His Devious Rule

There was no limit to Sallows wishful thoughts. Anya didn\'t mean to let go of Gianna so easily.

Anya pretended like she recalled something, "Mother-in-law, I made some changes in your reality game show without your consent."

\'A reality game show,\' Everyone held their breath without getting a good feeling about this. However, Gianna stood up when she started to deduce Anya\'s words.

The reality game show!! The real-life game she was playing in Alvin\'s life. She was playing aka troubling Alvin and the people in his life. Till months back, she was sitting and instructing people. So that\'s what Anya meant by \'sit and enjoy.\'

Anya smiled reading Gianna\'s reaction. Gianna was getting there so Anya tried to help her more.

"I should have informed you that I changed the main player of the show." Perhaps two main players replaced the main player named Gianna Sallow.

Gianna started to feel restless without grasping Anya\'s words. "Anya Owen, stop playing with words." Gianna roared at Anya. It was obvious Anya brought her there so she wanted to know the reason behind it.

Anya shook her head calmly without affecting her emotions. "Nope." Gianna had made use of her emotions and feelings. Gianna played with the weakness of a girl who silently admired a man. Gianna hurt the mother\'s heart repeatedly. Anya wasn\'t going to give her more chances, "Not anymore."

Gianna was on the brink of calling Anya a mad woman. But Gianna knew that Anya was up to something. Anya was talking in a puzzle to scare her.

Unfortunately, it was working on her. Her heart was beating anxiously as if preparing to hear the worst news. Her palms were clammy and her breathing irregular. She was thinking of the worst.

Anya patted Gianna\'s shoulder as if consoling her."Mother-in-law, you are no more the main player. And…" Anya whispered next to Gianna\'s ear, "I. Am. Not. Your. Pawn."

So why will she do as Gianna wished?

Mind games with her? Anya was trained to create master plans over every mind and mindless game.

Anya went to Gabriel who tried to move away from her. She grabbed his hair to show his face to Gianna, "This is MY first pawn down."

Gianna dug her nails into her palms to hide her shaking hands. She played all these years, Now Anya was taking her game. Gianna aimed at everyone around Alvin and kept him alone. Thus Anya will take everyone\'s support away from her while Anya won\'t hurt her.

Anya wasn\'t there for her suffering. She was there for Alvin\'s suffering. Gianna  snapped at Anya, "Stay out of this."

Anya sucked air through her teeth, shaking her head again. "Mother-in-law, you got it wrong. Who included me in this game?"

She was meant to be a small side character in the drama of the Matthews family by appearing in Alvin\'s life in a chapter or two. She has to be the antagonist in the rest of the drama. And it\'s too late to keep her away. "Mother-in-law, I will decide who will be in this game."

Gianna very well knew Alvin was trying hard to keep Anya away from his messy life. But he was incapable to stay even a day without seeing Anya. And Gianna added Anya as a pawn of Alvin\'s weakness.

If she knew the mere worthless pawn was going to be a queen, a queen who was going to stand by the king, would she have included that pawn in the game?

Gianna failed to get rid of two pawns from her game. Ean Watson and Anya Owen. If one was helping Alvin to build an empire, another one helping Alvin to get rid of the parasites for a better future.

Gianna laughed as she sat down and crossed her legs. "Really?" She couldn\'t separate Ean from Alvin but Anya and Alvin or a man and woman\'s relationship could never be strong. Much less a couple who just got together.

She ridiculed Anya, "Did it take you five years to do this?" She wouldn\'t let Anya have the victory laugh. No, not so soon. The day she breaks Anya and Alvin, the latter would lose hope in every kind of relationship. He would run away from Narnia again.

And Anya? Gianna laughed. Anya will have no reason to fight them when that happens.

Anya was impressed that Gianna could hold herself. No problem, Anya loves challenges, the challenges and complications were what got her recognition in her team.

"Let\'s talk about 27 years." Anya probed. Her five years of sweat and blood have brought her here. Whereas even after 27 years, that\'s after the birth of Alvin, Gianna might have become cunning but blind too.

Anya looked around, "None of these will help you, Gianna Sallow. They welcomed you until you brought them massive benefits." Like money, fame, and name.

Gianna masked her frowns without understanding where Anya was going with this. The Sallows are her family. Why wouldn\'t they welcome her?

Anya pointed at the old man who was silently standing. She looked at Gianna, "Your father traded you to Casper Matthews for three projects when you had returned home with a little boy in your hands. That\'s the price to shut these people\'s mouths about Casper Matthews cheating on you."

Gianna\'s father lowered his head uneasily, hearing the old truth out loud. He would have argued as it was for Gianna\'s goodness but stayed quiet to avoid messing up more things

Gianna looked at her father in horror. She has done so much for them and she was hearing this.

Anya\'s finger pointed at Nathaniel, "Your elder brother did love you until there was a good business corporation. Do you think he would let you return here?" Anya scoffed.

Anya\'s eyes landed on the woman at the corner, "Your first sister-in-law is hiding money to secure her son\'s life. Your second brother and second sister-in-law anyway don\'t care about this family."

She turned to Gianna with a sly smile, "Who do you think cares about you wholeheartedly?"

Gianna inhaled sharply trying to keep her mind calm. She was sending everyone away from her and Anya would do the same. She wasn\'t going to fall for Anya\'s trick. "This is my family."

Anya nodded as she turned around, "So Chairman Sallow, CEO Sallow if I give you two choices, save your remaining company status or keep in contact with Gianna Sallow, which one are you going to choose?"

The two men nervously looked at each other. In the past few days, the Matthews never came forward to help them. Alvin was attacking them relentlessly, without letting them recover. Gianna was confined by her husband without even giving her a mobile. The odds were obvious.

Gianna who waited for her response in her favor looked at them in disappointment and heartbreak. She always thought the Sallow family had her back.

Although they didn\'t respond, the answer was pretty much obvious. One who came forward to voice it was Nathaniel\'s wife, "Nathaniel, we have a son, we should take care of him. We have to secure his future." She was simply concerned about her son.

Nathaniel glared at his wife. He didn\'t even know his wife was having huge savings until Anya said.

Anya innocently shrugged at the Sallows, "Well, Alvin is gonna destroy you." She just asked the question so that Gianna could get to know her reality.

Nathaniel: "…"

Anya sat down in front of Gianna. She told Gianna when she slipped in her plan, "The day you started your game, you started losing everything, you started falling in your own eyes. If you had respected yourself over all the odds, you would have achieved the name, fame, and wealth that you are holding on to."

Anya stood up and exclaimed, "It\'s time." To pick her son. She took a step to leave but turned to Gianna who was sitting like a statue. "Mother-in-law, could you guess when I changed the players of your game?"

Gianna didn\'t want to think about her question but her mind started playing the scenes one after the other and her eyes widened. The cops at Anya\'s parents\' place were allocated because Anya knew she would go there to control her.

"You called Casper to Coastal city to let Casper know you\'re with the Bastard and a son." Anya slowly dug a path for her and she followed, assuming it was her plan. It was a foolproof plan by Anya.

Anya loved their space, peace, and fun. She had considered avoiding Matthews. But in the study room of the beach mansion, Anya had seen pictures of her and Alvin taken from suspicious angles outside the police agency. Anya knew it would be late if she didn\'t take control of the situation.

"Intelligent!!" She complimented Gianna.

Placing some cash on the table, pitied Gabriel, "You poor fellow, go get treatment. Your sister doesn\'t have a penny."

She went out, adding, "Wait for my next strike."