By Means
ENTRY 17.5
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HAILEE
“What the fuck are you doing here?!” Scott’s angry face weed my sight.
However, I didn’t show him that I was startled by his loud and dark aura.
I arched my brow and closed the door. I shed a teasing smile while I walked toward him.
Scott was there, sitting in front of his desk, and it seemed like he was reading some files—oh, it’s
the applicant’s forms.
Scott pierced his eyes into mine. “What the hell are you doing here?”
I smiled widely and stopped a meter away from his table. “Just paying you a visit,” I replied and
gave a mocked smile.
Scott frowned. “Get out before I drag you out,” he warned. But I am always hardheaded.
“Come on, Uncle. It’s been years. Until now, you can’t ept me?” I asked as I walked closer to
him.
Scott’s eyes roamed my body. Hmm, does he find me sexy?
“Get out, Hailee,” he asserted, took a paper, and closed the folder. “And even if you apply here as
an assistant, I will crumple your resume….” I won’t be surprised that it was my resume which he
was holding and I watched him how he crumpled the paper and formed it into a ball, “—and throw it
on the bin,” he said, and he literally threw it on the bin at the side, near the cab.
My shoulder felt as I grimaced. What’s new? He always does this.
However, I’m already here. So, there’s no turning back. I will not leave not until I avenge my pride
going in here. And for the past years that he has looked down on me.
“I don’t know what’s Fitzgerald’s problem. I am innocent. The sin my parents bear shouldn’t be
passed into me. What could a little child like me could do—”
“You’re the fruit, and we can’t let you be part of our wealthy family,” Scott said, and it was like a p
on my face, but I just ignored it.
I won’t leave his office without a fight.
“Really?” I arched my brow, which made Scott’s forehead crease. “I don’t want to be part of your
family either,” I added and let out a smirk. “I don’t want to join your circle, where elite people only
knew about their riches and don’t value what life truly is.”
Scott shot a cold dark gaze into mine, which grasped my soul. “Just get out of my office—”
“My body, my say. So, don’t act superior to me, Uncle,” I shudder and smirked at him.
“I despise you as my niece,” he replied.
I let out a soft chuckle and suddenly red at him. “Really. Are you really my uncle? I mean my
uncle by bloodline?” I asked, and I saw how his body stiffened. I smirked and moved forward, “or
not? I feel hated because you’re not my real uncle. Mom is not rted to you—and that’s why you
hated her because your family raised her as their own child, yet she married a lowly man, which is
my father, and that will be a shame to your family if the public knows it. However,” I tapped the
table, which made his eyes widen, “don’t worry because they are already at peace, and if I find out
that you have something to do with it….” I pierced my gaze into him, “I will fucking kill you,” I
asserted and shed a smile.
“Anyway, I don’t have any intention to apply to yourpany. It was just my friend who passed the
resume that you just crumpled and threw. See you, uncle. Don’t be too surprised because I have my
ways of finding the truth,” I added and left his office.
Soon as I closed the door, I held onto the wall to support myself. Fuck! I cursed inside me. My legs
are trembling.
I didn’t expect that I say that. I did try my best not to pour a single tear in front of him. I don’t know,
but my hunch is strong that he had something to do with that ident.
My dad always checked his cab, and he fetched mom that day and had a dinner date to celebrate
their anniversary, but after they went for a happy night, they left the world. They left me.
“Miss Hailee?”
I looked up when I heard a voice. I smiled when I saw Mrs. Ferrer—Scott’s mentor.
“Hi, youngdy. What are you doing here?”
Even if Scott despises me, Mrs. Ferrer is the only person that acknowledges me every time I get
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She’s the one who gave me reports and even information about Scott’s life and family.
“What did you do to his office? Did he scold you again?”
I smiled. “What’s new, Mrs. Ferrer,” I asked and started to walk. She then followed me and equaled
my pace.
“Mrs. Ferrer…”
“Uhm?”
“I told him those things that you told me—”
“What? What’s his reaction?”
I smiled, but it didn’t reach the corner of my eyes. “I think you’re right.”
“Of course, I am right. I’ve been with the Fitzgerald for years. Your mom is not a real Fitzgerald—”
“Then who is her real family?” It was the question that I’ve wanted to know ever since I met Mrs.
Ferrer.
Mrs. Ferrer stopped and looked at our back. Afterward, she grabbed my hand, and we entered her
office.
She locked it, which made me frown.
“You can’t just tell that your mom is not a real Fitzgerald to anyone,” Mrs. Ferrer’s face seems
unease.
“W-What’s wrong?”
“Your mom is the long-lost daughter of the Montgomery—”
“Mont—what?”
Mrs. Ferrer pressed her lips. “Montgomery as in the well-known—the top family in Europe?” I asked.
My hands started to tremble so and did my body. My heart thumps fast. I’ve known the Montgomery
—who wouldn’t? The Montgomery is always in the front of magazines every Friday. But how? Why?
And what the fuck is going on!
“Please, don’t tell this to anyone—”
“You have known this, Mrs. Ferrer. Why didn’t you tell mom?”
Mrs. Ferrer met my gaze. “She knows.”
My eyeballs wanted to pop out of the socket when I heard it. “W-What? Why…”
Mrs. Ferrer reached for my hand and held it. “There’s a huge war between the Fitzgerald and the
Montgomery ever since. People have known about it. Your mom found it out—”
“Through you?”
Mrs. Ferrer nodded.
“Then why didn’t mom take action—”
“Because Scott found out that she knew,” Mrs. Ferrer replied.
I knew that mom and Scott are not rted to each other that’s what Mrs. Ferrer told me. The looks
say it all, but I wasn''t expecting that mom is a Montgomery.