Abigail was pulling on her clothes, even though it was a hot day, she was feeling cold.
Bill saw her movement, and turned the AC down, while he kept talking to her, “Abigail, all this I am doing for you! I am not a person who wanted to get married, but for you, I can do that!”
“You… why do you like me?” Abigail finally showed a reaction to his talk, it was only one question, but it made Bill so happy.
“I just like you, does it have to have a reason? Just believe me, the first time I saw you, I knew that you were an innocent, pure and nice girl. You are like an angel that has arrive on earth, there is nothing bad about you, and what I want, is exactly someone like you.”
He nodded, his eyes were warm.
“Then you must have seen really wrong, cause you are mistaken.” Abigail laughed sadly, and looked elsewhere.
Suddenly, all her feelings were complicated now. She didn’t know what to feel towards Bill’s love to her, but she was not happy about it. She has lost her girly side already to the bad times she had to face with Joshua, and all she has not, is a broken heart, the only part that was still okay about her, was her baby.
The only bit of love she had left, was all for her child.
Abigail shook her head, as if she just heard a joke, and then said consistently, “Bring me to the Caunter house.”
Bill’s hands dropped, like he just lost a big fight, and his head lowered too, but then he raised it again, and said, “Maybe you don’t believe me now, but I will make you trust me.”
He started the car, and drove towards the house.
Mrs. Caunter was still trowing a tantrum, and Harry has already lost her patience.
If she knew that the reason for her to come here was to spend time with this old woman, she would never agree to come. Joshua was sitting on the other side, and was trying to calm Mrs. Caunter down, but she was behaving like a child, cursing him all along, and telling him to go look for Abigail.
Harry frowned on her, and stood up.
“Joshua, I am leaving now.”
That’s just how she was, if she wasn’t happy about something, she would just walk away from it, and that is exactly the reason why Joshua wold allow her by his side.
Annie was standing in the hall, her eyes were shooting hate towards her, “You are a shameless person to seduce my fiance.”
Harry shook her head full of pretty hair, and as a model, she was taller than Annie, so she looked more powerful than her.
“If he is you fiance, why can’t you keep him in the house?” She snipped her fingers, not caring at all. Then she passed Annie, grabbed her little bag, and left.
Annie was so mad that her face was green, she didn’t know what to reply to Harry’s words, so all she could do was stare at her speechless, until she vanished from her sight.
That was hateful!
Harry didn’t even need to turn around to know that she has driven Annie crazy, and she was being arrogant about it. With shaking her hair out of her face, she was showing a pair of long earrings, which really fitted her long neck.
Before, she used to be just like Annie, really tried to appear a lot, but, after she had thought about it for a while, she noticed that Joshua didn’t play along, she she had to change her plans. Every man liked to play games, so she would face Joshua with an attitude that showed she didn’t care at all.
The truth told that her new plan worked, Joshua seemed to have a lot of interest in her now, and it was especially noticable with all the picture they have taken for magazines.
She had confidence, that Joshua would be hers soon, and she would be the female master of the Caunter house.
When she went out of the door, Abigail was just getting off Bill’s car, and thinking about if she should go inside. Harry smiled at Bill, because they knew each other.
Of course, she had seen Abigail before, so they kind of knew each other as well.
She blinked her eyes, her new lashes were covering her eyes, and she was spreading the smell of make up on her.
“Can Mister Clinton maybe give me a ride?” She didn’t care that she was talking to other men in front of the Caunter house, and only a girl who was different than others would get Joshua’s attention, wasn’t i?
Bill shook his head and smiled to her, “I am sorry, but I can’t.”
“Alright.” She didn’t insist, and only turned her body, she called Joshua who was just a few meters away, and said, “Joshua, Abigail is back, why don’t you come down and be with me? Oh, okay.” She hung up the phone, and waved to a driver, then she left.
“You can go home.” Bill was holding the door for her, and actually didn’t want her to go.
Abigail nodded her head, and said lightly, “No matter what, I still need to thank you.”
Bill didn’t say anything else, only gave her a smile. Then he drove away. Abigail saw his expression for the first time, and wasn’t sure what she should feel inside.
She shook her head, and tried to get rid of Bill’s face in her head, then she stood up straight, and went into the Caunter house.
“Abigail, Abigail!” Mrs. Caunter appeared, god knows where she got the news that she was back, and walked towards her.
“Granny, be careful, don’t fall.” Mrs. Caunter’s welcome was helping with her awkwardness, she looked as if she just saw her own family, her face was so happy.
Joshua was standing on the second floor, and watching all of this, his fists were clenched, his face was dark.
At the dinner table Mrs. Caunter was looking really mad.
She was still mad at Joshua that he was holding another woman in front of all those people, and that he said Abigail was only a slave in her house. And now, she wasn’t speaking at all, she wasn’t eating either, she was only staring at the table.
“Granny, don’t be mad, come, eat something.”
“Granny, eat some fish.”
Two pair of chopsticks landed in Granny’s bowl at the same time, and touched the other one. Abigail’s face blushed, and she took her own back quickly, Joshua looked at her, and helped his grandmother get some dishes.
“That’s right, I want you both to give me food together, and go on walks with me.” Granny was showing a smile on her face again, satisfied with their performances.
“Yes, as long as you are happy, I will take all the time for you.” Joshua said to her, while giving her some more food. Abigail as only minding her own dinner, and was eating with her eyes fixed on the table.
Maybe it was because of her pregnancy, she really was hungry a lot.
Annie on the other side was pale in her face, she looked at Joshua carefully, and didn’t know what to say. She has seen the news, how he had announced that Harry was his girlfriend in front of all those people, so where did that put her as his fiance?
There were so many journalists there, and everyone would know about it by tomorrow, she didn’t know how to show her face again, how to face all those girls who were jealous of her, what would they say?
And the most important thing, would Harry try to take her place as the future Mrs. Caunter? She was having her eye on this position for more than ten years, no one was allowed to take it from her.
Harry was an enemy, compared to Abigail, she would be harder to get rid of.
She had to fight this girl, and get Joshua back, but how?
Annie was deep in her thoughts.
While Stacy was eating, she was looking at her brother once in a while, trying to guess what he was thinking. These days, she has calmed down a lot, usually she would always say something about Granny, or Abigail, but today, she was awfully quiet.
She was just looking for a chance to convince her brother, that she didn’t need to go abroad.
She was so used to the life that she was living at home, if she was alone in a foreign country, she wouldn’t even know how to survive. She didn’t want to be pulled out of her luxury life now.
When Joshua saw that his grandmother was laughing, his mood also lit up, so Stacy took all of her courage and said, “Joshua, can I please not go abroad?”
“No!” Joshua denied immediately.
“I promise you, I will never get into trouble again, and you can ask her, I haven’t done anything to her, I haven’t even said anything about Granny.” Stacy pointed to Abigail.
Abigail didn’t expect to be pulled into this conversation, so she just nodded her head.
“You gotta go and study, only then, you can be independent. This kind of life has nothing good for you.” Joshua denied her begging, and Stacy started to cry, “Am I not your sister anymore? Why would you treat other people better than me!”
Joshua stiffened, and stared at Stacy for a long time, then he looked away, “There are no excuses to be made, you need to learn to be independent, if you are going to beg me again, I will only send you out earlier!”
“You! Hmph!” Stacy threw her bowl away, and left the room.
…
Abigail just sent Mrs. Caunter to her room for her nightly rest, and was having a rest of her own, sitting in the living room having some tea. These days, Annie didn’t like to walk around in the house anymore, and Stacy was always having English classes. The house was awfully quiet.
Abigail was laying on the couch lazy, she felt that her back was hurting. Her tummy was getting bigger by the day, and she was trying to relax herself as much as she could, not giving her baby any pressure.
At least her dresses were all big enough to cover up her bump, but sometimes it would still be visible.
Stacy was mad again, her face red, her veins popping, and appeared out of nowhere in front of Abigail, pointing a magazine on her.
“Look at what you have done!”
Abigail had no idea what she was talking about, she didn’t know what she has done to annoy her again. So she looked at the magazine, and saw the handsome profile of Bill.
He was looking warm and softly, focused on something in front of him. Both of his hands were laying on the person’s shoulder, that was standing in front of him, who was having her head lowered, with a man’s white suit jacket around her. And clearly, this person was Abigail!
Oh, so those journalists have gotten a picture of her that day.
From this angle, Abigail and Bill looked like a loving couple.
“You are misunderstanding.” Abigail remembered the awkward situation that day, and pressed her lips together, she was going to explain it to Stacy.
Stacy was completely furious, she never wanted to see such a picture of her loved one, and she was never going to listen to Abigail explain anything. Her long fingers were formed into a claw, and she was screaming, “Do you think I am a little kid? This clearly is a picture of you two being intimate, and you don’t even want to admit! What do you want! You know exactly that I like him, but you try to get to him again and again, you are a shameless woman!”
The more she talked the madder she got, and with her hand, she knocked off Abigail’s cup of tea, the hot water spread on Abigail.
“Ahh!” Abigail was burned by the hot water, and she tried to keep her dress away from the skin, wiping the water off it, but still, she was burned through the clothes, and it hurt so much! She couldn’t help but to knit her brows in pain, and her face formed into a grimace.
“Does it hurt? I want exactly that!” Stacy was feeling a little better knowing that Abigail was in pain, she looked around and saw some of the maids cleaning the floor, and a bucket of dirty water next to them.