When vows Ignite

To the Frederickson Mansion

Mckellen immediately began to cough at the sight of the newspaper; he dropped his spoon, grabbed a glass of water, and took it down to subside the cough.

"Honey, where did you get that?" He tried to snatch the paper away from but she was smart enough to move it faster than him.

"Daddy you didn't answer my question! When were you going to tell me and Mommy?"

"Honey, please put the paper away. We can talk about it after dinner," Charlotte responded lightly.

"Wait! Mom! You knew?! Oh my gosh! So both of you knew about this and you were just going to keep it away from me? Just like that? I can't believe this! I'm sick of all of this!"

"Baby wait --"

"No! So when were you going to tell me then? who knows for how long you two have been hiding this from me!"

"Honey, we only just found out yesterday. and your father has everything under control --"

"Wait yesterday? When I saw you on the couch? So that was the reason why daddy was comforting you?! You lied to me! Both of you!! You know what? I'm done!". She left the newspaper on the dinner table, stormed upstairs, grabbed her purse, and stormed out of the house in anger, her blood boiling with rage and her fists clenched.

"Catherine! Where are you off to?" Her mother questioned and ran to the door.

Micheal grabbed her by the arm. "Honey! Let her be; let's just give her some time and space. I'll call Gideon to keep an eye out for her, okay?" He hugged her to comfort her and keep her mind at rest.

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Catherine hopped into the car "Gideon! Please take me to Felice's place and make sure you don't tell my daddy where I'm off to"

"Yes, ma'am".

Gideon is Catherine's driver assigned to her by her father. He is expected to drive her to wherever she pleases. He knew that he was supposed to let his boss know where his daughter was even if she told him not to. It was around 9 pm late that night they finally got to Felice's place.

"Thank you, Gideon! You can go now! I'll call you when I need you"

"Yes ma'am"

She grabbed her purse and walked into Felice's father's mansion... "Babe!!" Felice rushed over to where she was and gave her a big hug.

"Hi, girl! How are you?!"

"How are YOU!? you didn't tell me you were coming is everything okay?" Felice was a bit worried.

Felice and Catherine have been best friends since they started growing teeth. Their parents have known each other since their college days. Felice is a very supportive friend to Catherine and vice versa. They also come through for each other. Felice's father is also a billionaire who specializes in selling vehicles and vehicle parts.

"My parents are the worst!" She whined.

"C'mon, let's go up to my room and talk." She wrapped her hands around her shoulders as they both walked to her room and on their way, they saw Mrs.. Frederickson, Felice's mother.

"Catherine dear, how are you?"

"Hello, Mrs Frederickson," she smiled.

"You should have come earlier. We just finished having dinner."

"No worries, ma'am, I had dinner at home," she offered her a gentle smile.

"Okay then if you say so".

Felice offered her a glass of milk and then sat with her on her bed. "what's the problem Cathy? You know you can talk to me".

Catherine was very sad and had her head buried in the bed... "It's mom and dad, they've started hiding things from me again! This is so unfair I'm not a kid anymore! I guess you saw the newspaper?"

"I didn't. What's up?"

"Daddy's company is falling apart. It's the news headline; they didn't even tell me; I don't understand why they hid this from me!"

"Okay calm down. It's not like they don't want you to be part of the company. I'm pretty sure Mr Micheal and Aunty Charlotte have a very good reason for keeping it away from you, you know? C'mon, cheer up tomorrow. You can have a one-on-one conversation with them, and maybe you guys can talk it out, okay?"

"I guess you do have a point. I just wish they'd let me in on most of the activities of the company; after all, I'm the next heir.." She smiled, and Felice chuckled.

"Now can we go to sleep!" Felice grunted.

"Yes, please." They both giggled and went to sleep.

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Back at the Bentley Mansion, Mr and Mrs Bentley, with their son Williams, were having a casual conversation concerning his official CEO celebration party.

"I hope the designer has started working on your attire for the special event son?"

"Yes, Father--"

"I am so proud of you Willy. Your father and I have brought you up so well. Although there's still one more finishing touch to put the cherry on the cake" she smiled.

"What's that mother?" He asked while chewing on his food and listening to her attentively.

"You haven't brought a woman to us to show as your wife"

He sighed "Mom, the party can still go on without me having a wife or a right-hand woman, you know?". William hated it when his parents brought up the issue of marriage. He never liked to have this conversation or talk about anything related to this.