Chapter 32

*TRISTAN* “She did that purposely.”Phoebe let out. “Did what?” “Pretended as if she was about to vomit.She definitely implied that you and I are disgusting.” I sighed.”Let’s just eat and go to work.” I didn’t want to deal with Cora right now. Even if I felt her behavior was very exaggerated,I didn’t find it enough to argue with him. Part of the reason why Phoebe was in this house was because I wanted to get a reaction from Cora.I wanted to see if she never ever considered me as her husband and so far,it seemed she didn’t.She was okay with Phoebe’s presence in this house. When Cora walked into the dining room,I noticed how pale she was. She might not be pretending afterall. “Are you okay? “Yeah.I didn’t mean to interrupt you two’s breakfast.You can go on without me.”With that,she walked off. Was she sick? ************* *CORA* The more I smelled oil,the worse I felt.I didn’t want to have greasy food.I came to a conclusion to go to the hospital to get checked up once I was chanced. Before I got to the living room,I heard Phoebe say.”Tristan,if you’re free,let’s go shopping and watch a movie.We’ve been apart for too long.I want to do everything with you.” I glanced back at the two of them.I couldn’t wish them well. Instead, I wished something should just happen to them on their way to the movies. I was suddenly startled by my own thoughts. Why did I become such a resentful woman? Sighing,I got dressed for work and headed out of the house. Outside,I saw a red Ferrari. It was obviously a new car. And it was definitely for Phoebe.Their affair was suffocating me. When I got into my car,I turned on the radio,habitually. “Recently,the CEO of Godoy Group and a large foreign enterprise have opened a win-win cooperation mode.The two sides have reached an agreement on cooperation and will develop in the aspect of new energy.We have the honor of interviewing the President of Godoy Group.” “Hello,Mr Godoy,what do you think of the domestic new energy industry?” “The domestic new energy is at the preliminary stage of market development,and there are still many shortcomings in the technical performance of the industry.The traditional energy has always occupied half of the energy market in the country.But as we all know,the traditional energy has gone through a prosperous period and is gradually going to decline.Therefore,the new energy has great advantages.On one hand,it’s a of new energy,and on the other,it’s clean.Therefore, it should attract much attention in the market.But at present,the new energy technology in our country is still in development,so we have established a cooperative relationship with a large new energy company abroad.The purpose is to introduce advanced foreign technology and find a suitable ways to develop new energy in the country.” I listened to Tristan who was speaking with fervor and assurance. I turned off the radio and didn’t want to listen to him being praised anymore. It was so pathetic that I could only known the news about him from broadcast.As someone who had dreamt countlessly of having a happily ever after with him,I didn’t expect this to happen. I cheered myself up,did I couldn’t be immersed in sadness all the time. When I got to the company,I strode in confidently. In the past,I wanted to abandon all of these for Tristan,my family,my title. It was so pathetic thinking about how foolish I had been.I am never going to put a man or anyone before myself. Ever since I came to the company,I haven’t had the chance to tell my father the truth.The entire time I was married to Tristan,he rarely took me to social gatherings so that made keeping my marriage a secret possible.He only took me out a few times when his grandmother forced him to.The public knew he was married but they didn’t exactly have a clear picture of his wife. As for my father,I knew he would be mad that I got married without telling him and he would be even angrier to know that I got divorced. He might even worry or be scared because of Tristan’s connection to my family’s business. Last time,his deduction of profits was concealed by me. I didn’t know how to tell him about what was really going on. Would he understand?Would he take my side? But as soon as I stepped into the hallway,I noticed that something seemed to be off. My employees were in low spirits and my assistant who was standing at the door of my office,gestured at me to hurry up. I wondered what was going on but as I walked in,I found the answer. My dad was sitting on the swivel chair with documents in his hands. He had a big frown on his face. Surprised by his sudden visit,I tried to pretend as if I was calm as I walked up to him. “Dad,why are you here?Don’t read these documents.It’s not important.”I was anxious as I spoke. My dad looked at me and then signaled my assistant to close the door. “You said you were capable of taking over.I believed you because that’s why I have wanted for a long time but what the hell is going on?” He pointed at the document that included the reduction of profits. It was a huge loss.Originally the stocks has been dropping but with this reduction,it was noticeable that the company were making more losses than gains. “Dad,please trust me.I will handle this.When you told me to take over,you knew I was ready,right?I’m going to get everything back on track.”I tried to comfort him. But he still looked bothered. “Cora,since you suddenly decided to finally take over the company of years of me pestering you to,I’ve had a feeling that there was something up with me.Tell me,what is it?”His eyes were full of concern,his gray temples were so clear as they went by. Looking at my old father,I bit my lower lip and said. “I…it’s nothing.There’s nothing wrong with me.” “You’re hiding something from me,Cora.Talk to me.”My dad then took out a green notebook from my drawer,which was so green that I felt it dazzle. “Dad…”I was about to cry now. “You were married to Tristan Godoy?” Unable to help myself,I burst into tears and tearfully told him everything. “Granted,it was wrong of you to lie about your background and get married to him,it also wrong of you to hide this from me but nothing gives him the right to treat you like this.I do not care if he pulls all the strings he has and crush my company.He has to answer to me!”My dad was so angry and was about to leave but I stopped him. “Dad,please calm down.The Godoys are powerful,too powerful for us.You’ve worked so hard to achieve everything we have to our hand,I can’t let your years of handwork go down.Please calm down.Moreover,that woman has akrsdh moved into his house so Tristan is going to announced his divorce publicly soon.I know it’s upsetting that he still has to keep me in his house and control me but I’m sure that it’ll be over soon.If you go to his house and definitely beat him up,it’ll be adding fire to the flames.” Sitting back down, my father stared at me,pitifully. “How could you act okay when you were going through something like that?How could I?How could I make you come work here when you were hurting so much?Each time I called you,you always sounded so bright and happy on the phone so I assumed you were okay?Oh my dear,this might have been so hard on you…too hard.” I gasped when a teardrop fell from my father’s eye. I think the only time I’ve seen him cry was when we lost my mom. I felt so terrible. “I’m so sorry,Cora.This is all my fault.It’s all my fault.When your mother passed,I buried myself with work,I barely had time for you and I’m sure that is why you felt you couldn’t tell me anything.” “No,dad.It’s not your fault.”More tears spilled from my eyes and I hugged him, tightly. “It’s not your fault,dad.I made the choice to marry him.I am responsible for my actions.You did the best you could to raise my well.You never wronged me.Just don’t worry about me,I’m fine.I’m okay,really.It was stupid to ever get involved with Tristan in the first place and I’m happy that it’s over now.I will handle the company.I can handle it.I will get it out of Tristan’s control.If worst comes to worst,don’t worry if we end up losing everything,I will take good care of you.Being alive and having each other is more important than anything else.”I cried out. He pulled back and nodded.”It might’ve seemed as if this business was more important to me than anything else but that’s not true.Your happiness comes first to me.I want you to always be happy,my dear.”He raised his hands and wiped the tears off my face. To comfort my dad,I smiled at him and nodded. “Don’t worry,dad.We are not losing anything.” He smiled back.”I’ll have to step in to assist you for the meantime.I already scheduled a meeting.And in order to since the issue of profit contraction is with Tristan,we need to come up with a plan.We can’t let anything disrupt the capital chain,that would raise concerns from the board of directors.” I nodded in comprehension. For the whole morning,I was sad and absent-minded.I had thought when I told my dad the truth someday,I would feel totally relieved.Instead, I felt guilt and shame. Probably because I had made him cry.I felt I had disappointed him a lot and put his business in danger.If I had never gotten involved with Tristan in the first place,he would have had no reason to attack my father’s company. Looking at my dad who was getting old,I had thought about keeping my marriage with Tristan a secret to the end. I had thought I could handle any problems Tristan created for the company without alarming my dad. But I couldn’t. I felt like a total loser.