Chapter 14
Zendaya’s POV
I had been on the balcony relaxing for the first time in my life. I was not doing anything, there was no work to do and I was not breastfeeding.
The last time I had relaxed was after giving birth to the triplets and I wouldn’t call that relaxing because I had three mouths to feed every five minutes.
Since I left the family and the country, all I had done was work for what I had. There was no time to rest and even during pregnancy I still went to work.
I knew what I wanted and I had to only work diligently for years before I would get it. I did and as good I did not give up on myself.
Having to watch from this vantage view as my family’s business crumbled had me feeling on top of the world.
I could not wait for Travis to come back and tell me the good news from all his meetings.
The door opened as I saw him walking into the apartment with a huge smile on his face. That was when I knew something was up and I was eager to know what it was.
“Where are the kids?” he asked with a huge smile on his face.
“You’re smiling,” I noticed. “What happened?”
“Didn’t I tell you to rest that I would take care of you?” he asked before flopping into a couch opposite mine. “Also, you’re right. There is no need to show your face now. You should rest even more.”
“What is it? Did the meeting go bad?”
“Oh no,” he smiled. “I just don’t want you showing your face now. We’ll do that later. For now I want you to relax and not stress about anything.”
I nodded before looking at the files he had by his side.
“What is that?”
This had him excited as he gave me the files to look at.
“You wanted to know what made me happy when I walked in? Go through that.”
Now I was curious. I opened the files to be shocked by what I was looking at. It was the handover document of the company. My family had finally decided to sell the company to Travis. They no longer wanted shares, they wanted him to take it all.
The loss from the damage had been so bad they had practically sold it for nothing.
“This is awesome,” I laughed, clapping my hands in excitement as I closed the file to see my name on the cover. “This has my name on it.”
“Open it again,” he suggested, which I did to find out he had gotten the company in my name. I owned the company. My family’s company was now my company.
“I can’t believe you’d do this for me!” I yelled at the top of my voice jumping up to celebrate with a little dance as he joined me with a hug.
“I told you I’d take care of you. Now all you need to do is sit back and watch the company go up. The same way I had the company falling is the same way I can make it rise.”
“Let’s celebrate this,” I said as I got into the kitchen to cook something. I had ordered fresh ingredients to be bought as I did not fancy the cooking at the restaurant and it had been delivered. Now all I had to do was cook it and he joined me in making the meal.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.
We finished and got the wine out of the fridge to drink.
The children came out of their rooms as soon as they heard his voice and we all ate together. After eating they went back to their rooms to play as I was left alone with him.
We stayed at the balcony after dinner with the evening skies lit up with stars. It was dark enough to see planes passing overhead and I loved how quiet it was.
I was enjoying his company. It made everything so surreal yet so peaceful.
“I’ll put out a statement tomorrow for the press to name you as the new owner of the company,” he said, getting me to gulp really hard.
I wanted to stay under the radar for now, getting me the press release would leave me vulnerable. I did not want that now. I just got here.
“I think we should wait,” I said.
“Why? This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. You finally have the company and fifty percent of your revenge is already taken. You should not let down yet. You should take it.”
“I never said I would not take it. I just want to remain under the radar. For now I think. I don’t want to be visible until I have taken down my ex-boyfriend and my ex-best friend. Those two are not in the clear yet.
“They still have to pay for what they’ve done to me. Cheating behind my back while I thought I had great people with me. They are amongst my revenge list.”
“Have they always been on the list or did you just put them there because you are afraid of facing your ex-husband?”
“They’ve always been on the list. I’ve not talked about them long enough, that is all.”
I looked into the horizon thinking about what had happened in the morning when Travis had been out for the meeting.
I had gone out of the hotel while leaving the children under the care of one of the bodyguards. While in the car, riding to the market, I had seen Alexander through my tinted windows having breakfast with my best friend.
It turned out they were still together and this had made me know that I had to get my revenge on them.
I gritted my teeth as I remembered how he had betrayed me but it made me know that he was not important to me. I was going to make him regret everything he had done.