The Fateful Day (3)

I was now inside the car with my stepbrother, it was a different outcome from the vision I just has a while ago.

The car ride was uneventful, but it was quite silent. I felt awkward being in this close space alone with Joseph.

"How are you feelijg now, Yvs?" Joseph asked breaking the silence.

"I am already doing fine, Seph." I replied with a smile. "Maybe the medicine is starting to kick in."

The travel time to the venue was not long since there was no relative traffic in the road due to being a Sunday.

The car came inside a drive way of a enclosed estate. The drive way lead to a circular fountain at the center and an establishment just behind it. It was a private venue owned by the Hamilton Hotels Inc. that is rented out for occasions such as wedding, birthdays, and parties.

Today it was a venue that houses the guests in my stepfather's last will and testament reading.

The car halts just outside the entrance doors of the venue. The car door is opened by vallets waiting outside. Joseph was the first to get out of the car while I followed behind.

"Good morning Mr. and Ms. Hamilton." Gregory said.

Gregory was my stepbrother's personal assitant and also secretary.

"Has everyone arrived?" Joseph asked.

"Yes." Gregory replied. "All the board members and the executives have arrived a little while before you did."

"We can syart at once then." Joseph said. "Come, Yvy."

Joseph extended his hand to me. I was relictant at first to take it since I knew he was supposed to go in, hand in hand with his fiancée Dianne. I heard the Ferrari's door close and saw Dianne who was walking towards us dumbfounded with Joseph's actions. If it was the old me then I will refuse Joseph's helping hand and push him towards Dianne, but I am feeling a little bit spiteful today.

I took Joseph's hand and smiled sweetly at him in return.

"Thanks, Seph." I said. I side glanced Dianne and I could see her furious expression just now. I cannot help but give a smirk.

Joseph and I walked side by side with my arm interlocked on his. We were ushered by the employees inside to the room where the board members and my stepfather's lawyer who is currently holding his last will and testament waiting.

The hall was simply decorated in white with tables and chairs arranged. A buffet table with hot meals can be seen with staff standing in wait. I can definitely smell the food and it made my mouth water.

'I should have at least took a light breakfast after waking up.' I regretted to myself. I skipped breakfast since I did not feel well.

When we are walking towards the closed doors, time slowed down and came into a stop.

'It was the same as I had my vision earlier.' I thought to myself.

And as I have said another vision played in front of me. I was like looking at the scene as an invisible person. The can see the me in the vision seated, and it felt kind of weird.

In my vision, we were inside a room. We were seated in front of a huge oval table. The people around seated in this table was the board members of the Hamilton Hotels Inc.

There was a man standing in front of the table, holding documents that I assume to be my stepfather's last will and testament.

The man started to read what was in the last will. At first he read how many stock percentage my stepfather has currently in the company and how many the current board members have in hand. Then he read that the stocks my stepfather has in possession right now would be partitioned to me and Jospeh, in which the me in the vision was surprised.

As the lawyer read through the documents, it said that seventy percent of my stepfather's share will be goingto me while the remaining thirty percent will go to Joseph. This was the most shocking statement that all of the people inside the room was shocked.

What caught my attention was the shocked face of Jospeh that stood up in surprise. His face was mixed with a lot of emotions and what I can see the most was confusion and the feeling of betrayal. The lawyer had read on and stated that since I currently have the most shares in the company, hence I had been named as heiress and now owner of the Hamilton Hotel Inc.

This stirred the board members and some had voiced their objections. But the lawyer had said that the last will is stamped and legal hence their objections will not do any good. But there was a clause stating that Joseph could be the acting CEO of the company in the event that he and I are formally wed. He will be given the CEO position permanently in the event that the two of us conceive and bore a child to be names heir of the Hamilton Hotels Inc.

The vision started to fade and then I heard the voice of my conscience in the background.

'I know that we harbor feelings toward Joseph, but please remember his reaction.' My conscience said. 'He will never forgive us if we force him in this arranged marriage just for the sake of the CEO position. Please, do not make the same decision that I have done.'

And after that I have come back to the present and the vision ended. I was nailed into the ground with what I had just saw. I can feel my palms sweating and my heart beating faster than ever before.

"Yvy?" Joseph held my hand firmly in his. "Are you nervous?"

I was snapped back to reality after feeling Joseph's touch.

"A-A little." I said with a weak smile. I need to stay calm.

"Do not worry too much." Joseph said. "I know father would not forget about you in his last will. And even if there isn't anything in it, you still have me. I will take care of you."

Joseph's gesture pulled my heart strings, but I can remember clearly his facial expression in the vision. His sweer demeanor right now would change into that of disgust and the feeling of being betrayed.

The doors open and the room that I saw in the vision was the same as the one in front of me right now.

The board members that consists of four people stood up seeing is come in. They all greeted us courteously.

"Good morning Mr. Hamilton." One board member greeted. He was Mr. Smith as I recall. "Ms. Hamilton."

"Good morning to the both of you." Mr. James, one of the board members greeted.

"Good morning Mr. and Ms. Hamilton." Mr. Jenkins, Dianne's father who recently became a board member greeted.

"Good morning, Joshua, Yvette." Ms. Alice, stepfather's close friend and also the one with the next biggest share of the company greetef us.

I grew up with Ms. Alice being there for me. She became a second mother of sorts.

In the front I saw the man who was the lawyer of my stepfather. I was not able to see him clearly in my vision but now in person I was surprised that he was relatively young. He must be the same age with Joseph.

"Good morning everyone." The lawyer greeted us while Joseph and I take our seats in front. "I would like to introduce myself first. Some of you hear may know me but some do not. My name is Brent Dawson, I am Mr. Hamilton's lawyer and the one that he entrusted his last will and testament."

"You are relatively young to be Mr. Hamilton's lawyer." Mr. Smith has voiced out what I thought everyone in this room is thinking right now.

Brent just smiled politely to Mr. Smith's remark.

"I do get that often." Brent replied. "I am very honored to be chosen as Mr. Hamilton's lawyer after I have passed the board and taken my oath. As knowledge to everyone here, I was one of Mr. Hamilton's scholars and I owe him where I am now. I am very thankful for him and I assure you that I am working on Mr. Hamilton's best interest."

"I vouch for Mr. Dawson." Joseph said. "I knew him in one of my father's outreach and scholarship program. He topped the board in his first try and is one of the fresh new lawyers making his name known."

I was surprised that Joseph knew Brent. But since he had always came with stepfather in his business, there are many people Joseph would know that I do not.

'It just shows that Jospeh is the best one for the positon of CEO.' I thought to myself. 'Then will my vision really happened? Why would stepfather give me most of his shares of the company. I am really confused.'

Brent then started in reading the last will and testament. It played out like what I saw in the vision.

"Ms. Alice currently has the most shares between the board members here." Brent concluded. "As to the recently passed away Mr. Hamilton's shares…"

I didn't realize that I have been holding my breath in anticipation.

"Mr. Hamilton had written here in his last will that seventy percent of his shared will go to his stepdaughter, Yvette, while the remaining thirty percent will be given to his, son Joseph." Brent read.

"What?!" All the board members were in shock except for Ms. Alice who was nonchalant.

My fear had really came true, the vision was now on play in real life once more.

"What did you say?!" Joseph stood up in shock. The face I saw in the vision was now showing in front of my eyes.