~DANIEL's POV~

I looked at the callers ID only to see that it was Mr Jackson who was calling me, despite the fact that I hated him soo much because of the things he made me do in the past, I still couldn't ignore him when he called because it was as if he had full control over me. I quickly went to the rest room in the restaurant to pick his call so that Anne wouldn't know i had anything to do with him, she would obviously be more disappointed and hate me more if she found out about my past, it definitely haunted me.

"Andrea told me about what you've been up to lately." Mr jackson said over the phone as I got to the restroom.

"I really don't love andrea, if you care about her a lot why would you want her to spend the rest of her life with me." I protested knowing fully well what andrea would have told her father.

"There's nothing like love. You don't have to love her to get married to her."

"I don't care what you say, the only thing I know is this marriage is definitely not happening."

"Her name is Anne olivia right?" He asked from over the phone, as expected he had done his researches.

"Don't you dare lay a finger on her. I have diligently obeyed you over the past years, do you have to dictate who I would marry again? You are not even my father." I yelled, he was obviously going to do something to her if I didn't stop him.

"Come on boy, am not a psycopath." He said and let out a loud but evil laugh.

"You are the one who did something to her, remember the olivia family we were against like seven years ago, she is their daughter." Immediately he said that my heart sank, I didn't know what else to say, I felt bile form in my throat.

"Why did you suddenly go silent?" He asked mockingly after I kept mute for like a minute over the phone.

"Come to think of it, you did all that just to save your families name, you need to stop acting innocent already, we are just the same, aren't we? One word from me and I could ruin your fathers business and your entire family. So you would be a good boy and marry andrea." He finally said and hung up on me. I felt like the whole world was spinning around me, it was more like I was the one who ruined Anne's life, mr Jackson had used me to destroy Anne's family and her life. I groaned and punched the restroom mirror with my fist, blood dripped from my knuckles but the pain I felt deep inside definitely overpowered the pain I felt on my hands.

I rinsed my face and hands off the blood and quickly went back into the restaurant knowing anne would have been waiting. As I got back there I tried to force a smile but I noticed anne wasn't there any longer. Where could she have gone to? It was only the waitress I saw sobbing on the chair I left behind.

"Uhm....do you know where the lady here went to." I said tapping her by the shoulder and pointing to the chair that anne left behind.

" I really don't know where she went to." She replied as she wiped her tears and forced a smile, she was about to go when I held her by the arm.

"Did you two talk about something?" I asked

"Its supposed to be a secret." She replied as she finally went to her post.

~Anne's POV~

After I left the restaurant, I was determined in my heart to kill mr jackson, I went back home and changed my clothes to a black jeans , black sweater with a face cap and took a small kitchen's knife , my brother was worried and kept asking what I needed a knife for but I just told him not to worry and that I would be back in a few minutes.

I went over to Mr jacksons company, apparently my fathers former company, I was so happy it was still opened so I headed in that direction as I put the knife in a pocket inside the sweater. I noticed the securities were checking people's ID card before they entered so I hid, I was still thinking of what to do when I saw an ID card lying carelessly on the floor, apparently it was the ID card of one of their female workers, I picked it up and wore it and luckily for me I saw a pile of documents on the ground too, I took it to make it look more believable that I was a staff.

"Let's see your ID." The officer demanded as I got to the front of the company.

"This is it sir....i'm quite busy, the CEO asked me to bring this." I replied showing the documents i was carrying, with my head bowed so that he wouldn't notice that I was a different person from the person on the ID card.

"Can I at least see your face." The officer asked. I just quickly took my phone from my pocket and pretended to be on a phone call with Mr jackson.

The security just gestured for me to get inside, he must have been soo dumb to believe that I was on a phone call when the phone didn't ring or vibrate. Luck must have definitely been on my side today.

I quickly asked for directions to the Mr jackson's office after taking off the ID card and dropping the documents, some of the staffs looked at me suspiciously because they had never seen me before but I just told them I was a relative of Mr jackson, with that they stupidly led me to his office.

I barged into his office in anger only to see him rocking his chair , something that was my dad's own before, I just felt more angry for a fact that he not only killed my dad and also made my dad kill my mom but that he owned my dad's company. He even changed all the staffs my dad had hired because I couldn't recognize any of the staffs in the company from before.

"Look who we have here....Anne Olivia." He said as soon as he saw me.

I was soo angry to reply so I took the knife from my pocket and stormed towards him grabbing him by the neck. He didn't look surprised at all, he just pressed a botton on his table and men in black suit entered and grabbed me by my arms as they dragged me away from him, the knife from my hands fell off as I kept struggling for them to get off their grip. He rose a finger to them and they immediately stopped pulling me but still had their arms around mine.

"You think I didn't know you where coming here, I saw everything from the CCTV." He said and paused, I was shocked that he had seen me break into the company but still glared at him.

"Come to think of it, you are the one flirting with my daughters fiance." He continued as he put his index finger under my chin, moving my chin up.

"Daughters fiance my foot. Daniel obviously doesn't love Andrea and he is going to call off the wedding soon." I replied and smirked at him

"Oh....how feisty of you....just like your mother."

"You think I wouldn't find out that it was you who killed my dad and it wasn't a suicide." I said as i spat on his face, I would have slapped him if not for the two huge men that were holding me by my arms. He released my chin and wiped the spit from his face.

"So you finally found that out....but come to think of it your lover boy was all part of the game plan."

"Daniel would never ever connive with a monster like you."

"Come on don't be so naive, you remind me of your mother soo much, I kept on trying to make her believe that her husband was a bad person but she just ended spitting on my face just like you, I had too look for another means."

"So my mother didn't even sleep with you." I replied, just how did this man make my father and mother go against each other.

"Apparently it was mostly daniel's doing, i'm not that bad of a person. He was the one who went to meet the police man in charge to kill your dad, he was the one who went to convince your mother that your father was cheating on her with a staff, he even brought the photos I gave him to prove that your father was indeed cheating on her, he was the one who put a pocket knife in your fathers pocket that night and he was also the one who called the police on your father after he had killed your mom. He did all that to save his father's company."

"Do you expect me to believe a bit of what you are saying, you really want us to go against each other the way my mom and dad went against each other uh? That is never going to happen." I said and scoffed, he was definitely making no sense.

He brought out his phone and played a conversation that he and Daniel had. It was the conversation they had on phone at the restaurant.

"Do you believe me now?."he asked after the voice note had finished playing. I was dumbstruck , daniel was the one who played most part in ruining my family. Was I about to date a man who ruined my entire family?

"Apparently that dude did all the work. He was just my little puppet of those days. My hands are completely clean, just a word from me and I could ruin his dad's company because his dad had done something terrible in the past that I found out and if i should reveal it, it would damage not only his father's company but also his family's image but I wouldn't want to go that far because I and his dad have become good friends over the years, and we strongly believe our company's will wax stronger if both daniel and andrea get married." He said then paused.

"How can you love someone who ruined your family anne? You are just one stupid girl." He lamented as he shook his head for me.

Well he was right, I was stupid, stupid enough to fall for someone who played a major role in ruining my family.

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