I Hope You Will Never Regret

On the last day of Grade 12 exams, Mr Martins asked Chief Smith to release his wife from police custody. Then he sent the family driver to pick her up. Lily was over the moon when she saw her beloved aunt.

Mrs Martins went to her bedroom to take a long shower. She took the clothes that she was wearing in custody and burnt them. She didn’t even want to look at her husband and Avery. She hated them with passion.

The Martins siblings and Gabriella had been accepted at KZN University; their future was bright. Avery was going to study Medicine. She wanted to be a Neurosurgeon.

Aiden was going to study Business Management. He was preparing himself to take over from his father.

Gabriella was going to study journalism. She wanted to be a journalist at Everlasting Media, which was a leading media company in South Africa.

After dinner, Mr Martins asked Aiden to follow him to the study room. They sat on the sofa, and then his father said, “Son, I was thinking, how would you feel if I set up a company for you?

You can do anything you want. I will appoint someone to teach you how to run a company. You can start running your company whilst you are in your first year.”

Aiden was dumbfounded, he couldn’t believe his ears. He thought his father asked him to his study room to warn him against his mother. He looked at his father and asked, “Are you serious, Daddy?”

Aiden was not business-minded. His heart desired to work with his father at the Martins Group. He never thought of having his own company.

His father nodded his head and replied smiling, “Yes, I am serious. I have prepared a twenty-story office building in La Lucia for you. Please submit your business plan when you have an idea of what you want to do. You can ask your sister to help you with the business plan.”

Aiden smiled brightly at his father and said, “Thank you, Dad, for having faith in me. I promise I will never disappoint you. Please give me a couple of days to think about this matter. I will ask my sister to help me if I encounter any difficulties.”

Then he went to his mother’s bedroom to tell her the good news. He was beaming with joy. He was on cloud nine. He looked at his mother and said smiling, “Mom, you don’t believe what my father told me just now.”

His mother didn’t show any interest in him. Her heart was consumed by hatred towards her husband and Avery. Aiden looked at his mother and asked, “What is wrong, Mom?”

His mother looked at him and said, “Nothing. Did your father warn you against me?” Aiden shook his head and replied smiling, “No, Mom. Daddy told me that he wanted to set up a company for me. Can you believe that, Mom?”

Aiden was so happy; he couldn’t contain his excitement. He was grinning from ear to ear. Mrs Martins was livid; her husband was trying to steal her son away from her. She would never allow that to happen. In his dreams!

She looked at her son and said coldly, “Don’t be naïve, Aiden. Your father is trying to remove you from your inheritance. He wants to give the Martins Group Empire to Avery. Open your eyes. Don’t be deceived.

Your father will never forgive you for trying to kill his beloved daughter. What do you know about running the company? Don’t you see that your father is setting you up for failure?”

Aiden was dumbfounded. His father was an honest man. Also, his sister is not interested in the Martins Group. He looked at his mother strangely and asked, “Mom, stop it. Who cares about inheritance?

I think Avery deserved the Martins Group more than me because she has contributed a lot to the company. Didn’t you stop me when I wanted to learn from my father?

Do you think I don’t know that you have promised your precious niece the Martins Group? If my father had offered this opportunity to Lily, you would be over the moon.

Didn’t you promise Lily that you would give her the Ebenezer Hotel? What does she know about running a hotel? Stop trying to sow a wedge between my father and me. Do you think I am inferior to Lily?”

He looked at his mother coldly, and then he walked out of his mother’s bedroom and slammed the door hard. Mrs Martins was dumbfounded. Aiden saw through her ill intentions.

She would never allow her son to be close to his father. She would try again to persuade him not to take his father’s offer.

Three days later, Aiden approached his father and told him that his heart desired to learn from him not to have his own company.

His father smiled and replied, “You listened to your mother again. Let me know if you change your mind. My offer still stands.”Owned by NôvelDrama.Org.

During dinner, Avery smiled at her father and said, “Daddy, would you be so kind as to bless me with the Ebenezer Hotel? After I get married, I will have a big family. I will give you lots of grandchildren.”

Her father was smiling from ear to ear when he heard Avery’s words and replied, “I would advise my attorney to transfer the Ebenezer hotel in your name. My daughter, please don’t make promises you will not keep.

A certain person promised her husband to give him a big family, but after she got married, she indicated that she didn’t want to have children.”

Avery looked at her father with a shocked expression and asked, “I hope that gentleman divorced the liar. The foundation of their marriage was built on lies.”

Her father shook his head and said, “Her husband promised her that he would marry only her in his lifetime. So, he couldn’t divorce her, but their relationship became sour.”

Avery looked at her father and said, “My heart is sore for that gentleman. I hate deception the most. I would have divorced the liar and stayed a bachelor forever. That woman took her husband for granted.”

Aiden looked at his mother because he knew that his father was talking about her. Lily looked at her aunt with questioning eyes because she promised to give her the Ebenezer Hotel. Why did it land in Avery’s hands?

Lily feigned ignorance and asked, “Avery, why are you snatching the Parker family asset? Your father is so rich, but you wanted to take the only thing that matters to me.”

Avery smiled but her smile didn’t reach her eyes and replied, “Initially, I didn’t want the Ebenezer hotel, but the way you have treated me I changed my mind.

I would have given you the hotel on a silver platter, but you keep on annoying me again and again. One day you will regret choosing Aunt Elizabeth over my Godmother. How do you know about running a hotel?”

Lily looked at her aunt for help, but she ignored her. Lily turned to Avery and replied, “I am going to learn. What do you know about the running of a hotel?”

Avery looked at Lily provokingly and replied, “There is nothing I don’t know about the running of a company. My father has taught me everything since I was ten years old.

I can even ask my father to take an early retirement; it’s just that I am not interested in running a company. Do you have any questions?” Lily looked at Avery viciously, but she didn’t utter a word because she knew that Avery was capable.