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

never agree to

But she remains silent.

pause as I take in

to stay

my father up more and then there will be no

At all.

Someone I

out calmly, "You do not have enough practical knowledge in regards to the business industry: "That's it? That's

I ask in bewilderment.

in acknowledgement but

I need an outsider to show me these things?

isn't just me asking for his help in the

something far more

have her father to rely upon? "I have

and show you the ropes.’

had hope, that maybe, just maybe, he'd

wants me to, just so I get

be looked at the same way

I always seem

of mine.His son, 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

there in complete

it?

go to open my

to say something,

However instead of rattling off into a motivating speech of human rights and self independence, a

sag in defeat and all I feel like doing is curling up into a

encouragingly and I finally give

mother and so I let my sister drag me to wherever she is

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

as she pulls me into the

hearing her voice makes me snap out of

move passed her and take a seat on the bed,

whisper so low I barely hear

and kneels down onto

"I knew."

She says.

to meet hers, hazel against

in them as well

makes

adds fuel to

you

I ask sharply.

leans back, stunned at

sharp— but then composes herself as she

really am.I wanted to tell you but at the same time I

trying to plead

than you

for Sarah, she barely witnesses the side he has

do

I say forcefully.

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

stressed because of work.He'll never do something like this, it's probably a big scare just

says trying to relax me and make me

she's saying is far from the

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