The flow

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

''Dad...Dad... I'm leaving,"I said as I walked in to my dad in his study to bade him goodbye.

After a minute of not responding, and just sitting there not even moving, just holding some files, I ask him, ''Dad are you listening?"

''Hmmn , I already sent the important details to your E-mail. You must win the contract because that is very important in the expansion of the company," he said without raising his head from the files that he was reading.

After years of experience, there`s nothing about the business that I don`t know, yet he still treats me like a newbie secretary that he has to repeat himself over something obvious and common sense. Every deal, every important meeting, I know the details because I can`t risk making a mistake. I thought he'll say he was proud of me because I am the reason of the continues expansion of the company.But-

''Why are you still here? I thought you left already ?''he sounded irritated after seeing I'm still stuck like statue waiting for a miracle.

"Oh. Ok... I guess I better get going".

After years of cool treatment, I`d say asking for his attention will be too much and hoping he might hug me or even just throw a quick goodbye my way will only make me feel the lack of but I guess he only sees me as a pawn that he could just order around in order to make his beloved daughter's company flourish.

Don't get me wrong, I'm his daughter but I guess he doesn't like me enough to accept that I'm his daughter. He never lacked in supporting me financially because he is more than willing to send me to an elite school only billionaires could afford if it means I'm going to learn a lot more than in a regular private university.

Still don't get the point?

This is how to summarize my perfectly f*d up world.

My dad and my mom had me 20 years ago. My mom had been faithful to my father even when their marriage was arranged and she already had a lover before she got arranged. She gave up her dreams and career to become a full-time homemaker and became a mother after 3 years of marriage when she was 24.

She's from a powerful family and had a good education, but she's not inclined towards business and she became a doctor. And even if she still wanted to continue being a surgeon, she couldn't because her husband was demanding, so she became a simple homemaker.

After 5 years of staying at home and taking care of me, she decided to go back to work. Even if dad didn't allow her, she still insisted since I have been starting school at that time, and she had nothing to do. And she reasoned she didn't want to waste her time doing nothing, so she won the argument and came back to being a surgeon. Then she met her ex-lover - who already had a seven year old son. They became friends again for he also works in the same hospital as a Neurologist.

However my dad being my dad had not been exactly faithful to my mother. He had a lover before he got married and they were still seeing each other after he got married. They only stopped seeing each other when my father learned about my mother's pregnancy.

He thought his life was perfect until his lover showed up with his daughter who has the same age as me.Mom just got home from work so as dad. We were eating our dinner when a very frantic person started ringing the doorbell. She rang it so many times that my mother hurriedly ran to the door since the maids had their day off. Only our driver remained.

As mom opened the door, she was shocked. No, shocked was an understatement. She almost had a heart attack seeing a lady with a girl who is the exact mini-girl version of my father. She hurriedly sent me to my room and confronted him.

But I was slow. I saw it when mom turned to dad, and he just said," I'm sorry, I thought I had only one daughter."

Mom already knew everything with just one look because she knew she had married a casanova, she just didn't believe she had fallen for her husband's antics enough to get her heart broken. She got drunk and called her ex-lover to get her in a bar after she walked out of our house in a furry.

Dad left me in our house with the lady and his daughter after he made her confess the truth regarding their daughter. Then he went after my mom only to discover she was still friends with her ex. He accused her of cheating, he filed a divorce, he demanded full custody, since he got both the companies(his company and my mother's) in his name and remarried with Sabrina, his ex.

While my mom was left with nothing at that point. My grandparents were both dead, my mom got nothing after the divorce and she fought for my custody but with no success. After that, she went with uncle Carlos, her ex-lover-lover-again, to the U.K. to start a new life, since his wife had died while giving birth to his son. My mom tried again to get me when I was 15 but my father didn't permit it.

He dressed me, sent me to school, made me sign a contract after I was 18 years old that states that I would work for the company he gave my step-sister Margaret until I was out of his custody which, I'm thankful, is just less than a year away.

Then the rest is history about the typical dad-step-mom-step-sister story.

Thanks for taking a peek. This story has been on my mind for so long but I can`t seem to write it the way I like but here`s for trying my best. Hope you enjoy it.