The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

Choose your side

Anger immediately started to rise inside of her as Peach glared at Madam Jewel with a look of pure hatred, and without even realizing it, she blurted, “Grandpa left that company for me, and you can’t just take what he gave to me away!” A faint chuckle escaped Madam Jewel’s throat as she gazed down at her granddaughter, before she replied, “Oh yes, I can… you know, I thought you were getting married to this… this human being because you want to own something in this family and be a part of us…” 1

A pause followed her words as she watched Peach’s eyes for a sign of fear and submission and when she saw a slight flicker of emotion in her step granddaughter’s eyes, she smiled, knowing that she managed to hit Peach’s weak spot. “I will not tolerate the disrespect I am seeing from you, Peach, and since that’s how you want to behave, I am taking this opportunity to let you know you aren’t fit to take over any of the family business. I don’t need an arrogant, selfish, and prideful woman who does not know who ass to kiss up to.” Madam Jewel said, shaking her head and staring deeply into Peach’s eyes.

“Okay! That is enough crap!” Elijah yelled, his face darkening as he stood from the sofa. Then he looked down at his wife and stretched his hands out to her, saying, “Let’s go…” “Peach, I am warning you as your grandma. Choose your side wisely or else you will suffer from your mistakes….” Madam Jewel warned, raising her voice while glaring at her. “If you humble your pride, I can take pity on Grace and you.”

Looking over at her, Peach glared and then put her hand in Elijah’s palm, and he gently pulled her off the sofa, lacing his fingers through hers.

“What are you depending on here, Elijah?!” Madam Jewel asked, her mind reeling from disbelief, confusion, and rage. “It would be so boring to just say it to your face, so wait for me to show you,” Elijah uttered. meeting her gaze with a smirk.

Then he turned to Peach, seeing the confusion in her gaze, but she said no word, merely nodding her head before he led her away.

When they were back in the car, Peach rested back on the seat, covering her face with both her hands, sighing loudly. “I can’t believe she actually did that,” Peach muttered, trying to suppress the anger welling up inside her and the hurt that she felt toward Madam Jewel. Silently, Flijah pulled out his phone, scrolled through his contacts, and stopped at Rookie’s number, djaling it.

Alter spursal rings, Rookie answered the phone, sounding somewhat drowsy, “Morning Buss,” “I need you and Ryan to find me “Elijah sald, pausing as die stared over at Peach.

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“What’s your grandfather’s lawyer’s full name?” Elijah asked after a few seconds, interrupting their eye contact

Meeks,” Peach mumbled, still confused at

caught Dice’s face in the rearview mirror and then said,” Rookie, find out William Meeks

Ryan and we will do our best to make that happen, boss.” Rookie uttered in a

and the way she was staring at him made a smile appear on his lips,

whispered, looking away from Elijah and staring out the

they arrived at Emerald Grill. “We are eating here?” Peach whispered, looking up at the tall green glass building, awed.” Isn’t this too fancy?… Maybe we should eat somewhere else… you know, somewhere that will not cost you so much.” silently, Elijah studied her eyes, the nervousness that had suddenly appeared on her features and

big smile and replicd, “Yes. There is nothing that compares to the laste of Starbuck coffee in my

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many options!”

her eyes widening slightly, Peach was about to speak when the waiter approached

Elijah eyed the waiter and said, “My wife will be making our order,” Then he answered the call, leaving Peach staring in awe at him before focusing on the waiter, smiling at him nervously because she was a bit worried about making Elijah’s order. “Why was I not invited to your wedding?” Bryan’s voice echoed in a teasing, but a

said sarcastically. A laugh escaped Bryan’s lips, and then the line went quiet for a moment, and then Bryan spoke again, “Are you and Peach, okay.. I got wind of what happened to the motel.” “Yeah, we are,” Elijah mumbled, watching Peach talk with the waiter

“Was it an accident?”

“No,”

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all?” The waiter asked, giving

seeing that he was staring straight at her, she waited to see if he wanted to add anything, and then she looked back at the waiter, mumbling, “Yes,” Quietly, Elijah reached into his pocket, took out his credit card, and rested it on the table, listening to Bryan say. “About what we discussed the other day, I have a few guys you might like to