Chapter 2 Don't look down on me, I'm also rich

#A few months later#

Sandra was sitting silently at the dining table, trying her best to be as elegant as she could as the lady sitting beside her was the Elder mistress of the Lightwood family and happened to be her mother-in-law who was giving the aura no less than the Queen of Britain.

“ Where is Val? ” Her hands paused as the elder lady asked her about her son while she didn't have any answer,

“ Ah, he.. he was sick.. So.. He.. ”

“ Just look at yourself, is this how a lady should answer, huh? You have no clue how to be confident and elegant. This is the reason we don't want to introduce you to our society as our daughter-in-law, ” The Elder lady smirked, Sandra bit her lips as she stared at her with dark eyes but the fear inside her somehow forced her to be quiet, so she just suppressed the anger that she had been doing for months.

The Elder lady then stopped eating as she looked deeply at her, saying, “ Lightwood family is well known for its elegance and elite relatives. We never disgrace our family with any cheap products. Even a mat in our family is being imported from foreign countries. Our children have been raised with this lifestyle and they all like it because that's how the Lightwoods are, except Val... He is a black ship of our family. He always rebelled against our family rules and does something that can annoy his father. His lifestyle was always different from his brothers. He would bring different girls every weekend, join his father's party after being drunk, and never listened to his father or his brothers. He has done many bad things but do you know what's the worst thing he has ever done till now? ” She paused as she was expecting an answer from Sandra who was staring at her clueless, giving her ' How could you even expect me to answer your shitty question? ' vibes,

“ The worst thing he had done was bringing you in our family as his wife, ” she added and Sandra opened her mouth in a big 'O' shape,

The elder lady sighed as she added, “ He had dated many women, but all of them belonged to a rich family. We thought at least he is intelligent enough to choose a family that will be helpful for him in expanding his business but look what he has done.. ”

“ I too belong from a rich family, by the way, ” Sandra corrected her mother-in-law whereas she smirked at her,

“ Oh yeah.. A very rich family and also an OUTSIDER... Do you know why our Country Nightfalls is the most peaceful country in the world and why we are superior to others, huh? That's because we don't mix our blood with OUTSIDERS. Our Island is so much isolated from the rest of the other world that it's almost invisible and.. ” “ Oh yeah, I know.. Trust me, a few months ago, I didn't even know that such an island even exists in the world.. Oh... I, I mean, that's so great, ” she chuckled after receiving a cold glance from her mother-in-law. The elder lady sighed as she added, “ Despite not standing you in front of my eyes, I accepted your relationship with my son and gave you the position of my daughter-in-law thinking that he loves you. We accepted you because we thought he truly likes you and that your love might change him and he would become more responsible after his marriage. However, we are not seeing any changes in his behavior, he doesn't attend his father's business meetings. He doesn't come to our family dinner, also, he doesn't take our family business seriously. So, I arrived here to clearly tell you that if we don't see the changes in his behavior, our thoughts about you might not be the same. So, think properly about what you need to do now, ”

“ So, You came here just to ask me to babysit your son? ” Sandra asked while raising her eyebrows, the elder lady curled her lips up as she stood up, saying, “ Well, you can say that, see you soon DAUGHTER-IN-LAW ”

Her life had completely changed when she married the youngest son of the Lightwood family. It's not that she wasn't rich or had a big bungalow or high status in the society but what she was having right now was totally different from earlier. She was living in a palace, surrounded by dozens of maids who were treating her like princess because she was the youngest mistress of the Lightwood family who were one of the three gems who runs the whole Island. Nightfalls, which she didn't even know existed in this world, was a small island in the Atlantic Ocean and this Island runs by three families. The Blacks, who are responsible for the military forces, The Lightwoods, who are the richest family among all and have shares in almost every business running on the Island, and the third one is the Stiles family who has the political control over the whole island.

Now, the fact is how she ended up on the Island that she didn't even know? Why did the Young Master of Lightwood family marry her when there was a uniform law ' NO OUTSIDERS' ? Why was she living with a man who used to bring girls almost every night? What was there that was stopping her from running away from this shitty place? Was she enjoying the princess-like treatment that she was getting from the maids? Was that treatment enough to bear her husband's betrayal that she was still here, dealing with her angered in-laws?

*** “ Strange.. I have never heard about such an island. It pretty much seems like a fiction novel in which the female lead marries a super-rich handsome, um, sorry, I get distracted by your description of this island. So, would you tell me how you ended up on this mysterious island and why were you still there when you weren't happy? ” a lady in a black uniform engraved with big letters POLICIA asked while raising her eyebrows,

“ She wasn't there for having a royal life. She wasn't there for love either. She didn't marry him because she loved him. She married him for escaping the disaster that she had brought to herself in her hometown, Madrid. ” A man sitting beside her said, looking intensely at the officer. The officer sighed as she asked, wasn't looking much interested in her story, “ What disaster? And please don't tell me that her father sold her to this man to get rid of his debt because seriously, I have read many novels about the same storyline, ”

“ No, her life was not like the pathetic female leads of God knows what novels you are talking about. She was happy. Her life was here, in Madrid, with her friends. A small group of her friends having the most amazing people in the whole world. She could never forget these names in her whole life that are engraved in her heart. These names are Jonathan, Ethan, Andar, Emma, and Pablo. Remember it, because you will listen a lot about them, ” “ Then what happened that made her separate from her darling friends and imprisoned her in a gold cage with a cold-hearted husband, huh? ” the officer asked while narrowing her eyes,

“ That's why we are here, officer. We will know what happened to her and why her life went to hell from heaven, have a little bit of patience, ”