The next morning, Carolyn Wilson visited Alwils villa to meet El, she was aware of Alec's absence.
"What brings you here Mrs. Wilson, '' Michelle asked Carolyn.
"This is my son's house, I'll come and go as I please." Carolyn said with arrogance.
"But I've come here for you."
"What can I do for you?" Michelle asks plainly.
"Divorce Alec." Carolyn said with a loud and clear voice.
Clearing her throat Michelle said,
"I will" Michelle continued after a pause
"Only if Mr. Wilson asks me to".
"If you think Alec will side with you, and stay by your side forever, you are wrong, girl."
"Clearly a lowlife like you isn't a suitable wife for Alec or the Wilson family. I'm here to make it easy for both you and Alec."
Taking out the divorce papers, she gave them to El.
"Sign them and be free from this marriage which was forced on you".
Michelle was blank for a moment, she was indeed forced to marry, Carolyn's words seemed genuine.
Michelle had yet not thought about the future of her marriage.
"I agree I was forced to be his bride and I appreciate your concern, but I'll be the judge of what is easy for me and what isn't."
Carolyn was annoyed with her reply.
"Name your price", she said.
Michelle was surprised to see her determination towards getting them divorced. She remained quiet.
"I'll write you a cheque for 5 million",
Now Michelle was getting annoyed as well, so she decided to play along just to get on her nerves.
"Even my alimony will be more than this".
"How about 10 million." Carolyn said.
"It'll last me only like.. 6 months, besides 10 million is just a drop in the ocean for you Mrs. Wilson. Is that all you are willing to give for the sake of your precious son to get rid of me."
Michelle replied in a quirky manner.
"Twenty million." Carolyn said, visibly annoyed.
"Well the money will end someday." Michelle said.
"You are crossing your limits women. Name your price and leave this place" Carolyn said, gritting her teeth. Michelle began to enjoy her annoyance.
"Hmm. Let me think, 20 millions initially and then 2 million every month, a villa as huge as this one, 10% shares of the Wilson groups, A car, not the regular one, luxury car like the one Mr. Wilson has.
No 2 cars.
Or just double everything I said.
Yet the list seems small, I'll think of more things and tell you Mrs. Wilson" Michelle said.
Carolyn was fuming with rage because of El's audacity.
"You don't deserve any of it." she said, visibly enraged.
"Yet, I have all of it at my disposal as your son's wife" Michelle replied.
"All this pride is because my son married you, isn't it? I'll make him leave you soon enough"
Michelle smirked, ignoring Carolyn's threats.
"This naive pride of yours will get you nowhere. You are unaware of the dark and agonising things that happen behind the closed doors of these huge mansions, your lowlife brain won't even be able to comprehend it" Carolyn said in a cold threatening voice.
"If you continue like this I'll see that Alec makes your life a living hell" Carolyn continued with her threats.
"I'd like to see you try," Michelle said calmly.
Carolyn signed a cheque and kept it on the table with the divorce papers.
"It is a cheque of thirty million. You better sign those papers and leave or the days of your smug smile are numbered." Saying this she left.
"Well that was a bad morning." Michelle said, rolling her eyes.
She wrote something on the cheque and threw the cheque and the divorce papers in the fireplace absentmindedly.
While leaving Alwils, Carolyn smiled wickedly and called someone on the phone.
Meanwhile, Alec was trying to complete his work as quick as he can so that he could return early. He estimated his return by noon.
Back in Alwils villa, Michelle tried to cook something to distract herself from what Carolyn had said earlier.
She found that Alec liked buttered shrimps and therefore decided to make it for him.
Although, the Ford family had looked after her educational expenses in these four years, Daniel refused to help her with her other expenses.
The past four years was indeed hard for her, where she had to manage everything by herself.
Daniel had also refused to establish any contact between her and the Ford family, but Isobelle secretly defied him and also requested Mark to look after Michelle.
Mark protected her from any fatal harm, but made sure that his protection did not soften her.
Michelle soon figured out that Mike was around.
Michelle learnt a huge deal about dealing with challenges in these four years.
She completed making the buttered shrimps and returned to her room.
In few hours, Alec had returned to South-hills. He checked his phone expecting El's texts, unfortunately, he hadn't received any message from her.
But he had received a mail from his mother, it read 'This is the women you married.' there was a voice message attached with it.
When he heard the voice message his face darkened.
Carolyn had recorded El's and her conversation this morning. She got it changed according to her liking.
In the morphed voice message, Michelle had agreed for the divorce, said that she was married by force and had made some extensive demands for the divorce. All of these enraged Alec to no bounds.
Meanwhile, at Alwils, Michelle was on a call with Isobelle.
Michelle informed her about Carolyn's visit and their conversation today. "So are you going to divorce him?", Isobelle asked
"May be, if he asks it himself." Michelle replied.
"What if he doesn't, would you ask him for it?
"I don't know, Isso. Stop asking me so many questions." Michelle said.
"So what do you plan? Stay in a forced marriage forever?" Isobelle asked
"I don't know." Michelle said in a confused manner.
"Is he good to you?" Isobelle asked.
"Yeah, that he is." Michelle replied.
"But...,"
"but what?" Isobelle asked.
"He threatened to kill a person, to force Elena to arrange him a bride for his wedding to happen as planned. I can't just let that pass" she said and turned towards the door.
Alec was standing near the door, his aura felt demonic.