"I know this may sound so ridiculous, but you just need to know. She's gonna marry you for three years. Then she can file for divorce afterward…"
"Wait, wait, hold on a sec." Fabiola made an upraised hand to interrupt his father.
"But I'm not done yet," he protested.
"Who cares if you're done? Because of you, Nicki broke up with me, and now you want me to marry Jenny to satisfy your selfish interest? I can't believe we are having this conversation," Fabiola sparked outrageously.
"Enough! I won't let you speak to me in such a manner. You should be happy Nicki Rolland broke up with you. That girl is bad news. She's never gonna make a good wife,"
"Allow me to worry about that. You're in no position to dictate who would become my wife," Fabiola confronted his father.
"Can you stop yelling and get seated?" he calmed the situation and asked Fabiola to sit. .
Alvin sighed and revealed the multi-billion dollar deal, Royal Gold Mine, could lose if Fabiola refused to get married to Jenny.
"So this is what everything is about. Are you selling me out for money?
You aren't even concerned about my feelings. Do you even bother to ask what I want?"
"I care about your future, that's why I'm doing this for you. Remember you'd one day inherit my legacy? I need to lay a better foundation for you."
"And what if I decline?"
"You dare not because you're gonna be affected. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you to do it because if you don't, you risk losing your inheritance to your kid brother. I'll transfer all rights to him, and you'd be reduced to a mere staff of Royal Gold Mine. Which means, he automatically becomes my heir apparent,"
"This is the height of wickedness. Am I even your biological son? I know you never liked me, but this? It is cruel," Fabiola placed his head on the desk and bemoaned. He didn't see this coming. If anyone had told him his father would do this, he would have gotten the person arrested for trying to destroy his future.
"Enough with the emotions. Are you in or not? There's no time to think about it."
"You speak as though I've got a choice. I'll do this. What about her, did she accept?" Fabiola agreed after a prolonged silence.
"Awesome! Worry not about her. She's just proving stubborn. She'll come around," Alvin assured.
Moments later, Jenny walked inside with a file in her possession. The moment she saw Fabiola seated in the office, she made a U-turn to walk away.
"Come back here," Alvin commanded her.
"You two need to start getting used to each other since you'll be living together for the next three years," Alvin announced with a smile.
"What do you mean?
I haven't accepted your proposal yet, neither am I interested in your son,"
she asked with a cracked tone.
"I don't want you either.
You're just a piece of trash," Fabiola muttered succinctly.
"Did you just hear that? Is this the person you want me to get married to?" Jenny turned to Alvin.
"Fabiola?" Alvin called him to order.
"What? She started it first," Fabiola explained.
"I don't wanna know who started it first." Alvin cautioned Fabiola and focused his attention on Jenny.
"I don't have a problem with your acceptance. I was only concerned about Fabiola's, but he has accepted already."
"He did?" Astonished, she asked.
"Oh, yes, he did. Shocking right? I knew you would be," Alvin laughed.
"This is unbelievable. I thought…" Jenny paused for a moment after her phone suddenly rang from a strange caller.
"Sorry, I need to take this," she frowned and placed the phone on her left ear.
"Yes, it's Jenny, Who are you? My mom? What happened to my mom? I would be there immediately," she screamed and got off the phone.
"What happened to your mom?" with the deepest concern, Alvin inquired.
"I just got off the phone with a cop at the station. It's about my mom. He sounded so urgent. I think she's In danger," She replied hurriedly.
"Damn! Hold on a sec while I drop you off," he opted.
"I'll find my way," Jenny declined his request and stepped outside.
"Where's my mother? The call sounded so urgent," Jenny questioned the cop after arriving at the station.
"Calm down, Miss Jenny. You're getting yourself so worked up," One of the cops said, attempting to console her.
"Don't you dare tell me to be calm? You had my mom locked up and expect me to stay calm? Where's my mother? I wanna see her immediately." she gripped his shirt and screamed so loud other cops were alerted.
"She had a seizure. But she's fine now.
She's at the hospital receiving treatment. You never mentioned your mom was asthmatic. What if she had died?" The cop asked.
"Wait a minute! My mom is asthmatic. Where's she? Where's the hospital?" She requested.
All these years they lived together, her mother never mentioned anything as such. The news about her mother being asthmatic came as a shock to her.
"Don't tell me you weren't aware of her condition! This is shocking. But why would she hide that from you?"
"Can you stop asking questions already? Where's the hospital?" Jenny flared up.
"At Eleven Road." The cop hurriedly said and got terrified by Jenny's rage.
Without hesitation, Jenny rushed outside and boarded a cab to the address.
A few miles from the hospital, the cab stopped moving and was stranded on the lonely road.
"What happened to your cab? Why is he not moving?" Jenny looked restless and scared at the same time. She didn't know what to do.
"The cab broke down. This is the 3rd it's happening," the cab man said.
"What am I gonna do now? I've got to be somewhere this minute."
"There's nothing we can do.
I'll just have to stay with you here until you find another cab. Don't worry about the money, I'll pay," he promised.