There was a needle dropping silence that followed. Now, everyone is certain that something has gone wrong with Ava. Richard Lester fixed his gaze on Ava, placing his cutleries down.
Adrian Lester squinted. Her guts! Has she always been like this in the past while covering up with a quiet subtle pretence? Or had she just decided to bring out her true personality?
“Yes, we are family Ava Leon. You are the daughter in-law of this family and we couldn’t treat you less than our own daughter” Richard claimed.
“I have never openly disagreed with you, father in-law, but today I am doing so without a feeling of remorse. If you think I belong to this family as one of its members, then you are not telling the truth…” Ava was saying when Adrian interrupted her.
“Watch your words, Ava. You can’t call my dad a liar” he snapped at her. This low class dares to insinuate that his father was lying? Who the hell does she think she is?
“Did I say that your father is a liar? Don’t be too much in a hurry to tell everyone here that the words your father blurted are far from the truth.
He is not saying the truth but whether he is a liar or he was telling lies, I don’t know about that. But I will not let anyone cajole me to believe that I belong here.
This isn’t a family. People sitting together to share a breakfast table and say goodnight at the dinner table doesn’t automatically make them a family.
I was brought up to know and appreciate that a family is a group of people bonded together by love, the walls and bricks of fame, wealth and class have no place with them.
A family is a place where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, a place where each puts themselves in the shoes of others before acting or saying anything.
A family is not a place where the son can frolic around shamelessly with women openly showcasing his promiscuity and and the parents have no problem with it but they could leave someone else’s daughter to be in the storm and then in the hospital and none of them think to apologise.
I don’t know what your definition of family is, sir, but this is my definition and according to what I know and agree that a family should be, I can never belong here.
It stinks and I hate the pretentious faces I see each time I sit on this table. Faces with different shades of colour and pretends…” Ava Leon concluded with a chuckle and walked over, placed the dish on the dinning and went upstairs.
No one said anything after she left. Richard Lester stares at his wife. He had told her to check on Ava in the hospital before she would be discharged the previous day, but alas, she didn’t do it.
He really wants to apologise to her but she stayed indoors all day and wouldn’t step out to even have dinner. He only hoped she would step out for breakfast that morning and he would seize the opportunity and talk to her.
But she’d given each of them a piece of her mind and it’s enough for them to think of it all day. But Ava Leon was not usually like this.
Their attitudes towards her had probably pushed her to the point where she no longer cares. She’ll just live like a stranger in her own matrimonial home and family.
He turned and glanced at Adrian, the latter seemed not to care as he’d returned back to his breakfast. His nonchalant attitude infuriates Richard.
Didn’t he care that his wife knew about the scandal and called him promiscuous and shameless? Is he happy that she knows about it and yet, couldn’t do anything to him?
Anna Lester snorted. Whatever that tramp thinks, it’s solely her business. She thinks her son is shameless and yet, she took her shameless cunt to him to get fucked the previous evening.
But she won’t accept anymore of this nonsense. If she dares to say a word to annoy her or makes her family uncomfortable, she would deal with her in such a way that she would never forget in a hurry.
She is supposed to kiss the feet of everyone in the Lester family for the unqualified privilege of being married to the young master of the family and the only heir apparent.
Adrian loves Lola Carrero and not her. This is not something strange or new to anyone in the family. So she had to endure it for being the third wheel party in their relationship and for sabotaging someone else’s man.
Suddenly Ava descended the stairs with a backpack. She was going to the university to see her professor. Now, a few days have passed and she hasn’t done anything about her finals.
Immediately Ava got closer to them, Adrian Lester announced “Dad, Mom, Ava Leon asks for a divorce and I’m too eager to grant it…”