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The Other Man

Chapter 3

The imperfect white Moon glistened greyish tonight, as the Li Mansion reflected its importance to the whole sleepy world….

A cold nipping cold breeze blew stronger, as a black Ferrari zoomed through the streets straight towards the Li Mansion.

Syaoran was in a bad mood. And when he was in a bad mood, things usually turned out for the worse! 'Wait… just wait until I get there….'

As soon as Syaoran gotten over his hurtful shock of Sakura's unemotional remark to him… he flung himself into his green Ferrari and sped off towards his company in Japan. That was where a private jet was waiting for him if he ever needed it.

"Get the jet ready as soon as possible. I need to get to Hong Kong." Syaoran said in furious fluent Chinese in his latest expensive mobile, while driving with strong one hand. "Immediately." And he threw his black mobile roughly in the back seats.

So, a few hours later… here he was now – driving like a lunatic towards his family's mansion!

"Ni hao! Tomoyo here!" Came a bright tone of his cousin's wife – Tomoyo Daidouji, now Hiiragizawa – Eriol Hiiragizawa's wife. 'And Sakura's cousin and ex – best friend…. Oh, I've fucked up so hard!'

"It's Syaoran. I need to talk to Eriol and you. Its urgent." In a cutthroat business type tone he replied. Syaoran once again had his mobile glued to his ear, and his voice streaming into the mobile. "But I need to talk Mother first. Bye." And with that curt 'Bye.' he switched his mobile off.

'How could Mother of been so… so – ' Syaoran thought angrily, the rage burning inside flared as he sped the car past his family's huge black iron gates, up the long straight runway and parked perfectly in front of the massive entrance to the Li Mansion.

Syaoran flung his car's door wide open, and slammed it shut with a force that shattered the window! He angrily huffed in the direction of his car, as he walked to the big double doors.

In an instance, Wei – the family butler – swung the double doors open. He's looking greyer than usual, Syaoran thought with a pang of pain. One look at Syaoran, and Wei spoke quietly. "Your mother is in the central study room, Master Syaoran."

Syaoran eyes softened as he replied Wei. "Thank you, Wei." Syaoran held much love for Wei… Wei has been like the father Syaoran never had…. 'I will be a father to my own children! No matter what!'

The Li Mansion was simply magnificent! Completely beautiful and pure white… the front garden with lush with flowers, which glittered into the pitch-black night.

Syaoran hot eyes skimmed his family's property over one broad shoulder. 'Do I want them to live here? Would Sakura ever want to… to live here? Oh, hell. Would the twins want to live here?' Placing a soft hand on Wei's shoulder in sonly affection, Syaoran walked toward the place where his Mother waited for him.

The stairs gleamed pearly white as he crossed the marble white floors towards another set of double white doors. But chills of emptiness slowed him down…. 'The fucking mansion feels so empty… because they are all dead!' He shouted angrily in his mind. He felt grief, sadness, remorse, and anger of the purest emotion fasten on his breaking heart… no matter what he could do… no matter how hard he tried… he couldn't never bring the dead back….

Syaoran stopped right in front of white doors. He took a huge breath, put on a calm but deadly serious looking face then flung the white doors open with a frown.

Yelan Li stood tall and elegant facing the beautiful crystal windows, watching the pale Moon shift slowly into dark clouds. 'He's in a bad mood.' Yelan sighed tiredly. 'Nothing's changed there.'

"Mother, I require your immediate attention." Syaoran's chipped cold tone shot inside Yelan like electrical shocks. 'That's a first.' Yelan thought, bitterly amused.

Yelan sighed tiredly again. "Speak, Syaoran." Her voice came out like a sigh, and Syaoran knew his Mother was not ready for a fight right now. 'Too bad. Sakura and the twins are my only concern now.'

Yelan turned to face her only son, and had a sudden chill over take her body. She sank into the chair behind the huge desk and rested her cold hands on top. Yelan was looking very tired, Syaoran thought as he viewed his Mother.

The black very long hair was neatly put into a low ponytail, instead of a high one. Her clothes were black, just black as she was still mourning…. Her dark eyes glitter with pain and fatigue, but she looked the absolute strong Li woman. Her skin was still prefect though… the brilliant milky white looked soft and made her glow….

Syaoran walked opposite her and stood rigidly, then took an envelope from his business suit jacket and tossed it in front of her. "Your immediate attention, Mother." Syaoran tried to hide he venom spilling into his deep masculine voice.

"What is this?" Yelan demanded, her expression blank.

"Photos. Remember Meiling and my sisters presented them to me six years ago?" Syaoran spoke with sarcasm.

Yelan frowned. "Why in the world would you keep them, Syaoran?"

"I didn't. These are new photos, Mother." Syaoran corrected her.

"I do not understand…." Yelan's face was blank again, as confusion washed over it slightly.

"Oh, you will. And since you are so reluctant to look at the photos, let me help." Syaoran snatched the envelope off the desk, opened it up and one by one slapped the photos down on the desk in front of Yelan's vision.

"Sakura Kinomoto with my sons." Syaoran declared with bitter fury. "My twins who are now schoolboys. My identical sons that first five years of their lives I have missed, because I did not know of their existence! Look at them Mother!"

The passionate outburst from Syaoran didn't get much response… only a stony faced defence and a controlled cool voice from Yelan. "How do you know that they are your sons?"

"Don't you dare threw that at me!" Syaoran's arm flew out in a fiercely dismissive gesture, and his gaze hardened tightly. "Meiling confessed to your indecent conspiracy against Sakura on her own deathbed! She told me about the pregnancy and later I learned that you paid Sakura off!" His eyes flashed with daring challenging fire. "Don't you even dare try to deny it!"

Yelan's mouth compressed into a very thin line of distaste. She sat back in the green chair and viewed Syaoran through narrowed dark eyes. Her eyes searched for ways to dealing with this sudden crisis. "Surely, in perception, you realise that she was an unsuitable future to be wife for you." Came her clear cool reply.

"Don't go there, Mother." Syaoran warned dangerously, hard ruthless fire burned in his amber gold eyes. "You've already lost five Li's. You're very close to losing another…."

"I did what I thought was best for you, Syaoran." Yelan said, attempting a tone of appeasement. "You were blindly infatuated – "

"I'm here to give you one chance – " Syaoran held up his index finger to emphasises the point. " – one chance to answer Sakura's accusation that you paid her off for her to have an abortion."

"That's a lie!" Yelan exploded up from the chair, her body rigid with anger and her eyes glittered challenge. "You see what she is doing… the scheming little witch – trying to turn you against me! I paid out one million pounds for her to get out and stay out of your life! She could have decided if she wanted to abort the pregnancy or not – obviously not – but I didn't pay her to have an abortion!"

"Then why doesn't she have any money?" Syaoran shot back. "Why is she living in borderline poverty?"

"The little witch must be hiding it!" Came a reply full of venom.

"No, she is not. Trust me on this." Syaoran spoke back with ice lacing his deep voice. "I had a thorough investigation carried out. There is… no money! In fact, she had no support whatsoever! Her stepmother ditched her while she was still pregnant!"

He took a deep breath before carried on. "Her older brother and his wife died in a plane crush going to Japan while she was still pregnant! Her father died when the twins were only eight months old! Her own mother died when she was three years old! And Tomoyo is over here because of you! She was left nothing but the house where she grew up… trying to cope with everywhere – with my twins included by taking a job as a teacher!"

"A teacher?" Yelan exclaimed and jeered. "They shouldn't even allow her in a school!"

Syaoran's strong hard clutched hard, turning white. He was barely able to hold back from slapping his Mother. "A primary school teacher." Syaoran bit out, ignoring his Mother's rude comment. "She had to take a job to provide for my twins and herself. She never got to finish the modelling course, she always wanted to do to make her own mother proud and follow in her footsteps."

He glared at Yelan angrily. "She didn't – couldn't – complete or do anything she wished before, she didn't have any money or support! So the evidence – the evidence, Mother! – is all against you!"

Yelan looked at Syaoran with offended dignity. "You doubt my word?"

"I have every reason in the world to doubt your word where Sakura Kinomoto is concerned." Syaoran fired at her point-blank, not even giving her a chance.

Yelan raised her chin furiously. "I can prove that the money was given. And that is still going to be given."

"Then I suggest you start proving it!" Syaoran nearly roared.

"The papers are at my solicitor's office." Came back a brisk reply.

"Call your solicitor. Get him to bring the papers right here." Syaoran paused thoughtfully. "Show them to me… before you have the chance to cook up more lies behind my back."

For several tense moments the air between them was charged with Yean Li's fierce pride and Syaoran Li's explosive mistrust – a mistrust that Yelan finally realised that could destroy everything between them.

So she reached for the telephone on the desk and began dialling….

Syaoran walked to the windows next, looking out into the darkness and folded his powerful arms tightly across his broad muscular chest. His Mother's cruel limited view of Sakura Kinomoto was deeply offensive to him. Especially since Sakura was completely innocent of those horrible lies and sins that were manufactured against her. 'I don't know if I could ever forgive Mother for that… if her solicitor can't bring any proof….'

"Yukito, I'm sorry to intrude on your evening, but this is an emergency. I need the Sakura Kinomoto file and I need it now."

(A/N: Yukito is only Yelan Li's solicitor! He has nothing else to do with this story! Sorry, Yukito fans! T.T)

Yukito Tsukishiro – Yelan's solicitor – spoke back.

"Yes." Yelan spoke coolly. "I'm am at home. Bring the file here as soon as possible." And that was the end of that conversation.

Syaoran didn't turn around from the windows. He was fixed into the outside's darkness… lost in the despair of how in the hell would he ever get Sakura back…. He was crushed when he saw the photos that showed him Sakura's betrayal… but it wasn't true…. 'Goddamnmit!'

He would somehow have to get her trust and if possible her love back… for he still – still – wanted her! Somehow he would have to persuade her to open up to him again…. Somehow….

"A trust fund was set up for the children's support and education." Yelan stated, as she resumed her seat in the chair behind the desk – waiting for her solicitor's arrival.

'If that was true… then there could not of been an instruction to Sakura to abort the pregnancy… not from my Mother. But I will not ever disbelieve Sakura!' Syaoran thought fast and furiously. 'So where the fuck did that God-forbidden instruction came from?'

"All that girl had to do was apply in writing for the funds to become available." Yelan told Syaoran with hatred pulsing through….

"Then why didn't she?" Syaoran challenged, not even bothering to glance over his broad shoulder to face to his Mother.

But no answer came to answer that.

However, things were finally clicking into place in Syaoran's mind as he tried to find the full truth. 'Her solicitor said that the file has not been open since it was set up….' Syaoran glance at his ghostly reflection in the windows, and read his eyes. 'Only one answer make sense of what could of happened is that Sakura didn't even know that there was a trust fund! So how… how – '

As if reading his mind, Yelan began to speak with a hint of guilt in her sharp voice. "I dealt with the stepmother. Everything was worked through her…. And so, you said she left that girl before she had the children." Yelan eyes flicked a lot as she talked as if finding answers in the air. "If what you say about her life and circumstance are true, Syaoran. Then the stepmother must have scammed the money and never told that girl about the trust fund."

'The stepmother….' Syaoran thought in a rage. 'Mother neatly removed all responsibility from herself. But not the blame.' He thought viciously. 'None of this would have ever happen without Mother's controlling hand….'

"Then you made a huge mistake of judgement for trusting the stepmother, didn't you?" Syaoran mocked. "As well as not caring enough to check up on what was happening to my own children…."

"Syaoran…." Yelan said in a brusque appeal, looking for solid ground to twist things to make some credibility for herself.

"Let's wait for the file to arrive. That might – " Syaoran half turned to stare long and hard at the woman, who interfered so painfully with what should have been between Sakura and him. " – might – "He bit out warningly. " – go some little way to restoring a viable relationship between us."

"You are my son – my only son! What was done was done for – " Yelan persisted with the brusque appeal.

"Don't you dare say for me! You were not thinking of me. Nor Sakura. Not even for our children." Syaoran bit out harshly, turning to face his Mother now, still standing by the windows. "When you stop thinking of what you and the Clan want and start respecting what I want… perhaps we'll have something to talk about."

"I'm giving you what you want, Syaoran! I called Yukito to bring you the proof…." Yelan said quietly, yet clearly.

"Step One." Came a cool two-word reply.

Yelan's chin lifted a notch higher. "What is Step Two?"

"You will immediately start revising your attitude towards Sakura Kinomoto. If you speak one more word of her in any kind of disrespectable or cruel manner… I will walk out of here and not – not ever – come back."

"Is there a Step Three?" Yelan grimaced, but did not argue.

"Step Three is to fully accept her and our children into my life, your life and the Clan's life. That means no damaging act behind my back. And believe me, I'll know about it if you so much as raise a finger to interfere between us again." Syaoran threw at his Mother in a tight voice as finally the tables have turned – hopefully for good.

Yelan waved a giving gesture. "If you want to take an interest in the boys…."

"Not just the boys, Mother. I intend to do everything within my power to persuade Sakura Kinomoto to marry me." Syaoran spoke with determined confidence!

Shock cracked the facade of stone on Yelan's ageing face. "Surely there's no need for that!" The words whipped from her mouth like hot water! "I can understand about the children…."

Finally, the intense violence Syaoran held back erupted! His body jerked in action, his long lean strong legs closed the distance between them so fast that everything was a blur! – Except for Syaoran's need to punch home his point.

Syaoran's clutched bloodless big fist crashed down on the desk hard causing it to dent and crack, making Yelan flinch back in the chair! And Syaoran thundered –

"Understand me!" His amber eyes blazed unshakable determined resolution as he reinforced it with all the chaotic passion stirred by the situation. "Sakura Kinomoto should have been my wife! I want her as my wife! And I will have her as my wife!"

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