Daughter-in-law Strikes Harder

“I sense things taking a crazy turn in this house. I have never seen Eva so concerned about the home and company affairs that much,” Ellen, who was driving the car said to make the mood in the car lighten up, with her younger sister and mother who were sitting at the passenger’s seat.

The excited daughter was happily driving her mother to the airport, so that she could just be in time to catch her flight. Eleanor had paid for the trip with some of her friends a month ago, and it was postponed due to some personal reasons. Finally, it was time for her to go and Ellen couldn’t be more than delighted.

Though they were not still in a pleasant mood that Dalton didn’t restore all of the credit cards, Ellen wasn’t so bothered because she earned from her own personal job too. Though every money she had spent and the lavish lifestyle she had kept up to date because of her brother, it was still easier to get adjusted to the new system than her mother.

Eleanor had remained an angry woman ever since Aria returned back to the house, and her son didn’t seem to care about anyone even more. Anyone who was not pleased with his rules could use the door out, and stay in their own houses as Eva often did.

Ellen’s eyes trailed to the front mirror to see what they were both doing, when she didn’t hear an answer from any of them. Her younger sister was engrossed in the online novel that she was reading, while her mother was still thoroughly pissed off about everything, and her trip that was rescheduled to a very wrong time.

There was now limit to how she could spend money with the credit card she had, which she really hated the most out of everything. She spent money more extravagantly in the house than anyone, and even engaged in online weird games where she loses money too.

Dalton, who had known all along continued to keep her in check without making an issue out of it, finally found a good reason to make sure she realized the gravity of her irrational actions. About Aria being made the new head of a company too, she almost thought she would lose her mind when she confirmed the validity.

“Anything to say about Aria’s company takeover?” Ellen, who was still staring at her mother through the mirror, taunted her again, so that she would be provoked to say something. And she knew it would work. Her mother was still keeping it all in.

“It is so crazy that Dalton has started with the department store. What if he ends up giving her the entire company rights?” The crazy daughter continued to press while looking intently at her mother’s facial expression through the mirror, which had started to become wry by what she was hearing.

“What if she and Dalton finally decides not to get a divorce?” Emma, who suddenly stopped what she was reading cut in, and that statement became the fuel to the glowing fire of Eleanor’s heart.

“That will never happen! I will kill that bastard before it happens!!!!” Eleanor screamed out in a very insane way that took her daughters by surprise, and her eyes flashed so intently like someone who could stab a bear if she saw one.

Emma remained startled for a few seconds by the way their mum screamed, while Ellen bursted into a derisive laughter that was more taunting to the ears. It was a fact that Eleanor was really frustrated, beyond her limit point.

“What do you think it is then? Their marriage?” Emma turned to ask her sister instead.

She had stopped traveling the way she usually did after her breakup, and just usually remained indoors or visited a library. It was just a few days away with the blind date that their grandfather had set for Ellen, and Emma was tagging along to pick a nice dress and shoe for her.

Though both sisters were not usually that close in the past, they were trying more to rely on one another than before. The whole new process worked, and they were doing fine.

“I really… don’t know,” Ellen paused, and tried to think of a perfect answer to the question her sister was asking her. It was actually hard of a question to answer.

“It is some kind of love-hatred thing. They are about to divorce, and he gives her a shopping mall of her own. Surely, it is not alimony. They hate each other and bicker, but you can also see some kind of burning affection. I really don’t know,” Ellen finally gave up guessing on what was really going on between them.

“Do you think they will divorce at the end of everything?” Emma asked again.

“They probably will, and they should. Living with our family was torture for her, and if she still eventually remains as a wife, then our good lives would be more bad than this,” Ellen stated truthfully and painfully.

And they probably knew it too. Only her brief disappearance from the house, caused them quite a great discomfort. It was evident that Dalton was now smitten by her in ways they couldn’t even understand, but if it continued that way, she would end up making their lives sorry using Dalton’s influence.

“Dalton has a weird taste for women with fierce demeanor that would defy him. Maybe Aria found that out, and decided to take it to the end,” Emma chuckled softly, and turned her face to outside the car where a breeze whoosed past her tiny face.

“Maybe? And she indeed succeeded.”

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“Are you okay? What happened?” Dalton asked the lady he was carrying tenderly in his arms against his chest, when she had still not uttered any words over the five minutes that he saw her in that state. She didn’t answer him.

“What happened Aria? Why did you look so startled and distressed when you saw me? Where are your shoes? And why do you look so disorientated?” Dalton asked Aria in rushed words, questions that he had been trying to shove down his throat for a few minutes, so that she could regain herself first.

“I think someone was chasing me,” she replied in a very low tone, while trying to still catch her breath which was still unstable.

“You were running? Someone was chasing you?” Dalton, who was surprised by what she was telling him, furrowed his eyebrow in shock mixed with fear of what could be happening.

“Are you okay? Can you move?” He touched her face and forehead to check if was doing well.

“Why are you still in the office by this time?” He queried her, as he quickly brought his phone from his pants pocket and called Alex immediately.

“Was busy with work. Found out that…..” Aria paused and remembered that he was the major reason why her company was facing a crisis, even if the money was his right. She frowned and stopped answering whatever he asked her again.

She was too tired and stressed out to lash out at him and get angry, but she preferred to get him angry by giving the silent treatment. He didn’t notice that fact though, and just carried her away from where they were standing into the nearest elevator.

‘Were every incident really a coincidence?’

They watched the videos over and over again as the camera operator rewinded and fast-forwarded, every single minute and seconds of the parking lot footage, that Aria claimed that someone had chased after her. The man was distressed when he had to return back to the mall that late, when Alex called him.

Dalton collected the computer mouse for himself and watched it again and again, but there seemed to be no one chasing after a lady, who picked off by herself like someone chased when she got to where her car was parked. It really surprised the billionaire at what he was watching.

After they were able to ascertain everything that had happened, the man was allowed to go home while Aria looked so confused at the video that she was watching too. Dalton turned to face her.

“Are you sure someone was really chasing after you?” He asked her again patiently, so that it would not sound as if he had made her a liar. However, she didn’t take well.

“Are you insinuating that I have lost my mind over that silly computer?!” She raged.

“There was no one in the videos, Aria. You were just running on your own accord, probably because of some kind of fear trigger that prompted you to do that,” Dalton said calmly as stood in front of Aria who was sitting, which had Alex who was in the room so surprised that Dalton could ever be that calm while talking to someone.

“I know what I saw!”

“You should get a test done, Aria. Both psychologically, emotionally and mentally. I will also get you to see a therapist for your nightmares, tomorrow.”Material © NôvelDrama.Org.

“No. No! I am going to see a damned therapist!” Aria refused, and stood up in anger immediately, at the conversation Dalton was trying to hold with her.

“You are,” Dalton insisted.

“I will not, Dalton. If there is anyone who needs this test here, then it is you Dalton,” Aria uttered instantly to piss the billionaire off, which actually had quite an impact on him. Alex was begining to freak out. He hated to watch them like that.

“You are, Aria. Get ready for it tomorrow!” He ordered dangerously.

‘No. She could not get any tests done. She wasn’t getting any tests done.’