Isabella stared at the documents, feeling completely confused. "Is this a trick or what?" She asked while waving the documents in front of Nathan.
"I know that you want to trick me, right? Do you think I'm dumb to just sign the documents? You want to take money from me through the divorce, right?" She paused and gently strolled through the papers. "Let me see," she uttered.
She was stunned after going through the documents and found out that it included no alimony payment.
Emma, who was standing beside them, grabbed the papers from her daughter's hand. She forgot all about her pain and strolled through the papers, then she burst into laughter.
"My dear child, sign the papers immediately so that you can finally be free from this poor man who doesn't deserve to be your husband," she said without blinking her eyes. This is what she has always wanted. It felt like a slap on her face when she'd go out with her friends and they'd taunt her all because she has a poor son-in-law. Most times, they'll intentionally show her what their rich son-in-law got for them, leaving her in shame.
Isabella scoffed in anger. "What nonsense is this? Is this some kind of joke or what? I'm the one that is supposed to divorce you, not the other way round"
"Have you forgotten what we've done for you? We have provided you with everything, but this is what I get, divorce papers? You won't succeed in embarrassing me," she said and snatched the papers from her mother and tore them into pieces.
"Ungrateful brat! I won't let you disgrace me," she sneered.
"What the hell did you just do Isabella, do you know how long I've been praying for you to divorce this fool?" Emma's voice rang across the hall. Isabella walked into the room and brought out another stack of papers.
"This is another divorce paper, Mom. I also planned to divorce Nathan and compensate him, but it turns out that he's as ungrateful as you said." She paused and passed the papers to Nathan. "Sign them!" She ordered, causing a smile to appear on Nathan's lips. He took the papers from her and signed them without hesitation.
Isabella frowned as she watched Nathan sign the documents. She expected him to be on his knees begging for her forgiveness and then she'd use the opportunity to humiliate him, but unfortunately, Nathan willingly signed the papers. His reaction made Isabella's blood boil. "What the hell is your problem, huh? Do you think that this is a joke?" She yelled and gritted her teeth in anger.
"You're so ungrateful and I wonder how you'll survive without us," she added
"I told you that we were so nice to him and now see how bold he has become," Emma said with her hands crossed. She was glad that Nathan signed the papers, and that was all that mattered to her.
"You can't even beg for my forgiveness," She said, turning to face Nathan, she pointed her hand at him and yelled, "You won't survive without us and you'll come to beg us, you're nothing without us, Nathan!"
Nathan stared at her with a disdainful smile. "You are the ungrateful one here..."
"How dare you speak to me with such boldness? Are you insane?" Isabella desperately wanted to hit him. She hated his guts
"I'm not insane Isabella, everything that your family has is all because of me, you all have been ignorant for so long," Nathan said without blinking, causing Isabella to burst into laughter
"Mom... I didn't know when Nathan became a comedian..." She continued laughing. She turned to face Nathan and the wide smile on her face instantly vanished as she saw how serious Nathan looked. Isabella couldn't believe that Nathan would stand in front of her and blab nonsense to her ears.
"You must be out of your mind, I worked day and night to be a successful CEO while you just lazy around in this house all day," She paused and brought her voice down before continuing, "You don't know anything about the success of the Fedon company Nathan nor did you help me achieve anything"
"It'll be a complete waste of one's breath to argue with you," Nathan said and attempted to leave, but Isabella dragged him back in anger
"Where do you think you're going?" She asked, but Nathan ignored her and turned to leave again and this time, Isabella stood right in front of him and said, "You can't leave this house without apologizing to me first."
Nathan scoffed and narrowed his eyebrows. He stared into her eyes coldly and said, "Get out of my way" Although his words sounded like a whisper, they sent shivers down Isabella's spine.
"You must apologize to her!" A man's voice rang through the hall, causing everyone to instantly turn to their left. Nathan's eyes fell on the man who came home with Isabella.
"You're so rude and ungrateful. They have done a lot for you, but you've chosen to repay them by insulting them?" He asked, causing Nathan to burst into laughter.
"And who do you think you are to meddle in our business?" Nathan asked
"My name is Luke Smith and starting from today, I'm Isabella's boyfriend." He introduced himself, causing Nathan to scoff, he wasn't concerned about the Fedon family, he had signed the divorce agreement with Isabella and now, he wants to leave but it turns out that they don't want him to peacefully leave the mansion.
Meanwhile, a broad smile appeared on Emma's face as soon as those words escaped Luke's lips, "Finally, I'll have a rich son-in-law" she thought and crossed her hands anticipating for Nathan to obey Luke's orders and get the hell out of the house.
Luke took a few steps closer to Nathan and ordered, "I can't let a commoner who feeds on the leftovers of my girlfriend insult her. You must kneel before her and apologize"
Nathan sneered at Luke's words and turned to Isabella, "For the past 3 years, I have done my best and even before we divorced, you brought your so-called boyfriend home" He said and shook his head in disbelief"What do you mean by you've done your best? You're no match for Luke. I'm sure that you're regretting now because you made the mistake of signing those papers without any compensation from me," Isabella said with her left hand on her waist. "It's not too late to beg now, swallow your pride Nathan, and beg me, don't be so ungrateful!" Isabella took a step closer to him and stared into his eyes"You're the one who made a mistake Isabella, so don't irate me, or else, I'll make sure that I teach you all a lesson," He said, coldly.Isabella was stunned at Nathan's words. He has been so calm and humble for the past 3 years. He has never talked back at her or Emma, even when they treated him like a servant. He was never angry about it. "How come he changed so much?" She thought."How
"We have been ambushed" The Taxi driver stuttered, his hands shaking on the steering wheel."Open this Goddamn door," One of the aggressive-looking gangsters hit the car. "Please, please, I have nothing. I've not made a single dime since morning," the taxi driver begged as he opened the door of the car, stepping out of the car with his hands in the air."You too, get down from the car." They pointed to Nathan, who sneered. He stepped down from the car, sweeping his gaze across the faces of the men who attacked him to see if he found their faces familiar."Nathan!!! Surprised?" A man walked from behind the gangsters and slowly approached Nathan with his head high. "No, I'm not. In fact, I thought you'd come with a thousand of your dogs that you call boys to fight with me," Nathan scoffed with his gaze on Nigel. The gangsters grumbled amongst themselves while staring at Nathan with bloodshot eyes as if they were about to rip his throat out of his body, making the taxi driver scared to
Nigel and the gangsters were terrified as they winced in pain. The only thought that crossed their minds was to leave the premises immediately, but they were surrounded. Nigel reached for the gun that fell from his hand when he got kicked the first time. He hid the gun, but he didn't have the balls to shoot anyone with it."My sister is the CEO of Foden Group and her boyfriend is Luke! If you hurt me, you'll regret it," Nigel shouted, but she ignored him. Nigel has never been in a situation like this before, he always had the upper hand, and most especially, he underestimated Nathan. He thought beating him up would just be a piece of cake.Nigel decided to risk his life by pulling the trigger on Nathan. He slowly tried bringing the gun from where he hid it."What's that you're hiding?" One of the hefty men in a black suit asked the second he saw him. Nigel didn't respond, his ego didn't get him to beg for them to let him go. "What's that you're hiding?" He asked again, but Nigel didn
Before Emma or Isabella could mention another word, Nathan ended the call and slid his phone into his back pocket.After ending the call, he turned to Lily who was standing beside him, and asked, "You haven't told me the reason why you chose to find me." A faint smile appeared on Lily's face then it instantly vanished after seeing the stern look on Nathan's face, "I need your help" she replied, causing Nathan to arch an eyebrow"Please come with me to the car," she said and Nathan reluctantly got into the car with her, "The Carbin mansion" Lily instructed the driver and he nodded in acknowledgment"Where are we going?" Nathan asked, with a frown on his face."The Carbin's family mansion?" she replied "No! Why are we going there?" He rephrased the question. Lily turned to him and heaved a long sigh before saying, "My family is in a big mess Nathan and we need your help," She continued, "The Lord of the Carbin family took our drugs and instead of getting better, he got worse and we n
"What's happening to my father?""What's wrong?" Everyone in the room began to panic, except Nathan. He kept his eyes on the Carbin's Lord."Everyone, calm down," He yelled just to get their attention, "Mr. Carbin will be fine," Nathan added. He turned to look at the faces of everyone in the room. He scoffed after sewing the expression on the doctor's face."Please, I don't want to lose my husband. Tell me what we need to do," Mrs. Carbin begged. Nathan didn't utter a word. He noticed the terrified look on Isabella's face before he took a few steps closer to the Lord, who was unconscious on the bed."He was poisoned," Nathan said as he took out a powder from his pocket. This spec powder can cure any poison in the world and it was invented by Nathan. He's the only one who knows its recipe. In the black market, one gram of the powder is worth half a million. People usually call it a magic drug because it works like magic.The room became pin-drop silent and everyone watched Nathan. No o
"No... no... no, I honestly wasn't aware of the poison," Doctor Tony stuttered, but no one listened to him"Save that crap for someone else! We thought that you were an expert, you're just a quack doctor and if not for this young gentleman, then my father would have been dead by now all because of your wrong medication," The first son of the family said in a rage. He was upset and couldn't imagine what would have happened if his father had died all because of that careless act."I'm sorry sir, I wasn't aware of the poison, it seems that it was hidden, please forgive me for my carelessness," the doctor begged"Okay, it's understandable that you're not good enough to save my father but then you tried to stop Nathan from curing my father all because you wanted to save your dignity," He continued with a frown on his face, "That's unacceptable"He turned to Nathan feeling grateful, "Thank you, Nathan, Even after we listened to this hypocrite and stopped you from giving your medicine to my
Lily strolled through her phone and dialed her assistant's number instantly to convene the press conference."Linda," Lily said as soon as her assistant answered the call"Good afternoon ma, I went through Mr. Carbin's file ma and...""We have sorted that, Linda. The Lord of the Carbin family is totally fine now," she informed her assistant."What... What happened ma, it was our drugs, right?" Lily giggled at how curious her assistant was. "You'll find out Linda, calm down, I have a reason for calling you," Lily said"Oh, I'm sorry ma, I'm just excited that we will finally stop receiving threats from the Carbin family," she said, causing me to smile faintly"I want you to convene a press conference tomorrow night at the Brown family mansion, okay?" Lily said."Yes, but tomorrow is the company's anniversary," Linda reminded her"I know. After the press conference, we'll start the anniversary party," Lily responded and ended the call. She turned to Nathan and asked, "I'm sorry for intr
"I live here and my house number is No. 1," Nathan said, causing the salesman to burst into laughter. The laughter was so infectious that the small crowd joined him in laughing."House No. 1 was sold to a mysterious rich man," the salesman informed. "And obviously, it seems like you're a homeless beggar that can't even afford a meal talk less of buying a house," He added"We should call the police," Isabella's friend suggested"Yes, let's call the police, he's a shameless criminal" They all agreed, and the salesman took his phone out of his pocket"Shameless beggar" "I can't believe that he shamelessly said that he owns a house here, someone that doesn't even have a place to have his bath," they mocked him. "I can't believe he imagined owning a house like that. Does he even know the price of it?" They mocked him and laughed.In the community, there were only 100 villas, and the smaller the numbers, the greater the price. No. 1 villa was the most expensive villa in the community. It