Chapter 11 The Wedding Anniversary

The caller ID displayed her father’s name. With pursed lips, Maia hesitated before answering.

“Yes?” she couldn’t bring herself to call him “Dad” and spoke impassively. “What’s the matter?”

“Maia, how did your mother’s 20 percent stake in the winery end up in Errol’s name?” Homer Burgess shouted, “What have you been doing behind my back? When did your mom make this will? Why didn’t I know about it?”

Now that Cedric owned 55 percent of Burgess Winery, that 20 percent stake was of utmost importance to Homer. He would be left with no rights if he lost it.

Maia gripped her phone. He was being ridiculous.

She mocked, “You only cared about your mistress back then. How would you know about Mom making her will?”

shares! What did you give him in

she could rely on, Homer was

marriage? You slept with Cedric for nothing, and now you’re

her own father would say such cruel

Maia was about to say something, someone snatched her phone away, and Homer’s tirade

of

when she saw Cedric. Suddenly, he disconnected the

going to let him talk to

smile. Her voice was so soft that one could hardly hear

her with mixed emotions and tossed her phone back to her. Then he turned and

“Aren’t you going to ask why I’m

“Why would I care?”

car in the first place?” She was always trying to get him

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