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

know she would never agree to

But she remains silent.

have to-? I pause as I take

have to

I'll only rile my father up more and then

At all.

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

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

I ask in bewilderment.

in acknowledgement but doesn't say anything

I need an outsider to

this isn't just me asking for his help in the

far more than

"I have other things I

have the time to babysit you and show you the

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

agree to do everything he wants me to, just so I get his

the same

always seem to fail

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

stand there in complete and

this is it?

to open my

say something, I

a motivating speech of human rights and

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

shoulder encouragingly and

father nor my mother and so I

self belittlement, it takes a while

Sarah whispers as she pulls me into

hearing her voice makes me snap

on the bed,

whisper so low

I'm sitting and kneels down

"I knew."

She says.

eyes snap to meet hers, hazel against

remorse swirling in them as well as

makes

fuel to the

didn't you tell

I ask sharply.

stunned

then composes herself as

but at the same time I couldn't.You know how Dad is,

trying to plead

than you think you

Sarah, she barely witnesses the

do this Sarah.I

I say forcefully.

can convince one person of my strong will then maybe I can

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

me and make

I know that what she's saying is far from the

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