HEIRESS REBORN: MARRYING HER EX-FIANCÉ-Chapter 30: A forgettable recollection
How could she have forgotten?
How could she have forgotten such an important occasion around this timeline?!
’’No, Jason. That’s bad language.’’ Ayana barely registered Noah, correcting her little brother for her own slip. If it weren’t for her sudden recollection, she’d have done it herself.
’’Ayana, are you fine? Did I say something wrong?’’ Noah questioned with worry. He replayed their conversation before this sudden silence and assumed he hadn’t said anything wrong.
Why was his first cousin behaving this way then?
’’...’’ Ayana did not respond and stayed silent for a short moment.
’’I-I need to leave.’’ She then stuttered in a shaky voice and quickly stood up from the chair.
’’Ayana?’’ She ignored Noah’s worried gaze and strode out of the dining room, leaving him and her little brother watching her retreating figure.
’’How could you forget Ayana?" Out in the hallway, she whispered to herself, almost freaking out.
How could she have forgotten that it was around this time that she had met him in her past life?
The first love of her pure heart.
Her first boyfriend.
The boy whom she pestered in her past life, even after he became a man. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
The one who she had sacrificed everything for; her name, herself, her reputation, her little brother, her engagement.....just to get his love and attention.
’’Young miss!’’ Ayana turned around to the sight of Paige heading her way in quick steps.
’’The first young master was worried and asked that I should check on you, young miss.’’ Just like Noah, Paige stared at her with concern.
Unlike her past life and their first encounters in this life, Paige was genuinely expressing her worries for herself.
’’You have been standing on the spot for a while now, young miss.’’
’’....’’
’’Miss Paige....’’
’’Paige, young miss.’’ Paige corrected immediately. ’’Please don’t address me with formality.’’ Her tone was polite despite the sudden interruption.
’’....Alright...Paige.’’ After some hesitation, Ayana went along with the correction. Just like the driver Paul and her bodyguard Sam, Paige was no different from them. They always requested her not to address them formally, even if they were twice as old as her age.
Their intentions were understandable, since she was basically their employer.
’’Arabella’s birthday banquet is coming up soon, right?’’ Not the Young miss Easmond’s banquet, but her second cousin’s.
After all, the birthday banquet was where uncle had introduced that bastard in her first life.
’’Yes, young miss,’’ Paige replied to the question. ’’Will you and the first young master attend the birthday banquet?" She asked, hesitantly.
The tension in the Kingston family was very clear to her and the other servants. The young miss, the young master and the first young master were on one side. The Eldest master, madam and the first young lady were on another side.
It also didn’t help that the sickly first young master had joined her young miss’s side, which had worsened the tension.
’’Of course.’’ Ayana answered with a small smile. ’’I, as the young miss of the Kingston family, and her first cousin, can’t miss her 17th birthday banquet, can I?’’
’’....Will that be alright with you, young miss?’’
Wordlessly, Ayana stared at her nanny’s granddaughter for a moment before bypassing the latter.
’’People will talk, Paige. Not that I care, but I need each and every person in that banquet to understand who is the true head of the Kingston family.’’
’I also need to destroy this part of myself because of that son of a bitch!’ She bit her lower lip as her hazel eyes darkened with fury.
This part of herself that always shook at the recollection of that man, she need to destroy it by seeing him face-to-face with her uncle. That sight should forever be imprinted in her brain and announce to her that he had never loved her like she had done from the start!
’’You need to wake up fully, Ayana.’’ She told herself. Her entire being needed to wake up by force!
Over this one year, she had unconsciously relaxed way too much because nothing had happened yet. Since she had taken a different step in this life, unlike her past life, where she had already welcomed her relatives into her home, her life had been very quiet over the year.
Her time in the Kingston corporation was also smooth with little trouble. Nothing had happened from the side of her uncle yet, which unknowingly lowered her guard.
Noah’s words were a good wake up call.
’Let’s start by Sam investigating that bastard and the reason he was willing to work with Uncle.’ Nevertheless, she began planning her future counter attacks.
Unlike her past life, where she had no need for an invitation, her uncle and his family had yet to invite her. However, if this timeline was the same as her past life, then an invitation would be sent, since her uncle would introduce her to that bastard.
’That woman as well....’
At the thought of that third party who also ruined herself in her past life, Ayana almost couldn’t handle the burning resentment in her heart. She deeply loathed that woman in her past life, and also in this life. Even if they had yet to know each other and were strangers at this point.
’Right, both of them have always been in the entertainment industry.....’ She suddenly thought of another scheme.
’’I should have Sam make trouble for them as a starting point.’’ Ayana murmured as she reached the door of her bedroom.
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The Kingston family, as one of the top influential families in New York city, have always been in the limelight. Even if one of their families had been very low-key and quiet without much interaction.
Arabella Kingston might just be the first young miss of the Kingston family, but she was related to the children of the late president of the Kingston corporation and the head of the family as cousin and niece.
Many wealthy families have always wanted a connection, preferably a relationship, with her. Besides that, there have been rumors of the young miss attending the birthday banquet.
And so, Arabella’s birthday banquet was packed densely with many guests in their neatly crisp suits and glittering gowns, hoping to see the young miss and satisfy their curiosities.
It also didn’t help that the main point of their attendance had not attended any function or banquets over the year, which has deepened the rumors about her.
Some were about her snatching the heir’s position from her brother since he was still a toddler. Another set talked about her working in the Kingston corporation at her young age. Other than these rumors, many had a certain image of the young miss.
A very spoiled and arrogant young miss.
There was also the sickly first young master who seemed to have left his family and joined the young miss’s family.
He also became the new president of the Kingston corporation, and not his father, the Eldest Master.
Anyone could tell that there were some dealings behind the scenes.
Or else how could the sickly first young master have held the highest seat of a powerful corporation like the Kingston’s?
The Kingston family that had been quiet for years seemed to have elicited rumors one by one immediately after the death of the late president and madam, and thus becoming very interesting for the many who enjoyed hearing rumors and witnessing succession battles within prestigious families.
’’First young miss has grown to a fine young woman, Madam Kingston. ’’ A fine madam complimented Arabella as she welcomed the madams attending her birthday banquet with her mother.
’’She reminds me so much of Madam Kingston in her prime.’’
’’She certainly surpasses the Madam’s beauty. Like mother and daughter, I suppose.’’
’Of course, I’m more beautiful than my mother!’ Arabella raised her head higher, boldly claiming in heart. Her smile deepened at the compliments thrown in her way.
In a silver one-shoulder bodycon gown with a high slit, she had expected many to take notice of her outstanding self. Not like they haven’t in the past, but she wanted her beautiful image imprinted in their minds.
She was Arabella Kingston.
Everyone should fall for her beauty and be at awe.
As Arabella chatted with bright smiles and giggled, her silver earrings swayed slightly, displaying their twinkling gleam.
’’If the first young miss’s beauty is akin to the goddess of love, I suddenly wonder about the young heiress?’’
