Joanna had now left her office to get her sick mother's blessings. Ben Madoff mulled over his anger to such an extent that he grabbed a glass that was placed on the office desk and toss it against the wall and it broke into tens of pieces. He thereafter walked away and so pissed he was, he didn't bother to close the door of the office. Barrister Lara and the two witnesses were hence shocked and left alone.
Ben Madoff immediately went down to the high class section of the city's general hospital in order to meet Joanna in her sick mother's room.
Upon his arrival, a security guard was standing at the entrance. The latter did not recognize the owner of the hospital and wanted, as was customary, to identify him. Which Ben Madoff did not like. So he shoved the security agent, opened the door and went inside the room while shouting.
"Get off my way ! I'm the owner of this hospital," the mogul shouted.
Joanna was sitting on a stool near Cecilia who was lying on her sickbed. The latter had just woken up and was startled by seeing the popular tycoon Ben Madoff enter coming in in such an impolite way.
"Madoff ? Ben Madoff? What are you doing here and what is all this ? I can't believe you are the one making all this noise," reacted Cecilia angrily.
At the same time, the security guard was running after Ben Madoff in order to stop him and throw him out, but he stopped short when he heard the name of Ben Madoff. No one else in the city had that name but the chairman of Madinvestment. A name that meant wealth and power. So the security agent looked again the man after whom he was running and couldn't believe his eyes when he realized that it was Ben, Ben Madoff his boss.
"Oh Lord! Mr. Madoff, I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you, that's why I blocked the passage to you so that I can identify you first. I'm new here and that's the first time I see you face to face. I just know you through the pictures displayed on the advertisement board downstairs at the reception.
"It's alright now. Just go back to your position !" commanded the owner of the city's general hospital.
"Right away sir !" And the security agent went back to the entrance of the room.
Ben Madoff then recomposed himself as he turned around and met the gaze of his mother-in-law Cecilia, whom he met for the first time. A great feeling of shame seized him because this was probably not the way he thought he would get to know the mother of the woman he wanted to marry.
Trying to fix his mess, he forced himself to smile to Cecilia however she could clearly embarrassment on his face. Then he greeted her and introduced himself.
He cleared his throat and said to her:
"My greetings Mrs. Norton. My name is Ben Madoff. I am your future son-in-law."
Cecilia was stunned. She had never imagined that the first time she would meet the man who wants to marry her daughter, it will be in such a dramatic way.
What make her even more perplexed was that the son-in-law to be was really nice looking, imposing and extremely elegant in his black smoking. At first sight, there was no doubt that he was from the high class.
"Mr. Ben Madoff, seeing you in real life comes as a shock to me. I never thought that one day someone as famous and rich as you would be my son-in-law. I wonder how you found out about my daughter Joanna? And also how both of you decided to tie the knot?" asked Cecilia.
She had barely finished questioning Ben Madoff when her daughter Joanna attacked the tycoon, hence not allowing to answer her sick mother who was now getting excited about their marriage.
"You moron, why are you here?" she threw in his face with angry tone of voice.
"I told you that I was coming back to the office after getting my mother's blessing, didn't I? So why are you here because I don't get it?" Joanna declared, raising her voice.
"You thought I was not going to show up? If you did, then it just means you don't know me yet. Unlike you, if I make a promise, I keep it. No matter what!" the young woman explained with assurance.
Ben Madoff looked at her in amazement but decided not to answer her. Instead, he smiled fakely at her before ignoring her completely and instead turning his focus to Cecilia.
He then began to talk to her.
"Mrs. Norton, well by chance your daughter was at the bus stop when evildoers were chasing me. She saved my life at that moment by first hiding me in the nearby bosquet then by taking me to your house. Only after the danger had passed did she make me promise to marry her and pay her a sum of one million dollars as thanks. Under the pressure of having to be grateful to her, I accepted. ," The mogul revealed.
Hearing this modified version of the story of their meeting, Joanna's heart beat fast and then was filled with anger.
Why could Ben Madoff tell rubbish? What was he trying to achieve?" the young woman asked herself.
And as she was about to correct him, she saw him smile at his mother who smiled back at him. She therefore refrained from interrupting Ben Madoff because it had been a long time since Cecilia had displayed her radiant smile, for she was so diminished by illness.
The chairman of the Madinvestment then continued his explanation.
"Frankly at the beginning, the idea of marrying her was worrying me, however after spending quality time with her, the fear had vanished away because Joanna is quite simply an exceptional young woman," affirmed the tycoon, sowing even more confusion in the mind of Joanna who was on the verge of bursting with anger.
So was that the kind of man she was going to marry ? A pathetic liar? Joanna was terribly confused.