Chapter 41 She is Mine

Book:t9 Published:2024-5-1

Run?
Abigail paused, why would he think that she was going to run away? Was it because he saw her with Bill, his enemy, and now he was mad, and these were just words of anger?
She didn’t have the time to think further about it, the person Abigail was most worried about was still grandma.
“Granny, is she okay?” She didn’t explain anything, and asked about her grandmother’s condition. Her face was full of hope.
His already angry face turned even darker and shot a sight towards Abigail, Joshua bit his teeth and said coldly, “Don’t you know how she is doing? Poor woman still believes you, you big far liar, and you, you are the one who beat her, no wonder Stacy said that you are an evil woman. You really are!”
Granny was hurt? Abigail’s face went pale, she was so worried that she almost fought off Bill’s constraint. “How did she get hurt? She was still alright when we came out! Is it serious? Is she…”
“That’s enough!” Joshua fell in her word without any pity, his eyes fixed on Bill. “The fact that Grandma got hurt also has a connection to you!”
Bill squeezed his eyes, the smile that was always on his face was not there. Instead, he said in a very serious manner to Joshua, “If I said that it has not only nothing to do with me, but also nothing with Abigail, would you believe me?”
Joshua’s lips raised to form a cold smile. It was more than obvious, that he didn’t believe him at all.
“Since this is what it is, then let’s talk about something else.” Bill gestured Abigail to sit opposite to Joshua, and he himself sat down next to Abigail.
Abigail was still thinking about granny’s condition, but she did not allow herself to ask more about her in Joshua’s presence. She crossed her fingers, she was really worried.
“I like Abigail, and I wanna marry her, but I know that you and her have had a past. So I am here to talk to you, find a way to solve this problem.” Bill patted Abigail on her back, who was so buried in her thoughts that she did not notice they were talking about her.
Joshua was now fixing his dark cold eyes on Abigail. He understood her silence as a wish to leave him as soon as only possible. But, he would not let her.
Joshua pressed his lips together, and leaved his body into the couch chair, making himself look lazy and relaxed like a jaguar. He turned the chair a little back and forth, then he waved his hand. “Nope, there is no way at all to solve this. Only, if you let her to be my slave.”
These two excellent men were watching each other, like two lions fighting for a piece of meat, ready to start a painful fight any minute.
“Joshua.” Bill also leaned his body back on he chair, not forgetting to stoke up and down Abigail’s back with his hand. Joshua was watching his hand, if eyes could only kill.
At the same time, he also noticed that Abigail had changed a lot.
Her previously curled hair was straight now, she had light make up on her face, and it brought out the beauty of it.
Her lips were a little sipped up, like a ripe strawberry that is waiting to be eaten by someone, smelling it, it was almost impossible to resist the need to take a bite. Her little curled eye lashes were moving with her eyes, silently inviting men, and her eyebrows were resting on her white skin, which was soft like the one of a baby.
She was wearing a cocktail dress that was running down her perfect body, the front part of the dress was shorter than the back, leaving her knees visible, letting others enjoy the sexy part of her legs.
Just watching her like this, his body was starting to react to it.
Shit!
He cursed, clenched his on the couch resting hands into fists, his veins came visible, his anger as well.
It was too obvious for Bill not to see his anger, but he kept calm enough, “You seem to like her as well?”
“Not possible!” Joshua denied.
Bill showed a victory smile on his face, “Then it is the best. About Michelle, I am still finding more information about her, but there definitely are some things already. I’m sure we will have results soon enough. What I can tell you now is, she is not as simple as she might seem, she has a lot of support behind her. What she is doing, is being forced, so her liking you, is out of other reasons.”
“Shut up!” Joshua hit his fist on the table, making a loud sound. “If you are only thinking about ruining Michelle, I am not gonna let it go.”
The tip of the gun was pointed at Bill, as if he was going to shoot him any second.
“You…” Abigail was woken from her day dreams because of the loud noise that Joshua made. The scene she saw scared her so much that all color vanished from her face. She pointed at the gun in Joshua’s hand, and said, “This… This is illegal, you can’t…”
“Look at you, you have scared Abigail.” Bill didn’t even bother the gun that was pointed at him, and took Abigail into his arms like a treasure. “Don’t be scared, Abigail, we are just joking.”
“Don’t think that I am joking with you, I didn’t kill you that day, is because of our history, so I let you go. But today, don’t expect me to be nice again.” Joshua denied Bill’s words. Seeing Abigail and Bill so close together was hurting his eyes, he couldn’t wait to separate these two.
“Come over, otherwise I will shoot him.” Joshua demanded from Abigail, the sitting body stood up suddenly, and the gun that was pointed at Bill, was not in front of his face.
“No!” Abigail was so scared now that she almost lost her voice, she fought of Bill’s hug, and stood up, but she didn’t walk towards Joshua, as she was told.
He looked so horrifying, just like he was going to eat them up, would he really kill him? Listening to their conversation, one might think they used to be good friends.
“Abigail, don’t be scared.” Bill was the one in danger, but he didn’t act like it at all, he took Abigail’s hand into his big one, and tried to comfort her.
BANG!
The loud sound of a bullet being fired, it flew on the side of Bill’s head into the wall behind him.
“AH!” Abigail threw herself on the floor, her eyes widened, she couldn’t believe that Joshua really fired.
“It’s okay, Abigail, don’t be scared.” Her arm was held by Bill, her whole body was trembling. Just as she was about to stand up, she felt a grip on her right arm, she was pulled by Joshua.
“Come with me.” Joshua demanded from her with emotionless voice, the gun still in his hand.
“I…” Abigail was enduring the pain in her arm, scared, and trying to get closer to Bill.
“Come with me!” The grip was tightened on her arm, pulling her towards himself. Even though Bill was not using force, but he also didn’t let go. Abigail was in between those two, looking left then right, undecided what she should do.
“Don’t treat women like that.” Bill used his strong arms and hugged Abigail’s shoulder, while saying, “If you wanna take her away, why don’t we have a fair game.”
Abigail looked towards where Bill’s gaze was at, and saw the deck of cards laying on the table.
“One game win or lose. If you win, you can take Abigail with you. And you can have all my shares in my company, that means, I will give you all my finances. Of course.” He stopped for a second, as if he was thinking what Joshua was capable of, “If you lose, this woman will have nothing to do with you.”
“Sure thing.” Joshua’s wild eyes never even left Abigail’s face, he quickly threw the gun out of the windows.
Just like that, Abigail has become the pawn between these two men.
She looked at Bill, then at Joshua, and didn’t know what to do. So she sat down and waited.
Bill said that if he lost, except for letting Joshua have her, he will also let him have his money. This was a really big bet, and not fair at all. Wasn’t he taking a big risk?
“Sir…”
“Call me Bill.” Bill gave her a big smile, his head tilted to the side. This gesture made Joshua sick to the stomach, having to watch them like this, he wished to be able to cut the air between them.
Bill on the other hand was feeling good about the tension he had caused in Joshua’s head, he laughed happily, his long fingers tapped on Abigail’s little hand, showing only love.
Abigail could not stand the stinging look of Joshua on her, so she took her hand back awkwardly, “You… you are risking too much, I don’t think…”
“Are you worried about me?” Bill put his hand on his chest, his expression touched by her words, “Abigail, I didn’t know you cared so much for me.”
“You…” Abigail was speechless, but she didn’t want Joshua to misunderstand her, so she shut her mouth.
She watched both man, both of them were handsome, elegant. One of them was cold as ice, the other one warm like the sun, but both were astonishing.
She wanted neither of them to lose.
She didn’t know Bill for long, but he had saved her life twice already, he was her hero. Joshua on the other hand, was the father of the child growing in her. The scale in her heart was pending back and forth, but it couldn’t decide on one.
“I’m sorry Josh, but you lost.”
Bill’s voice interrupted Abigail’s thoughts, she looked at the table. A triple King in front of Joshua, but Bill had triple Ace. Just by looking at their face expressions, she knew that Bill won.
“This woman is mine from now on.” Bill openly hugged Abigail, announcing. Abigail felt disappointed in her heart.
Is she going to leave Joshua just like that, leave granny? And… Joshua was the father of her child…
She shook her head, this felt so unreal, like a dream. She dreamed about leaving Joshua for so many times, but now that it was reality, she didn’t want to anymore.
She was reluctant to leave the nights with Joshua, the loving voice of Granny, even the up to no good face of Stacy.
Joshua was spreading an cold aura from himself, the black shirt he was wearing made his face look only colder than ice, his look was dignified. He moved his gaze on Abigail, his expression complicated.
“Let’s go.” Bill put his arm around Abigail’s waist, moving her outside.
“You really are my lucky start.” Bill’s soft lips were saying on Abigail’s ears.