Chapter 02

Ma'm the CEO wants to see you,"

I carried my eyes away from my laptop, to my secretary as I cooked up my left eyebrow. "My father wants to see me?" she nodded.

"Don't worry, tell him I'll be there in about five minutes. I have a meeting right now."

"Actually he told me to cancel your meeting, and that you have to come and see him right this minute"

I wondered what was so urgent that my father would even have my secretary cancel my meeting. I guess there was only one way to find out. I got up and then made a beeline to my father's office and all along the way I could hear whispers from the cubicles of the officers that I passed by and how their eyes were on me.

I had expected them to talk about my wedding that had been called off, but I didn't understand why they were doing it so intensely. Finally when I walked to the office I saw that my mother was also there. I went to both of them and saw that their eyes had become cold.

Those were not the eyes that my parents often used to look at me, those were the ones they used to look at my freeloading sister. Why were those eyes now aimed at me?

”Mother... Father what's wrong-"

I was barely able to complete the sentence before my mother walked over to me and before I could even figure out what was happening she slapped me so hard that I saw stars.

“Mother?"

I called to her in shock but then she raised her hand again.

”Don't *mother* me you senseless moron, do you know what you have done?"

I looked at my father to make sure whether he saw what his wife had just done and he did not even look slightly troubled by it.

“What is happening right now?"

Without leaving his seat he crossed his hands, sending me a glare that was as sharp as the edge of a knife.

” Are you really going to play dumb, after humiliating us?"

Humiliating? I was so lost... The last thing I ever did in my life was humiliating my parents. That was my younger sister's job. I was the one that always did well in everything from sports to academics all the way from school and when I graduated, I had started from the bottom of the company and gotten to the top without asking my father to give me any special favors.

What could I have possibly done that would have humiliated them?

I froze up when my father turned his laptop to face me and then I saw the picture of my sister and ex fiance in bed that I had posted online on the cover of a gossip blog.

“There were a million and one ways you could have dealt with this Sarah, but you had to choose the one that would bring shame to this family..." he said to me in an icy tone.

”Father I do-"

“Shut up!"my mother shouted at me and her voice was cracking.

” Just because of a man, you leaked your sister's nudes to the public, do you know the kind of comments she is getting now? She even had to turn off her social media and she has been crying nonstop...“

Was this really happening, I asked myself? My heart was beating so much that I thought it was going to break through my ribs somehow. I was now the villain in the story. Nobody was talking about the fact that she had been sleeping with my fiance and both of them had been making a fool of me!

”Sarah...“My father called my attention to him.

” I always thought that you were exceptional but I cannot have a heartless person like you who can even take down her sister for petty reasons as my heiress..."

“Petty?! Father, she slept with my fiance!"

” And so what?“

”And so what?"I repeated after him, totally bewildered, my fingers sunk into my palm so deeply that I thought they were going to draw blood. So basically he was saying that I had no right to react to what they had done to their betrayal.

“You had no reason to betray your sister like that, Sarah, and if you at least want to keep your job in this company. You will have to make a public apology to her first.”

That was where it finally got to my neck, there was no way I could take this anymore.

“I would rather die father, than apologize to Becky. Keep your stupid company I don't need any of you!"

”Sarah!"

I kept marching ignoring him as he called me but then he said something that made me freeze at the door.

“If you leave this minute without accepting to apologize to your sister for your own wrongdoing you will cease to be a member of this family,"

A cold, dry chuckle suddenly passed through my lips as I replied.

”And so what?"

And like that I marched out of the office, however after I left the company my father seized my house since the property was under his name and then he blacklisted me to the full city so much so that I struggled to even get the job of a waitress.

I was fed up.

It was all like a terrible dream, a nightmare that never seemed to end. Then to add salt to my wounds my sister came over, tracking me down to my pigs dine apartment to invite me to her and my ex fiance's wedding.

I could no longer take it anymore. Life was bleak and empty, everywhere I went to tongues with wag and people would point their fingers at me laughing out their lungs.

There was no point in living anymore, and so on a cold night, I wrote a letter of farewell and went outside like a zombie.

Ready to end it all.