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

never agree to such

But she remains silent.

have to-? I pause as I take in a

have to

only rile my father up more and then there will be no negotiations

At all.

have to marry someone? Someone I have never met? Just the thought

will be good for the business; my father starts out calmly, "You do not have enough practical knowledge in regards to the business industry: "That's it? That's why

I ask in bewilderment.

in acknowledgement but doesn't

outsider to show me these things? I have you,

this isn't just me asking for his help in

something far

to rely upon? "I have other things I need to

babysit you and show you the ropes.’

that maybe, just maybe, he'd be

do everything he wants me to, just so I get

looked at the

I always seem to

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

in complete

it? This

go to open my

say something, I

of human rights and self independence,

I feel like doing is

squeezes my shoulder encouragingly and

so I let my sister

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

Sarah whispers as she pulls me into the

hearing her voice makes me snap out of the

the bed, wrapping

low

and kneels down onto the

"I knew."

She says.

eyes snap to meet hers, hazel

see remorse swirling in them as well

just makes me more

fuel to the

you tell

I ask sharply.

stunned at

sharp— but then composes herself as she

you but at the

asks, trying to plead with me to

than you think you

the side he has specially reserved for

do this Sarah.I

I say forcefully.

I can convince my own self that

give dad some time to relax okay.Give him a few days.He's probably just stressed because of work.He'll never do something like this, it's

trying to relax me and

that what she's saying is far from the

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