V3 Chapter 22 - Peaceful(?) time

About a week later I was informed that after a discussion between Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Heather it had been decided that she would be called Maria Angelo from now on.

According to her new identity, she will be the daughter of David and Shanti Angelo raised in India studied in a local school that has closed down as of now, has a diploma in business studies and helped her father manage his business.

When I asked them why such an identity was created, the exact words I got were - "It is all part of the plan."

Now I know I was the one that suggested the whole 'revenge on traitors' scheme but I feel these three people are enjoying themselves with all kinds of plans and conspiracies that they are plotting.

In the next two days, we bought the house next to ours and by the last week of October Grandpa and Aunt Heather finally arrived in New York.

When I first saw Aunt Heather again I almost didn't recognize her, her white skin was now wheat colour, her hair turned from blonde to black and she had brown eyes instead of her original blue.

After reaching home, I finally could not help asking about all the changes and that was how I got to know their plan and what they had been doing until now.

So here is a gist of what they have done

First, they made a comprehensive background and education history for my Aunt Maria(Heather) now.

Second, they had a DNA test in progress with the tested parties being Maria Angelo and Thoms Duncan, that's right, Aunt Heather's(Maria) deceased father who from now on will apparently be a father of two with Aunt Maria being a secret child.

Finally, Aunt Maria(Heather) will modify the will that is currently present with video evidence of it being personally modified by Heather Rand to have one Maria Angelo added to those eligible for the inheritance.

When I heard the plan, I asked who was the one that made them go through all the trouble instead of just directly transferring the shares all the stares pointed to Grandma.

I finally turned to her and asked

"Why go through all the trouble?"

"To reduce the danger associated with your plan that comes for us and buy time."

Grandma said.

"How will this reduce the danger?"

I could not help but question.

And Grandma explained her reasoning.

"If everyone believes Heather Rand died and someone else, inexperienced took her place, it already reduces the danger by several levels."

Looking at the plan I found a loophole and asked

"And why would they believe you when you tell them she is Maria Angelo, not Heather Rand?"

"Because we won't tell them, we will look like we are trying to hide her identity as much as we can and when they find it by themselves, people instinctively tend to take it as the truth."

Grandma explained how she planned to deal with our opponents.

'That's absolute genius.'

"But what reason will you give as to why you were raising Thomas Duncan's daughter, secretly?"

I asked as I pondered over various scenarios.

"We won't be providing any, we will just maintain our silence." (Grandma)

"And how will that help?" I asked surprised

"Because our enemies are conspirators, they will find some conspiracy to fill in the blanks themselves if we make them believe Maria Angelo is Thomas Duncan's secret child."

I fell silent upon hearing her and when I thought about it deeply I realised how much of a strategist my Grandma was.

'She's scary, good that she is on our side.'

I thought as I held a moment of silence for her enemies.

She made a plan with a story full of plot holes and where whenever we don't have an explanation our enemies will help us fill in the blanks and if they can't they will only think that there is some other secret that they don't know.

And so my peaceful(?) time continued and a few days later I met with Matt again and in the first week of November, he joined our company.

However, after a talk with him discussing his salary for being my employee and sparring partner and upon deciding his salary, he informed me he would only be my full-time employee for about four months and after that, he planned to start his own agency.

He already made plans with his college roommate, Something Nelson Something guy and four months working under me will give him enough funds to start his business.

After some discussions and having already heard about his talent in the field of law, I got him to make an agreement that he would give priority to my cases even after he quits and I agreed to him working part-time for me if he couldn't make ends meet.

So after a happy discussion, my days of sparring with Matt started.

The guy was a beast in a fight, when fighting him, I came to realise that while I had much better fighting technique I was losing to him due to my small size causing a relative lack of physical strength even when I used chi to enhance myself.

Another reason for my loss was that despite my better fighting technique, his movements and attacks were unpredictable as he was better at utilising his surroundings than me, not to mention he was an expert at wall climbing and parkour he even used the ceiling of my indoor training room when fighting me.

I spent most of the spars losing to him but I did manage to get a handful of victories but only when I disrupted his sense of hearing with noises as that was the sense he relied on the most and even with that tactic I did not win every time I used it.

I don't know how acute his sense of hearing is and how many sounds he can distinguish but even I can feel that this ability of his is uncanny, so is his mastery over it and the hard work he must have put in to bring out the full potential of his talent.

To dedicate so much effort to something requires drive and though he didn't tell me his story I realised we don't have enough trust for him to tell me his reasons.

While we sparred I could tell he was improving during the time he sparred with me as he took snippets of my fighting style and incorporated them in his own.

And so four months passed from the time Matt started working for me and he managed to secure his funds as he performed well during this time and even managed to find two contract loopholes during an investment made by the company that helped prevent potential losses so he got his funds alright.

While I spent most of the last four months peacefully spending most of my time training with Matt, watching over company matters and spending time with my family.

I could even squeeze some time to study my mutant powers and I realised another aspect of them.