Filed to story: The Disguised Billionaire and His Accidental Wife Novel
John kept a smile on his arrogant face. Out of all his cousins and brothers, he was most successful as his annual salary was more than a million bucks. This was what he took pride in. He barely looked straight at Serenity when he came to look for her the first time.
He had been suspended from work for a while now. There was no telling when he could return to work. There was still a possibility that he might lose his job.
His brothers, cousins, uncles, and parents had also hit a low point in their careers and businesses. They would be screwed if their savings were not keeping them afloat.
They would not be able to hold out for long.
If Serenity and Liberty refused to reconcile, their hard–earned family assets that had been around for two generations would be lost.
His youngest cousin, Noah, was still detained in prison. They tried to bail him out, but no amount of money could persuade the authorities to let Noah go.
It must be the doing of the force behind Serenity.
After much discussion among the Hunts, they decided to make nice with Serenity and Liberty while figuring out the identity of Serenity‘s ally so they could undermine Serenity‘s bond with her ally. Once that was done, they could get even with Serenity and then some! Serenity said callously, “I don‘t have that many chairs in the shop. You can sit on the floor if you don‘t mind.” Ignoring the
stiffened smiles across her cousins‘ faces, she added, “The floor isn‘t dirty. I’d usually mop once a week.”
The Hunt boys were speechless.
Jasmine sniggered.
Truth be told, they mopped the floor every day, especially with Sonny around now. Sonny was a kid, and he often enjoyed playing with his toys on the floor. That was why the floor was kept clean.
Swallowing his anger, Mike curled his lips and replied, “We‘re here today to apologize to you and your sister. Is your sister here?”
“My sister isn‘t around. You can just tell me what you have to say.”
Serenity glanced at the fruit baskets before putting on a fake smile. “Is this your apology? So, a few fruit baskets to make up for the slander on Twitter and the damage you‘ve done to me and my sister?” After Serenity retaliated online, the Hunts hired a lot of professional trolls to whitewash themselves and accuse Serenity and Liberty of being ungrateful granddaughters. The enraged netizens were the ones who attacked the trolls and caused the Hunts‘ plans to fail.
Serenity and Liberty earned everybody‘s pity following the twist of events. Still, there were people who claimed the moral high ground, saying that despite the negligence and wrongdoings of Serenity and Liberty‘s grandparents, they were still the girls‘ grandparents.
Without the grandparents, their father would not have
existed, and neither would the girls.
These people demanded Liberty and Serenity let go of the past and pay for their grandmother’s medical fees. They should not be petty with a sick old lady.
Serenity and her sister‘s reputation had, more or less, been dragged through the mud.
John paused before asking Serenity, “What do you want us to do, Serenity?”
As the oldest of the bunch, Mike lectured Serenity,” Regardless of our spats in the past, we‘re all one big family. Although your dad isn’t around anymore, he‘s still my uncle.
“Sure, it was our fault, but we have learned from our mistakes. You‘re the bigger person. Please find it in you to forgive us. We promise we won‘t ever do that to you and your sister again.”
Thanks to the power of the internet, it was easy and speedy to get a handle on certain matters.
However, it was also easy for the tables to turn and caused a backfire.
Today, Mike could use the internet to intimidate his cousins, but tomorrow, it would be his turn to face a public backlash.
People would find it hard to understand the humiliation of being a victim of cyberbullying, hate comments from netizens, and public criticism without experiencing it themselves.
Since Serenity tweeted a refute, the Hunts had the whole thing blow up in their faces. They either lost their jobs, suffered great losses in their businesses, or faced cancellations on agreed deals. Furthermore, their names were tarnished.
The Hunts had gone through sleepless nights lately. Of course, they were mostly peeved and furious. They were losing sleep, thinking of ways to get back at Serenity and Liberty. Serenity scoffed coldly. “I’m vile, spiteful, and petty. You did
what you did to put the bite on me and my sister. You couldn‘t get what you wanted and chose to yield because the tables had turned.
“Hang on. No. You‘re not yielding. You came to apologize today because the netizens are on your case, and it has been detrimental to your financial interest. You‘re here today to protect your assets, not because you feel guilty for whatever you have done.”
Did they take her for a fool?
Did they think she would not be able to see through their plans?
The first time the Hunt boys came to make peace and wanted Serenity to visit Old Mrs. Hunt, they were going to take a video of the whole reconciliation so the world would know and move on. The attention would no longer be on them.
After Serenity rejected their peace offering, Noah threatened to smash her shop. Holding a grudge, Noah brought along hooligans to stop her in the middle of the road and get violent with her. Serenity would have ended up in the hospital if she had not practiced self–defense.
Her uncles had kicked up a fuss because she called the cops to arrest Noah.
Serenity did not believe that these no–good relatives had repented. They had the mindset that they were always right while Serenity was in the wrong. “Serenity, aren‘t we sincere enough?” As a senior executive of Stone Group‘s subsidiary company with an annual income of over a million bucks, John became a stuck-up as he was often
surrounded by flattery and brown–nosing from his employees. He did not have much patience either.
Pointing at the fruit baskets, he pulled a sour face and said, “ Can‘t you see how many fruit baskets we have given you? Do you know how much one basket costs? You probably wouldn‘t spend that much on a fruit basket.
“Yet, we gave you so many. How can you question our sincerity? You‘re pushing your luck, Serenity. Is this the thanks we get? Don‘t think for a second that we can’t get to you. We‘re only trying to reconcile because your dead father is our uncle, and we don‘t want Granddad and Grandmom to be angry since they‘re not getting any younger.”
“Do you think you‘ll be better off if we all go down together when it comes down to it? You‘ll lose your shop and your online business. We‘ll team up to give you a poor rating until you‘re forced to close your online business.”
“Serenity, who‘s threatening to close your online business? Who‘s threatening to give you bad ratings?”