147 Ava Kelly Owned her to disown (1/2)

As though it wasn't enough to make her life difficult, Ava was dropped at school every day in the car with her little brother being treated like a prince but she always ran behind the car to go home.

She didn't know why the driver and her mother always forgot that she was also in the same school but she never complained and ran behind the car. Sometimes screaming to stop the car, sometimes embarrassed running behind it like a stray dog.

She was mistreated by her parents to the extent that even the maids started to disregard her. Some doubted her as adopted, some doubted her as a mistress's child or illegitimate child...

Even Ava doubted and asked her grandfather to confirm if she was really their child and his granddaughter. ”Grandfather, please tell me the truth, am I really your granddaughter? A biological daughter of Mom and Dad?”

Her grandfather had stopped his work and called her next to him, ”You are my granddaughter. Why are you doubting? Shane and Maisie are your parents.”

Ava shook her head without believing him, ”Nope, you are lying to me so that I don't feel bad, aren't you? It's alright if I was found on the road or somebody left me in front of the house, please tell me the truth.”

Hayden was shocked to see she was calm even uttering those words. But before he could respond, Ava continued, ”Or am I the daughter of Dad's but not Mom's?”

She meant to ask if she was a child of the first wife or an illegitimate child which Hayden clearly understood. His heart ached to see her still cool and ready to accept it if it's a fact.

Seeing her reluctant to believe, he had proved her with DNA parental test reports.

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However, who was going to confirm the maids in the villa. She was once hit by the maid when she had asked her why she was laughing at her. Many times, maids purposefully used to eat off breakfast or dinner leaving her with nothing.

Hence she learned to cook for herself by the age of fifteen. She wouldn't have minded cooking for maids if they were ill, yet they never really saw her in a new light but Ava never demanded it.

Between all these, her life of struggling to live never stopped. She would burn with fever without anybody caring to check on her and cough her lungs out due to cold. Even on her first menstruation, she had fainted on the bed with lots of bleeding and the pain of heavy cramps.

Whatsoever, she earned only disgust and loathing from her parents whether she lived or at the stage of death.

When her parents got to know she was learning business, they forced her, used every ridiculous reason to bring her away from Hayden Kelly.

The teachers who knew Ava well, also knew she wanted to be a businesswoman and she was studying Finance and business management. The home teacher saw her meekly nod to the order of her parents before submitting the form to them.

Ava spoke to her grandfather having no heart to join cooking college, she didn't want to be a chef, it was never her dream. Her home teacher didn't want to waste such talent so he spoke to Ava and her grandfather.

While her parents thought everything was as they planned, little did her parents know, the teachers and Hayden put on the act of sending her abroad for learning international cooking whereas Ava passed the scholarship and entrance exam of University S.

She lived on scholarship. The pocket money or the expenses sent to her became her savings. She worked as a finance manager and earned quite a big amount.

The only place she was happy for a pretty long time was in the country S. She had thought she could be happy having Shawn and Dax with her when they returned but she didn't expect her world to change upside down.

As soon as she returned, her plan was to move out of her parent's villa and hunt for the potential company which was suffering to grow up. She got a company, rebranded it to Skylar, and kick-started the business. She faced many hurdles, competition but Dax stood as her support. She planned out everything and hunted while Dax handled revamping and excelling.

She had thought she could be finally happy in her life seeing things working in a quick phase but none liked her happiness. Ava who left three years ago was a wholly new person. Her simple style was sophisticated, one who used to silently move away from them was walking next to them with chin up without caring about their presence.

Among all these, Hayden who knew she was President of Skylar and running it successfully so far, kept praising her everywhere he went but he hid about Skylar so that her parents won't start pestering her with something else.

Hayden knew well, her parents were cunning enough to write the company in their name and make her an employee of it so he preferred her well-being.