ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED TO A MAD BILLIONAIRE
Chapter 91: AUCTION 1

Chapter 91: AUCTION 1

This Chapter is dedicated to DaoistnrKflM. My God I didn’t even have to type your name ⁠)⁠ ⁠~⁠♪. Thanks for the golden ticket. I love you (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(⁠˘⁠⌣⁠˘⁠ ⁠)

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By evening, Hughes entered Penny’s room with a soft knock, followed by a few maids pushing in racks of dazzling clothes and boxes of sparkling jewelry.

"Miss Penny," Hughes called gently.

Penny, freshly out of the shower, froze at the sight of the unexpected visitors in her bedroom. Her wet hair dripped down her back as she blinked at the older woman in confusion.

"Hughes?" she asked, pulling her robe tighter.

"Master Osvaldo asked us to bring these to you. He wants you to choose an outfit for tonight’s event."

"An event?" Penny frowned. "He said we were going out, but he never mentioned anything fancy."

"You’re to wear one of these, and..." Hughes paused, lifting a smooth, ivory-colored mask from a velvet box, "this mask too."

A mask?

Penny’s heart skipped. Was this a secret party? A masquerade? Something hidden from the public eye?

"I have clothes, I can wear those." Penny said calmly.

"Yes miss Penny. But master Osvaldo specifically requested that you wear these clothes. And the mask too." Hughes said.

What did Osvaldo want with the mask? Where they attending a secret party or some hidden social gathering? Penny wondered.

She wasn’t good at social events, infact she hated people because all they talked about was her body and nothing else. Her anxiety made her stomach twist just thinking about being around strangers.

She bit her lip, eyes drifting toward the mask again.

Maybe... just maybe... if no one could see her face, she could breathe a little easier.

"Come on, Penny," she muttered to herself. "You signed the contract. You signed up for all of this."

Then, louder: "Alright."

A soft smile touched Hughes’ face. "Let me help you get ready." Hughes said calmly, ushering her new mistress into the closet. It seems this room is the only place Osvaldo had not touched while he refinished the Penthouse. Maybe because he didn’t want to wake Penny up, or better still scare her more after everything he made her go through.

Penny sat before the dressing mirror, staring at her reflection as Hughes started drying her damp hair.

Penny sat in front of the vanity mirror, watching Hughes dry her damp curls with gentle hands. For a while, the room was quiet, calm, almost comforting.

"You’re truly a blessing to us, Miss Penny," Hughes said suddenly, her voice filled with genuine warmth. "Since your arrival, Master Osvaldo’s health has improved so much. We always thought only science could save him... but it seems you were the miracle we needed."

Penny’s heart clenched.

"It’s not me, Hughes," she whispered. "Maybe it was just time. Nature decided to help him." Penny said biting her inner cheeks as she spoke. She didn’t want to get involved.

She should not get too deep, this was all a sham and it would be over soon.

One year was not that long.

She should be more focused to losing the extra pounds to shame her stupid ex and sister rather than thinking she is some miracle that healed a madman.

Still... she couldn’t stop the question that had been burning in her mind.

"Why did Mr. Osvaldo’s father make him mad?"

Hughes paused. Her hands stilled in Penny’s hair.

Penny continued gently, "I mean... what kind of parent would do that to their child?"

She knew what cruel parents looked like, her own mother was living proof. But even cruelty, she believed, had reasons. What was Dewitt Adkins’ excuse?

Hughes stared into the mirror, eyes shadowed with old memories.

"He was saving him," she said at last. "Saving him from the monsters of this world."

Penny turned to face her fully now, silent.

Hughes hated the memory of that night, her master and madam were good people. They didn’t deserve any of the things they got from those bad people.

And to think their masters brother has been the one to betray him, it was truly heart breaking.

Back then, Hughes was younger, an orphan with no family. Dewitt Adkins had saved her from her huge debt back then, and in return, he demanded her loyalty.

In her knowledge, Dewitt was a kind man. Both he and his wife, but Osvaldo wasn’t. He didn’t take after his father at all. Infact he was a spoilt, arrogant intelligent brat. The one that always messed around the maids and punish them with those science experiment of his.

There was even a time he had made the entire house fart for a full day when his father traveled. And he laughed while he watched them fart.

It took the mercy of God, and their endless pleas for him to undo what he did.

But with his genius brain, Osvaldo had found a cure to one of the deadliest disease in the world playfully. Dewitt had tested it on a couple of volunteers and it worked perfectly, so he decided to help the poor.

He created his own foundation, ready to help the needy and less privileged. But that has been in worst mistake.

They threw a party to celebrate their victory and new life,but everyone wanted that cure. Especially the greedy wealthy people from wealthy families. Government officials and other huge political men.

Most doctors, scientists and herbalist were jealous that a little child of seven could find such cure. Cure that has taken generations to find.

But most of all, they wanted that drug, for just the wealthy ones. So that they could bill them billions to get it.

Every man in this world was greedy, you’ll can never know, until they’re found in certain situations. Hughes had seen them kill her madam right before her eyes and she had seen who had pulled the trigger.

She had seen them snatch the cure that day, but to this very day, no one said they knew who had taken it.

They probably have it stored in a safe or they probably have disposed it.

But the hunters didn’t stop there. Especially the top business men in the country. They didn’t just want to get rid of the drugs, the wanted the source too.

They wanted the little boy. The one with the brains.

They were all scared of they let him live longer he would run them all out of business. But Dewitt was a thousand times ahead of them. And he made his smart boy mad.

"In his theory, of his son was useless, he would be unwanted." Hughes said calmly.

"Then why did he prepare an antidote if he wanted Mr Osvaldo mad?" Penny asked staring at new earrings Hughes placed in her ears.

"Maybe he doesn’t want him mad forever. The madness is meant to be temporary. And when Master Osvaldo is old enough, he would take revenge on everyone that ever hurt his parents.

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