The Grand Mistress

"Feather shhhhh…." Fara immediately shushed her daughter down. "How can you speak her name right here?"

"Mama, you won't believe me but Simione was Hawk Monsanto's woman!" Feather revealed with horror. "She came back and seduced Hawk!"

"Impossible!" Fara told her clearly not believing it.  "She's long been dead!"

"No she isn't. It was definitely her and she clearly told me she came for Hawk to get back at me" 

"No it can't be..." Fara's eyes widened at the revelation. "That's really not possible, Feather! If she was alive then how could she didn't reveal herself soon?"

"I don't know," Feather shook her head. "You should be the one who knows the answer,"

"I don't have any knowledge of this!" Fara panicked immediately. "Did….did...did Hawk Monsanto recognize her...did he…"

"No, I think he had no idea yet," Feather answered but she was hesitating her own words but couldn't bring herself to tell her mother of this. For sure she would nag and make her more miserable if would come to know it, "He even tried to kill her because of what she did,"

"Good….good...that's good…" Fara held her heart and was ready to have a heart attack. Thankfully what he feared the most didn't happen. At least they can remedy the situation before things get worse. "He should not know….or else…"

"Speak no more," Feather cut her off. "I think he had believed me when I said Simione came to get revenge on me and that she was trying to ruin our relationship. That orphan was too careless until now, she admitted to the fact and so Hawk was very angry of her,"

"Oh God Feather...you must make sure they won't see each other again," Fara warned her to be more vigilant. "So where is Simione now?"

"I don't know, for sure Hawk's men took her,"

"Will she be punished for what she did?" Fara asked curious as to what Simione's fate would be. She just wished the Monsanto's would dispose the girl so she won't worry about her any longer.

"Well I think so," Feather was confident.  "Hawk never misses anything like this so I'm sure Simione will have to pay tremendously,"

"I hope he cuts her tongue first,' 

"Well, no need for that. Hawk was so angry with her I don't think she will ever believe whatever she says. She's nothing but an orphan girl anyway" Feather assured her mother even when she wasn't sure with everything now.

"So what's your plan now?" Fara asked her because right then, her daughter's wedding had been the topic of everyone and it would be such a shameful act for the Han's to just push through the wedding when their daughter was clearly cheated on. "How about the wedding?"

"I had to stay low on this mother," She told her. " Although Hawk Monsanto had no idea of everything, he was rather suspicious. He might ask questions now and then and me pressuring him with the wedding might not help,"

"But Feather, do you understand the fact that this time was the most crucial time to get married right? A slightest mistake would send all of our plans crumbling down," The mother reminded her equally shameless daughter. "We can't just let that happen, we are almost there already!"

"I know...I know….its just that things are complicated now," Feather admitted badly. "You and Father need to help me on this  because I knew Hawk would raise questions about Simione, you have to tell father to not tell him the truth about that orphan! She's going to end up ruining everything for us!"

"Don't worry about your father—"

"And the Don!" Feather was just reminded of him right then and another horrid expression went through his face. "Mother...do you think the Don will come home? Is there any way to make sure this scandal would not reach the Don's attention? If he's going to come, it might be the end of us,"

"I'll make something about that," Fara thought of a plan. All these things got her too surprised she could barely gather her thoughts. How was it possible for Simione to be alive when they were informed of her death years ago. Then it occurred to her that once he heard a rumour about Simione reconnecting with the Tangs and ignored it because she knew that it wasn't possible. She even thought they were referring to another relative of the Tangs, turns out it was Simione all this time? 

How did that woman rise from the dead?

"Feather for sure, Hawk is going to ask some questions," Fara only repeated things that Feather had already mentioned as her thoughts were everywhere and her panic seemed to have swallowed her already. God, how could things come out this bad? She thought falling on the stage was the most dreadful thing that happened tonight, she never expected that Don Benedicto's rebellious granddaughter would come out from the dead.

"I've already prepared all my answers," Feather thought of all that she needed to tell him. "Don't worry, I won't let this pass out of my control. Simione can never get Hawk from me, I will not hand her my place so easily. It's either I get it, or she'll not get it at all!"

***

When Feather had been settled in the hospital, Hawk went back to his office expecting his men with Simione but when they relayed that she went missing all of the sudden, he had gone berserk.

However, even before he could either kill or fire someone, Mr. Blue came with an expression that made him calm down right away.

"I expect you have the answers to my questions," Hawk was still smoking angry when he had dismissed all head security to have a private conversation with Mr. Blue.

"I don't," He replied honestly. "But someone has,"

"You called for him?" Hawk relaxed at his seat as he gave an audience to the man standing in front of him.

"Right away,"

"Good..where is he right now?" 

"His hideout I guess, he just arrived when I called him,"

Hawk smirked at the thought. "Did he tell you where he had been?"

"Nope…" Mr. Blue decided to sit and have a good conversation with the M Conglomerate's President. "He doesn't even tell his own brother his whereabouts, I don't think he would take time to tell me,"

"He seemed to listen to you,"

"At times," Mr. Blue replied as he tried to feel the edges of Hawk's long table.

"Did he find out where the girl was?"

"He doesn't know where she was heading but he knew where she was right now," Mr. Blue started conveying. "She's a driving a red car towards the east exit of Devon City,"

"Who is she with?" Hawk was curious. He didn't really understand why Simione would always slip through the hands of his men but he knew he was near to the truth. Right now, she was settled with the information about the fact that he had eyes on her. 

"Alone," Mr. Blue revealed with a rather proud look for the girl as if she had done a really great job escaping everyone's grip. "Surprisingly alone,"

Hawk held a deep sight. His woman was driving toward the east alone clearly with the intention of leaving him. Damn! Things went really out of hand earlier and he needed to bring Feather to the hospital himself knowing that he was the reason for her collapse. He was expecting to have a word with Sisi when he got Feather settled yet she chose to escape that wait for him. The thought made him want to break all the glass windows surrounding his office but he tried to withhold it.

He had to be clear headed to think well. Simione had already called him a weakling and a gullible, he can't continue keeping up with such a reputation, not with all the things he found out that night. He needed to know everything and it looks like he needed to take a step higher on this.

"Who were the men who attacked us?" He asked when he remembered it. His head security did reported earlier that there was a group of bandits that came to disrupt them and they were one of the reasons why Simione slipped from their hands.

"Military," Mr. Blue replied. "Run a search on them, I'm sure they all worked for the Umbresio's"

"The Umbresio's…" Hawk's eyes grew deadly. "Interesting...do you know what they want?"

"The girl…."

"What's the name of that man again?"

"El Tigre,"

"Ah…." Hawk recognised him. Primo had a large reputation in Devon City that Hawk surely had heard of him. "Look into the details why that fucking man wanted the girl. See his intention…."

"What if he is her lover?" Mr. Blue raised the question as right now it was the only believable answer. He had been trying to connect the dots of why the other party wanted the girl but for them to be that desperate and attack the Monsanto's for such a mission only meant the girl was one heck of a special woman for them.

Hearing his conclusion made Hawk slammed on his table right away. It shook at the intensity of his anger.

"Then kill him….." Hawk instructed without hesitation.