FLASH MARRIAGE; CHARMED BY THE RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE CEO-Chapter 328: Jealousy At The Reunion
"Oh my goodness!" Harriet screamed dramatically. "Lilian! Is that you!"
"Lilian!" Someone else exclaimed.
"Which Lilian?"
"Is she referring to Matt's wife who left him?"
"Impossible!"
"That can't be Lillian!" Uncle Moses shook his head. "The Lilian I know is very fat and ugly. She's not that slim and beautiful woman."
"So true. The last time I heard about her, she left for the countryside to be with her parents."
Lillian ignored all the side comments as she went around her car to open the door for her children.
"Aren't those Matt children, Mark and Rosie?"
"It looks like them."
"No way!"
Other members of the family gathered around Lilian's car.
"Good morning, Uncle Moses, Aunt Vivian..." Lillian spent a few minutes greeting everyone present by their name.
"Oh my goodness! It is really you." Harriet jumped on top of Lilian, almost knocking her down.
"Take it easy." Lilian chuckled heartily, forgetting how sweet and friendly Harriet could be when she was happy.
"How did you become so slim? Did you go for liposuction?" Harriet pulled Lillian away from the crowd while her children bonded with their cousins.
"Who has that kind of money?" Lilian rolled her eyes.
"Then how did you do it?"
"Dieting, exercise and healthy living." Lillian summarised everything.
"Wow, you have to teach me. I need to look as trimmed as you are for my baby."
"Hmm..." Lillian scoffed.
"Don't tell me you are still holding a grudge against your husband after six months."
"Who wouldn't, Harriet?" Lillian suppressed the urge to scream. "He tried to take Amelia and Sarah's lives."
"But he didn't." Harriet pointed out.
"That's because he was stopped on time. What if Amelia had died at the hands of those kidnappers? What if Sarah had died when he attempted to go after Amelia a second time?" Lilian lamented, wishing she could tell Harriet that Matt had kidnapped her parents and had threatened to behead them if she didn't come back to him.
"You know what, it is in the past. I'm sure they've all learned from their mistakes and would never do such a heinous crime again."
"I wish." Lillian smiled bitterly.
"At least, you are here to welcome your husband, I believe. That should stand for hope."
"If only you knew." Lilian bit down on her inner lower lips in anguish.
"Knew what?" Harriet stopped her, facing her squarely, her ears burning for gossip.
"Nothing!"
"You're lying."
"I said it's nothing."
Lillian resumed walking, heading for the mansion entrance away from Harriet. The sight of Nana, sitting in her wheelchair and staring lovingly at her, awakened her love for the old woman.
Nana Shawls and her parents had been the only reason why she hadn't divorced Matt a long time ago for hitting her.
"Mom!" Lillian hurried over to the entrance and fell on her knees before the old woman, embracing her warmly.
"My sweetheart. I thought I would never see you again." Nana Shawl smiled between tears, stroking the hair of her most favourite daughter-in-law.
"I couldn't take it anymore." Lilian wept bitterly.
"I understand." Nana lifted Lillian's head and kissed her gently on the forehead. "I perfectly understand."
Just then, the sound of the gate rolling open, followed by a fleet of black tinted cars driving in, caused a wave of euphoria to fill the air.
"They are here," Harriet screamed the loudest, running towards the approaching cars in high anticipation of seeing her husband's face. She was jumping like a little child whose father was just returning from the battlefield after years of absence.
Desmond didn't wait for his own car to completely come to a halt when he opened the door and jumped out, calling Harriet's name.
"My baby!" Harriet called back, running in slow motion towards him, while the entire family watched in awe.
The displayed emotions and affections were simply captivating as the couple embraced each other, crying, professing their love for each other, laughing and kissing. Their three children also joined their parents in the joyous moment, happy to see their father again.
Matt climbed out of the car, fuming like a pressure cooker on steam. His eyes were sharp and narrowed, and his gaze chilly as he made his way around the car to confront his elder brother for treating him like a fugitive of justice. freeweɓnøvel.com
Ignoring the warm welcome from his extended family – who were too scared of his terrifying appearance to come close to him, – Matt was about to unleash hell on his elder brother, when his gaze fell on his pretty daughter, Rosie, standing by the water fountain and staring coldly at him. Beside her was her brother, equally glaring at him.
Matt halted, the anger in his eyes melting.
Even though he could see that his children were not happy to see him, their presence meant that their mother was also here.
Matt silently scanned every other face in search of his wife.
"Why is it acting weird?"
"I think he's looking for someone?"
"His wife!"
"Shh ..."
When Matt finally found Lilian by the entrance to the mansion, kneeling beside his mother and also glaring dangerously at him, something in him snapped.
Senator Gregory, –who was expecting a showdown after watching the way Matt almost attacked his security aids, while calling him a wimp. – was stunned to see his heartless brother gawking at a slightly familiar woman by the entrance to the mansion.
"Who is that woman standing close to my mother?" The senator asked his head of security as the latter came to him.
"That will be, Mrs Lilian Shawls, Matt's wife, sir. I was informed when she arrived."
"That is Lilian!" Senator Gregory was speechless. The last time he spoke to her, she had sworn that she was never coming back to Matt. So what happened?
"Find out the reason behind her visit." Senator Gregory said while observing the visible anger on Lilian's face.
Nana Shawls couldn't stop the tears from flowing at the sight of her three boys. It evoked past memories of unity and love between the three brothers before Fiona Wales' arrival (Amelia's late mother)
Seeing the way Matt was staring at his wife longingly, Nana's smile deepened as she said,
"Why don't you go and say something to your husband? I am sure he misses you."
Lilian spared her mother-in-law a heartbreaking glance, wishing she could tell her that her second son was a monster.
"Go..." Nana stroked Lilian on the chin.
Nodding and returning the smile, Lillian stood up and made her way to Matt while everyone watched.
Matt could feel his groin burning with immense desire for the first time in more than twelve years for his wife. He could feel a stiffening erection for the woman he swore he would never touch again.
Without waiting for Lillian to come up to him, he hurried over to her while everyone watched, with their eyes wide and jaws dropping.
"Matt, I didn't come here..."
Matt didn't allow her to say anything as he gingerly grabbed her by the waist and spun her around, something he couldn't do in the past when she was still huge.
"Matt... put me down." Lilian was stunned by her husband's weird behaviour
At that very moment, Pearl and Regina, all dressed up in their new outfit, came to the entrance, shocked to see Matt holding up a slim woman and spinning her like a child.
"Desmond!" Pearl almost died of jealousy at the sight of Desmond holding his wife and children so close to him.
"Who is that?" Regina's dilated pupils almost popped out of their sockets, her muscles stiffening and her fist clenched in rage, an action that didn't go unnoticed by the senator and his mother.
"That will be Matt's wife, Lillian?" Nana replied, eying her deceitful daughter-in-law suspiciously.
"Impossible! That can't be the huge elephant, Matt despises so much." Regina blurted out before she could stop herself.
Nana Shawls was about to rebuke Regina for her careless and envious statement when a wild gasp forced her to look at her son again.
"No!" Regina muttered, as Matt brought down Lillian and crashed his lips hungrily against hers in a passionate kiss before everyone present.
"Hmm..." Senator Gregory chuckled under his breath.
