Husband you've abandoned me Fine I'll focus on raising my son novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2: How it all started

It all started when my parents informed me of my arranged marriage to Keith Acland,21, when I was 19 years old. It was due to a business deal my father’s company had formed with the Acland family’s company. The Acland family owned the Acland Holding Limited Company, an extremely successful international hotel company. With hundreds of four- and five-star hotels all over the world. Their family had an estimated net worth of over 20 billion (USD).

My father was the heir of a well-performing construction company. Although my family wasn’t billionaires like the Aclands’, we were millionaires, which was still impressive.

The business deal our families had struck had to do with my father’s company helping to construct some new hotels for Aclands’. My marriage to the heir of the Aclands’, Keith, was to strengthen the new partnership between the two companies.

My marriage to Keith was loveless which was to be expected as our marriage was arranged. However, after our wedding and we began to live together, we developed somewhat of an amicable relationship. A year into our marriage and we gave birth to our one and only child; our son Anthony. I loved Anthony so much and was completely devoted to raising him well. The first years of being Keith’s wife were pleasant.

However, everything changed ’she’ came 7 years later. I would bever forget that day. It was Keith’s birthday, and I had organized a party to celebrate. All our family members and friends were present. As the party was in full swing with everyone enjoying themselves, suddenly a woman entered who caused everyone to stop and look at her.

I immediately recognized her. She was Keith’s former lover, Diana, from before we got married. When we got engaged, Keith stopped seeing out of respect for both our families and our union. However, I knew he had loved her, and he felt guilty for leaving her. All this time I wondered what had happened to Diana as she appeared to have disappeared from the social scene. I wondered why she was appearing now after 7 years.

It was then that I noticed the child standing by her side and holding her hand. It was a boy who seemed close in age to Anthony, who was 7 at the time and looked strikingly like Keith. She then announced to everyone at the party that the boy was Keith’s child. I would never forget the shock and utter disbelief I felt upon hearing this as well as everyone else at the party. She claimed that after Keith had left her to marry me, she found out she was pregnant.

After the party she showed Keith an apparent DNA test to prove the boy was indeed his son. I felt the whole situation was suspicious. Keith felt guilty for abandoning her an the fact that she had to raise their son alone, so he decided to take her in and allowed her to stay in our house. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

At first, I thought her place in our home would be temporary as Keith figured out what to do with her. I was understanding of the situation to an extent, because I was sympathetic to the fact that Keith was forced to leave his lover for me. So, if that was his son he was still the father and had to look after him.

She had his favour and was well-liked by everyone around. Before I knew it Diana had taken away my husband, my friends, and my title. Worst of all, my son was put in a precarious position. Everyone began to think she was soon going to take my position, and I was going to be tossed aside. What’s more is that they felt she deserved it more than me since her smear campaign had worked and my reputation was now negative.

Everyone seemed to have turned against me and my son. I had no one to turn to. Even my own family turned against me. My father and older brother believed the rumors that were spreading about me and told me that Keith left me they would take me back. The final blow was when the legitimacy of my son being Keith’s biological child came into question.

Unlike Diana’s son who looked exactly like Keith, Anthony’s features were, unfortunately, more like mine. Keith acted as if he believed the rumours, even though he had been there throughout my pregnancy. He knew Anthony was his.

I tried to fight for my place in my own home. Unfortunately, Keith seemed to fall deeper for Diana with each passing day whilst I became a stranger to him. He always picked Diana and her son.