"How could this be happening?" Angela ended the call she had been on in panic, her heart racing. This wasn't a possibility she ever anticipated. She had just received a call, informing her that Desmond was suing her for the custody of Rosaly. He did it without trying to talk to her about it!
To be fair, he had every right to do that considering the method they had used on him, but none of them expected him to do so. Didn't Zaria hate Rosaly so much? Why did she let him try to get Rosaly's custody?
According to their plan, Desmond would try to negotiate with her so she would pull down her video, and she would give him unspecified visitation rights. How could it turn to this?
With no choice left, she went to meet Nathaniel.
Alas, the man slapped her across the face as soon as he saw her.
"You useless wench!" He roared.
"You have no right to call me that." She wanted to fight back but she needed his help so she sucked it up. After all, when she had Desmond wrapped around her pinky, she would get him to get rid of the old geezer.
"I didn't think Desmond would want Rosaly." She sobbed.
"That's because you are an idiot!" Nathaniel slapped her again. Both her cheeks were red with the print of his palms on them. "I gave you instructions and none of them was to push him too far. But what did you do?"
Angela puffed out a breath. He was not going to help her. "I will deal with this myself."
She left Nathaniel's house with a huff, reminding herself to be wary of him. Since he had failed at what he had planned which probably had a lot to do with Zaria, he might be scared that she would rat him out and hell know what he might do to ensure she stayed silent. If she knew it would come to this, she would have done it all on her own from the start. However, it was not too late for a fresh start.
When she arrived at Annoix academy, the kids were out playing or eating their snacks. She arrived just in time to see Rosaly giggling and picking something from a little girl's snackbox, then replacing it with one of her cookies. She had seen the little girl before. Laia Qin, a nightmare. It wouldn't bode well for her if Laia was present when she met Rosaly. Luckily, parents and kids were not allowed to meet each other during learning hours so she snuck past to head to the office. Laia's words reached her ears nonetheless.
"Your cookies are so yummy. Did your mommy bake them for you?" Asked Laia.
"Zaria baked them. She even made them into butterflies and bunnies." Rosaly responded cheerfully as she munched on the cookies. Angela wanted to explode. She should have known. Desmond couldn't bake but he liked pastries. Did Zaria win him over just because she could
cook some lousy food and bake some cookies? She could do that too, and more.
"Miss Aguilar, why are you here?" The principal asked when Angela got to the office.
"I would like to meet my daughter." She stated and welcomed herself to sit without waiting to be offered a seat.
"It's learning hours. Is there a reason why you couldn't wait to meet her after school?" Asked the principal.
"I have a flight to catch. Her father is picking her up this evening and I will not be able to meet her." Angela lied.
"If that's the case, you should have met her before school." The principal rejected her plea. She couldn't make up such an excuse as Rosaly needing a regular medical checkup since she had already failed at the first attempt.
"She is my daughter and I have every right to meet her when I want to!" She yelled.
"I know that. But students this young tend to want to go home if they see their parents during learning hours. She will have a hard time focusing on her studies later." Explained the principal.
Angela didn't care. She stormed out of the office and since she already knew where Rosaly was, she rushed back to the field. The girls were now on a swing, and when Rosaly saw her, she ran over and hugged her.
"Mommy?"
She crouched to avoid being conspicuous. "I had to come and see you. Daddy wants to take you away from me." She feigned a sad expression.
Rosaly was puzzled. "Why does daddy want to take me away?"
Angela made sure no one else was listening before explaining, "He doesn't want me to be your mommy anymore. He will take you to another country and let Zaria be your new mommy. You will never see me again."
Rosaly was caught in between tears and a smile. She didn't want to be taken away from her mother forever but at the same time, she wouldn't mind having Zaria as her other mommy.
"But Jessie from my class has two mommies. Can't I have two as well?" She asked.
Angela's expression dimmed. Just what kind of spell did Zaria cast on her daughter to make her want her as a mother after meeting not too long ago?" She sucked a breath and feigned a smile.
"I would love that. It would mean you are luckier than many of your friends who only have one mommy. But that's not what your daddy wants. He wants me out of your life." She hugged her sadly. "If I can't see you again, I will not be able to live anymore."
Rosaly wrapped her small arms around her. "I will ask daddy to let me have two mommies. He gives me everything I want."
That was not what she wanted.
"He will not give you this. He only listens to Zaria. They will take you away and Zaria will pretend to love you at first. However, once she has a baby, she will only love the baby and hate you." She coaxed. "Come with me. We can be together and you will have another daddy who will never stop loving you."
"I only want Daddy." Her eyes watered.
"He will follow us if you come with me. Okay?" She held her in her arms, and was just about to leave the field when a teacher stopped her.
"I'm sorry, you are not supposed to be here."
"Why not? My baby is unwell and I was called over to pick her up. We only came here because she wanted to say goodbye to her friends."
Rosaly's dull eyes made it more believable that she could be unwell. However, the female teacher didn't completely believe Angela. She looked for her teacher, Miss Hildegard, and asked if any student from her class had been feeling unwell earlier, and if she had called her parents.
Miss Hildegard was alarmed. "This doesn't sound good. I have to contact Mr. Fort!"
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Angela floored the accelerator as soon as she got into her car.
"Did you book the flight?" She asked her brother over the phone. When the latter said that he had, she smiled in triumph. Desmond probably didn't expect that she would leave faster than he could pick Rosaly up. She had brought a change of clothes for Rosaly so she would change out of her school uniform.
There was no traffic at this time so she got to the airport in a flash. The ticket had been sent to her phone and her passport was in her handbag. She had enough money to buy them clothes and whatever else they needed once they got to Russia.
She carried her daughter to the reception and luckily, she didn't have to wait for long before the flight started boarding.
The queue wasn't long either. The heavens were definitely on their side.
But just when she was nearing the gate of departure, she was stopped by security guards.
"What's going on?" She screamed when a bodyguard approached and tried to take Rosaly away.
"What's going on, don't you know that better than anyone, Angela Aguilar?" An enraged masculine voice roared behind her. Tension washed all over her body. It was over.
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AN
Privilege should be fully active now. I will update a few more chapters before reset for the mass
release and more after reset.
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