chapter 86
The following morning as expected, Amanda was trending in all news platforms. Be it Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Amanda was the highlight.
Her popularity had skyrocketed and everyone was sorting her to be their ambassador. Movie scripts piled up and even television shows and dramas were not left behind.
Amanda was overwhelmed by the sudden popularity.
"Ooh my! It feels good to be popular overnight." Amanda lamented as she laid in Richard's arm lazily.
"Do you want to remain in the limelight and maintain your popularity?" Richard asked, basking in the feeling of hugging his wife.
"But..." Amanda bit on her lower and did not finish her statement. But Richard understood her worries...
"Don't worry about that." Richard said as he kissed her on the neck.
Vallery on the hand was expecting to ride on Amanda's popularity, but after looking through and seeing that her name was not mentioned anywhere, she did not know how to take it.
How could she establish her stand in the industry when no one was talking about her.
She wanted to be in the limelight even if it was negative news. But no one was willing to talk about her. She was frustrated as she pinched her son's cheek.
"It is all your fault. If your hadn't appeared, I would not have retreated from the industry. Look now, no one is talking about me." Vallery said, pinching her son angrily.
As she was still venting her anger, her phone rang, looking at the caller, she felt her migrain return.
"Val, are you alright?" Juliana asked over the phone.
"I'm fine mom, how are you doing?"
"I'm not doing fine. Your father has not come home for the last three days and when I try to call him, he just snob me and hung up the phone."
Vallery felt her headache intensify. Her mother only complained about how her father was doing this or that. She did not care about what she was going through.
"Maybe he has gotten back to Amanda and her mother. After all Amanda has been doing pretty well in the entertainment industry and has a rich boyfriend, who will let such a daughter go." Vallery said sacarstically.
When she was famous, her father always doted on her because she was bringing something on the table, but after she got pregnant and married Jason, her father stopped caring about her. She sometimes could not even get the monthly allowance she used to get before she joined the industry.
"What rich boyfriend? What are talking about?" Juliana asked over the phone.
"Mom haven't you been watching the entertainment news?" Vallery asked.
"Tell me what is going on!"
"Ooh, Amanda is now dating the big boss, you know, Richard Howell!"
"What?" Juliana screamed over the phone.
"How can that be possible?" Juliana could not believe what she was hearing.
"If you don't believe me, you can look up the entertainment news. You know those two are vixens, what can be impossible about that. But I was shocked too. I never expected Amanda to find herself such a rich man." Vallery said, her voice screaming jeleousy.
Juliana immediately forgot about her grievances as she hung up the phone and went to look at the entertainment news.
The more she read the more her face turned pale. She could not believe that someone they had thrown our like some kind of dirt, had gotten such a rich boyfriend and was so famous.
She had even won awards that her daughter has never won. Juliana gritted her teeth in anger.
Was Peter aware of this and chose not to tell her? Did he regret and went back to the daughter and mother pair? Juliana thought about all the possibilities angrily.
She took her phone and dialed her husband's number.
Peter on the other hand, was trying to get Evelyne to also pick up his phone but he could not get through.
He actually knew where she was staying, but he was just too ashamed to go knocking on her door.
He has been investigating what happened that lead to him divorcing her and chasing her out of the family, the more he dug deeper, the more he did not like what he was finding out. He was actually very afraid to find out the truth.
He had a feeling that he will regret what he did to his first wife after finding out the truth.
Seeing that Juliana was insistently calling him, he was in a bad mood as he picked up the phone angrily.
"What is it?" Peter asked angrily.
"Is that the attitude you should have when talking to your wife?" Juliana asked angrily, screaming in the phone like a shrew she was.
"What to do you want?" Peter was
not ready to listen to her banter. The more she behaved like this, the more he missed the gentle Evelyne. She never, even for once treat him like this. Even if he spent one week with his mistress, when he came home, she was always as gentle as always.
"Where have you been for the past three days. I have been trying to reach you." Juliana interrogated.
"If you have nothing to say, I'm very busy so I will be hunging up." Peter said, his voice turning cold.
"Have you gone to see your mistress? Don't tell me that you are regretting it now." Juliana said.
"What are you talking about? Aren't you the mistress who worked hard to send the legal wife away." Peter said sacarstically. Juliana was stumped for words. Whenever Peter was angry with her, he will always remind her that she was the mistress. "Don't even think about it. I'm your wife and that will never change." Juliana said.
"Is that so?"
"Yes. Don't forget, even if you go back to her, she might be having another man after all, she once cheated on you." Juliana said. "Are you sure it is as you say. Won't you know better where those photos came from?" Peter asked.
Juliana's heart skipped a bit. Has
Peter found out something? No that
et
was not possible. She had made sure that anyone that was involved was silenced. Even.... even.... gosh! She did not want to think about it.
UMS
For the fear that Peter will notice something, she immediately hung up the phone.
Peter on the other hand smiled, but his smile did not reach his eyes as it was filled with coldness.
How long do you think that you are going to hide. I will soon unmask your deeds and expose them to everyone.
Juliana hastily called her daughter. She had even forgotten about Richard and Amanda.
"Mom, what is it again?"
"I have talked to your dad."
"Isn't that what you were hoping?"
"But, he sounded odd, he seemed to have found out what we did in order to get rid of Amanda and her mother." Juliana said. She could not hide the nervousness and fear in her heart.
"What? But didn't we get rid of everyone who participated?" Vallery said, not understanding why her mother was so nervous.
"Yes but..." What he finds out that you two are not his children, we will be done for.
"Mom I have an idea. I wanted to use Amanda's popularity for my coming out of retirement but I was not able to. I know what to do and I need your help with it." Vallery did not care about what her mom was thinking about and only wanted to help herself. Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.
Hearing that it concerned her daughter, Juliana too was interested. She knew that things will be different once her daughter goes back to being a celebrity.
"I want you to find Evelyne and ask her to talk to Amanda so that she can help me." Vallery said.
"Do you think that, that woman will help us, maybe over her dead body." Juliana sneered.
"If she doesn't then..."
"Do you still have those photos?"
"Of course."
"Then just threaten her with it. Tell her that if she doesn't get to help, then you will tell everyone how she cheated on her husband and even her celebrity daughter is a bastard." Vallery said maliciously.
Daughter, aren't you talking about yourself now? Juliana thought, but she could not say it out loud.
That was her deepest secret that was not supposed to be found out.
"Do you think that it will work?"
"Of course. She couldn't see her daughter's reputation go down the drain, I'm sure she will definitely help." Vallery said.
"Okay, I will get to it. Wait for my good news."