Chapter Sixteen
Cyrus
I was so tired I thought I would still until the next evening but that wasn’t in the cards for me. I never got a win of sleep filled with guilt about what I had done and how it was going to affect the family, my brother and Bella. I shouldn’t be feeling guilty about Bella but I took of advantage of her sadness her attraction to me and the fact that she was wasted. I didn’t know the later but still it’s on me. So I sat there the whole night in my car and thought of a way out of this mess. Whatever I had to do, someone was going to get hurt in the end.
At five in the morning I was already at home and knocking on my parent’s bedroom door. He opened the door with an angry look like I had interrupted him with something important
“Someone better be dead” he said to me as soon as he opened the door
“Not exactly, but they will be. I need to talk to you in your office”
“What the fuck happened to your face?” he asks when he looks at me. I guess Cullen made a mark.
“You should see the other guy. Seriously dad, it’s important”
“Okay. At least let me change and kiss my wife would you”
“Nothing fancy, it’s urgent”
“Okay I heard you, Christ!” and then under his breath he mutters “fucking cock blocker”
“I heard that” I say as I head downstairs to his office
Fifteen minutes later and already doubting my decision and what I am about to do dad walks in. just I go to sit in front and him and start talking, he stops me with his hand. there is a knock as our house keeper places a cup of coffee in front of him and asks me if I would like anything. I politely decline and she looks at me sadly before she scurries off. I guess I look worse then I feel this morning. Dad has his coffee first and I know better than to interrupt him. When he is done he places the cup aside as gives me his attention
“What seems to be the problem? Does it have to do with the state of your face?” he asks calmly settling in his chair
“I made a mistake” I admit
“Let’s hear it”
“So last night I was trashed and against my better judgment, I sneaked Bella out…..”
“You did what?”
“I wasn’t thinking and she wanted to get out of here, you know how manipulative she can be”
“Her father better not find out, I hope you brought her back safe and in one piece”
“Something happened last night. I need you to be calm”
“Don’t tell me to calm down boy” he reprimands
“I didn’t mean to do it, it sort of just happened”
“You killed her, didn’t you? I knew this day would come but I thought she was going to be out of here and I wouldn’t have to deal with it. God! That poor child” he says making a cross sign
“Dad listen, I…..”
“First things first we have to deal with this while we are ahead. Her parents will realize she is missing soon. Did anyone see you leaving?”
“Maybe I don’t know I wasn’t looking. Dad, listen to me…..”
“We have to think first the day is coming alive, why didn’t you tell me sooner. Okay where did you leave the body?”
“The body? There is nobody I left Bella at my penthouse”
“That’s good. No one goes there except you right? We have to get rid of the evidence”
“Are you seriously trying to cover up the murder of a girl you have considered your daughter her whole life?”
“I am doing this for you, my heir. What do think is going to happen when her father and the family find out you killed the princess? In the middle of the biggest arrangement ever? You think I want to leave my legacy to your young brother? Hell no. the family will be divided and a war between us would probably rise. I am doing this for you, so stop filling guilty for a few minutes until we have everything under control” and that is the calculative, cunning man I know.
“I didn’t kill her dad” I say smiling and relaxing in the chair
“Thank the heavens. I really didn’t want to do it, but what can I do. Its family”
“But I am glad you thought that and reacted so calmly, so this won’t be such a big deal”
“Can you just tell me what you did already?” my father asks, already lost an interest in me and what I want to say as he starts looking over his work
“I slept with Bella last night. I know it was wrong and I shouldn’t have……”
“You did what?” my father asks with disbelief and an anger I know rising within him
“I had sex with Bella last night. Popped her cherry. You were cool with murdering her why are you so worked up about this?”
I am so glad I am good at dodge because the next thing that happens is an ashtray comes straight at me nearly taking my eye out. Dad never throws things even when he is mad. He must be so angry
“How could you be so stupid and juvenile? I expected this from your brother but not you. How many times have I warned you against the mafia girls mmh? Every time. And you just had to go and touch the forbidden fruit of them all.” My dad is no longer sitting but standing now and he is shouting at me
“I am sorry but I have thought of a way to fix all of it’’
“You, are going to fix it? What are you going to do, give her virginity back? Is that why you came running to your father for help? I mean seriously Cyrus; do you understand the implications of what you have just done?”
“I know I shouldn’t have touched her, she is the family’s royalty and I took advantage of her. But father I can make this right if……”
“You have messed up three alliances. An alliance with the family when Bella’s father finds out what you did with her precious daughter, an alliance with the Irish which your engaged to and an alliance with the Bratva who have asked for Bella’s pure hand and we agreed to it.”
Well when he puts it like that it sounds really bad and I never even thought of it like that. Just then mother bursts in still in her sleeping wear and a worried look on her face
“What is going on? What is all the shouting about?”
“My lord! What happened to your handsome face? Are you okay” I nod in response
We are both silent looking at each other. No one wants to give mom the bad news and my dad is super angry right now but he is her husband.
“Why don’t you tell your mother what you just told me” he says baiting me to eat my own dirt. Fine she is going to find out either way. Better go ahead and just deliver the news now
“I am asking for Bella’s hand in marriage” I say with confidence I don’t feel
My father scoffs as if I have said something stupid and my mother frowns confused staring at my father and then focusing on me.
“You’re asking for Bella’s hand in marriage? As in, you? Want to marry her? Bella!”
“Yes, I do”
“Why? You don’t even like her at worse you tolerate her. You plainly hate her sometimes you look at her like you want to strangle her to death or slit her throat wide open” mom asks still in disbelief.
So my family knows how I really feel about Bella, and I thought I was hiding my real feelings towards her pretty well. It bothers me that my mother knows. She is that one beautiful amazing thing I have in my life and I don’t want to disappoint her.
“Exactly” my father adds shaking his head at me, as if I am a lost cause and he doesn’t know what to do with me.
“it’s not that complicated I just hated her because I couldn’t have her but when her engagement got announced, I realized that I was in love with her and I have to make a move before it’s too late” I tell my mom with the best innocent face I can pull with my busted face right now.
“I am not buying it. What is going on? Cedric?” my mother answers me and then directs her husband for some real answers
“Why don’t you tell your mother the real reason you’re asking for Bella’s hand?”
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