All characters are 18+ and no characters are taken from real life, just fantasy.
And I'm not a professional writer, just a normal guy who's writing for fun.
Thanks and have a good read!
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Things aren't the same after my father's death recently and the fact that it's our semester holidays for us and I've to be home to perform the aftermath doesn't help me at all. My step-mom however, shed some tears when he died, but I do know obviously that they're as fake as her. When my dad brought her home a few months back, I instantly felt the gold-digger aura around her, the way she dresses, her friends, her daily lifestyle. I couldn't care lesser about her spending his money or whatever as I haven't had any dream of claiming his money as his heir. But she definitely looks like she does.
I used to spend most of my time outside when I was in University, so I wouldn't interact much with her. While at home, she just orders around as if she's my mom or something while my dad didn't care about this. After his death, which happened a week back, she was acting all sad as if she lost the love of her life, which I found pretty weird and funny as the only thing she would be waiting eagerly is for his money. I'm sure that she made him write her name in the will, maybe when she's giving her body to him in exchange. He was 60 when he died while I remember she's around 35-40 now, and I just didn't show any interest in his property as I'd be out from university next year, as I'm 21 and I wanted to explore the world first and then settle with my own job independently.
"Nick, aren't you supposed to be getting ready by now?" I hear her voice and wake up rubbing my eyes.
"What is it?" I ask walking out of my room in my boxers and t-shirt looking at her in living room.
"We're supposed to go to the lawyer?" she asks as if I forgot about it.
"Duhh that's like 11AM or something and it's still not 9 yet" I say with a sigh hearing that angrily.
"Who do you think will do the garden work today?" she asks raising her brows sitting on couch in her blue tight top and black knee-high skirt.
"What? The gardener maybe I don't know." I say with a frown as I never did any of that shit so far as I know that my dad was rich enough to afford the maids to do these works.
"Well not today, he's on leave, so do it and get ready and we'll leave by 10:30." she orders getting up.
"Get fucked, I don't care." I say with a nervous chuckle as this is getting weird and walk towards my room to sleep again.
A few moments later, I hear my door opening with a bang, and as I turn around on my bed, I can see her standing at the door folding her hands looking at me.
"Now imagine a situation where you aren't able to pay your university fees for next two semesters..." she says looking at her nails in a bitchy way.
"What do you mean?" I ask nervously even though I kind of get what she's trying to say.
"You know what I mean. Once I get the whole property, you should be asking me for your living even if it's just for a year." She says with a wild smirk.
"And? For that I've to do whatever you want me to do?" I ask furrowing my brows.
"Well yes, thank god, you're not as dumb as your old man." She says rolling her eyes.
I feel like hitting her to the wall and send her along with my beta dad for bringing her to the house in the first place. The way she stands and orders as if she's the woman of the house, but that explains why my dad became a simp to her.
I take a deep long breath without saying anything and get up to walk to the garden. I finish the work in a few minutes and walk towards bathroom to fresh up and have some breakfast so that we can leave. She seems to be ready for the lawyer visit, and I assumed she would have prepared for the breakfast. I come out and get into a blue shirt and a blue jeans and the time is 10AM already. I walk inside the kitchen to have breakfast and there's nothing present anywhere.
"Uhm where's the breakfast?" I ask walking towards living room where she's just chilling on couch scrolling through her insta.
"It would be on table if you prepare it, or else you know where you would be" she says without looking at me.
I clench my fists hearing that and walk back to kitchen assuming that she might have wantedly told the maids not to come today. I make some basic level pasta in 15-20 minutes and we finish eating by 10:35AM. We get inside the car, and I drive us to the lawyer's place and return after an hour. It was just the basic formalities about the aftermath of his death and the lawyer just said that there are some more things to check to finalize my dad's will and he'd inform us later tomorrow and send the will copies as that's how they do it. She still seems to be pretty excited about it while I just shrugged off.
She made me do the lunch and dinner and I am feeling like a helpless weak man for doing all this. At least my dad used to get her pussy for being a simp, while I get nothing obviously. I wish the university opens again sooner so that I can be out of this temporarily. I am pretty tired of the day and sleeps early and the next day morning isn't any better than yesterday's. At around 10 or so, we receive a letter and it's obvious that people who are mentioned as beneficiaries will receive a copy of the will and I just took it and opened it before handing it over to her.
I widen my eyes to see that it's my name mentioned in the will and the copy is addressed to me but not to her. There is not even a mention of her name in the copy of the will. Even I find it a weird as that's unlikely to happen and show it to her, and as expected, she panics more than anything. As if her whole life is dependent on the will, well maybe it is for her.
She quickly calls the attorney to find out about it and I just stand in front of her confused but kind of excited about this. I can notice from her expressions that she got completely backstabbed by my late dad and that he didn't even mention her in the will.
I grab her phone quickly, "So does that mean I get to keep the whole property?" I ask directly as the attorney guy is close to our family anyway.
"Well yes Nick, that's what your dad wrote at least." He says simply.
"Oh good then, thanks anyway." I say with excitement and cut the call and turn around to look at her.
Her hands are shivering a bit and her face down, not knowing how to react to it as if she can't live without this will on her name.
"Uhm, do I need to repeat the hearing again?" I ask grinning inside.
"Oh fuck off! I'm sure there might be a mistake in it." She says acting out a confident grin, but her fears are visible clearly.
"Are you sure? Because your name and my name aren't even close to be mistaken." I say with a chuckle.