Chapter 317 - Three Hundred And Seventeen: Her Karma (1/2)

The third point of view:

Anger like no other filled Reina. It was as if at that moment, all the memories of the abuse and tortures she had encountered all those years saturated her senses.

”You!” She roared, pointing at them with extreme anger, ”How dare you set your foot in here?”

Then she turned those furious eyes onto her father, pain rippling across her features, ”How could you do this?”

”Maya?” interfered Angela, having a pitiful look on her face.

”Don't you dare call me that?” she whipped around to Angela, eyes red and blazing, ”That name disgusts me, no, the sound of that name coming from your lips nauseate me,”

Angela was the one who gave her that name from birth and though Reina hates it, she'd made pretty good memories with it too. She couldn't exactly loathe, ”Maya,”

”It's Reina now and I don't even want to hear you call me that,” she told Angela, eyes looking contemptibly at Kim standing by her side.

Then, what should she address her? Reina knew she sounded ridiculous but she was too angry to care at the instant.

”I... eh think we should give them some privacy,” Emily suggested, trying to usher the bridesmaid out. The tension in here was awkward and suffocating.

”Leave and go where? Listen up, today's my wedding and I won't have any unnecessary disturbances, You people are not leaving this room, save these two parasites hanging around,” she didn't even acknowledge their presence.

”Reina,” Sakuzi pleaded on their behalf, ”Please give them a listening ear,”

But Reina faced him, ”I trusted you father. It would have been better if they had lived the rest of the miserable life thinking I was dead!”

”You know that's impossible,” He told her and she understood why. Once they saw her on television or with him or even with Niklaus, they'd put two and two together unlike the dumb public claiming she was Maya's doppelganger.

Since Maya falling off the bridge had been sensational news, the reporters had been busy since the last month after the news of her getting married to Niklaus was released officially.

Niklaus was a high-profile individual hence there was no way on earth his wedding would be low-key. So when the netizens saw the news there was an instant uproar on the internet.

How could two people - Maya and Reina be so identical. Though it has been years and there were some noticeable changes with her appearance, it still didn't deviate that much from her past self, Maya.

Though some netizens doubted her death and raised the issue of her death being a hoax because there were still some fans in prison suffering for the crime of attempted murder - they pushed her down the bridge.

But then the video of her stumbling down the bridge from years ago was dug up and some experts discussed the possibility of her surviving that fall and could only come up with a 1/100 possibility.

The morgue attendant in charge of her body then was contacted and he testified to the body found earlier being Maya's. Normally, issues like this wouldn't even be worth the president's attention but the citizens were so invested in it hence the investigation.

However, Reina was not disturbed by the development since her father had tied every loose end. Moreover, those so-called political leaders had affluence with the Sakuzi gang so you could figure out the rest.

In a few days, a result came out to the public stating that Reina and Maya were two different people after going through her background and found nothing to incriminate her. Though both shared the same age, they were two distinct beings and one was dead while the other was very much alive - the moegoe citizens believed her fabricated bio.

But then humans would always be humans. After that episode, they cleared the confusion and she was famed as Maya's doppelganger, they came up with another gossip when her pre-wedding pictures were posted.

The keyboard warriors all claimed Niklaus was marrying her because she looked like Maya - she was just a replacement. The issue was so hot that even a love group was opened specifically for her on Facebook with millions of people advising her to back out of the marriage before it was too late.

But did Reina care? Of course, why would she when she was Maya herself! So she just ignored the gossip and the reporters stirring up gossip with every given opportunity.

The next gossip that made the tabloids and blew up the internet was the news that Niklaus and Reina had met seven years ago, right after Maya's death when he had left the country and the woman became his baby mama - explaining the birth of Ailee and Allen. Could this be a coincidence? The netizens wondered but there was no evidence to prove otherwise.

To alleviate matters a bit, the fans in prison were released on parole for good behavior hence stopping some busy body citizens from digging further into the case.

Reina was not stupid, any flaw and her lies could come crumbling down so they had to appease the citizens. While Niklaus with his influence created a celebrity scandal that took the scrutiny off them. Attention was good but too much of it could destroy things.