His Purchased Wife

Chapter 33.

"That's my design!" I couldn't stop myself from saying it aloud.

Every face in the auditorium turned my way. On any other day, I would have felt anticipated but today I

was raging in fury. An uncontrollable fury!!

I walked to the stage, seething in anger and stood up in front of George. "You cheat! You stole my

design."

"Excuse me, mind your words, Miss kings. You have no right to accuse me of something which I didn't

do," George retorted back in the same manner as I.

"Stop lying…" I barked as I opened the jewellery box and pulled out the replica of my pendant. "You

stole this from me!"

"What is the meaning of all this, Miss Kings? Please tell us clearly," Katie asked as all the judges stood

up and walked to us.

"I'll tell you what happened," I said as I pointed my finger at George who was standing there as if he did

nothing wrong. Bloody cheat! "This man stole my design from me and presented it here as his own."

"Now you are crossing the lines missy, that's my design so stop lying. And why would I steal your

design? Who are you, some rich man's daughter? Unlike you I am a world famous designer…"

"Oh cut the crap Mr, we all are equal here…" Susan came in my support with Emily beside her. "And

trust me when I am saying this you are lucky we didn't come here using her surname if we had done

that you didn't know what could have happened!"

"So now you are trying to scare me, I will go to the court and sue you both for tempering my

reputation…"

"I think you all should be calm here for a second," Katie said.

"Not until he accepts his crime!"

"Miss Kings, calm down please." She turned towards George, "and you Mr George, don't try to scare

us of a legal lawsuit because you are under a signed contract with our company and I gather you didn't

read it before signing it because if you had you wouldn't have used the word 'lawsuit' here. Second, our

judges are here to decide if what Miss Kings just said we trust or not."

"Do you have any proof that the design belongs to you, Miss kings?"

"Yes, my friends were there…"

"Certainly the judges are not going to prove me guilty only on the basis of oral testimony of Miss King's

friends here because just like her I too have someone who was with me while I was creating the

design," George said.

"Please tell us the name of that person, Mr George." Kevin Rawls said.

"Evelyn Rodriguez, she was with me while I was designing my model."

My eyes turned to Evelyn who came forward and lied to her teeth. "Look, miss Katie, we both are well-

known jewellery designers and I am shocked you didn't believe George because I know it's his

creation. How could you believe a girl with no professional background. I mean she is nothing but a rich

brat."

"Excuse me!" Susan snapped but she raised her brow in superiority.

"Truth is hard to digest honey, so shut up!"

"Oh you just shut your bitchy mouth for once and all you old hog!" Susan retorted.

My attention was not on them but the design in front of my eyes. My grandfather's legacy, my mom's

legacy was on stake and I won't let anyone steal it from me.

"I can prove that this is my design."

Katie's eyes held my gaze but it was Kevin who spoke. "Alright! The issue is getting out of hand, we

judges have decided something for both of you."

I looked at him. "Whoever made it could define it with hundred percent accuracy. So let's see who is

lying and who is not?"

"Let's start with you, Mr George as you presented it." Alexandrios said.

George nodded confidently at the judges. He walked near the projector and started explaining my

design.

"It's a beautiful creation. Modern art meets the biblical values in Christianity. The Red rose in this

design symbolized the shedding of Christ's blood, and white diamonds referenced the charity of the

Virgin Mary. White roses evoked the chastity of the Virgin, who was known as the rose without thorns."

I took a shaky breath, I knew I lacked the proper knowledge of art and culture and today I came to

know the value of professionalism. The way he was defining my design was better than I had expected.

He defined things I never knew could resemble my own design.

Apparently, it was not only me who was scared but my friends as well. Susan and Emily both held my

hands in assurance. But I could feel how worried they both were. We could be proven guilty. The

contest wasn't as important for me as it was for them.

My dad would always help me but Emily and Susan's dreams rely on this contest. If I fail today, it won't

be my failure only but my friend's as well.

"Miss Aurora Kings,it's your turn now." All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

I gulped and somehow managed to stand up with heavy legs. When I walked to the stage and stood up

beside the projector George smirked at me and Evelyn raised her brows with a look of superiority in her

face.

I swallowed the heaviness in my throat again and started the words mom told me while giving me the

pendant.

"The design is a silent description of love because one can't describe it into words," I pointed at the

picture in front of me.

"There is a story behind this design…" I cleared my throat and started the story mom told me. "In Greek

mythology, the rose was created by the goddess of flowers, Chloris. One day, she found the lifeless

body of a nymph in the woods and she turned her into a flower. She called upon Aphrodite, goddess of

love, and Dionysus, the god of wine. ... That is how the rose was created and rightfully crowned 'Queen

of Flowers.'"

I finished the story of Greek mythology and added "Now look at the design carefully, You see this rose

and the wings of a nymph in the pendant."

The judges seemed intrigued by my words and that gave me strength as I continued my description.

"The rose represents love and wings represents what falling in love feels like.

Rose describes the beauty of love while the wings describe that Love gives you wings to fly in the sky.

Love has no limit just like the sky…"

My throat felt heavy as tears welled in my eyes. "My grandfather took inspiration from Greek mythology

before creating this design; it resembles true love and I added white diamonds to it because it was my

tribute to my grandpa and my mother. I added white Diamonds to the original design because it

resembles my mom's smile."

I looked down for a moment to control my tears and then looked at the Judges. "I have one more thing

which proves that the design belongs to me."

"And what is it, Miss Kings?" Alexandrios asked me.