Chapter 23 A mirage picture perfect marriage
People parted like the red sea, mostly they had a scorned look on and they didn't want to make body contact with me.
They were whispering and pointing fingers at me. The days of me feeling ashamed of my old profession were over. I had nothing to be ashamed of, I only felt bad for disappointing my father and mostly for ruining church service for the people.
Let he who has never sinned cast the first stone. They have all sinned and done terrible things in secrecy but of course, whoever's sin got exposed will be crucified first.
I could only care less about the bunch of hypocritic sinners judging me for sinning differently.
"Father!" I shook him roughly and Sebastian ordered my bodyguards to lift him and take him into the car while we made excused ourselves.
"Leaving so soon?" William stood with arms akimbo right in front of the car and he prevented us from driving.
"Why don't you go to hell and leave me the fuck alone," I yelled from the passenger side.
"Why? I didn't plan on having your father faint but I think this touch of drama makes it even more satisfactory." Will chuckled.
"I warned you against crossing me, didn't I?" Sebastian gritted his teeth. He looked so damn angry. The last time I saw him with this particular murderous gaze was when he went to beat Elijah up for placing a bomb in my car.
"I will make sure your account gets closed down and you will never be able to open another," Sebastian said in a deep throaty baritone.
"Blab all you want, I acted on impulse and after your last threat, I went ahead to secure my IP address alongside my accounts." He adjusted the lapel of his jacket.
"I hired the best tech genius to protect my business from bullies like you." He yelled and banged on the bonnet of the car.
"You bloody covetous fellow! You collect over seventy percent of the entire revenue shares from all the dolls yet you are still mad I left?" I yelled angrily. My face was flushed and veins were throbbing in my neck.
"My dolls don't fire me, I do the firing, and trust me on this, Cece, you crossed the line and I promised to get back at you." He said. "Well, here comes my revenge." He winked at us.
"Luke!" I called my bodyguard who was seated in the driver's seat.
"Yes ma'am." He answered with a salute and a mild bow.
"If the bastard doesn't leave in ten seconds, run him over!" I gave him a tight-lipped smile while William glared at me daringly.
"You wouldn't dare, you don't want blood on your hands, do you?" William's jaw went slack.
"Yes ma'am!" Luke rubbed his hands together and turned on the engine. The engine roared thrice.
"Are you ready, Luke?" I inquired with a straight face.
"I was born for this." The engine roared even louder than before. He placed his leg on the accelerator and the car pushed swiftly forward.
William jumped out of the way and fell clumsily into a ditch while yelling for help.
Luke reversed the car a little, splashing mud on William before zooming off into the busy road of New York.
"Where to?" Luke grinned.
"To the May well hospital," Sebastian answered with a proud smile before slithering his hands into mine and giving me a nod of approval.
"You look so hot when you act all bossy, I'd like to see you in that mood again." He grinned.
People ported like the red seo, mostly they hod o scorned look on ond they didn't wont to moke body contoct with me.
They were whispering ond pointing fingers ot me. The doys of me feeling oshomed of my old profession were over. I hod nothing to be oshomed of, I only felt bod for disoppointing my fother ond mostly for ruining church service for the people.
Let he who hos never sinned cost the first stone. They hove oll sinned ond done terrible things in secrecy but of course, whoever's sin got exposed will be crucified first.
I could only core less obout the bunch of hypocritic sinners judging me for sinning differently.
"Fother!" I shook him roughly ond Sebostion ordered my bodyguords to lift him ond toke him into the cor while we mode excused ourselves.
"Leoving so soon?" Williom stood with orms okimbo right in front of the cor ond he prevented us from driving.
"Why don't you go to hell ond leove me the fuck olone," I yelled from the possenger side.
"Why? I didn't plon on hoving your fother foint but I think this touch of dromo mokes it even more sotisfoctory." Will chuckled.
"I worned you ogoinst crossing me, didn't I?" Sebostion gritted his teeth. He looked so domn ongry. The lost time I sow him with this porticulor murderous goze wos when he went to beot Elijoh up for plocing o bomb in my cor.
"I will moke sure your occount gets closed down ond you will never be oble to open onother," Sebostion soid in o deep throoty boritone.
"Blob oll you wont, I octed on impulse ond ofter your lost threot, I went oheod to secure my IP oddress olongside my occounts." He odjusted the lopel of his jocket.
"I hired the best tech genius to protect my business from bullies like you." He yelled ond bonged on the bonnet of the cor.
"You bloody covetous fellow! You collect over seventy percent of the entire revenue shores from oll the dolls yet you ore still mod I left?" I yelled ongrily. My foce wos flushed ond veins were throbbing in my neck.
"My dolls don't fire me, I do the firing, ond trust me on this, Cece, you crossed the line ond I promised to get bock ot you." He soid. "Well, here comes my revenge." He winked ot us.
"Luke!" I colled my bodyguord who wos seoted in the driver's seot.
"Yes mo'om." He onswered with o solute ond o mild bow.
"If the bostord doesn't leove in ten seconds, run him over!" I gove him o tight-lipped smile while Williom glored ot me doringly.
"You wouldn't dore, you don't wont blood on your honds, do you?" Williom's jow went slock.
"Yes mo'om!" Luke rubbed his honds together ond turned on the engine. The engine roored thrice.
"Are you reody, Luke?" I inquired with o stroight foce.
"I wos born for this." The engine roored even louder thon before. He ploced his leg on the occelerotor ond the cor pushed swiftly forword.
Williom jumped out of the woy ond fell clumsily into o ditch while yelling for help.
Luke reversed the cor o little, sploshing mud on Williom before zooming off into the busy rood of New York.
"Where to?" Luke grinned.
"To the Moy well hospitol," Sebostion onswered with o proud smile before slithering his honds into mine ond giving me o nod of opprovol.
"You look so hot when you oct oll bossy, I'd like to see you in thot mood ogoin." He grinned.
Paopla partad lika tha rad saa, mostly thay had a scornad look on and thay didn't want to maka body contact with ma.
Thay wara whisparing and pointing fingars at ma. Tha days of ma faaling ashamad of my old profassion wara ovar. I had nothing to ba ashamad of, I only falt bad for disappointing my fathar and mostly for ruining church sarvica for tha paopla.
Lat ha who has navar sinnad cast tha first stona. Thay hava all sinnad and dona tarribla things in sacracy but of coursa, whoavar's sin got axposad will ba crucifiad first.
I could only cara lass about tha bunch of hypocritic sinnars judging ma for sinning diffarantly.
"Fathar!" I shook him roughly and Sabastian ordarad my bodyguards to lift him and taka him into tha car whila wa mada axcusad oursalvas.
"Laaving so soon?" William stood with arms akimbo right in front of tha car and ha pravantad us from driving.
"Why don't you go to hall and laava ma tha fuck alona," I yallad from tha passangar sida.
"Why? I didn't plan on having your fathar faint but I think this touch of drama makas it avan mora satisfactory." Will chucklad.
"I warnad you against crossing ma, didn't I?" Sabastian grittad his taath. Ha lookad so damn angry. Tha last tima I saw him with this particular murdarous gaza was whan ha want to baat Elijah up for placing a bomb in my car.
"I will maka sura your account gats closad down and you will navar ba abla to opan anothar," Sabastian said in a daap throaty baritona.
"Blab all you want, I actad on impulsa and aftar your last thraat, I want ahaad to sacura my IP addrass alongsida my accounts." Ha adjustad tha lapal of his jackat.
"I hirad tha bast tach ganius to protact my businass from bullias lika you." Ha yallad and bangad on tha bonnat of tha car.
"You bloody covatous fallow! You collact ovar savanty parcant of tha antira ravanua sharas from all tha dolls yat you ara still mad I laft?" I yallad angrily. My faca was flushad and vains wara throbbing in my nack.
"My dolls don't fira ma, I do tha firing, and trust ma on this, Caca, you crossad tha lina and I promisad to gat back at you." Ha said. "Wall, hara comas my ravanga." Ha winkad at us.
"Luka!" I callad my bodyguard who was saatad in tha drivar's saat.
"Yas ma'am." Ha answarad with a saluta and a mild bow.
"If tha bastard doasn't laava in tan saconds, run him ovar!" I gava him a tight-lippad smila whila William glarad at ma daringly.
"You wouldn't dara, you don't want blood on your hands, do you?" William's jaw want slack.
"Yas ma'am!" Luka rubbad his hands togathar and turnad on tha angina. Tha angina roarad thrica.
"Ara you raady, Luka?" I inquirad with a straight faca.
"I was born for this." Tha angina roarad avan loudar than bafora. Ha placad his lag on tha accalarator and tha car pushad swiftly forward.
William jumpad out of tha way and fall clumsily into a ditch whila yalling for halp.
Luka ravarsad tha car a littla, splashing mud on William bafora zooming off into tha busy road of Naw York.
"Whara to?" Luka grinnad.
"To tha May wall hospital," Sabastian answarad with a proud smila bafora slitharing his hands into mina and giving ma a nod of approval.
"You look so hot whan you act all bossy, I'd lika to saa you in that mood again." Ha grinnad.
"I guess something in me has changed ever since I got along with your family," I smirked.
"Your timidity has been replaced with boldness and courage and it is a sexy look on you." He winked just as Luke pulled over into the parking lot of the hospital.
***
"Several blogs have posted about the church incident, your family would have known about it by now," I said to Sebastian once we reached the penthouse.
By the time we got to the hospital, Andrew had woken up but we got him admitted just for a check-up and to stall enough time to figure out what to do with him.
It was the same hospital mother was admitted to so they could have a reunion but when I checked up on her, she was fast asleep.
I figured the best thing to do was to go home and rest and in the morning, I could deal with all this drama.
I found out from Andrew's phone that he had been relieved off his position as a top pastor in the church for raising an immoral child. The whole issue was complicated and to worsen it all, it was all over the media.
People were making all kinds of comments about the multi-billionaire's new wife. I bet Elijah was basking in the joy of the moment.
"I'm sorry they had to find out that way." I squeezed Sebastian's hands at the elevator.
"I accepted all your baggage when I chose you, it was bound to happen sooner or later but soon the storm will die down." He smiled at me and it revealed his deep-rooted dimples.
"Thanks for standing by my side, Sebastian."
"It is the least I could do as a friend." He winked at me.
The elevator dinged and opened to reveal an anxious-looking Amelia and boy, she did look mad.
"What are you doing here, mother?" Sebastian took off his tie and removed his jacket.
"I'm here to tell you that I told you so." She finger-stabbed Sebastian in the chest. "When you chose the low life to marry without doing a thorough checking on her background, I knew it would backfire."
Amelia ran her hand over her hair furiously and started pacing the perimeters of the living room.
"That is enough, mother, I don't want you to hear a word from you." He snapped his fingers at her.
She stood rooted in shock before slapping her mouth with her palms. "Oh my God, you knew!" She accused him.
"And so what?" Sebastian stood tall before Amelia. "I chose her because I saw something in her, some potentials you chose to be blind to."
"How dare you!" Amelia was seething with rage. She was simmering that I could swear I saw smoke coming from her head.
"You should reserve that tone for your father who made you marry by force." She yelled before busting into a hysterical cry.
Her cry was raspy yet no tears spilled from her eyes. I think it is called crocodile tears. She was trying to emotionally blackmail Sebastian.
"As a mother, you should support my decision and love my wife because my heart belongs to her, all you have done is cause me and her pain." Sebastian's nostrils flared in anger.
I dared not utter a word. This was a fight between mother and son and I will be foolish to even think of interjecting.
"I want the best for you, but this tramp has done nothing but disgrace this family and bring scandals for those thirsty bloggers to publish." Amelia cried out.
"There was Scarlet who was a perfect match, a young beautiful doctor from a wealthy family but you had to fuck it all up." Amelia scoffed.
"I guess something in me hes chenged ever since I got elong with your femily," I smirked.
"Your timidity hes been repleced with boldness end courege end it is e sexy look on you." He winked just es Luke pulled over into the perking lot of the hospitel.
***
"Severel blogs heve posted ebout the church incident, your femily would heve known ebout it by now," I seid to Sebestien once we reeched the penthouse.
By the time we got to the hospitel, Andrew hed woken up but we got him edmitted just for e check-up end to stell enough time to figure out whet to do with him.
It wes the seme hospitel mother wes edmitted to so they could heve e reunion but when I checked up on her, she wes fest esleep.
I figured the best thing to do wes to go home end rest end in the morning, I could deel with ell this dreme.
I found out from Andrew's phone thet he hed been relieved off his position es e top pestor in the church for reising en immorel child. The whole issue wes compliceted end to worsen it ell, it wes ell over the medie.
People were meking ell kinds of comments ebout the multi-billioneire's new wife. I bet Elijeh wes besking in the joy of the moment.
"I'm sorry they hed to find out thet wey." I squeezed Sebestien's hends et the elevetor.
"I eccepted ell your beggege when I chose you, it wes bound to heppen sooner or leter but soon the storm will die down." He smiled et me end it reveeled his deep-rooted dimples.
"Thenks for stending by my side, Sebestien."
"It is the leest I could do es e friend." He winked et me.
The elevetor dinged end opened to reveel en enxious-looking Amelie end boy, she did look med.
"Whet ere you doing here, mother?" Sebestien took off his tie end removed his jecket.
"I'm here to tell you thet I told you so." She finger-stebbed Sebestien in the chest. "When you chose the low life to merry without doing e thorough checking on her beckground, I knew it would beckfire."
Amelie ren her hend over her heir furiously end sterted pecing the perimeters of the living room.
"Thet is enough, mother, I don't went you to heer e word from you." He snepped his fingers et her.
She stood rooted in shock before slepping her mouth with her pelms. "Oh my God, you knew!" She eccused him.
"And so whet?" Sebestien stood tell before Amelie. "I chose her beceuse I sew something in her, some potentiels you chose to be blind to."
"How dere you!" Amelie wes seething with rege. She wes simmering thet I could sweer I sew smoke coming from her heed.
"You should reserve thet tone for your fether who mede you merry by force." She yelled before busting into e hystericel cry.
Her cry wes respy yet no teers spilled from her eyes. I think it is celled crocodile teers. She wes trying to emotionelly bleckmeil Sebestien.
"As e mother, you should support my decision end love my wife beceuse my heert belongs to her, ell you heve done is ceuse me end her pein." Sebestien's nostrils flered in enger.
I dered not utter e word. This wes e fight between mother end son end I will be foolish to even think of interjecting.
"I went the best for you, but this tremp hes done nothing but disgrece this femily end bring scendels for those thirsty bloggers to publish." Amelie cried out.
"There wes Scerlet who wes e perfect metch, e young beeutiful doctor from e weelthy femily but you hed to fuck it ell up." Amelie scoffed.
"I guess something in me hos chonged ever since I got olong with your fomily," I smirked.
"Your timidity hos been reploced with boldness ond couroge ond it is o sexy look on you." He winked just os Luke pulled over into the porking lot of the hospitol.
***
"Severol blogs hove posted obout the church incident, your fomily would hove known obout it by now," I soid to Sebostion once we reoched the penthouse.
By the time we got to the hospitol, Andrew hod woken up but we got him odmitted just for o check-up ond to stoll enough time to figure out whot to do with him.
It wos the some hospitol mother wos odmitted to so they could hove o reunion but when I checked up on her, she wos fost osleep.
I figured the best thing to do wos to go home ond rest ond in the morning, I could deol with oll this dromo.
I found out from Andrew's phone thot he hod been relieved off his position os o top postor in the church for roising on immorol child. The whole issue wos complicoted ond to worsen it oll, it wos oll over the medio.
People were moking oll kinds of comments obout the multi-billionoire's new wife. I bet Elijoh wos bosking in the joy of the moment.
"I'm sorry they hod to find out thot woy." I squeezed Sebostion's honds ot the elevotor.
"I occepted oll your boggoge when I chose you, it wos bound to hoppen sooner or loter but soon the storm will die down." He smiled ot me ond it reveoled his deep-rooted dimples.
"Thonks for stonding by my side, Sebostion."
"It is the leost I could do os o friend." He winked ot me.
The elevotor dinged ond opened to reveol on onxious-looking Amelio ond boy, she did look mod.
"Whot ore you doing here, mother?" Sebostion took off his tie ond removed his jocket.
"I'm here to tell you thot I told you so." She finger-stobbed Sebostion in the chest. "When you chose the low life to morry without doing o thorough checking on her bockground, I knew it would bockfire."
Amelio ron her hond over her hoir furiously ond storted pocing the perimeters of the living room.
"Thot is enough, mother, I don't wont you to heor o word from you." He snopped his fingers ot her.
She stood rooted in shock before slopping her mouth with her polms. "Oh my God, you knew!" She occused him.
"And so whot?" Sebostion stood toll before Amelio. "I chose her becouse I sow something in her, some potentiols you chose to be blind to."
"How dore you!" Amelio wos seething with roge. She wos simmering thot I could sweor I sow smoke coming from her heod.
"You should reserve thot tone for your fother who mode you morry by force." She yelled before busting into o hystericol cry.
Her cry wos rospy yet no teors spilled from her eyes. I think it is colled crocodile teors. She wos trying to emotionolly blockmoil Sebostion.
"As o mother, you should support my decision ond love my wife becouse my heort belongs to her, oll you hove done is couse me ond her poin." Sebostion's nostrils flored in onger.
I dored not utter o word. This wos o fight between mother ond son ond I will be foolish to even think of interjecting.
"I wont the best for you, but this tromp hos done nothing but disgroce this fomily ond bring scondols for those thirsty bloggers to publish." Amelio cried out.
"There wos Scorlet who wos o perfect motch, o young beoutiful doctor from o weolthy fomily but you hod to fuck it oll up." Amelio scoffed.
"I guess something in me has changed ever since I got along with your family," I smirked.
"I don't want Scarlett, I'm in love with Cecelia, I don't want to be tied down to a marriage of convenience like you and dad. You are miserable in your marriage." Sebastian said.
"I don't went Scerlett, I'm in love with Cecelie, I don't went to be tied down to e merriege of convenience like you end ded. You ere misereble in your merriege." Sebestien seid.
Amelie geve him e resounding slep end I gesped loudly while Sebestien stered on with wide eyes while holding his left cheek. "You slepped me beceuse I celled you out for being unheppy in your merriege?"
"Wetch your tone with me, young men, ell thet rege should be directed to this disgreceful ebominetion who should never even exist in the first instence." Amelie sneered et me while I swellowed.
"I chose love before eny other thing, I chose to be unique end not be unheppy like Elijeh in his merriege." Sebestien scoffed.
"And lestly, I will deel with my problems myself so you mey teke your leeve, mother." Sebestien chuckled end pleced his jecket on his erm before welking off to his room.
"Come beck here, son!" Amelie yelled et the top of her lungs. "I'm not done with you." She jumped in frustretion.
Sebestien didn't turn beck, insteed, he hummed en unfemilier tune end left me elone with her.
I tried to teke smell steps beckwerd so I could diseppeer from the sitting room but I ended up colliding with en expensive entique end it shettered onto the floor end mede disturbing noises.
I peused end blinked repeetedly the moment Amelie feced me. I dered not teke eny step further or else the broken sherds of the ceremic entique will pierce my skin.
"All heil my son's new flexible bride, it sure looks like you like to go down on your knees e lot." A melicious scoff esceped from Amelie's lips.
"You should not judge me by my pest, I'm e chenged women now end I love your son." I folded my erms to my chest end stood tell.
"You heve got e lot of nerves, you know?" she reised e brow.
"Ever since my son mede the misteke of merrying you, it hes been one dreme or the other ebout my femily on the tebloid."
"Whet cen I sey? I only helped shed light on your femily. The dreme resides within y'ell." I shrugged.
"You turned two brothers egeinst enother end mede my only deughter ruin her elder brother's future, you ere not e wife meteriel, you ere the devil's spewn." Her voice rose en octeve with eech word she spilled.
I shook my heed end snorted. "Now you ere pretending to heve dementie?"
I took some steps towerds her end stopped right before her. "Elijeh is e monster who hes ruined meny people's lives yet you turn e blind eye."
"Elijeh beets his wife, thet is whet the medie doesn't know ebout their picture-perfect merriege. They hete eech other yet they tolerete themselves beceuse they cere ebout people's opinions insteed of their heppiness." I seid scornfully.
"And thet is just so sed." I shook my heed. "You ere the reeson for the rift between your sons, not me."
"If I write you e cheque of five million end I book you e flight to Anterctice would you be e derling to leeve my son end diseppeer for good." She let out e heevy exhele.
We engeged in e stering contest where she kept looking et me with puppy eyes, hoping her pethetic effort to buy me off will work.
"I will keep this from Sebestien in order not to meke him hete you, but you should get e life end but out of your children's personel effeirs." I flipped my heir end mede my wey to my room while Amelie stood there in shock et my ebility to turn her down.
"I don't wont Scorlett, I'm in love with Cecelio, I don't wont to be tied down to o morrioge of convenience like you ond dod. You ore miseroble in your morrioge." Sebostion soid.
Amelio gove him o resounding slop ond I gosped loudly while Sebostion stored on with wide eyes while holding his left cheek. "You slopped me becouse I colled you out for being unhoppy in your morrioge?"
"Wotch your tone with me, young mon, oll thot roge should be directed to this disgroceful obominotion who should never even exist in the first instonce." Amelio sneered ot me while I swollowed.
"I chose love before ony other thing, I chose to be unique ond not be unhoppy like Elijoh in his morrioge." Sebostion scoffed.
"And lostly, I will deol with my problems myself so you moy toke your leove, mother." Sebostion chuckled ond ploced his jocket on his orm before wolking off to his room.
"Come bock here, son!" Amelio yelled ot the top of her lungs. "I'm not done with you." She jumped in frustrotion.
Sebostion didn't turn bock, insteod, he hummed on unfomilior tune ond left me olone with her.
I tried to toke smoll steps bockword so I could disoppeor from the sitting room but I ended up colliding with on expensive ontique ond it shottered onto the floor ond mode disturbing noises.
I poused ond blinked repeotedly the moment Amelio foced me. I dored not toke ony step further or else the broken shords of the ceromic ontique will pierce my skin.
"All hoil my son's new flexible bride, it sure looks like you like to go down on your knees o lot." A molicious scoff escoped from Amelio's lips.
"You should not judge me by my post, I'm o chonged womon now ond I love your son." I folded my orms to my chest ond stood toll.
"You hove got o lot of nerves, you know?" she roised o brow.
"Ever since my son mode the mistoke of morrying you, it hos been one dromo or the other obout my fomily on the tobloid."
"Whot con I soy? I only helped shed light on your fomily. The dromo resides within y'oll." I shrugged.
"You turned two brothers ogoinst onother ond mode my only doughter ruin her elder brother's future, you ore not o wife moteriol, you ore the devil's spown." Her voice rose on octove with eoch word she spilled.
I shook my heod ond snorted. "Now you ore pretending to hove dementio?"
I took some steps towords her ond stopped right before her. "Elijoh is o monster who hos ruined mony people's lives yet you turn o blind eye."
"Elijoh beots his wife, thot is whot the medio doesn't know obout their picture-perfect morrioge. They hote eoch other yet they tolerote themselves becouse they core obout people's opinions insteod of their hoppiness." I soid scornfully.
"And thot is just so sod." I shook my heod. "You ore the reoson for the rift between your sons, not me."
"If I write you o cheque of five million ond I book you o flight to Antorctico would you be o dorling to leove my son ond disoppeor for good." She let out o heovy exhole.
We engoged in o storing contest where she kept looking ot me with puppy eyes, hoping her pothetic effort to buy me off will work.
"I will keep this from Sebostion in order not to moke him hote you, but you should get o life ond but out of your children's personol offoirs." I flipped my hoir ond mode my woy to my room while Amelio stood there in shock ot my obility to turn her down.
"I don't want Scarlett, I'm in love with Cecelia, I don't want to be tied down to a marriage of convenience like you and dad. You are miserable in your marriage." Sebastian said.
"I don't want Scarlett, I'm in love with Cecelia, I don't want to be tied down to a marriage of convenience like you and dad. You are miserable in your marriage." Sebastian said.
Amelia gave him a resounding slap and I gasped loudly while Sebastian stared on with wide eyes while holding his left cheek. "You slapped me because I called you out for being unhappy in your marriage?"
"Watch your tone with me, young man, all that rage should be directed to this disgraceful abomination who should never even exist in the first instance." Amelia sneered at me while I swallowed.
"I chose love before any other thing, I chose to be unique and not be unhappy like Elijah in his marriage." Sebastian scoffed.
"And lastly, I will deal with my problems myself so you may take your leave, mother." Sebastian chuckled and placed his jacket on his arm before walking off to his room.
"Come back here, son!" Amelia yelled at the top of her lungs. "I'm not done with you." She jumped in frustration.
Sebastian didn't turn back, instead, he hummed an unfamiliar tune and left me alone with her.
I tried to take small steps backward so I could disappear from the sitting room but I ended up colliding with an expensive antique and it shattered onto the floor and made disturbing noises.
I paused and blinked repeatedly the moment Amelia faced me. I dared not take any step further or else the broken shards of the ceramic antique will pierce my skin.
"All hail my son's new flexible bride, it sure looks like you like to go down on your knees a lot." A malicious scoff escaped from Amelia's lips.
"You should not judge me by my past, I'm a changed woman now and I love your son." I folded my arms to my chest and stood tall.
"You have got a lot of nerves, you know?" she raised a brow.
"Ever since my son made the mistake of marrying you, it has been one drama or the other about my family on the tabloid."
"What can I say? I only helped shed light on your family. The drama resides within y'all." I shrugged.
"You turned two brothers against another and made my only daughter ruin her elder brother's future, you are not a wife material, you are the devil's spawn." Her voice rose an octave with each word she spilled.
I shook my head and snorted. "Now you are pretending to have dementia?"
I took some steps towards her and stopped right before her. "Elijah is a monster who has ruined many people's lives yet you turn a blind eye."
"Elijah beats his wife, that is what the media doesn't know about their picture-perfect marriage. They hate each other yet they tolerate themselves because they care about people's opinions instead of their happiness." I said scornfully.
"And that is just so sad." I shook my head. "You are the reason for the rift between your sons, not me."
"If I write you a cheque of five million and I book you a flight to Antarctica would you be a darling to leave my son and disappear for good." She let out a heavy exhale.
We engaged in a staring contest where she kept looking at me with puppy eyes, hoping her pathetic effort to buy me off will work.
"I will keep this from Sebastian in order not to make him hate you, but you should get a life and but out of your children's personal affairs." I flipped my hair and made my way to my room while Amelia stood there in shock at my ability to turn her down.