The woman was Autumn Poole. There was a reason why Autumn married into the Smith family and moved from Kidon City to South City. The Poole family was one of the wealthiest families in Kidon City. Of course Autumn wouldn’t fall for someone like Zach Smith, but when she was in her twenties, she had fallen in love with a foreigner. But she never expected he would turn out to be a spy. He had approached her because he wanted to gain some information about the Poole family. In the end, his cover was busted, but by that time, Autumn was already five or six months pregnant. Luckily, her family was wealthy and influential so they managed to successfully hide this piece of bad publicity from the public and had secretly gotten rid of the baby.
It was an African child, with skin dark as coal from head to toe. The shape of its body had already been formed, and yet it had no right to be born into the world. Even though Axel Poole buried this incident, the upper-echelons of their circle still found out about it in the end. That's why no matter how rich or influential the Poole family was, no one was willing to marry Autumn. Thus, she had no choice but to leave home and marry a man in South City. 1
Coincidentally then, Zach had just returned home from abroad and he didn’t know much about what was happening in his homeland. He thought he had
married the wealthy and powerful daughter of the Poole family, but it was only later on did he realize that Autumn had been kicked out of the family.
Autumn hardly returned home, and their family didn't interact very much. Zach wanted to use the influence o f the Poole family to expand his own business but sadly, he had failed. 1
That's why...all these years, Autumn wasn't well-loved by the members of her husband's family too. Autumn always wanted to redeem herself in the eyes of Zach's family and to break the tension between them. After all, her father was still holding an important position.
When she saw Sabrina, Jane and Ruth laughing and chatting together as they shopped, her heart fell to the bottom of her stomach.
In the past, only Alex and Sebastian were close to each other. Now even their women were close.
Autumn immediately reported to her father. Her father, Axel, sighed knowingly. "All those years ago, since I was demoted because of you, Alex has been growing more and more powerful. Now he has completely replaced me as the most influential person in our family. Actually, that's nothing out of the ordinary, Axel has been aligned with Sebastian all along."
"Dad!" Autumn exclaimed. "This would explaine something!"
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