Chapter Forty four
“Be quick about it, I don’t have all day. If you’re not here in three minutes, I am leaving without your royal ass” he says as I turn to go up the stairs and I know he knows I want this and he is using it against me.
I get upstairs and find a red dress and put it on, then run back downstairs. I know Cyrus is trying to rattle me, he is testing and I won’t give him the satisfaction. I have to choose my battle wisely from now on when dealing with Cyrus. I get back and find him at the door on his phone, he then takes my hand and opens the door, I am surprised to find two guards out the door as we head for the elevator, we then head down to the elevator and to Cyrus’s car before we head out . This is my first time out of the penthouse after I got inside as Cyrus’s wife and I am relieved to leave it.
When we arrive at Cyrus’s parents house, he parks the car kills the ignition and stays watching his house. I move towards the door to get out but he holds my hand to keep me in place and keeps watching the house silently, I don’t want to be cooped up in the car with Cyrus, I want to get out there and see everyone but I can’t
“Don’t try anything stupid in there, your too much in a hurry to get away from me” he finally says not looking at me, I glance at him and answer honestly
“I am just excited to see everyone after so much time”
“Okay but just remember that the peace of the family depends on the love of this marriage. If there is even a whiff of the fact that you detest me….I don’t have to tell you the consequences again do I?” he asks taking my hand
“No. I understand” I answer quickly
“Good, so as you and I step out this door I want you to remember we are a couple in love”
“Yes”
Then he unlocks the door and we step out. He holds my hand the whole way and he even gets my coat from me when we get inside, leading me by my back into his parents house. Everyone is already here we arrive except for Cullen who I think must be around somewhere in the house, I am so happy to see everyone that I nearly cry but remember to keep myself in check and Cyrus keeps hovering over me the whole time like a doting husband, I suspect he doesn’t trust me to leave me with anyone alone. Our mothers can’t stop asking about the honeymoon and I let Cyrus take the lead on that.
Soon the food is ready and we move to the dining for dinner. Mrs. Cedric wasn’t kidding, she went out with dinner because it’s more like a feast for fifty people, I move to sit at my usual seat at the table but before I sit Cyrus scoops me up taking me on the other side of the table and placing me beside his chair, I always sat beside Cullen and I forgot. Our parents laugh and my mom giggles a bit at Cyrus’s man cave way they think it’s cute, I don’t. As we take our seats I can’t help noticing Cullen’s absence from the dinner table,
“Is Cullen not joining us tonight?” I ask directing my question at my mother in law
“He I s, he’s just late tonight. That boy has never been late at my Sunday dinner before, I wonder what’s got a hold of him, it must be an emergency” my mother in law says as she instructs the maid to give him a call
This always happen at dinner because Cyrus was always late, now Cullen is turning out to be the new Cyrus
“When it Cullen it has to be an emergency, I bet you never said that about me when I was late” Cyrus says to his mother
“Probably because you were always late” his father answers putting an end to that argument. Thank God.
The food then starts being served on our plates and we eventually start having the delicious meal, then we hear Cullen coming in, he makes a lot of unnecessary noise and we are all waiting for him to emerge. He comes into the dining room ad he looks horrible, he must be drunk and he looks like he was in a fight since his bottom lip is split and he has a black eye. His mother immediately runs to him asking him what is wrong and what happened to him. The room is immediately filled with the vodka smell coming from Cullen, it’s like he poured himself with the thing.
“Did you just come into my house smelling like the brothel in front of my guests?” his father asks angrily from the head of the table
“Cullen does it all the time and he gets nothing but a pat on the back but when I do it, it’s suddenly a bad thing?” he answers loudly shouting back at his father
“I want you to go upstairs, think about what you have done and clean yourself up. Then I want you to come downstairs and apologize” his father tells him calmly not breaking eye contact with him. Cullen laughs leaving his mother’s arms and sits on the chair next to him; he takes a piece of meat straight from the dish with his hands and takes a large bite.
“No. I think I am going to stay here and have dinner with the family, we are inviting my sister in law into the family after all tonight” he says after he swallows, sending his father a cruel smile
I am not an expert in the Cinnati family but I know his father doesn’t take kindly to being ignored and disrespected, especially with guests and servants in the room with us. Something is about to happen, so much for having a delicious meal with the people I care about tonight.
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