Zosia: Quick Transmigration System-Chapter 41 - 39- Arc 2

Ariana laughed, her eyes forming a crescent as she gazed lovingly at her daughter. To her, her daughter words were like soothing balm to her heart, soul and mind.

"Alright. Since you asked, I would tell you."

She was willing to tell her daughter everything. Maybe if she died unknowingly, her daughter could tell what went wrong, besides she had been longing to open her heart to someone.

"So this is how it happened...." Ariana started talking, her eyes shone with bright light as she reminisced about her past. She started talking about how she met Kael.

"You know.... Your father was such a handsome and charismatic man when he was young. Everything he did made it seem like i had butterflies in my stomach.... His looks took my breath away—"

"Mom, pause. Taking your breath away, means you have asthma and as for butterflies in your stomach, that's your illusion. It might even be tape worms—"

"Aiya.... What do you know? With this your thinking, how would you even fall in love. Yish, just let me tell the story." She said with a smile on her face as she pinched her daughter's cheek.

Looking at her daughter's disgruntled face made her smile. "So, I met him when I had just graduated from College. I was so unwilling to work at my parents company and since they wouldn't agree to either of my hobbies, so..... when things weren't going well for me when I was looking for a job, I encountered your father."

"He was so handsome, that many people on the street stopped to stare at him. He had this aura that made you not want to look away. I fell in love with him at first sight.... But, he didn't even know who I was."

"The next day, I was called in for a job interview but the position I had applied for has been taken, so they asked me to join the fashion design department since I had something like that on my resume."

"During the end of the year celebrating, I won one of the awards given by the company and they promised to sponsor my schooling in fashion design. I had studied finance management and since I needed the diploma as it would be useful in the long run, I accepted. I was so happy and I really wanted to get formal knowledge, so it would be easier when climbing up the ranks.

To me, it was a dream come true, but it was also the beginning of.... My... Nightmare." Her tone becoming sullen at the end.

"I was told to go thank the president, so I tried to meet him before he leaves. When I finally met the president, he was leaving with an entourage of people and your dad was among them.

I was surprised when I found out that the same guy that made people stop and stare, was among the upper executives of where I work.

When I met him, I was stunned, that I could only stare at him.

Then the secretary coughed bringing me back. I blushed furiously and was so embarrassed. I wished the ground had opened up to swallow me.

Even the thanks I wanted to give escaped my mind."

Zosia stared at her mom whose face was filled with embarrassment and how the top of her ears were red.... Really red.

She suddenly chuckled. Her chuckles caused Ariana who was gesticulating in the air to stop and turn to her daughter.

"Aish.... Are you laughing at Mom too. I was so embarrassed. I didn't even thank the President again till the next time I saw him.".

"Then, your dad was just the Director of the fashion design department. Later I rose up the ranks and even graduated early due to my talent." She said with a proud look on her face.

"But, then I was being bullied. It was nothing anyway —" Ariana planned to just brush it off and continue with her story.

"Mom, just tell me. Alright."

"Owkay.... So... Well. Since I am good looking and beautiful..... I always like doing things the moment It has been given to me. Except, if I am so busy. I prefer doing it than postponing it. So due to how early I turned in my drafts, pieces etc, they took advantage of the fact that I was their junior and gave me their own tasks to fulfill.

Your Dad~ the Director got wind of it and this caused mass relief, by relief I mean being sacked. Guess what he said when he did that?"

Zosia looked at her mom who had a wide and genuine smile on her face as she asked her the question.

"How can I guess.... I don't even know Dad well."

"That's true." Ariana became sullen at the thought of that.

Zosia didn't mean to dampen her spirits, but she wasn't wrong.

Since, Ariana had given birth to Mirabel, Kael didn't look at her. Whenever he gazed at her, his eyes were always emotionless with no hint of warmth.

Apart from when he gazed at Ariana and his children from another mother, who were her step- siblings, she hadn't ever seen her father gaze at her with a little bit of warmth in his eyes. Even her last name was her mom's.

"Mom, don't worry about me, I want to know more about dad, so continue.

I would be sad if you stopped now." She said coyly.

"Alright" Ariana said and continued with her story.

"He said that, he didn't want talentless and lazy people filling up the slots that could be taken up by others.

He wasn't wrong though but it earned some people's ire.

What he did made us become a small team but despite being small we were strong and united.

We went for different fashion shows, and even won some awards. Your Dad was also having promotions and got more busy but we still stood and became his personal team. He opened a studio for us and the studio has grown to what it is today. One night, when we went for A S A show, he got drunk and I had to send him to the hotel room, since others were either planning to enjoy themselves more.

That was when it happened. "

"What happened?" Zosia asked curiosily. She knew that she could get some clues through this story.

"Our small little team knew I had a thing for him, so I was happy when they left us alone."

"I took him to his hotel room and made sure he lay on the bed. After.. looking at him, I planned to leave but he opened his eyes at that embarrassing moment and I flinched. I almost fell but he caught me.

He then asked me, why don't I look more, or was he not handsome. In my mind, I was like, how could he say that.

Someone who made heads turn just to gaze at his beauty.

I was stunned and speechless and my mouth was a little open."

"So...

Well, you..... Aish, how do I say this now." Ariana said with embarrassment on her face.

"So he kissed me and from there , you know...." Ariana stammered.

Looking at her daughter who stared at her with a hint of schadenfreude, she blushed.

"Ooh.. my he took you took you flying right?" She winked.

Ariana blushed in embarrassment and could not help hitting her daughter, though lightly.

"Didn't think you would know such things. You look so innocent. Aiya, my daughter has deceived me."

"Well, here comes the worst part. Your dad was already the vice president and I didn't know he had a fiancee, by then I was already pregnant.

She came looking for me and caught me retching. I couldn't even say a word as I was still stunned and she pushed me down the stairs."

"How did you let her in? How did it happen."

"I told your dad, I was pregnant and he was happy to hear it. I asked him when he would marry me, but he said after I had given birth to which I believed.

I had never been in love before and he was my first. My first everything."

"As for Krisha, she had gotten someone to forge my house key and had come to plant cameras then she saw me retching in the sink at the parlor.

I didn't understand why she had entered my house or what I had done to her. She just dragged me, I couldn't even do anything as her body guards were with her. They were the ones according to her order who pushed me down."

Zosia could hear her sniffles and closed her eyes. Ariana may not have been detailed but she could imagine how it had been.

"I not only lost the children but I also had a concussion and some broken bones."

"Children?!" Zosia said in surprise.

Even though she had heard something like that from Ariana, when she was crying at her bedside early this morning.

"Yup. I was carrying twins but they died..... They were killed by her."

Zosia could hear the frustration, anger and hate in her tone.

"Kael dumped me in the hospital, I was angry and hated him. I was only 23 years old and yet I lost two children.

If he had told me, he had a fiancee, I would never have thought about dating him. I wouldn't even dare tell him I loved him."

"Anytime he comes to the hospital, he would always have this cold face on. He said he was dealing with his family and that things would be alright." She paused for a moment before continuing, "I didn't believe him and left for abroad. I also made sure to resign and everything was done in order. I don't know what he was thinking but he was the one that approved of my resignation. It didn't matter to me anymore. I was consumed by anger, hurt and betrayal, as well as guilt, guilt for being gullible and losing my children."

"I promised myself not to come back to the country, I also told my parents the same thing and they agreed.

I left the country and stayed away for about five years or more. I Have forgotten... But, I met Kael again. He kept pestering me and I just didn't want to have anything to do with him. But, I finally gave in. I wanted to have a reason to completely hate him."

"We decided to book a private room in a restaurant. He told me that he and Keisha had long since broken up.

I was stunned and decided to carry out my own investigation, because I could no longer trust him. Everything from the investigation to the results were manipulated by him, I did not even know.

He became so relentless in pursuing me. I forgave him, I was so stupid.....and we got married abroad. We were.... I mean I was happy. Everything was peaceful, but that peace was just an illusion.

One day, I was getting ready to go to the hospital , when Krisha came knocking on my door with Mark and Crystal. I was shocked.

They each had some resemblance with Kael. I was shocked, speechless, name it."

"As usual, Krisha wasn't nice with her words and what she said made me more baffled. Funny thing is, Kael had gone back to the country on a business trip as he told me and I was left to deal with her onslaught of hatred, which I understood at some point but stopped trying to understand.

I also hated her for killing my own children, but never had anything bad in mind. I decided to go back to the same country I said I won't come back to for my mother, your grandmother funeral." She paused and drank some water to moist her throat.

"She wasn't planning on letting me go, I could tell but I didn't want to get entangled with her madness, especially after she had been diagnosed of having mental issues.

The night of my mother's funeral, I had rode alone on my motorbike. I wanted to release my pent up emotions to the wind, so I rode to a place of higher altitude.

While on the road, a car suddenly appeared in my front, I was stunned but witty enough to drive away, the road was big for both my bike and the car, and since I was on a bike, it was easier for me to doge.

The person didn't seem satisfied and kept pursuing me, I didn't understand the person's reason until I saw her face and heard her curse at me.

Due to her blind rage and anger, she did not see the incoming truck and slammed her car into it, while me, I had dodged by jumping off the bike and rolling to the side of the road.

I called the ambulance, Kael, anybody I could reach. But guess how Kael looked at me?" She asked with a mocking smile on her face.

"He had hate and anger in his eyes. I had never seen him look at me with such eyes. I just didn't understand what his aim was. Did he love me or her? If he did not, why pursue me? If he did, why have a child with Krisha and why hate me for her death that she caused herself. After all, she was the one who killed herself not me."

"His family decided to bury the matter under the mat but his mother hates me and still does. Up till today, I still don't understand. Luckily, even though I was carrying you in my stomach, you were so strong. I didn't have a miscarriage or anything."

Zosia did not say anything but in her mind, she had classified her father as a scum bag. She also felt her father might have a split personality, but that was for later to be verified.

"His family found out that I was pregnant and since we were already married, so we should be living together and I should take care of Krisha's Children. Even though I was against, I still tried.

The first day I met them, Mark looked at me with hatred and said, I Killed his mother and he will kill me too.

I tried to explain to the young boy that his mother was planning to kill me and if not for the truck, she really would have killed me.

Guess what he said?" She wiped the tears on her face and turned to her daughter who was listening intently.

"He said, then why didn't I allow her to kill me. Why did I have to run, that if his mother had killed me, then she wouldn't die and she would still be with them.

The servants were also against me. I felt like the world was against me, but I stood my ground and fought, now the only people who hate me or remember the past are Kael, Crystal, Mark and Philip. As for his parents, they had died in an airplane crash which was strange. Even his elder brother died at the hands of drug dealers in country M.

While I was coming to give you food, I saw him with my sister Trisha, your aunt. I saw her with Kael alongside another strange lady in a ward. It wasn't yours and I can't tell who it was that made Kael rush back from his trip. I know my sister loves Kael but I didn't know she didn't even consider my feelings, but it's okay.

Right now....." She paused and turned to stare at her daughter while reaching out to hold her hands.

"Mummy is considered divorce. I am tired. I—"

"It's okay mom. I support you regardless and I am willing to follow you, is just, would he agree?"

"He would have to. Mummy is grateful." Ariana gave a wide smile and started crying, her sob louder than before.

She pulled Zosia into a hug and continued crying.

Zosia patted her back at intervals, giving her the support she needs.

When Ariana finally calmed down, she remembered her daughter had yet to eat.

"Sorry, you were listening to me and haven't even eaten." She opened the flask, pulled the table like stuff and placed the food in front of Zosia.

"Thanks to you, I feel like a heavy weight has been removed from my shoulders." She said with a genuine smile on her face.

Today had been one hell of an emotional rollercoaster ride for her but she was happy. Now, her daughter was close to her, she would be getting a divorce soon and lastly, her daughter wasn't against it.

'Aish, I was worried for nothing.' She thought.

After eating, Ariana helped Zosia arrange the plates, then unwind the bed to allow her lie flat.

"Mum, can I get your phone and mine. I don't know where mine is and.... Others play games on their mothers phone. I haven't tried it before ." She said with limpid eyes.

Ariana felt her heart ache, she and Mirabel hadn't done anything as mother and daughter. Since her daughter asked for her phone, she immediately pulled it out of her pocket and gave it to Zosia.

"Use it and play any game you like. " Zosia accepted the phone happily and smiled.

Ariana's heart steeled with determination. She must create time for she and her daughter and the first step is to clear her schedule.

"Mom, what is the ward number of the ward you mentioned?" Zosia asked.

"Why do you ask?"

"Just curious."

"456."

"Alright, mom your password." Ariana mentioned some string of numbers and Zosia unlocked it, which was not really necessary as InfoLink bypasses all virtual locks, though, it also depends on access.

The moment Zosia received the phone, she immediately activated InfoLink. The progress bar was quite fast and within seconds, she had access to both the phone and all the information, both deleted and backed up ones.

Ring!

Ring!!

Ring!!!

Zosia looked at Ariana's phone which was ringing and felt that the call came at the right time.

Giving Ariana back the phone, she used InfoLink on her own phone.

Ariana received the phone and picked up the call, since it was from her assistant.

Zosia who has just finished with her own phone looked up to stare at Ariana who was still in call. Zosia looked at Ariana whose expression kept on changing.

"I need to deal with something. Take care and mommy will be back in a jiffy." Ariana said immediately she cut her call.

Ariana quickly picked up her bag and was about to leave. She paused when she held the handle of the door.

"If I don't come back on time..... Go back home . I will send a driver to pick you up ." She turned the handle and left.

"At least take a shower before you go!" Zosia shouted towards the door but no response came .

Sigh!

She already knew why Ariana has left in such a hurry. Her assistant had told her the news circulating the Internet, as for who anonymously posted it and boosted it in the school website, she did not know, but it shouldn't be hard to find right?

Cracking her knuckles, she used her phone to

try and hack it, but it was so slow and there was a higher possibility of being caught.

She immediately dialed a number and allowed it ring.

Her plan had just started. First find out who the murderer is.

While she waits for the person she called, she decided to go through what she had gotten from her phone and Ariana's phone.

If Ariana doesn't come back on time, she plans to visit the person in ward 456, just a friendly visit.