Take Back Your Engagement Ring.

Thomas shifted uncontrollable as soon as he saw Laura up on stage. And what was she telling Rita that made her looked so terrified like that. He whispered to the two tall men on dark suit beside him, his entourage, "I don't trust what is about to happen."

His eyes scanned around, "take note of our guest list compare to those who aren't on it, and are present." He noticed two strangers whispering and pointed to them. "Like those two for example."

"The bouncer told us they were Mrs Grayson's guests. They're with her lawyer, Jonathan."

Thomas frowned. "Her idiot lawyer is here? Laura Jones, what are you planning?"

Then she launched the bomb. "Thank you all for coming to celebrate with us. Although it's our wedding anniversary, I thought we should officially acknowledge the future Mrs. Grayson. Rita Smith, life must be going great for you now, huh?"

The room erupted with loud murmurs.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Does that mean Thomas is cheating on her?" Some of Monica's guest muttered.

"Laura has officially lost her mind." Monica scoffed in disbelieve.

Rita froze, hearing her name just thrown out like that had unlocked a new terror for her. She glanced at Thomas, She was standing so still, her bulging eyes fixed on him unable to blink or turn away. She looked like she was about to cry.

Thomas wasn't in a better place either. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead, fear turning his muscles to stone. Laura just smiled effortlessly. He was about to storm to the stage when two figures walked past him bumping into him.

Like magic, their purses was transformed quickly into reporters tools; cameras appeared from nowhere and little mics with picture flashing. His frowned deepened as he realized they were the two guests he'd been suspicious of in the first place.

"What are you saying, Mrs Grayson? You said your assets?" Asked one of the ladies.

"And are you trying to tell us your husband is cheating on you?"

Thomas grunted, storming over to the front forcefully pushing throw anyone in his way. "Laura, stop this madness at once. I would never cheat on my wife." He turned to the crowd with sympathetic eyes. "I love my wife."

The reporters flashed their camera towards him. "Are you saying your wife is lying?"

"Yea Thomas, am I lying? Rita is standing over there. Just ask her." Laura said in a loud voice.

"This is madness!" Monica roared out. "My poor baby is being framed! He would never take her assets, she has nothing."

Thomas tried for a calm voice. "Laura, can you just calm down? Hope you haven't been drinking too much because these are some serious accusations here."

"Oh no, it's really simple. Your company has a new director, Rita Smith. Isn't that true?" Laura queried.

Thomas tried stalling, but Laura only shook her head and smiled. "No no, answer the question, Thomas. Everyone is waiting."

"It's not a secret!" Thomas spat out. "What? You don't know every companies have directors?"

"But you're the director. It's your company," Monica said.

"Yes mom, it's still my company. It's only registered under Rita's name--"

"--do you wanna know why?" Laura continued.

Perhaps Rita can explain why she’s purchasing Greenwood Estate through an automobile company my husband controls."

Laura only said that to force Rita realize she was used. Maybe she knew already and still let herself be a pawn in his game.

Rita was terrified the tears would began to stream down her face now. This was so humiliating. Her whole family would see this and mock her. "I didn't buy any estate!" She cried out.

That seemed to crack Laura because she was laughing now. "Uh love, I didn't mean to frighten you but the screen don't lie." Suddenly, there was a blank screen in front of her, then an image popped up on it. "If you check, you can see Rita listed as the director on the company registration."

She hit next,"and we have the transfer proof here." She zoomed in. "Date is just below here."

"Wow. So it's true." One of the reporters said. "But you signed knowing this."

Laura breathed in. "This isn't the first time I would gladly share my property with Thomas, I love him and what belongs to me is his too. But this has gone too far."

"On this slide, you can even see this." Laura revealed an image of two shiny diamond rings on Rita's page with the caption: we would look so good together. "Surely, they'd even purchased engagement rings--"

Thomas frowned and turned to Rita, but she suddenly screamed out. "He's not even aware of it! I just bought the rings...for fun!"

Laura took off her wedding ring. "I guess I don't need this anymore. I've filed for divorce, Thomas." A bitter smile appeared on her face. "You know, tonight is actually us celebrating two engagements."

Then she calmly add, "one for my husband. One for the woman listed as director of the company currently purchasing my inheritance."

"I'll always love you, Thomas. But you've made your choice. Everyone in your family seem to know about her except for me. Congratulations once again."

Silence filled the air with some people furious at her while others felt compassion towards her. Laura locked eyes with Thomas and the scowl on his face was so deep it made her almost shiver.

Those reporters covered Thomas with flashing light and series of questions with which Thomas kept repeating, "no comment" to. Literally one moment he'd been staring at Laura but the next, she'd disappeared. His eyes scanned the whole room and he ordered his men in a commanding tone, "she couldn't have gone far. Find Laura and take her home at once!"

Thomas got series of notifications and calls flooding his phone but one particular one made his blood instantly began to boil. "The sale is suspended pending investigation." He said to himself. "This can't be happening."