I have escalated the whole situation way too serious now, is Dad really going to sacrifice his company to save me? Torah had a feeling that she had no where to go anymore, that the only way for her was to die.
“Your words have reminded me, right now you still have some worth to me, I am not going to let you die for now.” Harold suddenly was reminded that she still had some worth left, and asked the guards to lock her in the other private house of his.
When the guards pulled Torah away, she stared at Harold with disgusted eyes, even though she was allowed to live, but that was only until Harold was done with her.
The despair has made Torah mad, she started to laugh like a witch, head up high into the sky. Harold ignored her madness, and went back to his house when things were done. The kidnapping was finally solved, and Harold was worried that if Torah wasn’t taken care of soon, she might find some way to mess things up again. At least now he was kind of happy that Jenny has gotten out, now Torah won’t be able to hurt her anymore.
“Mr. Quarrington.” The sun had already risen when he got back to his house, the maids greeted him.
“Has she taken her meal?” Harold asked her subconsciously about Jenny, he was still thinking about her, but forgot that she has left long ago.
“Sir, Miss Andrews, she…”
Harold’s body stiffened, how could he forget. Suddenly he felt as if everything important to him has been taken away, and nothing would be able to fill that gap. He went to Jenny’s room, opened the door, and breathed in her smell, it smelled so good, so calming to him. But, even though there was some of her scent left, she was never going to come back to this room again.
Harold sat on her bed, his gaze staring into the air, it was as if his soul has left him. He was remembering the times they shared. Was she not having any pain in heart at all after she left?
On the table was the book Jenny was reading when she had nothing to do. He took it into his hands, and opened it to the page that had the bookmark in it.
“Time will let the things in the deep only go deeper, the shallow things will be more shallow. If you don’t take it serious anymore, it will hurt less. When time has passed, love has faded, and it has dispersed, don’t wait for those who shouldn’t be waited for, don’t be sad. It really took us a long, long time before we could understand what kind of people and things we really miss.”
He read the paragraph, trying to understand what Jenny was feeling that moment.
She wanted to stop caring about what I felt towards her, so she won’t be as sad anymore. Will she understand my love for her? Will she remember the memories she shared?
Harold, who hasn’t slept the whole night, lied down on Jenny’s bed, and fell asleep as if she was next to him.
After Torah has run away the last time, Harold had asked her parents to come, hoping they might tell him where she was. But they didn’t, they even blamed Harold for that he didn’t want to save Torah the day of their wedding.
But Harold was reminded that the Andrews lied to him first, but they were afraid that they will get themselves into trouble, so they didn’t dare to admit to know anything, so they left the Quarrington house that day.
……
When the Andrews found out again that Torah was locked in Harold’s house, Yasmine could not hold her anger anymore and wanted to go to Harold’s and ask him who he was to hold her daughter captive.
“Yasmine, don’t go to Harold, you know what a man he is, he won’t just let Torah go.” The Andrews family already had enough problems because of Torah. Torah’s father Sean was trying his best to keep her mother from going to Harold’s house, he knew that Torah has done the unforgivable, and Harold is not going to let it go this time anymore.
He was even worried it might have a negative effect on his company, Sean didn’t want to upset Harold even more.
“Sean, if it wasn’t for you, if you haven’t had that child with that bitch, do you think our family would be here now? She has been kidnapped and you don’t even have the money to get her free! Can you imagine her weak body going through all of that?” Yasmine only needed to think of her child being held captive, the little girl who has never had to endure anything like this, and she started to sob. “Are you not going to do anything at all? Are you still her father?”
Sean was helpless, on one hand he was afraid of what Harold would be capable of, on the other hand he was worried about his little girl.
“If you are not going, then I am gonna go. I will make sure to bring my daughter back, and then I’m gonna get a divorce!”
“Yasmine, calm down please! Give me some time, I will think of something!”
Yasmine has seen that Sean is not going to care about his own child anymore, she was angry at herself that she has forgiven him all those years ago, Torah was their child, their blood and flesh, she was afraid something would happen to her. “If I wait for you to come up with something, she might have died already.”
Yasmine turned around and left for the Harold’s.
Sean watched his wife walk away, thinking of the mistakes he has made. If it wasn’t for the affair he had, maybe they would have a happy little family now, but instead, it was falling into ashes.
…….
The usually quiet Quarrington house was weirdly noisy these days.
The butler knocked on the door and woke up Harold, who was sleeping tightly on the bed. He dreamed that everything unhappy in his life was vanished. He was treating Jenny with love instead of with cold, and his look was also soft. Only if he was being good to her, he would get the same back from Jenny.
All the blackmailing, the luring, the hate, none of them existed anymore.
They were in love, holding each other, laying on the beach, with them a child, the sun shining on them, the wind blowing softly…
Under the cold and serious surface of this man, was a soft and warm heart.
Just when he was enjoying his dream, he was awakened by the knock on the door, pulling him out of his sleep.
“Come in.” Harold said annoyed.
The butler opened the door and said carefully, “Mr. Quarrington, Torah’s mother is here, she says she wants to see her daughter.”
“I haven’t gone for them yet, now they are coming here voluntary.” Harold gave a cold laugh and went downstaris.
“Mrs. Andrews, how come you have time to pay me a visit today? You should’ve told me, I would’ve asked my people to pick you up!” Harold said mockingly.
“Pay a visit? Who has time to pay you a visit, where is my daughter, let her go!” Yasmine heard the undertone he was talking in, and got even angrier than she already was.
“You can’t even raise your kid right, and now you want me to set her free?”
“I know she is here! Who are you to keep her captive?”