Unintentional Heart's Desire

Mrs. Cooper

Since marrying into the Cooper family, Mrs. Cooper had seen many opportunistic women who wanted nothing but a share of her husband's fortune.

She'd learned very early on in her marriage that if she didn't take charge of it, it would take charge of her.

People looked at her sideways and judged her, yet they still wished more than anything to be in her place.

There was a price to pay to live the luxurious life that she lived and the sooner she understood that the better things were for her.

It wasn't just the luxury that came with being a Cooper.

Mrs. Cooper loved her kids more than anything in the world and she would've done absolutely anything for them, including staying in a loveless marriage to a man she despised.

She'd been closest to her older daughter, her firstborn; but she'd felt the most sympathy for her only baby boy - Jason.

Even though the boy had been close to his father when he was younger, she could tell he wanted anything but.

She could tell he was nothing like her ruthless husband and that brought her much joy.

She'd felt hopeful that that would be the case forever.

Jason looked up to his father, but only professionally since he too had taken a liking to engineering.

Since he'd been promised to one day run the conglomerate, he'd done everything he could to be a competent and worthy leader, unlike his father.

Many years later, however, the older Cooper seemed to have made other plans. Plans that worked against the promise he'd made to his son.

He'd sold many of the company's shares and planned to sell the rest of them when he retired, leaving no chance for Jason to ever run the company.

When Mrs. Cooper found out, she fumed. She couldn't have that.

She wasn't going to let anyone mess with her son, not even his father made the exception.

She'd watched Jason work toward this dream for as long as she could remember and she would be damned to let the man she shared a bed with take it away from him.

See; Mr. Cooper always saw his wife as a frail and flimsy woman who could barely stand up for herself. And though that was partly true, there was more to her than what met the eye.

Sure she'd had a chronic illness that only motivated the image that he made of her, but there was much more that was underneath the surface that her husband did not bother to make note of.

So when he'd clumsily had affairs with young dumb women who only wanted one thing from him, and when he'd sexually assaulted women who later planned to sue him, she was there to mend his damages and make sure his name remained squeaky clean.

These defenses varied from briberies and apologies to threats... whatever there was to do to save her family, she was ready to do it.

Nobody messed with the Coopers.

Her husband thought he was the one running things but he was mistaken, and Mrs. Cooper knew it was best for everyone to let him think he ran everything.