loved him dearly and didn't want anything to make her more unhappy than she already was. “Stop trying to make me feel better, Toyi. My father found him in the sea and he had no me