I Am An Illegitimate Child With A Legitimate Reason For Revenge-Chapter 32: Her blood boiled

Ariel wasn’t sure if she heard right. He said to seduce Marco? No, maybe he called a different name and her head filtered the name to be Marco.

"Did you just say I should seduce Marco?" She asked, her hands gradually trembling under the table.

"That’s what I said." He said and she rubbed her hands.

"May I ask why?"

"I want you to make the headlines one more time but in a more shocking way." He simply said and began eating but she didn’t get it.

"I don’t understand." She said, "What does me seducing him have to do with making the headlines?"

"He is now a married man. And to think my lover would go as far as seeing a married man who is also my direct subordinate... The media would wildly think that you are a loose lady or that I gave you all that privilege. In any case, they will wonder, was her lover not enough for her?" Raymond speculated. "That is a far bigger issue than quarreling with a fellow lady. And just imagine, what if you and a married man got caught by his wife?"

Ariel parted her lips slowly and closed them. There was no word she could utter in response to that. It was already a genius idea but the thought of meeting Marco one on one not only disgusted her but it frightened her.

What if in the process, he realizes who she truly is and then attempts to kill her again? What would she do then?

A sweat rolled down her forehead, down to her chin and slowly fell on her trembling hands. She was scared.

"I... I don’t know. I’m not sure." She responded with her gaze fixed on him.

He could see her trembling pupils and wondered if the idea scared her so much. But she had been doing well so far.

"I’m not sure." She repeated and shook her head. "I’m not confident that I can seduce him."

"You won’t have to do much since he has already taken a liking to you." Raymond said and she raised her head.

"What?"

"He’s already secretly fantasizing about the lady that always goes around with his boss, so much that the hunger in his eyes can’t be hidden." Raymond said. "All you need to do is show a bit of interest in him and he’ll immediately take the bait."

Ariel was silent. Could she do it? She wasn’t sure. Just being in a space where he was present was enough to make her gag but staying with him alone? She might end up actually throwing up.

"I’m not asking you to take things far, Ariel. You just need to have dinner a few times with him, smile like you’re interested in his life and when the time comes to label him a cheating husband, it’ll be like a bomb thrown right at his face. He definitely wouldn’t expect it and for certain, the Albert family will request for a divorce and kick him out."

Hearing the Albert family, Ariel lifted her gaze.

"They won’t tolerate him cheating on their daughter with the woman who had loose morals and constantly humiliated them. They wouldn’t want to get dragged into that mess."

Ariel’s fists tightened.

"On that note, I heard something rather amusing today." He snapped his finger and White took out his phone that had the recording of Raymond and Marco’s conversation earlier at the office.

He forwarded it a bit and dropped it on the table.

"How long did you date your wife before you two got married?" Raymond’s voice came up.

"Well, we dated for about seven months before our wedding." Marco answered. "We didn’t dare date openly because of the huge gap in our status but we secretly met up, away from her family’s radar. That was how much we loved each other."

"You can go now."

The recording ended and White picked up his phone from the table and kept it.

Ariel covered her mouth feeling the urge to throw up. What did she just hear? Seven months? He had been seeing Clara for seven months... Before he even thought to break up with her? When he was still making her do all that dirty work... When he was still abusing and blaming her for all that went wrong... He was secretly meeting with Clara?

Her blood boiled. That bastard. Now, she wanted to tear both of them to pieces.

Clara knew Ariel was living with Marco and that he was all that she had yet it didn’t bother her when they secretly met?

No, she was sure Clara found it amusing. She must’ve thought, ’Ah, that wench doesn’t know that her boyfriend embraces me so tenderly when he’s with me. She’s such a clueless idiot.’

They shared the same bed and after that, Marco would come home to abuse and force himself on her. Her teeth kept grinding for some reason.

Love... They love each other, right? Well, why don’t they put that so-called love to the test? She really wanted to see how much love they had to go around.

"I’ll do it." She said, "I’ll rope that bastard in and then put out his spark."

Though she was making this decision on a whim and out of the hate that kept building, she knew that nothing could fuel her thirst for revenge more than her deep and gruesome hatred she had towards all of them.

"Wise choice." Raymond said and looked down at the salad. It no longer suits his taste so he beckoned the waiter to come over. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

He ordered steak instead and the fruit salad was taken away.

He looked over at Ariel who was still fuming. A hate provoking revelation was enough to fuel her continuous thirst for revenge.

"Eat up." He said, once the food had been brought and Ariel ate. But little into the meal, she dropped her cutleries and announced that she was done eating.

"I’m done."

"Is that all you’re going to have?" Raymond asked as she wiped the surroundings of her mouth clean with the napkin.

"Yes." She simply answered and took a glass of wine.

"Since you’re going to see Steve, I would advise you not to drink."

"Don’t worry. I’m not going to see the doctor." She said with a smile. "I’m feeling better all of a sudden and think it’ll be a waste to go."

They were silent. Then the clanking noise of the silver cutleries meeting the plate as Raymond sliced his meat in pieces.

"That’s good then." He said. "Then will you wait for me till I’m done?"

"Of course." She smiled brightly which seemed oddly suspicious. "After all, my next act is to seduce that bastard. Where else am I going to do that if not your company?"