Billionaire's Admirable Bride

Chapter 2

It was a bright Monday morning. Olivia woke up in her bedroom at 5:30 a.m. She was wearing a light blue nightgown and rushed out of her bedroom to tidy up the house. She knew that it was the first day of school, and her younger stepsister, Mia Adams, was going back to college.

Olivia swept the entire mansion clean, starting from the top floor and working her way down to the first-floor living room. She swept and mopped everywhere until it was spotless before heading outside to sweep the entire compound.

After finishing her work and making sure the entire mansion was neat, Olivia went back into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for her younger stepsister. She knew that her stepmother and stepsister would soon wake up from their sleep.

Mrs. Gina Adams, a 39-year-old woman, woke up in her bedroom upstairs. It was the first room given to her when she initially married Mr. Leo Adams.

She yawned and stretched as she sat up carefully on the bed and stared around her bedroom, feeling like the madam of the house again.

"Hmm... How time flies," she said, as she swung her legs down from the bed and stood up.

Mrs. Gina was wearing a long white nightgown and slipped on the slippers beside the bed. She knew it was the school resumption day, and her 14-year-old daughter, Mia Adams, was going back to college.

The time was 7 a.m. sharp on her room clock. She went downstairs to inspect the house and to see if Olivia was finished sweeping and mopping the entire mansion to make it look clean.

Mrs. Gina stepped into the living room, surveyed the area, and saw that Olivia had cleaned everywhere. A satisfied smile curved her lips as she intended to get her revenge by punishing Olivia, too.

She walked up to the dining table, took her seat, and waited for her daughter to come down for breakfast, just before the school bus arrived.

Just then, Olivia stepped out of the kitchen and saw her stepmother in the dining room.

She stepped out to check if Mia was ready to have her breakfast. Seeing her stepmother in the dining room, Olivia quickly greeted the older lady, "Good morning, Mother."

Mrs. Gina swiftly turned to face Olivia, her blood boiling at the sound of Olivia calling her "Mother."

She rushed up to Olivia and delivered a hot, resounding slap to her left cheek.

[SLAP!]

"How many times have I warned you never to call me mother again in this house? Do I resemble your stupid late mother?" Mrs. Gina questioned angrily, glaring at Olivia.

"No, Mother... I mean, Ma," Olivia replied, sobbing, while Mrs. Gina glared at her and released Olivia's shoulder, which she had gripped tightly. Then she questioned Olivia again, "Have you prepared my daughter's breakfast? Or do you want Mia to be late for school today?"

"No, Ma, I have prepared Mia's breakfast," Olivia shakily replied. Mrs. Gina narrowed her eyes at her before moving away from Olivia and sniffing her palms, which she had used to hold Olivia.

Mrs. Gina hated Olivia's scent as she smelled like apples.

She immediately went into the kitchen to wash her hands of Olivia's fruity scent, feeling irritated by the reminder of late Mrs. Zoe.

Olivia looked like her late mother and smelled like her late mother's scent, and Mrs. Gina hated that.

Mia was standing on the balcony upstairs and saw when her mother gripped Olivia by the shoulders and slapped her hard on the left cheek. The sound of the slap reverberated around the living room and shocked Mia as she just stepped out to walk downstairs.

Mia knew that her mother hated Olivia, as Olivia had enjoyed the luxury of their late parents' wealth, and Mia knew how her late father loved Olivia and late Mrs. Zoe, while dismissing her own mother.

Mia was wearing a blue school uniform with white stockings and black shoes. She carried her black school bag over her shoulder.

Mia carefully descended the living room stairs, already on her way to school, as her school bus would soon arrive.

She was not ready to say sorry to Olivia, so she looked away and walked to one of the dining room chairs to sit down and have her breakfast.

Mia was a dark-skinned 14-year-old girl, while Olivia was 17 years old.

Mia also resembled their late father very much, and her mother had told her the entire story of how Olivia's mother had begged her to agree to marry Mr. Leo Adams.

Mia had also witnessed how her late father treated her mother. She was unhappy with how her mother was treated inferiorly while Olivia and her late mother were treated like royalty. Olivia was the apple of their father's eye.

Settling in her dining chair, Mia placed her school bag on the next chair beside her. Her mother stepped out of the kitchen and glared at Olivia again.

Olivia's brown eyes welled up with tears, and Mrs. Gina yelled at her, "What are you standing there doing? Haven't you prepared Mia's breakfast yet? Get lost into the kitchen and serve it now, before I break your head!"

Olivia quickly ran back into the kitchen and served Mia's breakfast, not wanting her stepmother to punish her that morning. She sobbed as she dished out delicious noodles and fried eggs onto a red flat plate, placed it on a white tray, and stepped out of the kitchen to serve it on the dining table in front of Mia.

Mrs. Gina knew she had to live with her gruesome sins of killing her best friend and their late husband out of jealousy. Olivia resembled her late mother, while Mia looked like late Mr. Leo Adams, too.

Mrs. Gina grimaced as she remembered when Mr. Leo was still alive; he usually fed Mrs. Zoe in front of her and pampered Mrs. Zoe too at the dining table across from hers whenever they had breakfast and dinner together before she was sent to live outside the mansion.

She wished she had peacefully signed the divorce papers and left when Mr. Leo offered her a divorce after she first quarreled with Mrs. Zoe. But she stubbornly refused to leave, as she loved Mr. Leo so much and wanted him as her husband.

Now she had killed the truck driver to hide her secret for life, as they were living in the Emerson Estate, where the billionaires' families lived. And she was not ready to go to jail yet.

Mrs. Gina sighed heavily, and Mia asked her, "Mom, what's the problem?"

Mrs. Gina replied, "Nothing, Mia, I am fine. What's Olivia still doing in the kitchen? Does she want me to storm in there and break her head?"

Olivia quickly stepped out from the kitchen and walked up to the dining table to serve Mia's breakfast while Mia adjusted her seat closer to the table. Olivia stood aside, wondering if she could speak to her stepmother about the need for her to resume her tutorial classes, as she needed to further her education to become a nurse.

Olivia stood beside the dining table, and Mrs. Gina glared at her and asked, "What are you standing there doing again? I thought I asked you to leave?"

Olivia shuddered in fear and moved backward a little, while Mia continued eating the delicious noodles and eggs at the table. Mia knew she didn't know how to cook and that Olivia was forced to learn by her mother.

Olivia stopped beside the kitchen door and thought to try her luck and plead with her stepmother about the need for her to resume her tutorial classes.

She spoke, "Ma... it's about my university entrance examination form that I mentioned to you before?"

Mrs. Gina stood up from her dining chair harshly, moving the chair backward as she stepped out of her seat and said, "And I told you that you're not going to any stupid university, Olivia! How did you graduate as the best in your class and pass your examinations when you cannot even understand simple English at home? Just get out of my sight now, before I give you another slap!" Mrs. Gina warned, and Olivia quickly fled toward the kitchen door and stopped.