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Chapter 19
“What’s up, kid?” said Jacob as he walked out of the house. Olivia was sitting on the grass in the garden soaking up some sun. She looked up and smiled at Jacob.
“I haven’t seen you a few days. Where have you been?” she asked.
“I was in Qatar.”
“Business?”
“Pleasure.” Jacob smiled as though he had some naughty secret. Olivia stretched her arms out to him.
“Help me up,” she said. He looked at her as though she was crazy.
“You are not that old. You can get up on your own,” he said. Olivia pouted and helped herself up.
“So what kind of pleasure took you to Qatar?” She did not know much about Qatar or any other Middle Eastern country. She had never gotten the opportunity to travel.
“There was a fashion show.” Jacob started walking. He gestured for Olivia to follow. She followed.
“You’re into fashion?” Olivia asked.
“Not really. Just someone invited me.”
“That woman you keep messaging?”
Jacob smiled and did not respond. Olivia nudged him playfully. “Jacob has a girlfriend,” she teased. Jacob started laughing.
“Far from it,” he said.
As they were walking, Olivia could hear voices getting louder and louder. She could tell that one of them belonged to Daaliyah.
“I feel bad for you,” the other person said to Daaliyah.
“Me too.” Daaliyah replied. “The moment I found out that Elizabeth was pregnant, I wanted her to go before he found out.”
Olivia and Jacob looked at each other.
“What did you do?” the other person asked.
“His mother and I told her to leave. We made it clear that she was never going to be accepted into the family. We offered her money but she refused.” Daaliyah laughed a little.
“How about Jacob, when were you pregnant with him?”
“Just as my mother-in-law suggested, I got the sheikh drunk and slept with him. So when Elizabeth left and he was threatening to give up the company to follow her, I told him that I was pregnant. So he had to take responsibility.”
Olivia and Jacob turned a corner. They saw Daaliyah sitting at the table in the garden with Esther.
“Mother!” Jacob spat out. His face was stained in shock. Olivia was also shocked at what she had just heard. She knew Daaliyah was evil but Sheikh Solomon’s mother as well?She felt angry knowing that Daaliyah and her mother-in-law had conspired to get rid of Elizabeth.
“Jacob.” Daaliyah gasped as she rose to her feet.
“That was how I was conceived?” Jacob looked disgusted. “Even before you and dad were married?”
And you thought my mother was the jezebel, Olivia thought to herself. She decided to keep her words to herself. It was enough that Daaliyah had just outed herself in front of her son. Olivia just walked off without saying a word.
She went to look for the driver and asked him to take her to Joseph’s house. She did not know anyone else and she did not feel like staying home. She just wanted to get out of the house. She soon arrived at Joseph’s house. Olivia got out of the car and walked up the concrete steps leading to his front door. The maid opened the door for her.
“Is the sheikh home?” Olivia asked. She instantly chastised herself for saying the sheikh. She never called him by his title.
