grass widow.

The banquet hall buzzed with anticipation, a symphony of laughter, clinking glasses, and the soft murmurs of influential conversations. Underneath an elaborate chandelier, the esteemed guests mingled, casting shadows on the delicately embroidered tablecloths.

Though, Melissa and Evans were both present, Melissa was fully prepared cause she knew he would come. Besides she had already letho of him.

Everyone knew that Evans Reynolds had a wife who is now an Ex—wife, but he had never introduced her to the public, so nobody knew that it was Melissa, daughter of Christopher Smith.

All they knew was her name, and that was from the viral video a month ago..

Cathy saw Melissa, she clung to Evans arm, ever so tightly, as if to shield him from Melissa's gaze. The moment Melissa caught sight of them together, a smile flickered on her lips—a swift reminder of her resilient, then she muttered.

"So she took my position so soon."

When Mr Smith saw her emotional, he taped her hand and whisper. " Don't worry an right here...with you."

" Am not the one who should be afraid,

Melissa smiled jovialously as she talked.

I" l don't have any worry anymore, l buried what was inside me, and noel don't have a reason to be afraid."

Slowly Evans met with Mr Smith as he walked around. The two men were almost similar in different aspects except that smith family is more wealthiest compared to Reynolds.

"Mr Reynolds, l've heard a lot about you."

" Same here, Mr Smith."

The two men shook hands and immediately parted ways but Evans eyes were fixed on the lady besides Mr Smith.

Melissa and Evans , next to each other seemed to never knowing each other , as Melissa kept low and smiled.

But her radiant figures, made her so different that Evans couldn't help but stare at her more. She looked beautiful and different from the Melisa he knew.

"Why is she with Mr Smith? Is that where she went when she vanished from the hospital? And what is their relation?

Evans had different questions running on his mind about Melissa. But he didn't have the answers.

When Evan's focus was once again drawn to Melissa's enchanting appearance, Cathy could no longer hold her disdain, she got mad as she clenched her fist and muttered. " Why is this idiot everywhere? When she left ,l thought she will be gone for ever but now she's here again.

Then she gritty her teeth and whispered secretly to Melisa.

"Hey you! What are you doing here? Does this place look like you? Don't forget who you are."

Well, she was just reminding her of her low class.

Evans was so disappointed that he had to stop her, but he has Mr Smith's cold rhetorical question.

"And which family are you from, miss?

Out of haste, Cathy forgot about the presence of Evans, and as usual , she always want to be proved right and hurriedly said.

"Sir, let her innocent face not deceive you, Melissa just got divorced with Evans, Incase you don't know."

To her, Mr Matteo Smith seemed to be Melissa's new catch, and wanted to expose her marital status before her sugar daddy.

" Miss, is it forbidden for divorced people in this place? Then why is Mr Reynolds here too?.

Cathy felt embarrassed and stack that she couldn't move nor say a ward, the looked at Evans with sympathetic facade, but Evans stood still like a statue.

Mr Smith glance the Cathy the looked at Evans and mocked him.

"Your test for companion is very poor, noxt time, try and get a better selection.

Not like this thing."

Then he held his daughters hands an left to meet more people.

Cathy felt embarrassed even more, when Mr Smith rediculed her, that she pouted her lips pitifully.

" Evans.., ain't you going to defend me?"

Evans looked at Mr Matteo Smith departing , by the time he heard Cathy's nagging, he looked back with a furious and cold looked that even Cathy got scared as he hissed at her.

"Keep your mouth shut for once, please!"

He was clearly not in the mood as all he thought wasam about Melissa.

"We haven't divorced for long, yet she has the temerity to ignore me as if l don't exsist. And now..., in the arms of another man?"

Evans ditched Cathy as soon as some business men come to greet him, he mingled with them, leaving Cathy so frustrates in the crowd.

As the moon hung low, its silvery light cast a beautiful sheen over the landscape, Melissa took a moment to collect herself. She stepped out to the poolside, enchanted by the moon's glow—a stark contrast to the tempest of emotions swirling inside her.

The moon's yellowy white glow, loomed large, surrounded by an ethereal glow pulled Melissa even the more.

She went out at the quiet side of the pool to enjoy the beautiful senary of the moon a lone with a glass of red wine.

But then, Cathy wasn't happy with the fate that a lowly womanlike Melissa was with them at such a banquet.

" Why would a solo woman that was ditched and kicked out of Reynolds family attend such a grand banquet?

Slowly she approached Melissa at the swimming pool with a gloomy face. Then stood next to her as she pretends to be enjoying the dazzling moon too.

She glanced by the side and saw Cathy's pitiful looks as she stands besides her with a cold smirk on her face.

"I never imagined how a nobody like you would appear in such an event."

Melissa smiled and turned her gaze on Cathy who was biting her thin lips.

" What? Is he giving you a cold back ? Or..has he ditched you already, that's why your here alone."

Cathy got annoyed with the way Melissa was speaking to her with so much confidence which was unlike her.

As Melissa turned to leave her, Cathy deliberately stepped on Melissa's gown that she staggered.

Cathy's frustration boiled over. In a flash of anger, she chose her next actions carefully, stepping on the hem of Melissa's gown. As Melissa stumbled, the push sent her teetering dangerously close to the edge of the pool.

With a gasp, she lost her balance, falling vertically into the cool water. Panic surged through her as she flailed, trying to keep her head above the surface. While bobbing in and up of the water.

Cathy who was at the the pool knew, Melissa wasn't good at swimming.

Melissa tried to scream for help, but the swimming pool was a little bit far from the inside and nobody would hear her voice, soon, the world around began to fade.

Cathy took her time before calling for help as she pretended to panic and cry,

"Melissa..hold on, let me call for help."

she made sure that Melissa is at the last point of drowning.