Aurelia got into the mansion and saw her mom seated upright like a doll on the living room looking at the daily publication of The Insider.
She really hated this magazine, it was just full of stupid gossips about rich people. It only talked about who had fallen outside the elite society, which wife was a bitch, which husband was cheating on their spouse and it also liked to publish stupid stories that were not even real in Aurelia's opinion. She even hated them more for a stupid article they made on a 12 year old boy in the social circle that was not in anyway pretty.
They had also published a story about her in the past, tagging it "The Wild Wench of Wextridge". Her father was so furious with her that he hurled various insults at her that she could have sworn her father was a sailor in his past life.
She was even more enraged when she read through the article and went to the editor to threaten him.
The magazine published another round of article that was even more vicious than the last one. The effect of this article was so great that her father was almost voted out as the CEO of the company. The company's stocks crashed so alarmingly that her father had to send her to her grandmother's home for quite some time. He only allowed her to return when the heat of the scandal had lessened.
During that period, her father's company almost experienced bankruptcy because of the article. She never realised how vicious rumours could be and how it could affect her family until that time.
The tension in the house was so strained and her father rarely returned home because of her. Her mother never failed to remind her over the phone about who the situation the whole family and the company.
She really agreed with her mother at that point that she was the bane of the existence of her parents and honestly she felt really sorry.
She greeted her mother in an apathetic way. Caressa looked up from her magazine and snorted at her daughter in disgust.
Aurelia even wondered if The Insider had published new gossips about another family because her mother would waste no chance in informing her about the ways of a noble lady in the society. However her mother's reaction was quite surprising and she wondered what could have diverted her attention today.
Not noticing the panic and anger on Caressa's face, Aurelia strutted upstarts to her room without a care in the world. Thinking of other ways to fulfill her dreams of running away from her parents to a faraway place.
Caressa looked at the magazine with a hateful and vicious stare as she read the lines of the article which read t
'The Inside Story of The Burton Family."
The article had exposed the secret she had been hiding from the public eye for over 20 years. It reminded her of her husband's failure to always control his lower part and how she was not the only woman in his life.
For so long she had forced herself to believe that her husband never cheated on her or had any child outside their marriage. She had tried every means to make him devoted to her but she was just living in an illusion.
The article clearly stated that Alfred Burton had been having an affair with another woman for over 22 years and the woman was pregnant for his second child from her and was even planning to put the first child of his mistress in his will as a beneficiary.
This meant that even before they got married, he had been with another woman. Caressa could not continue reading as she slammed the magazine on the table and walked out with a huff.
Caressa received a call from her father afterwards and it was unknown what they spoke about however it was obvious that the words were not so pretty from the way her face darkened at an alarming speed.
News had floated around the socialites that her husband was planning to bring the illegitimate children back home and he even planned to register them under his family name as legitimate children. This meant that he was going to coerce her to adopt the children as hers or come up with a story to ensure that his children would have a legitimate status in his home.