ine couldn’t me Mavis for how she reacted to the death of her friend. But he also couldn’t rte to any of her emotions because he has never had friends either. He didn’t because he wanted to y safe. After running away from Columbia, the thought it best to keep out of radar and so he never got close to anyone nor did he let anyone get close to him. Thest person he let in was Victoria and it almost ruined him.
After Mavis fainted, he carried her upstairs to her room where he watched over her for a while before he called Paulo and asked after her siblings and her remaining two friends.
When they arrived, they all gave him the cold shoulder but he didn’t care. He just spoke to one of thedies, he didn’t know her name but she seemed to give him a cold attitude. He begged her to please watch Mavis and to let him know immediately after she awakes. As for her brother, he quickly called a doctor to treat him before his wounds get any worse and that was how he left them and headed to his father’s office to deal with the matter properly.
When he reached his father’s office, he was unable to open the door even though he could tell that his father was inside.
ine looked around the house and wondered why it was so quiet. There really wasn’t a single bodyguard and that bothered him a little.
” He doesn’t allow just anyone in there” he heard Isabe say and then turned to face her.
” I’m not just anyone”
” Well, not anymore. Not after what you did” she responded coldly.
” Oh, so you feel that way about what I did yet you still want to marry me?”
” What makes you think I hated what you did? I thought it was brave. Anyway, when are we getting married?” She asked while ine rolled his eyes and started to live but the door to his father’s office opened up.
” Were you looking for me?” His father asked with a smirk on his face while ine just stopped dead in his tracks.
” You know, it was quite an act you pulled back there. Acting tough as if you actually have a say in this.”
” Why can’t Paulo marry her huh? Why does it have to be me?” ine asked, ignoring his father’s statement about him acting tough.
” Well. Paulo is not legally adopted but you are. That makes you my legal son and Mariano will only ept a legal son as his daughter’s husband.”
” Look, just marry her. It doesn’t stop you from sleeping with the other woman. You can have them both.”
ine could see that there was no escaping his father’s proposal. He only wished that there was a way to escape it all.
” I will find a way to free myself from him but until then I have to pretend that I yield, “ine said to himself.
” Fine,” he said to the hearing of both his father and Isabe before he headed to find a room to rest.
” Where are you going? Wouldn’t you like to n your wedding with Isabe?”
” Please just let me rest,” ine said, still walking away and not seeming to care about anything else his father had to say. But that was what he wanted his father to think. That was what he wanted Isabe to think, even though deep down he was afraid of what his father would do should he know for certain that ine still fears him.
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Mavis woke up some momentster and when she opened her eyes, she was surrounded by Amy, Lisa, and Luke who were all sleeping in their own beds that was beside hers in therge bedroom she found herself in. When she started looking for Da it was then she realized why she fainted in the first ce and then she started to sob silently.
She couldn’t believe that one decision she made on her night of drunken adventures led to all of this misfortune. Now, Da is dead. She is dead and one way or another it still is her fault.Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.
She just wished everything would be a bad dream but it wasn’t. Her hatred for ine got even worse because she was certain that he wasn’t even remorseful about it.
She was certain that by morning ine would marry that Isabe girl and lie to himself that he was doing it to protect her. If he dares to say that to her, she would p him so hard across his face and that was a promise.
ine on the other hand was thinking hard on the matter on ground. He wouldn’t dare to refuse his father. The man was so diabolical that he lead his enemies to ine just so ine woulde back home for protection. His father knew that simply sending Paulo would do nothing to move ine and it was that about his father that he feared the most – that the man knew him Luke the back of his hand.
” You will marry Isabe tomorrow and bring your mistress with you.” His father had said while ine was in his room that night. He wanted to ask how his father opened the door but he realized that he unlocked his room with his fingerprint.
” You can unlock all the rooms with your fingerprint, can’t you?” ine asked, sitting up in his bed as he faced his father.
” And can kill you if I wanted with this finger and just in case you think of cutting it, I have other ways around it.” He responded while ine sighed.
” I’m not a monster. I wouldn’t do those things again and certainly not to you even though you trained me to be a heartless murderer instead of a normal kid.”
” What? You think being a typical kid is better than the life I gave to you? I guess you thought I should’ve left you alone then. ”
” I just… forget it.”
” If I marry Isabe”
” When you marry Isabe” his father corrected.
” Whatever, if I marry her, then what?”
” Well, you do have quite the reputation after squandering the money you stole from me. A billionaire?! I could’ve believed you could get so much out of that cash. Anyway, I need you to keep up that reputation and that identity of yours but you will live here of course.”
” You want me to live as ine Rider?”
” Yes of course. Only us Mafias know who you really are and that’s something none of them – not even my enemies can reveal without outing themselves to the police. So, yes. I want you to continue with your business. Just say you’re buying apany here and want to focus on this one of whatever.”
” It was you wasn’t it?”
” What?”
” You’re the reason my life started to get terrible. The reason why Victoria started cheating, the reason my business started failing all of a sudden. It was you the whole time wasn’t it?”
” Well, I have nothing to do with the Victoria woman. I did try to get you ufortable with your life by taking some of my money back from your ounts… I nned on making you wretched before but this new Mafia attacked too fast. I had to speed up the process”
” Do I even want to know how you got ess to my funds?” ine asked looking at the man standing before him with so much disgust in his eyes the entire time. His father justughed and then he said, ” marry Isabe, go back to being a billionaire and bring your mistress to the wedding. As well as herpanions”
” Why? Can’t she just be left out of it?”
” You’ve really seemed to have forgotten everything I taught you. She got herself entangled with you now she is one of us. She knows too much”
” Regardless, she wouldn’t say anything”
” Yes, just like you thought Victoria was never gonna out you after I threatened her… oops. Maybe I did have a little to do with Victoria. What woman in her right sense would leave you right?”
ine couldn’t even be surprised. His father was obsessed with keeping his hold over his area and he was willing to do anything to make that happen. Even sabotaging his son’s life.
” Look, all I’m saying is that there can be no suspicious persons or suspicious behaviors anymore. That’s why I don’t have any bodyguards, my house is the guard. ”
” Are you being watched?”
“Of course I am. That’s why your mistress must y her part as your pregnant mistress who you won’t be marrying and her friends must y their parts as her siblings. That way we all look like a happy family. ”
” You’re kidding right?”
” No. Sleep well. You have to look good for the cameras tomorrow”
” Cameras? I thought you said we are being watched.”
” Good night my son,” he said simply, ignoring ine’s questions.
” Fuck. I’m screwed.” He cursed knowing that he was done for because his father didn’t make a request. It was a demand. A demand he will regret for the rest of his life.