Love At The Wrong Table

“What… What did you say? Try saying it again if you dare!” Althea’s voice quivered with rage as she pointed accusingly at Ashton and then at Julian, her face flushed crimson with anger. It seemed she had reached her breaking point.

“Enough! Both of you, calm down!” Zaiden finally erupted in anger as the head of the family.

“Julian, Ashton, you both speak of grand ideals, but do you truly not care about us and plan to abandon us? Did your mother and I raise you only for you to forsake us in the future? Are you both so self-centered?”

The barrage of questions momentarily silenced Ashton, but Julian continued to argue vehemently, “I want to take care of you, Dad! But can’t I marry Roselynn and still take care of you? Is Roselynn nothing but a monster in your eyes? Did you raise me just to manipulate me like a puppet in the future?”

Zaiden was rendered speechless. He was actually more open-minded than Althea, understanding that imposing their values on their children was wrong. However, not everything could be resolved just by uttering popular theories.

“Enough! Silence, all of you! Let me think about it first!” In the end, Zaiden silenced the entire family with a bellow.

Julian and Ashton left the room for the time being.

Althea, on the other hand, relentlessly confronted Zaiden, her words flowing like a stream of accusations. “Zaiden, do you realize what you’re doing? Why are you giving them false hope? As their father, shouldn’t you be deciding what’s best for them? Their hearts are all leaning towards the Quillen family. If this goes on, the Summerton family will be ruined-”

Slap!

his temper and delivered a stinging slap across Althea’s face.

transpired. In their thirty years together, Zaiden had

never anticipated this sudden outburst.

after the slap, Zaiden felt a pang of regret, gazing at his own hand in disbelief. It took a while before he withdrew

left the

emotions,

morning, Emmanuel and Mackenzie hurried to a

lay unconscious in his hospital bed while

but feared he would disturb Tommy’s rest in case he got into a confrontation

Emmanuel and Mackenzie entered, Ryder immediately inquired, “What’s the situation, Manny? Why hasn’t Tommy regained consciousness?”

struggling with a brain circulation disorder. Without proper treatment,

of saving Mackenzie and the baby the day before,

Tommy then. But the delay had

and cursed, “D*mn you, Tanners! D*mn you, Yosef

intervened, Blake believed he could have easily handled the situation, and Tommy wouldn’t be in