The banquet hall buzzed with anticipation, a symphony of laughter, clinking glasses, and the soft murmurs of influential conversations.
Underneath an elaborate chandelier, the esteemed guests mingled, casting shadows on the delicately embroidered tablecloths.
Though, Elisa and Miguel were both present, Elisa was fully prepared cause she knew he would come. Besides she had already let go of him.
Everyone knew that Miguel Reynolds had a wife who is now an Ex—wife, but he had never introduced her to the public, so nobody knew that it was Elisa daughter of Christopher Smith.
All they knew was her name, and that was from the viral video a month ago..
Lucia saw Elisa, she clung to Miguel's arm, ever so tightly, as if to shield him from Elisa's gaze. The moment Elisa caught sight of them together, a smile flickered on her lip, a swift reminder of her resilient, then she muttered.
"So she took my position so soon."
When Mr Smith saw her emotional, he taped her hand and whisper. " Don't worry am right here...with you."
" Am not the one who should be afraid."
Elisa smiled jovialously as she talked.
" l don't have any worry anymore, l buried what was inside me, and now don't have a reason to be afraid."
Slowly Miguel met with Mr Smith as he walked around. The two men were almost similar in different aspects except that smith family is more wealthiest compared to Reynolds.
"Mr Reynolds, l've heard a lot about you."
" Same here, Mr Smith."
The two men shook hands and immediately parted ways but Miguel's eyes were fixed on the lady besides Mr Smith.
Elisa and Miguel, next to each other seemed to never knowing each other , as Elisa kept low and smiled.
But her radiant figures, made her so different that Miguel couldn't help but stare at her more. She looked beautiful and different from the Elisa he knew.
"Why is she with Mr Smith? Is that where she went when she vanished from the hospital? And what is their relation?"
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Miguel had different questions running on his mind about Elisa. But he didn't have the answers.
When Miguel's focus was once again drawn to Elisa's enchanting appearance, Lucia could no longer hold her disdain, she got mad as she clenched her fist and muttered.
" Why is this idiot everywhere? When she left ,l thought she will be gone for ever but now she's here again."
Then she gritty her teeth and whispered secretly to Elisa
"Hey you! What are you doing here? Does this place look like you? Don't forget who you are."
Well, she was just reminding her of her low class.
Miguel was so disappointed that he had to stop her, but he has Mr Smith's cold rhetorical question.
"And which family are you from, miss?
Out of haste, Lucia forgot about the presence of Miguel, and as usual , she always want to be proved right and hurriedly said.
"Sir, let her innocent face not deceive you, Elisa just got divorced with Miguel, Incase you don't know."
To her, Mr Matteo Smith seemed to be Elisa's new catch, and wanted to expose her marital status before her sugar daddy.
" Miss, is it forbidden for divorced people in this place? Then why is Mr Reynolds here too?.
Lucia felt embarrassed and stack that she couldn't move nor say a word, the looked at Miguel with sympathetic facade, but Miguel stood still like a statue.
Mr Smith glance the Lucia the looked at Miguel. and mocked him.
"Your test for companion is very poor, next time, try and get a better selection. Not like this thing."
Then he held his sister's hand and left to meet more people.
Lucia felt embarrassed even more, when Mr Smith rediculed her, that she pouted her lips pitifully.
"Miguel.! ain't you going to defend me?"
Miguel looked at Mr Matteo Smith departing, by the time he heard Lucia's nagging, he looked back with a furious and cold looked that even Lucia got scared as he hissed at her.
"Keep your mouth shut for once, please!"
He was clearly not in the mood as all he thought was about Elisa.
"We haven't divorced for long, yet she has the temerity to ignore me as if l don't exsist. And now..., in the arms of another man?"
Miguel ditched Lucia as soon as some business men come to greet him, he mingled with them, leaving Lucia so frustrates in the crowd.
As the moon hung low, its silvery light cast a beautiful sheen over the landscape, Elisa took a moment to collect herself. She stepped out to the poolside, enchanted by the moon's glow, a stark contrast to the tempest of emotions swirling inside her.
The moon's yellowy white glow, loomed large, surrounded by an ethereal glow pulled Elisa even the more.
She went out at the quiet side of the pool to enjoy the beautiful senary of the moon a lone with a glass of red wine.
But then, Lucia wasn't happy with the fate that a lowly woman like Elisa was with them at such a banquet.
" Why would a solo woman that was ditched and kicked out of Reynolds family attend such a grand banquet?
Slowly she approached Elisa at the swimming pool with a gloomy face. Then stood next to her as she pretends to be enjoying the dazzling moon too.
She glanced by the side and saw Lucia's pitiful looks as she stands besides her with a cold smirk on her face.
"I never imagined how a nobody like you would appear in such an event."
Elisa smiled and turned her gaze on Cathy who was biting her thin lips.
" What? Is he giving you a cold back ? Or..has he ditched you already, that's why your here alone."
Lucia got annoyed with the way Elisa was speaking to her with so much confidence which was unlike her.
As Elisa turned to leave her, Lucia deliberately stepped on Elisa's gown that she staggered.
Lucia's frustration boiled over. In a flash of anger, she chose her next actions carefully, stepping on the hem of Elisa's gown. As Elisa stumbled, the push sent her teetering dangerously close to the edge of the pool.
With a gasp, she lost her balance, falling vertically into the cool water. Panic surged through her as she flailed, trying to keep her head above the surface. While bobbing in and up of the water.
Lucia who was at the the pool knew, Elisa wasn't good at swimming.
Elisa tried to scream for help, but the swimming pool was a little bit far from the inside and nobody would hear her voice, soon, the world around began to fade.
Lucia took her time before calling for help as she pretended to panic and cry,
"Elisa..hold on, let me call for help."
she made sure that Elisa is at the last point of drowning.