Anastasia POV
Just then the door was violently kicked and it broke from the outside and several bodyguards came inside the house. An elegant woman dressed from head to toe in an expensive brand like she was going to walk a runaway, walked with her pomposity. She looked around the house with disgust and when she saw me she snarled her teeth towards me.
"Was it your idea to bring my son to this disgusting place? He has a business worth millions to run and why did he suddenly have to take a vacation off just to accompany you like you are a child huh" she became ranting as soon as our eyes met. I didn't know that Asher was here after leaving his work back in Los Angeles.
I then realized that she was the woman who once came when I was hospitalized and embarrassed me even more.
"Am sorry ma'am but I had no idea he had left his work to accompany me. Then can I ask you what is so important about this etiquette and class than you are looking down on me?" I asked because I didn't know people like her still existed. What I advocate for if I had the office was to push away the rich's aristocracy thinking that class is one of the necessities to make a house.
A good example is my mother and father who couldn't marry each other because they had different classes.
"You see. Look at what you are wearing and look at me. Do you even have enough money to buy all of this? I don't want my son to be with a woman who will bring him down. I want a woman of the same class and stature, that way I will be rest assured that together they will build an even greater empire than the one we have" she said and this made Asher angry as he stormed towards her. The security guards were blocking her way and she did not see my father sitting calmly on the sofa.
"Mom what are you doing here and saying?Can you at least respect yourself here.You are at my in laws house and you decided to brng this your games here mom please I have said this and will continue to say it .I am married to Anastasia and if we divorce if we ever come to that I will never marry a woman picked by you" he lashed at her.
"Now you dare to talk back at me all because of this low-level skunk from the streets. Asher is doing this for your happiness" she added.
"Mom now is not the time to talk about happiness okay? If being from a rich background could be a good foundation for a family why did my father leave home and decide to start a new family with his mistress and have more children there?" he dropped the ultimate question and I saw his mother tremble a little bit.
"That's what I thought now come and apologize to my wife and her family before I get angry Mom," he said and something about his tone was even more fierce than his mother's. For a moment I thought he was a serial killer.
The woman walked and now she saw my father and her eyes were wide open with shock.
"Mr …Mr…Mr…Harrington! What are you doing here?" she stammered and started adjusting her clothes as well as her emotions.
"The famous Mrs. Reed we meet again but I won't say I am happy to see you here or what heard you say," my father said. Wait did they know each other and why was she respecting him?
"Am sorry Mr Harrington I said all of this but you wouldn blame me you know how this rich society is.I was just stating the facts here Mr Harrington" she said her hands trembling.
"Well am fully aware of how this rich noble families do yes.But you were wrong to call my daughter a skunk and a good for nothing for that our cooperation which we were in the midst of negotiating will be cancelled" he said and called one of his security gaurds to contact some personnel from his company.
"Please don't am very sorry Mr Harrington .Ana my daughter please forgive me for being irrational earlier on ,am trully sorry" she said looking at me, " Also am sorry for causing damamge to your property as well" this time she was speaking looking towards my grandmother.
Wow you can fall just like that.Now am even more happy about my identity ,if it meant that it will keep people away from me then I would go back to claim my rightful status right there.
"Mr Harrington please update me on this I don't remember having a negotiation with you. What is the name of your company?" Asher asked with confusion written on his face.
"Horizon Holdings" my father softly answered and I saw Asher loose strenght that he needed to support himself against a wall.
"Asher you are a very good boy and I actually wanted to go and read your pitch which you submitted but maybe we can have a future cooperation after women like her are no longer on the executive board," he said and he came and kissed my forehead, "I will visit you tomorrow princess along with the rest of the family if you are okay with that. Thank you, Mrs Mccall, for hosting me, see you again Mr and Mrs Reed" he then left and he was totally angry by what he had witnessed people treating me.
"Mrs your stay is no longer welcome.You can leave" my grandmother said and I saw Asher's mother walk out of the door but her vigour from before was now reduced.
After Asher's mother had left I decided to check up on him.
"Are you okay?"I asked with concern for him.
"Yes am not, am sorry for the stunt my mother caused. I was getting familiar with your father and she came to disrupt everything in a flick of a moment. Also, the whole company had been sleeping late finding ideas to pitch to submit for a project being facilitated by your father's company and almost every company wants to get their hands on it. I didn't want to disappoint them but all because of my mother" he said and I felt pain in his words.
"I will talk with my father about this. He will give it to you" I said trying to cheer him up.
"No Ana now is not the time to be going to your father for this. I respect his decision and you must too. Imagine hearing all that my mother said when these words are directed to your daughter. The one you have immense guilt of not being there to protect her when she was little or even be the one to teach her to drive or ride a bicycle. It hurts a man's pride Ana and besides we are lucky he just decided to not give us this project because if it weren't for our relationship the company would have been destroyed in one stike by your father. See now we need to be grateful he was lenient with us" he said and he stood up and went to the bedroom. Maybe it was to process his feelings and pain away from me. Maybe my presence would make him more guilty of his mother's actions.
"Are you okay mija?" my grandmother said and came to sit beside me on the sofa.
"Am fine grandma but how are you dear.How about you brew some of the medicine you larnt from your mother to aleviate the poor guy's stress because I saw the way his veins were bulging on his face.He might be having a huge headache.
"I think we talked about it. This whole medical stuff caused Mom's death. I swore I would not even step near this again. Her discoveries and that mission caused her death, Grandma. I wont" I said and hot emotional tears flowed down my cheeks as I said this.
"Then for all the answers you need you will need to open these" she said as she gave me several envelopes stamped and similar to the one father had gave me earlier.
"What are these Grandma?" I asked.
"All the answers you need from your mother. She was not only a hero Ana but a dedicated woman if not for her stubbornness you would have...….