“Granny.” Even in this situation, the confused Mrs. Caunter was still protecting her. The tears that have been rolling in Abigail’s eyes finally went down her cheeks. This time, it was out of affection.
“Granny, have you seen who she is? She’s not our people, I am your family, your granddaughter!” Stacy screamed, her eyes showed hurt, and, the hate she felt towards Abigail.
“You bad woman, you are using Granny, you are evil!” She didn’t care anymore if there were people watching, and started cursing Abigail.
She reached out her hand and wanted to hit Abigail who was behind Mrs. Caunter.
“Stacy, that’s enough.” Bill finally had seen enough, and tried to stop her.
“Bill, look at this woman!” Stacy stomped her feet, and snitched to him. Her hating eyes never left Abigail.
“Bill, now that you are here, help me, tell them that she is my granddaughter in law.” Mrs. Caunter pulled Bill’s shirt, and asked him for help.
“Granny, don’t worry.” Bill reached out to Abigail who was behind Mrs. Caunter. “Come here, no one will hurt you.”
Abigail watched his hands move closer to her, his long fingers, smooth skin. The owner of the hand winked at her, but his face was genuine. She reached out her own little hand.
Bill was holding Abigail in one arm, and Mrs. Caunter in his other.
“Granny, I wanna talk to you about something today.” He was back to the naughty boy he was, his eyes were flashing, his handsome aura shining, making girls exclaim again.
“How about that, why don’t you allow me to marry Abigail, and she is still you granddaughter in law?” He said, his voice was emotional. The crowd was confused now, and the jounalists didn’t even have time to ask any questions, and only took pictures of this moment.
“This is messed up!” Albert said from behind.
“Bill, you…” Stacy was shocked, her tears rolling down.
“Change the topic!” Kenneth pushed his daughter, and demanded from her.
The only person who was keeping his calm was Joshua, he hasn’t said anything yet. Today, he was extraordinarily quiet. But, his eyes were giving away the amount of anger he was feeling in this moment.
Mrs. Caunter didn’t feel the change of mood of the crowd, and was buried in her own thoughts, she looked at Bill and shook and nodded her head at the same time, “I need to think about that. You are good to Abigail, but Joshua is my grandson. I need to think.”
Abigail didn’t dare to move, she has already become the middle of everyone’s attention. She has successfully made both Annie and Stacy mad, she was afraid that if she tried to get away, she would only make everyone talk more about her. So she just let Bill hold her in his arms, and didn’t move a finger.
Abigail lowered her face, no one knew hoe hot and red her face was.
Bill was hugging both women tight to himself, his breath was blowing on her face, “How about that, we go upstairs and think about it, I know that Granny is good to me, she will allow this marriage with Abigail.”
Mrs. Caunter nodded her head, the three of them looked intimate like a family, and they walked upstairs together, vanishing from everyone’s sight.
“I’m sorry, this was a joke to you all!” Albert has seen the face expression of Kenneth, and tried to calm the crowd. “This was just a small incident, my mother is old, and not quite sane anymore. Sorry everyone, sorry. Of course, the engagement of my son, and Annie is still as it is, nothing has changed, and we will set a date for the wedding soon. We welcome everyone to attend it then!”
“Joshua, let’s go and make a toast.” Annie leaned on Joshua’s chest, and said with a girly voice. Joshua pushed her away, and walked to his father, both of them looked at each other for a long time.
“Joshua, you know, this was already set.” Albert said in a warning voice to his son, he saw that Joshua’s face was not right, and he didn’t want to be humiliated once again.
“You are stupid!” Joshua said to him, and turned to walk upstairs.
“He is probably too happy and drank too much, I will go and check on him.” Annie laughed and went after him. But people have seen, that Joshua didn’t even drink one drop.
The furious Joshua went through every single one of the rooms trying to find Abigail, and finally found her in Mrs. Caunter’s room.
She was sitting in front of Bill, letting him touch her face, stroke her hair, and Mrs. Caunter also asked her once in a while, if her face hurt. What a warming scene!
When all three of them saw Joshua, their faces stiffened, and their happy expressions vanished.
“You, get out.” Joshua said to Bill, and pulled Abigail to himself.
“Joshua…” Granny said in a small voice, she was scared by the serious look on his face, and leaned towards Bill.
“Granny, don’t be afraid.” Bill said and looked at Joshua. “We will solve our problems in our own way, there is no need to drag women into this.”
“This has nothing to do with you.” He said in a deep voice, and pulled Abigail away.
Abigail was getting dizzy by the pulling and pushing of Joshua, she wanted to ask what he wanted from her, but all she got in return was heavy breathing, and the closing of doors.
Then, she was thrown on a bed.
Her body stiffened, and she tried to back away, but his big heavy body was sitting on her, giving her no space to run.
Joshua looked at her like when they just met, he looked her up and down, the despise on his face was not to be missed.
“Are you trying to seduce Bill now? Have you lost interest in my body? Am I not able to satisfy you?”
He was blaming her, and giving Abigail no chance to defend herself. She didn’t know how to explain herself to Joshua, she didn’t even know how to look at him, or what tone to use when talking to him, to make him believe her.
She thought he was angry because she didn’t take good care of granny, and let her say those things in front of the guests, but what he was actually interested in was the relationship of her and Bill.
She and him, they had nothing!
Her silence made Joshua only more angry, he pulled her with one hand, both their clothes dropped…
Then there was a sound of knocking on the door, Joshua pulled the blanket to cover Abigail, he put on a bathrobe, and went to open the door. Then he saw the annoying visitor.
Annie was standing at the door with a glass of water in her hand. When she saw Joshua’s face, she put on a smile.
“Joshua, are you alright?” She looked pass Joshua, and saw Abigail wrapped in a blanket on his bed. Her red face explained it all, she knew that something was going on in this room.
Annie’s face was full of hatred and evil when she saw Abigail, but she quickly gained control.
“Have some water. I saw that you weren’t feeling good, so I was a little worried…” She handed him the glass, her eyes flashed, unnatural.
Joshua took a step and interrupted her sight into the room. He just did some sport and what he needed right now was some rest and hydration.
He took the glass, and drank it all.
“Let’s go, Stacy is still waiting for us downstairs.” Annie said to Joshua, trying to lead him to her own room. Maybe the sport he just did was too wild, and he was tired. Right, he needed rest.
Joshua sat on the couch and leaned back, he closed his eyes, and looked like a sexy sleeping lion.
Annie shook his body, and asked, “Joshua, are you tired?”
He didn’t reply, and Annie smirked successfully. She smacked his face lightly, and laughed.
Then she took out her phone and called a number.
“Mr. Woods? Joshua said he wanted to say something about the engagement, could you come upstairs? Third door on the left, it’s not locked, you can just come in!”
…
“Oh my god, what is this?? You and Joshua!” Stacy’s voice was so loud, it could be heard in the whole house. She was holding a magazine in her hand, and just saw something.
“Stacy, stop yelling!” Annie pretended to be shy about what Stacy just found, “Every one of the press has this picture now, this is so embarrassing!”
She pretended to be trying to take it away from Stacy, but this made her only scream louder, “Everyone, come and look at this! Just a few minutes after announcing the engagement, they were caught in bed, this is love!”
“Shut up, this is all to blame on Joshua, he didn’t even lock the door…” In her voice you could hear the sweetness, she didn’t want this to end, so she had asked the journalist to come up to her room, to get everyone’s attention on this.
And now, what she wanted was for Stacy to tell the whole world about their relationship.
“Oh my, I think my brother can’t wait anymore, he didn’t even lock the door before…” Stacy was holding the magazine and running back and forth, making all of the maids raise their heads.
Abigail was coming down with Mrs. Caunter, they have heard the screams from upstairs. Just when they arrived, she saw something flying through the air. It was a magazine, and it landed on the cover page. Annie was laying on a man’s body, and when she raised her head to look at the camera, she uncovered the face of the man under her.
Joshua!
Abigail blinked her eyes, they were dry. She couldn’t explain the feeling crawling up in her now, she was just about to turn around, when she saw another picture, it was the one where Bill was holding her and Mrs. Caunter. The three of them looked like a small family, so warm and sweet.
“What’s wrong? Are you trying to get Bill now? You think just because there is a picture of you and him, he will marry you? Don’t think too much about it, he is mine!” Stacy’s evil eyes landed on Abigail, the smile she just had was vanished.
She walked to Abigail, and picked up the magazine, then she ripped out the page with the picture. Abigail’s face was ripped into two, then four, then eight, until the picture was only broken pieces. Then Stacy threw them into Abigail’s face.
“There is no way for you to even touch Bill!” After throwing the pieces at her, she raised a finger and pointed so close to Abigail’s face that she almost poked into her eye.
Mrs. Caunter who was standing next to them got scared, she pressed herself closer to Abigail, who was patting her shoulders trying to assure her, and saying, “Granny, don’t be afraid, let’s go.”
“See, she’s afraid.” Stacy said to Abigail’s back, and laughed hysterically.