Chapter 99 - Honesty

That instant, Mira's face turned pale. She didn't dare to turn her head around because she knew that voice belongs to the man whom she had tried to avoid so much.

Nathalie and Ambrose smiled towards the comer as the comer pulled a chair and sat beside Mira.

"Baby, I missed you so much!" He said and snuggling to her, tugging on her arm.

The sight of the two of them being intimate made the other couple to smile widely.

"Danny honey, where have you been since this morning?" Nathalie asked softly. Her motherly love overflowed the moment she asked the question. It had been years since they spoke.

Danny, happily answered, "I've been busy, moving all of her stuff from her apartment into my penthouse."

Mira who listened to their conversation was so shocked. Moving her stuff into his penthouse? His penthouse?!

She eyed the chatty man and a smile broke on her face. Ah, she must be in a very long dream. Danny Stanford never had a penthouse!

During their relationship, he brought her to his house that is much smaller than her apartment. He even dressed humbly although he was a womanizer who would always hook up with any woman he finds beautiful and interesting.

"Baby, are you okay?" Danny asked and suddenly caressed her flat stomach, "Have you eaten for our child inside?" He asked.

Mira laughed out loud like a madwoman. She was breaking down because of stress. She couldn't process everything that happened all around her. She couldn't think properly. Her head just stopped working over the stress!

Everything goes wrong on their last night in Country N, she found Danny sleeping by her side, upon waking up he said he loved her and wanted to marry her. Then, as soon as they returned to Country D, he tailed her asking her to marry him.

She kept running away from him when he suddenly tried to get her thumbprint for a marriage registration form. Then, she was kidnapped from home and was brought to meet his parents out of the blue.

She just doesn't know what she should do about her situation at the moment. She wanted to flee but she couldn't flee from them. She was surrounded by people that she didn't know.

"Baby..." Danny called out for her with a concerned expression.

"Am I your wife?" Mira asked out of the blue after she had calmed down from her laughter. The laughter of stress.

"Yes, we're married. Here, is our marriage license." Danny handed her a license in pink colour.

Mira glanced at the license and she saw her name and his together. That instant, her eyes were watery and tears flowed down non-stop down her cheeks.

The people around her panicked over her sudden cries. Danny immediately knelt before her, persuading her non-stop to stop crying.

An hour later, Mira finally gained her senses. The two of them were left all alone at the gazebo to have some time alone to talk among them.

"Why did you do this to me?" Mira asked him.

"Because I love you with all my heart," Danny admitted. "We will be a mom and dad soon, so I want our child to have both parents by their side."

"Danny, this is not like the real you that I know," Mira said. Her eyes were red as well as her nose. She had been crying her heart out.

"This is the real me, baby..." He replied, "Also, I have informed this Susan Banner, the Human Resources in your company about our marriage as well. She sends us her congratulatory."

"What?" Mira trembled in her seat.

"Also, I have made arrangements for you and Jennet to meet this evening after she ended her work. Baby, go and meet her at Thousand Island Bar later and apologize to her. Let bygones be bygones since you're my wife now."

"Danny, what are you talking about?!" Mira suddenly had the intensity to get angry.

Meet that Jennet Lockhart? It was all because of her that her life had now turned into a mess!

"Baby, whatever ill-thought you have of her, let perish it for the better of both parties. Ask for forgiveness and be forgiven for whatever she may have done upon you. I don't want my wife to live in regret for the rest of her life."

"Ill thought? Danny, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"If you think of it as nonsense then, still you had to meet her and apologize. I've heard so many bad things about you from the mouth of your other colleagues but never once I heard Jennet bad mouth you."

"What?"

"Well, I have been tailing Jennet and wanted to know the truth about her and I found out that most of your colleagues were never really your good friends. They are just trying to gain your favour by badmouthing Jennet. You were surrounded by snakes all these years and Jennet is innocent." Danny told her.

Mira couldn't believe what she heard from his mouth. Danny had been doing something behind her and yet she didn't know about it. How can he change so much overnight?

"I have no reason to meet her or to apologize to her. She's a rival of my love!" She fumed at him. Her anger rose in a sudden.

"Baby, you're my wife! For once just stop chasing after that Luca! I am your husband!" Danny's voice rose as well.

"I don't love you!" Mira said out loud at his face.

Danny bit his lips over her words. Her words were so painful. She doesn't love him? Not a bit?

"Baby, why would you say such empty lies to your own husband? You do love me."

"I do not!"

"You do and for whatever reason were we so attached to each other for a year? You said, you normally will be with your boyfriends for up to a month but with me, it was up to a year. You do love me. It's just that you're just confused because of your obsession towards that Luca."

"I honestly love Luca!"

"No, you don't. The love you thought was just a plain obsession. You were just so obsessed with him that drove you blind for years. With all the talks from those snakes around you, your mind was twisted."

"I am not crazy!" Mira cried out loud. "Danny, I really don't love you! You're just a man that I found to be good in bed and that's it. Nothing more."

Danny chuckled after hearing her words. She was still so far away from knowing her own feelings. Her obsession was mistaken for love. Such a naive woman.

"Mira, Mira..." He shook his head.

She was so stupid for defending a fictional love. Truthfully speaking, he honestly loved her and he dumped all of his girlfriends because of her. All the talks about starving for months were just empty talks to make sure Mira thought he was a man with many women while with her. He wanted to live the image of the bad boy that she thought he may be.

Danny locked eyes with the fuming woman and then he said a confession that came from the bottom of his heart.

"Mira, I honestly love you. Really, really love you. If you really love Luca, you could have just confessed your feelings to him a long time ago. But, you never managed to do it because you were insecure about it."

Mira went silent with a very surprised look masking her beautiful face. She couldn't possibly be too obsessed with Luca. She honestly loved him and it will always be even in the future.

"You're talking nonsense..." She whispered in the wind. Her hands trembled underneath the table.

Danny's face was a mixture of sadness and disappointment. He honestly loved her. He had been loyal to her for a year. He never did that to anyone before because he found her to be so special in his eyes and his heart. He couldn't let the lonely woman be out of his reach.

"I am not talking nonsense. I honestly love you and I even got approval from your entire family members." Danny smiled at her while taking out a letter from his pocket which he spreads open before her eyes.

The content of the letter read;

I, Demo Henderson, hereby give my utmost trust to Danny Stanford to be the lawful husband for my daughter, Mira Henderson. Also, in this letter, I, hereby, pledge faiths and trust to the Henderson family to look after Mira Henderson.

If by chance, my daughter, Mira Henderson, were to divorce Danny Stanford, she will be held liable to pay a sum of ten million to Danny Stanford for humiliating the dignity of the Stanfords.

Mira was left speechless upon reading the entire letter. Demo Henderson, her father who was a principal of a private school or The Henderson Private School had finally made his move to tie her down with marriage.

"Danny, I don't know if this is from my father. He would not do something like writing an official letter like this." Mira tried to dismiss him and his effort.

Danny smiled and took out his phone. He made a video call to Demo Henderson which connected within a few seconds.

"Daddy, Mira refused to believe me just like you predicted." He complained to Demo.

"Give the phone to her." Demo's domineering voice echoed and frightened Mira who was on the brink of crying out loud.

Danny held the phone towards Mira and she saw a chubby man with a cute face. There was a domineering look on his chubby face and suddenly...

"Mira, sweetheart, Luca is your husband now. Also, daddy borrowed ten million from him to refurbish the school. Even your mommy accepted him happily. He is a nice guy and if you dare to be disrespectful towards your husband and his family, mommy will be really unhappy." Demo spoke with a gentle voice. His face turned soft. His fatherly aura can be felt brimming out of the phone's speaker.

Mira's face was super red after hearing his words. She didn't know if she had the right to get angry. Ten million?! Did they borrow ten million from Danny?

"Where did all of the money that I sent to you every month?" Mira broke the silence with a question. With all her might, she tried to hold herself from cursing like how she used to.

"Well, it was never enough to pay for the salary of our teachers. Your aim to get Luca Tybelg, just bury it. You got an even better man. He even helps with the school refurbishment. Also, our run-down house had a new look now." Added Demo with a smiley face.

Mira was speechless in front of the screen. Her family had betrayed her. They totally betray her!

Danny pulled the screen back and spoke with Demo before ending the video call. He turned around and gave Mira a bright smile.

"There, now all of your troubles are mine. Your family's financial crisis has been settled swiftly. Also, you don't have to seduce men to get money for your family. You can just seduce me." He said and patted his chest.

Mira didn't say a single word until that evening. She kept silent until she met Jennet and Marvina at the promised place, Thousand Islands Bar.

Jennet and Marvina had a very stupefied look over their faces when she suddenly burst to tears in front of them.

"Are you alright?" Jennet asked her after she handed a handkerchief to Mira.

"I'm fine," Mira said and wiped her wet cheeks. She sniffed before the two women, "I don't believe that I'm to say this but I am sorry for what I did to you in the past five years."

"What?!" Jennet was speechless.

Marvina snorted before Mira and said, "Am I dreaming or did you just said that you're sorry?"

She had an unsettling feeling about her confession. Something was fishy about her. But what was it? Mira would never apologize over her wrongdoings.

Mira eyed the two of them. She forced a smile on her beautiful face.

"I know it's hard to believe what I just said but that's the truth. I am apologizing for everything that I did to you especially Jennet. I am not going after Luca anymore and you can have him."

"Hey, Jennet is-"

"Marvina!" Jennet interrupted and glared at Marvina. She shook her head telling her not to utter a single word.

Mira didn't see the exchange in body language between the two ladies. So, she continued, "I am now a married woman. I've just married my boyfriend, Danny Stanford."

"What?!" Both Jennet and Marvina was even more shock than hearing her apologizing.

"Yes, I am married now..." Mira burst into tears again before the ladies. "I hope to have a happy marriage with him."

She was happy and sad at the same time. She was happy because the trouble that she hid from everyone had been handled without causing any ruckus. She doesn't have to do anything that could taint her heart blacker anymore.

She was also sad because, for the past years, she had done so many bad things and hurt a lot of people in her quest to get money for her family. She loses her innocence to her boyfriend who was only toying with her and it causes all the trouble that happened in her family as well.

Then, she went to get revenge on all men that are known for being a womanizer. She seduced them to get their money and when she had enough of them, she dumped them, letting them taste the same pain she felt.

Finally, after so many years, she had broken free from her misery. A man she toyed around with had broken her curse. He changed for her sake and had helped her family to get away from their troubles.

"I am finally able to be happy..." Mira smiled and shortly after that she cried even harder. Jennet and Marvina were totally im confusion but they didn't probe her further.

"Waiter!" Marvina called for a waiter, "Give us three glasses of freshly squeezed watermelon juice and also a box of tissue!"

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Back to the current time...

"Good, very good. Now, let's go home." Danny said.

"Eh, but you just started work." Mira frowned in confusion. They arrived thirty minutes ago and now he said all about going home.

"Baby, I owned this hotel and came only to welcome important guests. They're already inside of their room and my associates will look after them. Come on, let's go home." Danny said and took her handbag from the sofa.

Mira eyed him and gulped. She was so scared of him at the moment. She didn't know if he was just putting on a farce to fool her. But, seeing the honesty reflected in his eyes, she admitted defeat.