The Grand Mistress

Han\'s Mansion

It had been a few days when Don Benedicto left the mansion in peace. When he did, Mauro Han took no time and went to settle things with Hawk Monsanto. However, he was informed then that Hawk was abroad and so their predicament about Feather\'s wedding had not been settled. 

Few days later however, Feather received a parcel from the M Conglomerate.

"What is it?" Madam Fara was shaking herself while her daughter and her assistant Ami unwrapped the big parcel. They had never been at ease with this whole Feather situation, especially that Simione had already been sent off to get married. They were then worried that even though Simione had an old husband, because he was very rich, he might steal all of Don Benedicto\'s trust.

"O my god!" Ami was shocked to see what it was. Even Feather locked her eyes into the thing as her hopes started to light up.

"It\'s a gown," Feather gasped with thorough unbelief. "It\'s a wedding gown mother!"

"Is that really a wedding gown?" Madam Fara herself couldn\'t believe it. However when she saw it, her eyes landed clearly on a beautiful ball gown in pastel blue. Although it was a very unconventional color for a wedding gown, she herself could tell it was one.

"He sent me a wedding gown, mother!" Feather gasped happily as she understood what it meant. "It means he still wanted the wedding!"

"Indeed Miss! This indeed is a wedding gown. It\'s so beautiful and glamorous," Ami held onto the gown as she carefully looked into the details of it. With how sophisticated and expensive it looked, surely it fit a Monsanto wedding. "This must have cost millions Miss. I believe the diamonds here are real,"

"Hawk will never send me something not glamorous," Feather pulled the whole gown off the parcel and happily dragged it toward the mirror. "This looks so good to me. Hawk choose the best wedding gown for me,"

"O my dear daughter your wedding is finally happening," Madam Fara was tearful when she joined her daughter in the mirror. The dress was so beautiful and heavenly she could already imagine how surreal it would look like on Feather, specially when she looked down the aisle.

"Hawk still loves you Miss," Ami blurted, almost crying too. The beautiful gown got them too emotional. "I never doubted his love for you. He was until then so in love with you. I just couldn\'t imagine  how miserable he could have been after knowing that he had hurt the woman that he loved very much. Now, after everything, he still decided to push through the wedding to fight for your love. It is indeed a beautiful love story,"

"I couldn\'t be more thankful," Feather cried. "I\'m finally going to be the Madam of the Monsanto\'s"

"Wait….." Madam Fara thought of something. "If he intends to push through the wedding then it\'s going to be next week already. What about the preparations?"

"There were only a few small things that had not been taken care of," Feather tried to run all the tasks on her mind. "I should go and attend to all of it. I would not let Hawk worry about it anymore,"

"Yeah you should, my love," Madam Fara agreed. "Your husband is in a tight spot right now because of the whole Simione ordeal. Until now the scandal had been going around like wildfire. Just go and do all the last touches of the wedding preparations,"

"I intend to do that mother," Feather answered, determined. She felt like what Hawk did today was a big leap on his part knowing that he had been guilty of cheating. So, as a reward for his effort, she should do her part to make it less inconvenient for him. 

Besides, she really doesn\'t like it when Hawk goes with her in all wedding meetings because she cannot do as much as she wants. When he is around, she tends to constraint her spendings and wishes for the weddings, afraid that Hawk might find it too much. Therefore, this time, since the tasks left were all just last touches, she intends to do as much as she likes to fulfill her dream wedding. Her gown afterall was a grand one, it deserves a grand wedding too.

***

Hawk was back at Devon City. He had been abroad for a while because after his last trip, some business emergencies emerged and he needed to care for it. Now that he was back, he was coping up with all the tasks he had left and had been at his office desk the whole morning, drawing himself with all the paperwork.

"President," One of his secretaries approached him. 

"Hmmm.." Hawk acknowledged her presence but didn\'t raise his head to look at her.

"I was told by the wedding planner that Miss Feather went to her," She explained in a tone that was rather hesitating. Truth was the whole office didn\'t know what\'s the deal with Feather Han and their boss right now and so she wasn\'t sure what to do with the call she received.

"What does she want?" Hawk asked, eyes on the paper he was signing.

"The wedding planner said she had requested some changes in the decorations," She relayed. "And some other things. The wedding planner wanted to know what to do with all her requests and with the preparation,"

The secretary was tightlipped. She really didn\'t know whether all the things she relayed matters still to her boss or on the contrary, it would make him mad. They were all aware of the bad press that was going around and the scandal that took place. Outside, many reporters were flooding their building, hoping to get a statement about the scandal but Hawk remained phlegmatic about everything they all didn\'t know what to do.

Hawk paused a bit with what he heard. After a while, he chuckled deviously and smirked before he continued with his work. With a heavy resigned sigh, he raised his head to look at his secretary.

"Send this to the finance department," He handed some papers to her. "As for the wedding planner, just tell her to let Feather do whatever she wants. Tell her the wedding will push through as planned,"

The secretary\'s eyes went big in disbelief but after a second, she snapped out of it as she was in front of Hawk. "Yes President," She answered without questions and left Hawk\'s office feeling confused. Damn. Does it mean their boss still intends to marry Feather Han afterall?

"What did he say?" Hawk\'s other secretaries came forward to ask the one who just left Hawk\'s office. They were aware of the call from the wedding planner and they were all curious about what their boss would say about it.

"He instructed me to relay that the wedding will push through," She told the others. "It seemed like he and Miss Han had decided to continue the wedding despite the cheating scandal,"

"Oh God, does he really want that?" They all gasped out of disbelief. "I mean, how about the Han\'s? Are they still going to allow him to marry their daughter after what happened?"

"The Han\'s I think needed our President\'s support," One commented. "They will sacrifice their daughter for the sake of business. Poor Feather Han,"

"The wedding planner told me Feather Han came to make some revisions for the wedding herself," The first secretary revealed. "I don\'t think she was against this wedding. It seemed like she wanted it more than our President does,"

"Did she forgive him that easily?" One of them raised an eyebrow at that. "I don\'t know but if that happens to me, I won\'t forgive my fiance just as easily as that.I might not even get back to him at all especially that the whole city knew and was able to document his affair with another woman,"

"Psssst… he still our boss," The first secretary shushed her. 

"Well I was only saying facts," She defended. "I mean…I think there is more to this story than our President\'s affair with another woman. I don\'t know but I felt like there was something in this wedding that didn\'t smell right,"

"I think our President and Miss Han had reconciled already," Another secretary of Hawk interjected. "Our president had been abroad for a while, they might have met secretly abroad. I saw that he brought Mr. Blue abroad this time, he might have let him take care of it,"

"By the way, did you notice the young boy that recently appeared?" One took note of it. "Was it only me or he looked like our President himself,"

"I believed he is the young master Felip," One secretary intentionally lowered her voice to make sure only them could hear it.. "I\'m not sure since that boy had been warned not to step into Devon City. However, with how he looked and the way he bears himself around the President, I believe he was the young master,"