Serena Mclane's P.O.V

"What?"Is all I manage to get out as I sit there in my seat.My fidgeting hands come to a halt as I now fist my t-shirt in a tight grip.My mind is completely blank at the moment.

I can't seem to be able to process his words.

"Dad" I finally manage to get out,

"You can't mean that, you wouldn't.I whisper as I look at him for confirmation.I want him to just start laughing, and then hug me and say it's all a big joke, that the entire ordeal was just that"

 A big joke.

But no, of course not.My father never jokes, not with me at least.

"You know I don't like repeating myself"

My father says sternly as he looks at me.

Even though we're sitting face to face, it's as if he's looking down at me.

As if he's judging me, finding all my faults and insecurities and displaying them right in front of me.

Taunting me with everything.

"B-but the business, father.You-I- you wanted me to take over the family business but I-.How?" I ask, finally giving up.

I barely have the ability to speak.

The shock potent in my words.

"I told you, I do not repeat myself"

He says standing up now, having to actually repeat himself.

"Well you're going to have to this time Dad!"

I exclaim as I now too stand up.

The anger is as clear as day in his eyes as is in mine.

It's like fire against ice.

Unfortunately for me, I'm melting and can't do anything about it.

"Roger!"

My mother says as she too slips into the study with my sister in tow.

Just then everything dawns on me.

They knew.

Both of them knew and neither of them had the decency to tell me.

I could have at least been prepared.

"Samantha please"

Almost immediately my mother silences herself but still walks up to my father.

I glance at her with pleading eyes, begging for her to reason with him.

She is my mother.

has to do

would never agree to such a

But she remains silent.

I pause as I

to stay

more

At all.

to continue my sentence; "Why do I have to marry someone? Someone I have never met? Just

business; my father starts out calmly, "You do not have enough practical knowledge in regards to the business industry:

I ask in bewilderment.

nods his head in

an outsider to show me

isn't just me asking

something far

"I have other things I need

and show

had hope, that maybe, just

he wants me to, just

at the same way he does my

always seem to fail

Damien, is a very respectable young man and is well known in the industry.Damien will show you the ropes and he will be a huge step in the right direction to bringing more fame to us.’' Without one last fleeting look, my father sits down and

stand there in complete

it? This can't

go to open my

say something, I need

of human rights and

defeat and all I feel like doing is curling up into a ball and crying for a whole entire

my shoulder encouragingly and I

can barely even look at my father nor my mother and so I let my sister drag me to wherever she

and own self belittlement, it takes a while for me to realise I'm standing in front

whispers as she pulls me into

snap out of the little trance I'm

and take a seat on the bed, wrapping my arms

whisper so low I barely hear

where I'm sitting and kneels down

"I knew."

She says.

eyes snap to meet hers,

can see remorse swirling in them as well as pity

makes me

adds fuel to

didn't you tell

I ask sharply.

back, stunned at my

but then composes herself as she takes in

to tell you but at the same time I couldn't.You

trying to plead

than you

Sarah, she barely witnesses the side he has specially reserved

do this Sarah.I

I say forcefully.

then maybe I can convince my own self that I won't go through

of work.He'll never do something like this, it's probably

to relax me and make

I know that what she's

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