Her Revenge for the Divorce

Lina's POV I am sitting in my fancy office thinking back over my life. I had a hard life, and if it were not for the two children playing at my feet, I would not have known what love is as I have never known love in my life. Let's start at the beginning of my life. I was an only child with a parent that hated me. My father. The big telecommunications giant, Nick Harrison. You would wonder why he hated me so much. Well, my mother died at my birth, and he never wanted anything to do with her "murdered." That is me. I can still remember why my friends' daddies would pick them up, kiss them, and hug them. Mine never did. If I were in his way, he would give me a backhand and tell me to stay out of his way. He was an alcoholic at night and a gentleman at day. Well, to the people, he wanted to be friendly and loving too. I had to eat with the servants in the kitchen when I was lucky enough to get food. If he had a problem at work, he would let me go to bed without food. Those were the better days, though. The other days he will get drunk and sometimes hit me when I cross his path in the house. Although I always did very well, I was too afraid to ask him to sign my report card. When I was five years old, he hit me so bad that I ended up in hospital. Yet he had friends in high places, and no one wanted to save me from the evil monster my father was. I had broken ribs and a broken arm, the only one who cared about me was Mavis, the old maid who worked in our house. I hated him. He did send me to the best schools and later to the university where I got my degrees. Then he made me marry Jack Adams. I was never in love with Jack Adams, and my heart was not in the wedding. I hated my father for humiliating me for the last time he could. He knew how the Adams' men were and that their awful mother was. Against my better judgment, I did lose my heart to Jack Adams.  He always tried to humiliate me and made me feel bad about myself. I did not care. I kept my mouth and pretended to be this pathetic woman who could not stand up for herself, knowing one day I would get my chance and show them all. I would destroy all of them one day, including my father. That day has come! I have made enough money, starting at the bottom and working myself up. I am out to get all of them! Every bone broke, every slap received, every humiliation and every hurt they cause my heart, they all will pay for it. I can not wait until they realize they are all going bankrupt! Money is all they care about!  I have learned to stop loving Jack Adams. He is not worthy of my attention and my love. The night he left me for an older woman and chased me out of the house like a dog is when I took my first step of revenge. I slept with a stranger. I don't know who he is. I got drunk in a bar and slept with him to kill my pain and the humiliation I went through. The result was my twins -my beautiful babies. Angela Summers was the woman Jack left me for. My mother-in-law never wanted us to have children, although I craved for someone I could love. Now I am glad she never let me have Jack's babies as I have my twin, and no one can claim them. I look at Lucas. He is the responsible one. Handsome with his dark black hair and sky blue eyes. Melinda looks more like me. She has blond hair, but I guess she also inherited her father's sky blue eyes. I have green eyes like a cat. I look at them as the school is closed and they are playing in my office. I bought my father's company, and he still does not know I did it. I purchased it bit by bit. I do not care if he finds out later. The Summers' money went into my ex-husband's company. They are my biggest rivals as they are also into telecommunications. They think my father is still running his company, but I know he was drinking it all away, so I kept buying shares until he had nothing left to sell but his last shares in the company. I have worked hard to get where I am today. At first, it wasn't easy. I only had a suitcase chased away like a dog, but over the years in the Adams family, I got an allowance from my ex-husband to buy myself some clothes and jewelry to fit in with his family. I refused, and I wore my old clothes. I saved the money, telling Jack it was for rainy days. The day I left, I took my bank card with me. I felt entitled to it, and I drew all the money I had saved over the three years we were married. It was a descend sum of money. I wasted a few dollars the night he kicked me out, and the stranger I slept with that night did not make me pay for one drink. We were both pretty wasted, and I took it he was rich as he booked us a costly room that night. When I woke up the following day, I felt ashamed of what I had done and sneaked out before he could wake up. I did not take good care of myself back then, and I did not want him to see what he slept with the following day he woke up. MY skin was a mess, and although I was always well built, I did not want him to see me. I had no self-esteem.  "Mommy, can you help me with this maths problem? Lucas does not want to help me and says I am too lazy to use my brain," Melinda says. However, it is the holidays. So I always let them do homework. I like to challenge their minds and give them maths and other subjects like science to stimulate their brains and test them. They are above average clever, and I know Melinda can do the math problems, but she is sometimes lazy and likes to read teen magazines instead of doing the things I give them to do. I look at her and smile. I know she would rather play on her Ipad or do other fun stuff. So I allow them to play with their Ipads or laptops, but after they have done their daily homework, I give them to do. "Baby girl, I know you can do it, and mommy have all the trust in the world that you can do it without any help, or I would not have asked you to do it," I say. I want my children to have self-esteem and confidence, unlike when I was a child and even an adult. Melinda smiles. She does the problem in less than five minutes and brings it to me to check. The answer is correct, as always. "See, you are my clever girl as your brother is my smart boy! I am so proud of the two of you," I say. Not knowing that their cleverness will cost me later as they are not only clever in maths and science but also in other things I never thought they would figure out, even before I did. "Here is mine, mom. Can we go and play for a bit now?" Lucas asks. "Sure, I am so proud of you two," I say as I check their answers. "We love you, mom, and I know you only do it to keep our minds active," Lucas says.  Markus' POV I am not happy at all. Some unknown company is busy taking all the business in telecommunications. I just invested in the company, and I have a lot of my money invested in this company, and I am not in the mood when my secretary announces that my fiance Jackie is at my door demanding to see me. She is the one who made me invest in Angela Adams and her family's business as they wanted help with their new rival. I am furious, and if the Adams family let me lose money, they will pay for it. You do not mess with Markus Green. I have worked hard for what I have got over the years. Jackie O'Conner knows how I am, and I bet she is here to assure me of her innocence. Do I love her? No, I gave up hope on finding the woman that stole my heart years ago. Ten years to be precise. Yeah, she was drunk, and I took advantage of her while she was, but with a good reason. I was hoping she would feel the same way I was when we woke up the following day. I was in love the moment I laid my eyes on her. I did not even know her name. If I find her one day, and I hope I do, I will make her my Queen. So I pretended to be drunk, and later on, I did get drunk. I can kick myself for getting drunk because if I knew she would be gone the following morning, I would not have let my guard down. I wonder if she got pregnant as I never used protection. What if she stole my seed and never let me know I had a child? Will I forgive her? Hell, I do not know. I will have to see her before I decide. I know she was dressed plainly, but that green eyes I can never forget. "Hi, darling. I was wondering if we can have lunch together," Jackie says as she walks in. "I am busy, as you can see. Trying to figure out what to do with that investment you got me into," I say, irritated. "It was not my fault. I was giving you a tip from a friend. Are you going to blame me for the new company that came to town?" She asks. "Really? You think for one moment Angela Adams had no clue of what was coming? She is using my money to save herself, and her in-laws will not see a dime of that money I invested. I know her. She invested all she had in that company, and now she wants it back at my expense!" I say. "Didn't you first look into it before you invested?"  Jackie asks innocently again, knowing I was in England then, and I was not the one who gave the final yes. My manager always had a bloody thing for Jackie, and I fired him this morning for costing me so much money. I told him to look into it and not blindly invest in it! He will pay, he and his family, and if this b***h in front of me doesn't watch it, so will she and her family. I am not that fond of her.  "Okay, how about we talk about something more pleasant. Like our wedding!" I can see Jackie is angry at me as well. I am not in the mood to talk about weddings. I am not sure I want to wed her at all. Not with those green eyes hunting me for so long. "Get the f**k out of my office, Jackie. I am not in the mood to talk to you or any wedding!" I scream at her. Jackie knows me by now, and she leaves. I feel bad about yelling at her, but I also feel cheated by her, my ex-manger, and her friend. They stole my money, and I do not like that!