Whispers of Faith

Married To My Ex-Fiancé's Silent Uncle

Ming Yue

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

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CHAPTER ONE

Please welcome a young visionary whose fast-growing company is taking over Geneva…. Laura Hale!” An elegant reporter announced, And everybody clapped with a hand of a plus.

A young beautiful business lady smiles at the camera. “Thank you, Lilith, you are making me blush” Laura smiled at her wonderfully.

“ Ah, flattering the Hale’s heiress. I can’t think of a better way to spend this Friday night” Lilith teased.

“ You truly are something Lilith” Laura was amazed.

“ So, tell us, Laura. Are the rumors true?” Lilith was back to business.

“The rumors?, Which rumors are you talking about?” Laura was confused.

“The tabloids say you have a mysterious secret about the Hale family. Do you mind telling us whether you are the true heiress of the Hales Enterprise or not?” Lilith was curious.

“Oh Lilith, I will never take you for a gossipy type!” Laura brushed it off.

“We all just want to know, Laura. Tell us about your secrets, did the Hale family adopt you?” Lilith insists.

“Well, there’s actually no secrets at all, not the one I know of….?” Laura was plain.

Meanwhile, bag stage….

“what is she talking about?!, This is a big disaster. That means Miss Laura hasn’t heard about all the rumors that have been spreading around, oh God this is bad” Josephine cursed out loud.

“I don’t think we are in the right position to tell the boss that her sister Meredith is dragging her name to the mud, it might only cause more harm than good.” Daniel was worried too.

“I know, I know. You’re right” Josephine agreed with Daniel. “ but this is really bad news for her. Upon all the hard work to keep this Enterprise growing, they just want to frustrate her just like that” Josephine was disturbed.

“Yeah, these will really break her down when it comes to her notice. She will be so worried to know she isn’t likable enough by the family she thinks she has” It was Daniel who cursed.

“Why would anyone on Earth not like a wonderful and hard-working lady like Miss Laura, who on their right mind would even choose Meredith over her?” Josephine cried out.

“Josephine, forget the rumors that she’s not a legitimate child, that is not the point because it doesn’t count. She can still be the CEO of this Enterprise even if that was the case… I’m curious, there must be something else to it!” Daniel said.

For some time, Laura escaped the interview she had. walking towards her office

“Josephine, do I actually have a free evening? No meetings or interviews ?” Laura asked packing some files on her table.

“Well ma’am, Mr. George calls you all day… and you also have a meeting with the producer” Josephine quickly replied, still standing in front of her boss lady.

“Is this the same George from last time!?” Laura asked still concentrating on a file.

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