Autumn Payne…

(Autumn's POV)

I was given the name Autumn because I was born during the season. My parents never really paid attention to me. They were too busy working to pay attention to their kids. I had an older brother who passed away when I was a child. Ever since then, my parents never paid attention to me. They didn't expect much from a girl child. I had to prove to myself that I wasn't worthless, so I studied more than the average kid to prove to my parents that I wasn't useless. But it was all for nought. My parents decided to marry me off to the son of a close friend who was going to take over our family business. They would rather leave their company in the hands of a stranger rather than their daughter. I felt like there was no point in my existence if my parents didn't even find me worthy of being their child. My parents passed away in an accident soon after I got married. I had lost my family. I had no one else but my best friend and my so-called husband. What was even worse was that my husband was a total scumbag. He couldn't even handle a business right. He spent his days at the club and came back home with different women. I couldn't even get a divorce because I didn't want to lose the company that my parents worked hard to build. But what shook me the most wasn't the fact that he brought multiple women home. It was when I found out that my best friend and my husband had been in a relationship even before we got married. They had planned how to destroy my life and take everything away from me. Who would have thought that the only person that I could trust would betray me like this? I had gone into depression, and it got worse when I found out that my parent's accident was also part of their plan. I had secretly gotten someone to investigate my husband when I saw him and my best friend together in my bedroom. That was when I found out everything. All hope was lost. I didn't know what else I could do.

I went out the night I found out about everything and decided to drink away my sorrows. I hadn't ever drunk in my life because I was too busy trying to prove myself to my parents and myself. I couldn't even remember how many bottles I had. By the time I woke up, I found myself in a hotel room. Clothes were all over the place and I saw an unfamiliar man beside me. I had made a mistake, and I couldn't even remember anything. It was my first time spending the night with a man. Even though I had been married for two years, my husband had never touched me. Deep down I felt so disgusted with myself. I picked myself up, wore my clothes, then I took a glance at the man's face. He was surprisingly handsome. It made me a little relieved, at least my first time wasn't taken by someone ugly. I left soon after and went home. I usually spent my days at home since I wasn't allowed to work. My husband was waiting for me when I arrived. He asked me where I had been. I told him I spent the night at a hotel because I wanted a change of environment. He didn't pry anymore and left. I had made up my mind to try to change things from the way they were. I decided to get the company back at all costs.

Luckily for me, my parents had trusted people who worked in their company and I happened to get a hold of one of them. He was worried about the way things were at the company and decided to tell me all about it and he even brought evidence. He had told me of a way to get the company back easily. All I had to do was to become the highest shareholder in the company and get most of the shareholders on my side. Immediately I started contacting different people. I had come up with many business proposals and found a way to gain the trust of the shareholders. I had also bought company shares with anonymous accounts and since my husband wasn't that intelligent, he didn't notice that something was off. Everything was going as planned but something happened which made me waver. Two months after the one-night stand, I found out that I was pregnant. I was going to be a mother. All my life, I would never have imagined that I would have a child. I never even thought of how I was going to raise the child. Having a child at this crucial moment could affect my stand in the company, but I still had to try my best. The plan was already set in motion and I had gained fifty-one per cent of the company's shares. It was time to act. I had called for an emergency shareholders meeting and it was then that I announced that I was taking over the company. I had submitted evidence of my husband's embezzlement and corruption. I had also sent the evidence of his promiscuity to the media and everything spread within a few hours. He wasn't fit to run a company and he wasn't the only one that went down. My best friend who was in it with him also had to be punished. They were sentenced to ten years in prison alongside everyone who partook in the corruption and I had gotten what I wanted.

A few months after taking over the company, I gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. They were the most adorable babies I had ever seen. I planned on cherishing them and raising them better than how my parents raised me. I was going to shower them with so much love and ensure that they grew up right. I knew that it wouldn't be easy to raise two kids on my own and work at the same time. But I was determined to go through with it.