Jolie tilted her head back and laughed from exasperation. She directed cursed Maria with out thinking twice.
"Now you see the outcome of devoting your self to loving people who are ungrateful for seven years, Elisa ! We smell poverty? But...how have you been copping up with this? " She paused.
"Well, guess that's you...me , l can't."
Jolie moved forwards as she spoke and shoved Maria who stumbled and almost fell down.
"Let me spit it out on your face, oldie! If it weren't for Elisa, l wouldn't have heard about the name Reynolds till l die. Your just a nouveau riche with measly money."
"Now watch me stain this cheap tiles on your floor. If you dare, stop me. You old wrinkly."
With so much fear , Maria trembled as she pointed at Elisa and Jolie, then she tried to threaten them.
"I...l will kick you out of Reynolds family, Elisa!"
"Don't bother, l already kicked myself from the Reynolds. Just come for my staffs "
Elisa replied , which Maria never expected.
After that Elisa ignored Maria's shock gaze as she walked pass her to their bedroom.
Maria never for once had seen Elisa as her daughter in-law, for her, she want a daughter in-law to come from a prestigious family not just a nobody.
Yet Elisa never complained about Maria trampling her again and again.
But now, she didn't have to put up with that anymore.
She took nothing but the documents she come for, not even her old worn-out clothes she used to wear, then she went straight down stairs.
Meanwhile, jolie and Maria who were downstairs were still exchanging words with each other.
When jolie saw Elisa coming down stairs, she raised her head .
" Your done?"
Elisa simply nodded.
"We have no business here, let's go."
Maria wasn't pleased at Elisa's behaviour toward her that day that she still yelled.
"Don't think this is your house, where you come in and leave at anytime you want.. am going to tell Miguel about what you did today...and even if one day you come back begging on your knees, l will still kick you out."
With that threat, Maria thought that Elisa would get scared and come back. But she was shocked when she reach outside and slowly turned back and shouted.
"I forgot to tell you... We're divorcing by the month ends, so even if you one day come crying and beging on your knees, l Elisa, will never step back to your house again."
As soon as Elisa finished her speech, she left without looking back.
Maria was so stunned when she heard about a divorce.
"Why is Elisa..so willing to get a divorce?" She thought.
She immediately called her son to confirm if it's true about the divorce.
"Did you give Elisa divorce?."
Miguel was so surprised since he hadn't told anyone about the divorce issue.
"How did you know? Did...you see her?
"Your really getting divorced, that's great news and it claims for a celebration. Besides that kind of a woman is not worthy being a Reynolds." She chuckled.
" Don't worry, they're high born ladies waiting for you to marry them."
Hearing this , Miguel's eyes sank. His voice inexplicably become urgent.
"Where's she? Is she back home?"
He impatiently interrupted his mother's rumbles.
Ever since Elisa's mysterious disappearance at the the hospital, left him with no trace about her whereabouts. And now she finally appeared on her own.
To Miguel, only one thought clinged in his mind. " I want to see her ! "
"Oh .. about that! She come home , but she left." She continued.
"This reminds me, l need to check my staff, just Incase she stole anything, and ...hope your not going to give her much money for the divorce, right!"
However miguel was a little suprised on his mother's malicious act towards Elisa. He had always thought that Elisa and her family get along with each other.
But How would he knows? When he barely paid attention to his wife.
"She didn't ask for a penny."
"Atleast she's self aware!" Maria's coldly snorted.
Miguel's eyes darkened as he hunged the phone call, that news of Elisa's appearance made him even more unsettled.
"Wait, did Elisa ask for a divorce because of my mother?"
The way Maria talked on the phone also made miguel to imagine other things about the divorce.
As the sun went dusk, although he rarely went home, this time he went home , everything was untouched, not to talked of the card that he gave her for monthly expenses, was not even touched, only her documents in the drawer were gone.
Miguel suddenly felt tightness in his chest, and the irritable feelings become more intense.
After all, he could not remain indifferent to her after seven years of their marriage.
Soon Maria come out of her room screaming,
"Miguel !... My golden bracelet, it...it was in the safe but it's missin! It's worth 50 million dollars., l know who took it... Elisa, l know it's her."
Then she went and picked up her cellphone.
"Am calling the police right now!"
Miguel glanced at the mother with a furious looks. " Don't call the police, it can't be her. Or.... maybe you misplaced it somewhere."
Elisa never got bother for once to know the password of the safe, so how can she open it?.
"Besides it's not that worthy much, just $50 million, why would she take it when she would have requested more than that for a divorce."
When miguel thought about this, never in their marriage has he ever gifted Elisa any jewelry yet she never demanded for.
He got his car key and drove off, later he reached a quiet place where he got a bottle of wine from the back seat and began to drink. But the uneasiness in his heart never dissipated.
While Maria wasn't ready to let the lowly woman go just like that, but still she didn't call the police because of his son.
"Guess that would be the first most expensive thing her family has ever seen in their entire generation." She thought