"Blake Del Cardoso, we got a problem."
Bianca Stephenson yelled out on the phone as she walked out from her family's big living room hall where just a moment ago her father dearest had declared her to go on a blind date with Ryan Del Cardoso, the elder stepbrother of her lover, Blake Del Cardoso.
"What is it, Bianca?? I m in between a very important client meeting."
Blake said in a low voice, parting his eyes away from Alister. They were in a ten-star restaurant, in a private booth discussing out more about his brother's demeanor.
"It can't wait, Blake. My freaking father arranged for me to go on a blind date with your brother."
Bianca yelled on the phone and even Alister could hear it. Blake immediately stood up, angry and frustrated.
Furthermore, the reason why he needed to get his hands on the Will papers. He loved Bianca and she did too.
But her father, Denise Stephenson was more interested in getting his daughter married to the real Cardoso heir, his brother.
He needed to read the Will papers before his brother did because then he could not do anything on changing the clauses of the Will.
If the Will was of his father's but his father died even before creating one. So the Will that was left was of their Grandfather's Getulio Del Cardoso.
And not to forget how much that old man hated the presence of him, his mother, and his sister. He never considered them as a family but a rebound of his son, their father after the death of his first wife, Igora Del Cardoso, Rayn, and Regina's mother.
So it was not unpredictable that he and his sister, Marla, and his mother, Semira Inna Cardoso might be excluded from the deed of Will.
And that was a violation as they were a Cardoso too. He would not let go of their share of the Cardoso wealth, their right so easy to pass onto his stepbrother and stepsister.
"What?? What did he??"
Blake screamed up. He could not let go of everything all the times that belonged to him.
Ryan was stealing everything right before his nose even when he was also a rightful heir to the empire of Cardoso but just because his mother belonged from a class lower than Ryan's mother, Igora, Princess of Brasilia so Denise favored her more but not his mother.
The fact that he was born out of wedlock also made him look like a bastard son of their father but that had nothing to do with everything that was happening.
"We got to come up with something. I have avoided him talking to me into meeting Ryan every time but this time, matters are pressing. Think of something, Blake."
Bianca said as she sounded desperate. She loved only him and she had no interest in meeting Ryan but her stubborn father would never understand that.
"I just cannot come up with something out of blue. I can't believe your father right now. How...how could he do that??"
Blake seethed in anger. Alister noticed but nevertheless decided to remain quiet and not say a word. She could understand some of the things but not all the things.
"Then think or else I will have to show up because he threatened to cut my monthly allowance, Blake."
Bianca sassed and hung up the phone with waiting for Blake to react. He could not even get the chance to reply back to her.
"What the....??? Bianca?? Bia...Bia??"
He angrily dropped the phone on the table and stomped his fist on the table. He could not believe how tight the situations were getting with passing time.
"Fucking hell!!!!"
His little outburst caught the attention of the customers and the waiters in the restaurant. But he did not care.
"What happened??"
Alister asked. She could not help herself and just sit there ideally as if nothing happened. Blake only glared in her direction.
"You..you ruined our first chance. "
"You do not have to keep reminding me that I did."
Alister rolled her eyes. She did not like it of him accusing her every minute of how she missed their golden opportunity of getting the papers.
"Do not...do not show me your arrogance...I m telling you. I m fucking paying you and still, you end up messing things, and now my girlfriend is being forced to get on a blind date with my bastard brother."
Blake vehemently let out.
"Why do you have to worry if she loves you?? Go and come clean to your brother "
Alister simply stated. She did not know what was so difficult about this situation. They both could just confess that they loved each other and of course, his brother would back away.
"You do not get it, Don't you?? He likes to steal everything that is mine. Would he step back when Denise Stephenson was offering the hand of his only daughter and the fortune of the one-billion-dollar company along with it??"
Blake spat out. Alister's mouth hung open on hearing the part that involved mentioning of the billion dollars.
"He is a ruthless bastard just like his grandfather. "
Blake mouthed out and gulped down the remaining of the whisky in one go. He was distressed.
"Isn't he is your grandfather too??"
Alister implored and that only made Blake look back at her and laugh as if she just joked about something.
"You do not know that Getulio Del Cardoso despised me and my mother for we are a class lesser than them. The fact that I m a bastard child, born out of wedlock does not help either."
"But you are still a Cardoso though. "
"Tell that to my Bastardo grandfather. He always favored Igora and her blood, Ryan, and Regina. As if he favoured her more than his own son. "
Alister listened quietly as he explained the situation to her. She never understood why to be like that.
"That is why I need you to help me. Help me get my rights over the Cardoso name. And as good as it gets, I got an idea."
Blake chuckled. He too could not get how he got the idea either. He had learned that Alister was a sincere woman and so he tried to get into her emotional favour too.
"And what that would be??"
"You will replace my girlfriend as the blind date for Ryan."
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