The Unexpected Heir

Chapter 4: In laws.

I was frozen in place for a moment but Mr Chase gave me a little push and I snapped out of my thoughts, and he gave me a stern look.

I think he was trying to remind me not to screw this up.

"Ah! Mr and Mrs Chase, you finally arrived." A middle-age man greeted us with a warm smile as he shook hands with Mr Chase then his wife, the middle aged man Mr Simon was accompanied by his wife and a young lady.

"This must be him." Mr Simon said as he turned his attention to me ,taking in my appearance and he nodded in approval as he walked over to where I was.

"Yes." Mr Chase replied with a smile.

I haven't met Mr and Mrs Simon personally the last time I just met up with their daughter Dora for lunch so I know he doesn't know I was.

"Bruce."I said as I stretched out my hand for a handshake but he pulled me into an embrace and I was taken aback.

"Don't act like we are strangers, we will be family soon." He reminded me with a warm smile as he gave me a friendly pat on my shoulder.

Everyone was watching my reaction and I obviously said nothing since everyone was happy at this moment, everything was going smoothly because their business deal was hours away from being completed.

Dora who came with her parents Mr and Mrs Simon smiled at me and I nodded in acknowledgement as we all sat down.

 Dora sat with her parents Mr and Mrs Simon and I was sitting with Mr and Mrs Chase, Dora was smiling at me while I tried to avoid eye contact.

There was a center table in between us where documents rested, each party called their lawyer into the VIP room, they looked at the document with their lawyers present and nodded with happiness.

"It's a done deal." Mr Simon said as he laughed with joy and a smile plastered on his face.

Both parties signed the contract and Dora and I had a Court wedding with her parents and Mr and Mrs Chase present as our witnesses.

They were happy at the outcome of the whole process and when it was time to leave my luggage was moved from Mr Chase's car to one of Mr Simon's car because that was the arrangement that I was to leave with Mr Simon after the marriage because his daughter needed to work and changing environment won't do her any good.

 Besides, she couldn't stay with me in my small storage room and her father was afraid that if she stayed with me she might reveal some of his company secrets to my family because she works as an assistant of the chief financial officer in his company.

Mr Chase didn't talk with me after the deal with Mr Simon was done, I just heard Mrs Chase say tough luck to me when everyone wasn't not close,she has finally gotten rid of me the trash that stained her family ,I was thrown away like nothing, they didn't turn back or wave goodbye to me when leaving, just like that the man I knew to be my father for 18 years arrange a marriage for me with a stranger I just met once and left without looking back since he since his deal was done.

I don't even know what the deal was about and I didn't know how to feel or react to this.

I felt a small tug on the arm of my suit and I turned to see Dora staring at me with happy eyes.

I don't know why she seems happy about this marriage or was she also putting on a facade for the sake of her parents.

"Let's go home." She said and I turned to look at her parents who were waiting for us to get into the car so we could leave.

Home is a place I haven't found before now I will be a wanderer that calls their home my home.

I got into the car with my wife and her parents got into the car behind us as we drove off.

A honeymoon wasn't arranged for us after all this was just business to our parents.

"You don't seem happy to be married to me." Dora said.

"Are you?" I asked her in a serious tone.

"Um...I can't change what has happened. I can just embrace it, you should do that too, besides you seem nice and you don't talk much. I like that about you." She replied with a smile.

I seem nice?

I guess I could try to embrace it as she said since she was happy with the marriage.

I just hope this doesn't backfire on me.

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FOUR MONTHS LATER.

I felt water pouring on my face and for a minute I thought I was drowning as I gasped and jolted upright to a sitting position while panting heavily and then I realized I wasn't drowning, but I was in fact in my room on my bed and the duvet was wet so was my face, I used my hand to wipe my face to be sure I wasn't dreaming.

"The dreamer has finally woken up!" I heard a familiar voice jeer at me and I turned to see Mrs Simon holding an empty jug which I think the content was emptied on my face , Mrs Simon was frowning very deeply.

"Good morning…"

"Stop! Save your pathetic greeting for someone who actually cares, what you are still doing on the bed? Get your lazy ass up right now and get out of this house! '' Mrs Simon,my wife's mother yelled angrily at me and I sneezed and she made a face of disgust and covered her nose with a handkerchief and took two steps backwards.

"Mom…."

"Shut up who is your Mom ?I can never be a mother to such a useless young man that can't even find a job, you just look like that Father of yours that deceived us and gave us his airhead son he wanted to get rid of!" Mrs Simon yelled and I flinched at the sound of her voice.

"We were wondering why your Father would ask you to leave right us,we didn't know it was because you weren't useful to him, I mean we thought you worked for your Dad in his company or at least you were a young productive man,but that wasn't the case,we were given a useless son in law when we gave up such a productive land !" She yelled angrily, unloading all her anger on me and when she was done her face had a tint of red as she was breathing heavily.

 I wanted to remind her that she also gained from the deal , I wasn't the one that proposed the deal but I swallowed my words before she started yelling again that I talked back to her.

I had a headache already. I don't need her yelling at me. It will only make it worse.

"Mrs Simon ,you remember I am sick right?" I asked her since she had forgotten that I had a cold and she poured water directly on my face when I had been sneezing since yesterday.

Mrs Simon burst out laughing and she had a look of disgust on her face as she shook her head.

"Only my naive little daughter will believe that stupid lie you cooked up," Mrs Simon,my mother in law hissed at me.

" I know you are pretending to be sick so you won't go out to look for a job ,too bad your lies will never work on me. I will give you 10 minutes to get out of this house or the next thing I will pour on you will leave a stench for days." Mrs Simon threatened and I got up from the bed and sneezed again and she frowned.

"Stop acting pitiful. I know you are just pretending, if I had known this was the way you are I would have never agreed to let you stay here nonsense!" She spat as she stomped her foot angrily on the floor and stormed out of my room.

I just wonder how she expects me to go to a job interview when I was sneezing.

I still got dressed, took my medication and to avoid any further problem or insults from my mother in-law Mrs Simon I decided to head out of the Mansion to escape her nonsense talk.

The way she is talking you will think I don't apply for job or try looking for a job, but the only thing I have been doing ever since I came into their house is look for job since they refused to let me work in their company because they think I might leak their company secrets to my Father Mr Chase.

My Father, Mr Chase has not even called me ever since I left his mansion. 

He was glad I left.

 That's why he didn't care if I was well here and refused to give me a job in his company the last time I called him and asked him for a job.

What he did was yell at me and call me I quote.

"A useless son that doesn't know how to do anything right." 

Even though Mr Chase my Father had a lot of money he never sent me to College after highschool he just told me to work something out for myself and If I wanted to still stay at his home I had to work in his house. 

That was why I did the chores at home and only worked part-time if I needed money.

I couldn't go for any job interview recently because I have a cold, even if my cold was getting better now I can't risk sneezing in a job interview and I still had a fever.

My mother in law won't let me be that's why I left the house and went to a cafe to sit and drink coffee, as I went through the job advertisement on my phone to apply for different jobs.

It's not as if I was staying at home. 

I go to part-time jobs like food delivery but I don't have a college degree to work a white collar job.

I can just settle for anything I get.

After drinking my coffee I decided to head over to visit Dora in her office at least she has her own office.

Getting to the company building I was glad I didn't run into any problems, because I always hear employees of the company badmouthing me.

I went to the receptionist desk to ask her to tell Dora I came to see her.

Dora works as an assistant to the chief financial officer(CFO) in her Dad's company.

You would think that since she worked such a good job she would have a lot of money but no, her parents asks her to pay rent in their house and other expenses, leaving her with just change after everything is paid, her older sister Megan and younger sister Emily doesn't pay a dime but Dora never complains because she said she owes it to them.

I don't understand how a parent can favor one child at the expense of another.

Who am I to talk after all I was abandoned by my own Father and right now I am jobless man looking for a job, it's the plan that have been working for them since, Dora is so good at her job that her parents doesn't want her to leave and find a better job where they can't leech off her salary and they call me a leech.

I knew where Dora's office was and when I was walking to her office I could hear the distant murmurs of her coworkers.

"Isn't that Mrs Dora's husband, I heard he is a freeloader, he just eats and makes no effort to work." One said loudly to my hearing.

"I heard comes from a poor family, I wonder why Mrs Dora agreed to marry such a useless man, if he isn't working here he must be incompetent." Another said.

"Shh,he will hear us."

"Even if he hears what he can do?" I heard her ask and I turned to her and she was glaring at me.