Chapter 5 - The Mother Of All Excuses

Groom: Mom,

you have to help me,

they took everything from me.

Mother: I saw the news,

my phone has not stopped ringing all morning,

what have you done?

Groom: It was a mistake,

I hid my past marriage,

and she crashed the wedding.

Mother: You are a fool,

a complete and utter fool,

how could you be so careless?

Groom: I thought she was gone,

I paid her off years ago,

she promised to stay away.

Mother: You cannot pay off a scorned woman,

especially one with a child,

you should have known better.

Groom: What do I do now?

My company is freezing,

my investors are pulling out.

Mother: We do damage control,

we hire the best PR firm in the city,

and we spin the story.

Groom: How do you spin bigamy?

How do you spin abandoning a child?

There is no positive angle here.

Mother: We paint her as a crazy stalker,

an extortionist who falsified documents,

we attack her credibility.

Groom: But the child is mine,

the DNA test will prove it,

we cannot hide the boy.

Mother: Then we fight for full custody,

we claim she is an unfit mother,

we take the boy away from her.

Groom: That is cruel, Mom,

even for me,

I do not want to take her son.

Mother: He is your son too,

and he is the heir to our family name,

we cannot let her raise him in poverty.

Groom: I just wanted to marry Marie,

I wanted the merger,

I wanted the power.

Mother: You got greedy,

you reached for too much too fast,

and you forgot to cover your tracks.

Groom: Will you talk to Marie's father?

Maybe he will listen to you,

you have known him for decades.

Mother: He will not listen to anyone right now,

his pride is wounded,

and a wounded lion is dangerous.

Groom: So I am just ruined?

Is this the end of my career?

The end of my life?

Mother: Only if you give up,

we are survivors,

we will crush these women and rise again.

Groom: You really think we can win?

Against the billionaire and the sympathetic mother?

It seems impossible.

Mother: Nothing is impossible with enough money,

and I have a secret fund,

a fund for rainy days exactly like this.

Groom: Thank you, Mom,

I do not know what I would do without you,

you are my only hope.

Mother: Wipe your tears,

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