While Grandfather was waiting for Aurora, Clem had gone to see Patrick. He was not sent to him, but decided to invite him for a drink. It is no news to those around Adrian that he was a sibling with Patrick.
Patrick came over to have the drinks with Clem. He knows Adrian must have sent him to him to either beg him or find out if he’s still hurt and furious with him.
As he sat down on the high seat, Clem, poured himself a drink. He signals to the bartender “These aren’t going to be enough, serve us more” he requested.
Patrick saw him, something was wrong with Clem. He was laughing too exaggeratedly. He kept pouring himself drinks at intervals until he was forced to ask “Why did you invite me for a drink!”
Clem laughed again ” What’s wrong inviting my boss’ best friend turned brother for a drink? Are you uncomfortable being with me?” He asked, pouring himself another drink.
“Those are in the past. Not anymore and I am not his brother” Patrick snapped at him. If he wouldn’t agree to be his friend anymore, how can he be his brother?
“Yes, sure. The ties have been broken. If not for anything that is related to Aurora, it’s definitely due to the scandal outbreak” Clem stuttered, grabbed the glass of wine and gulped down its entire content.
Patrick glared at him and looked away. He doesn’t understand what Clem is up to at all. He talks in such a way that he feels he meant something else.
“I hope you have forgotten about the whole scandal outbreak? You see, Adrian has been through a lot in his life. He has sacrificed so much for his family and he’d always been a good friend to you when the going was good between the both of you.
His supposed dead wife was discovered to be alive. His best friend knows about it and didn’t tell him” Clem paused and took a sip from the alcohol, Patrick felt a tinge of guilt. He’s that best friend that didn’t tell him.
Meanwhile, he continued “The woman rejected him and only wants a divorce. He loves her now, but she hates him. She denied him his right over his daughter and ensured he doesn’t appear in the little girl’s life as her father.
I don’t blame her at all. She found love and happiness in her ex-husband friend. I’m sure that best friend was the one urging her for divorce, they can’t wait to be together. Yeah, and Adrian understood that too” he paused again and poured himself another glass.
“You see, in this life, be careful with whom you trust and put your life in their hands. Your best friend might turn out to be your worst enemy and that woman you love might be your ruin.
Who would have imagined that Adrian’s best friend couldn’t find himself any woman in the entire continent and the world at large except that woman: his friend’s wife and the only woman his friend now loves?
I was going to ask who Elsie’s real father was. Because I began to analyze it and realized that since Elsie took after her grandma, and Adrian’s best friend shares the same grandmother with him, I stood in doubt” Again, Clem paused and took a sip.
At this time, Patrick was quiet. He didn’t say anything nor was he eager for Clem to finish his words. His false claim over Aurora was now being used against him. But is that enough for him to spread scandal about them?
“Then his mother’s imprisonment took a toll on him especially now that Richard divorced her. He couldn’t bear the separation between his parents but he still managed to walk with his shoulders high.
So many thoughts weighed the young man down. The heartbreak, the rejection, the betrayal and the separation of his parents. But the height of it came, when everyone turned their backs against him” He paused for a long time.
Drank an entire glass of wine and saw that the bottle had become empty. He opened the other and poured himself another glass. He saw that Patrick was not taking his drinks, but held it, staying fixed at a posture like a stature.
He smirks. The words were sinking into him. A mistake of a friend. How can he do that to his own friend? How can a woman come between them and he even believed the scandal was from his friend and said naughty words to the journalist about him, how can he?
“You see, a broken man who woke up one morning to be accused of being responsible for a scandal. You have known Adrian for many years as a friend, has he ever spread scandal about any one or sponsored it?
Why would he do it now, to the woman he loves? They may be divorced, but he loves Aurora. When you broke the bad news of betrayal and heartbreak to him that day at the club, telling him you now sleep around with his ex wife, did you know the mental breakdown you gave him?
Did you know what he went through the entire night? Can you quantify his tears and the pangs of pain his heart felt, No. You can’t, how can you when you took her home for the night?
He survived the night only to be dazed with blows of accusations the next morning. He made me see that the news about Aurora got deleted. The more I was doing that, the more the nicu pup who was pushing it online created more.
He was deleting it, you were busy ranting to the journalist about him. I must commend you for that level of backstabbing. It was amazing and left the young man bleeding and he might keep bleeding for the rest of his life.
Whoever did this, didn’t have Adrian in mind but Aurora. And that person is not Adrian at all. He is innocent. He was already in a difficult situation, you worsened it.
And how do you feel when you discovered in an attempt to please his other son, Richard Lester your father got a court restriction against Adrian’s finances. Not even a single one of his black cards were available.
Your father couldn’t bear it, seeing how pissed up his son from his most beloved woman felt. He definitely loves your mom and you more than Adrian now.
And there was a misunderstanding between the both of them. Adrian has been missing from the evening of the day that scandal broke out.
Now Richard is worried sick about him. We’re searching for him everywhere. We don’t know where he is, maybe dead or alive, no one can say exactly a word about him.
He left without a penny. No one believed him. Because of his mother, they all gang up against him and say horrible words to him about something he knows nothing about.
He was defending and protecting her, but he got the opposite. Nothing hurts more than being stabbed by those who are the closest, those you love the most. It hurts a lot.
And you, Patrick Connor or Patrick Lester or maybe Patrick Wesley, whichever you choose, knows the part you have played in that young man’s life.
I don’t know how you’ll feel, the day you come face to face with him, that’s if he’s still alive, if depression hasn’t driven him to his death” Clem concluded and stood up.
“If you know anything about him, let us know. In the meantime, enjoy your drinks, they’re on me” he declared, brought out his card, paid and walked away leaving Patrick stiffened on his seat.
Meanwhile, Aurora arrived at the Lester family and grandfather came out to welcome her himself, leaning on his stick..