The Traps of Black Swan

Chapter 688 - Two Reasons

The Dawson wasn't a noble family like Harmon or Kelly or Rivas. A middle-class family who came to fame overnight without effort. 

The rich heiress from the Baldwin family falls for the secretary of her father. Afraid of her father stopping her, she elopes with her lover with the help of her lover's friends. However, fate had a different choice for her. Her lover stepped back at the neck of the time. Incensed, The heiress grabs her lover's friend and gets married in a church. 

And that friend was a son of the Dawson family.

The heiress manages to convince her parents, apologizing to them. And the son-in-law had to settle in the Baldwin family. Being treated like a doormat. He endures for a long time..

Who doesn't like money and power?

That's when Leon comes into the picture to help the son-in-law. The elders meet with an accident and the son-in-law becomes the master of the family.

Under Leon's cunning tricks, they changed Baldwin to Dawson and became famous overnight. However, Baldwin's entire wealth was in the name of the heiress that left the reins of Robert Dawson in the hands of the heiress, his wife, Catherine Baldwin. Having no choice, he had to appear loyal to her while cursing her behind her back.

Aarvi entered the Baldwin aka Dawson mansion. From the outside, it was majestic and from inside, it looked like a playhouse for girls. Sara Dawson had decorated the house just like her taste. Luxurious, lots of bling and loud colors. Aarvi must accept, despite all that, the interior designer had done a good job in blending everything.

Her eyes fell on the man who was sitting on the opulent sofa and sighing to himself repeatedly. He looked haggard compared to the day he was on Sara and Sean's engagement. 

Aarvi had just lit a little fire. But the flames grew bigger and bigger, thanks to the foolishness of the man.

Yes, everything started on the day Robert Dawson was caught by his wife, rubbing himself on Max, thinking of him as Aarvi. That day, Catherine had controlled herself till the engagement was over. Then she dragged her husband to the mansion and questioned him, asking if he prefers men. And was it the reason why he always avoids physical contact with her after Sara was born?

The man endured everything and tried to tell his wife that he thought that man was a woman. Well, that incensed her more thinking he was having an affair.

Catherine Baldwin  had kicked him out without giving car or mobile. He stayed out overnight like a night guard of the house.

When this torture didn't end, Robert Dawson had blurted out all the truth about him. He agreed he had an affair and he has a son. He also revealed his misconception over twenty-plus years. 

The misconception was Robert had seen Catherine kissing her lover, that's his friend after marriage. He assumed Sara wasn't his child when his wife was already pregnant with his baby.

Whereas the reality was, Catherine Baldwin had got to know her father threatened her ex-lover to leave her hence he couldn't marry her. She was crying and in a weak moment, her ex-lover had kissed her. She had slapped him and never met him again but Robert didn't know that. 

After that day, Robert stayed with her for the money, pretending to be a good father for the wealthy lifestyle he had adopted. However, he never touched his wife and found a lover for himself. 

How could a woman who never cheated hear it and be like nothing happened? 

She filed for divorce immediately, aiming to give nothing to him. Instead, she was determined to bring him on the roads with his mistresses and the bastard son.

Meanwhile, Sara Dawson was in the states enjoying her long vacation with her friends.

Robert Dawson heard a heel-clicking on the ground. He thought Sara came home and turned to the door. Sara could change the whole situation so he wanted to convince her, then Sara could speak with her mother.

His eyes widened. He strongly believed Aarvi was the reason behind this divorce. He assumed Aarvi encouraged Catherine to divorce him as Aarvi knew about his affair a long back. 

He pointed his finger at her as he stood up, "You sl*t, this is all your doing. Isn't it?... You b*itch, I will kill you today." He ran towards her with killing intent.

Suddenly a loud female voice interrupted him, "Robert!!" Aarvi's eyes shifted to the lady who was standing upstairs with the man Aarvi appointed to work. 

Robert paused in his action and looked at his wife, "Catherine, she is doing all these. She broke our family. She is wicked. She…" He continued to throw all the blame on Aarvi. 

Meanwhile, Catherine descended the stairs, Aarvi had passed by Robert behind him. When he saw Aarvi entering inside, he was about to attack her, Catherine warned, "Don't you dare lay a finger on her." Her authoritativeness resounded in the living hall.

"You have to believe me, she is doing all these. I swear. She ruined everybody's life who tried to kill her." He blurted out again.

Aarvi nodded at Catherine in greetings. Catherine knew her as Aarvi Evans so she nodded at Aarvi in a slight bow of her head and pointed at the couch for her seat. Once Aarvi sat down, she turned to her husband and strode to him. 

'Pak,' She slapped him across the face mercilessly.

"Should women be quiet if men like you hurt us? You don't own us, you have no right over us." She yelled at him.

Catherine already knew Aarvi was going to meet her. She didn't know the reason, however, she didn't believe her husband. Robert was having an affair for more than fifteen years, how is that Aarvi's fault? Aarvi was just a small kid fifteen years back.

'Pak.'

She slapped him again and told him what mistake he has done, "Because of your stupid deal with Harmons, now I am going bankrupt. The company will close down. Congratulations, you ruined me and my daughter with you."

Robert, who wanted to fall silent, pointed at Aarvi again hearing Harmon, "It's her doing."

'Pak'

With swollen cheeks, red face, pain twisting his face, Robert Dawson finally fell silent.

Catherine breathed slowly and turned to Aarvi. The latter promptly accepted, "Some words of your husband are true."

Catherine sat opposite Aarvi as she cued the assistant to get them water. She self-mockingly laughed hearing Aarvi, "Then I should thank you for showing his true colors to me." 

She never demanded anything from Robert. She let him do as he liked from so many years as she had married him without knowing each other well. She always felt she forced him so she endured his behavior. But everything has limits, she couldn't forgive him for assuming Sara was somebody's child and an affair.

Aarvi could see the changes in Catherine from the engagement day to today. Her husband's affair and distrust in her had grown her mature and also confident. She wasn't just a housewife now, she was a woman with brains. She doesn't need a man's help to decide what is right and what's wrong.

Seeing Aarvi silent, Catherine continued, "I am sure President Evans isn't here to ask for compensation for his mess. May I know the reason behind your presence?" She came straight to the point. She has to deal with company shareholders who were asking about the money they invested in the Cornbell project.

Aarvi liked how straight she was to the point without bothering about what she had done to Rober and had no interest in digging into the past, "I am here for two reasons. One, to help you get you out of the mess if you agree to my second reason." Aarvi never punished the family due to one person. Similarly, she didn't want Catherine and her daughter to lose everything due to Robert.

"Would you like for me to kill him? I will do it."

Aarvi: "..."