“How about you leave- for my brother’s sake…” I asked in the most polite tone I could muster as she looked at me dazed.
“… c’mon, I know you… you’re Heather Winfrey. Notorious for your insatiable lust for men of elite background. No matter how hard you try, there’s just no way for me to see you any less than a sly opportunist. There’s no way I’m going to let you ruin my brother like you’ve done to many others before him.” I stated spitefully but didn’t notice Cal behind us.
“What the hell, Ava?! I understand that you weren’t going to be forthcoming with the idea of me seeing someone, but this is just too far even from you! No matter how difficult it is for you, it gives you no right to be rude to my guest- apologize immediately!” He yelled disappointedly at me.
Well, isn’t this just perfect? The first time Callum is yelling at me is in front of Heather Winfrey of all people. I’ve never seen him this mad before and I’ve done worst things than these, but she shows up and all of a sudden he’s disappointed at me?
“Permit me to say this, but she just had dinner with us, so technically she’s no longer a guest and I can be free to express myself to her. And wasn’t this meeting for the purpose of us getting to know each other? Then why should I apologize for letting her know what I like and what I don’t? Why should I apologize for telling her that I really don’t like her?” I asked back angrily before storming out on both of them.
I’m not gonna to lie, Cal’s words and anger towards me tonight were totally outrageous. I was about to climb upstairs to my room when I overheard them talking.
“C’mon babe, it’s clear she just needs time to adjust to having me, and I really didn’t mind what she said to me. It seems I have a long way to go before i get to her, but I’m glad she’s honest about how she feels. You shouldn’t be mad at her for that.” she said calmly.
“She insulted you and I won’t stand that. She’s not a teenager to act out like that, that’s not how one should behave.” Cal stated, still upset.
“I’m not mad at her. I’m sure I must have said something that triggered her. Thank you so much for dinner, it was marvelous, but I have to head back- I still have some land development documents I have to go through. You have to go talk to her- like right now, please.” She pleaded with my brother.
“Let me see you out… I’m so sorry about tonight” he said calmly as he walked her to the door.
I heard him reluctantly come up the stairs after seeing her off, so I ran to my room, shut the door behind me and laid on my bed.
Seconds later I heard a knock on the door before it swung open. He approached me on the bed where I buried my face in my pillow and he stood still.
“I’m sorry I raised my voice at you, A. I shouldn’t have acted like that, especially since you were trying so hard to be nice in your own way.” He commented nervously.
I raised my head from the pillow and sat on the bed hugging one of the other fluffier pillows.
“She means so much to me and I just wanted you to get to know her better, that’s all” he included, sitting beside me.
“I can see how important she is to you, I mean you may have never come up here to talk things over if she hadn’t ask you to.” I said sadly and upset.
He noticed I was now upset and tried to move closer to comfort me, but I resisted his attempt.
“C’mon A, don’t say that. You’re important to me too and…”
“can you please leave my room? I’ve had a long day and an even longer d tomorrow, so I need to rest.” I interrupted in calm anger.
“But I wanted to talk about how you acted down there too, it was totally uncalled for- you’re smarter than that.” He continued, completely ignoring me asking him to leave my room.
“(Scoff)… of course I’m smarter than that, which was why I refused to waste my energy trying to pretend like there would ever be a chance of me liking her. I didn’t like her before now and I will never like her. But, if you’ve decided to continue seeing her, then you’d better leave me out of it”. I replied angrier than I was, as I stormed off to the bathroom and shut the door.
Such nerve they both have, insulting my intelligence. First it was her treating me like I’m some dumb kid, and now he’s trying to tell me how smart I am not to be foolish?
I’m beyond infuriated right now and I need to calm down before I tire myself out. But tonight was evidentiary that I have a duty to put a stop to this stupid joke before it goes any further.
Callum needs to understand that wealth and class aren’t all the qualities befitting any lady he choose to be involved with, but also intelligence and character are paramount and would make a for a fine life partner for him.
Livy
It’s been a week since Markian unexpected return from his business trip to New York, and every time I see him I feel an excruciating pain weighing on my chest.
When he noticed that pictures and portraits of both of us were missing from the halls, he asked me about them and I had to tell another lie.
If I continue to keep this secret any longer than these, it might become more injurious to everyone than I intended.
But for some reason, Sophia have not been forthcoming about things either.
Since Markian returned, Sophia have suddenly grown cold feet and keeps backing out on our plan to reveal herself to him. Our last attempt was 2days ago,
“I can’t do these. I know he’s right in front of me, but I can’t seem to be able to move further than these” she explained.
Why? He is right there, you don’t even need to say anything for these nightmare to end, all you have to do is just walk in, I tried to spit out but couldn’t. We hid behind a shelf in the library being stealth.
“You can’t keep doing these every time we get close to achieving our goal. I thought you really wanted to meet him? You said so yourself- in fact you’ve not kept shut about it since he came back 5days ago. But each time we make plans and try to execute, you grow cold feet and back out, it’s becoming quite exhausting.” I blurted our feeling extremely uncomfortable and anxious.
“I know ok?… but for fu’k sake, I’m kinda nervous here- can’t you tell? What if he doesn’t believe me? What if he’s forgotten above me and moved on? I still cant remember the state our marriage was before my accident, what if he doubts my intentions like you did initially? I don’t know if I can bear the pain of his rejection” she stated sadly.