Athena put down her phone on one of her pockets and went back to the living room were she found her husband an the woman whispering to each other. When Adam understood that Athena came back, he stopped whispering and recompose himself.
Happiness and Adam Jr. were playing to the child that called Adam Daddy like they knew each other before but she could not blame the kids because they were used to see a lot of kids in the kindergarten that made them more sociable.
Athena sat down in a single chair and looked at the two like she wanted to burned them alive. The woman became scared looking down, trying to run away of those revengeful eyes. Athena looked at the her kids with a big smile.
"Happiness and Adam, go fetch your bags. Uncle Emeka is coming to take you to the zoo."
The two of them became ecstatic with the news their mom give them. They went running to their bedrooms and picked their bags.
Athena became silent and looked at the two people in front of them. To the way it looks, Athena was threatening them with her look, but she was organizing her ideas in her thoughts. 'Did Adam cheated on me? Why this son of a b*atch choose someone without common sense at least?'
Ten minutes passed and the environment was too heavy for Adam and Desire because both didn't knew what was happening in Athena's mind.
Suddenly, Athena's phone rang and it was Emeka calling. She looked at the kids and said, "Uncle Emeka is here. Let's go!"
The kids went to say goodbye to their father and to the woman that was sat close to Adam and followed Athena outside.
After some minutes, she opened the door and entered. She went to the kitchen and came to the living room with a chair for the small girl and a plate that was supposed to be for one of the kids. She placed the chair close to her seat and went to take the child to keep her on the chair she brought from the kitchen and put the plate in front of her. The child started to eat.
Adam wanted to say something, but words didn't came out of his mouth. He feared what Athena would do so he continued silent.
On the other side, the woman sitting next to him organized her thoughts and started. "Than-thank you." She broke the silent installed in the living room. "I'm sorry if I came here like this…"
"What are you doing in my house?" Athena interrupted the woman and asked her without hiding herself in the bush.
"I would like to know the same." Adam answered in a confused tone throwing all the blame to the woman.
"Adam, shut up! You are more guilty than this woman because you could not keep your d*ck inside your boxer shorts." Athena said with a cold gaze. "I am sorry. I forgot that we have a child among us." She continued.
She took her phone and called Wendy Quade, her assistant and Wendy answered immediately.
"Madam, I am a little late, but I am coming." She said trying to explain herself to Athena.
"Its ok. Please, come straight to the house. I want you to keep an eye on someone while I take care of some business." Athena said with an indifferent tone.
"If it is for me to come to Madam's house, I am here already." Wendy hurriedly replied.
"If you are here, please enter from the front door." She ordered and dropped the call.
After a few seconds, Wendy entered in the house like she was entering in her own house. She was so familiar to the house and was Athena's assistant for so long that she was part of the family.
"Good morning Sir and Madams." Wendy said in a polite and gentle tone.
"Good morning, Wendy." Adam said.
"Good morning." The woman sitting close to Adam said in a polite tone.
"Madam, what do you need me to do?" Wendy looked at Athena waiting for her instructions.
Athena raised one of her eyebrow and said, "Take the child to the kitchen and look after her while I talk to her mother. Use the opportunity to clear mine and Adam's schedule. All the important meeting put them in the afternoon."
"Okay, Madam." She hurriedly replied and was about to leave.
"Another thing." Adam stretched his posture in the chair. "Organize a car to go fetch Rose on the airport. She will arrive by midday."
"Okay, Ms. Smith."
Wendy left the three people in the living room and took the child in the kids chair to the kitchen as Athena instructed. She even dared to go and hear what was going on because she knew that Athena herself would tell her.
Athena looked at the woman and was waiting for her to answer her question. The woman acted like she has forgotten what was asked and Athena became impatient with her.
"Can one of you explain to me why this woman and a child that called my future ex-husband daddy?" Athena finally asked, making the environment more awkward than before.
"My… my name is …" The woman wanted to introduce herself.
"I did not ask for your name, did I? Let's start with what are you doing here?" Athena interrupted the woman with a sarcastic tone.
Understanding the question, the woman smirked and replied, "I came to claim my rights as a wife." She said with a smile on her lips.
Adam looked at the woman and asked, "Are you stupid? What do you mean by that?"
Athena laughed slightly and thought. 'She came for the money, right? But she doesn't know that he doesn't have a penny on his name. I will enjoy this more than I thought I would.'
"I am curious. Adam, have you told her the truth about your finances to her?" Athena looked at Adam with a sarcastic smile on her lips.
Adam kept his head down and did not dare to answer because he knew what Athena meant by questioning him about such thing.
Adam has the worst addiction for an entrepreneur. He loves to gamble and because of the debt he had with the casinos, he lost everything. When the two got married, she made him sign a prenup agreement where Athena will help him rebuild his business from scratch but, in case of infidelity, he will lose everything, including the business he loved so much. Adam was doing his best for this situationship with Desire didn't came up because he knew that he would lose everything he worked for ten long years.
The woman sitting beside Adam turned to him with a confused expression. "What does she mean with that?"
Adam just looked at the woman with a killing desire and said, "The good life that you and Rashi were having is thanks to her. Since you came here, my marriage and my assets are gone!"
Desire's face turned pale because she thought that all the money was his regardless she appeared there or not. She did not expect that the Facebook influencer was not that dumb as she appeared.
"Dear, I don't need to know your name but thank you for such precious information. The ten years of his hard work will pass automatically to my name. That means that every single penny that he has today, no longer belong to him. I thought you have a bit of common sense by listening to him, but no. You came and destroyed everything." Athena said smiling. "If you excuse me, I have more important things to do." She added. "Wendy!" She shouted.
Wendy came rushing to see what her boss wanted. She was with the small girl in her arms because she was washing her. "Yes, madam."
"You can leave the girl with her mother. We have important meetings to attend." Athena said getting up. "Called Julie and Hamza to open the store and start attending customers. I don't have time to lose money nowadays."
"I have already called them, and they have opened the store. They even called stating that new stock is there, and they need your signature on the receive papers." Wendy said a little bit worried.
"Okay. Let's go."
Adam tried to stop Athena, but Athena looked at him and said, "Me and you will talk in the end of the day. Better choose wisely."
Adam looked at her confused. "What do you mean?"
Athena smirked and laughed slightly, "Its either me or her. If you choose me, this inferior woman must leave this country to whatever whole she came from and if you want to still see this child, she must decline her rights has a mother. If you choose her, you lose everything you have, and I will buy you a flight ticket back to South Africa for you to stay with your siblings. If you want money, better call Rose mother to land you some because from me you won't receive a penny."