Chapter 78
Just as I was about to start my father had stopped near his desk looking a little calmer but was floored when he grabbed his remote and dialed a number into the system. The big screen came to life with Maxwell’s father’s face in the frame and my father standing with his arms crossed standing in an angry pose. “Hi Mr. Buckingham how are you….” “Hi Mia, you know you don’t have to go back to calling me Mr. Buckingham and who knows one of these day’s you might just end up calling me dad. Maxwell said he was going to come see you all but said you didn’t want him too right now?” Bradly said still smiling even though the room was not happy. I was surprised but also was not sure what my father’s game plan was when he called him in the first place. “Ummm well sir it’s a little more complicated than that and well is Max around by chance, maybe even Mrs. Buckingham because I’m thinking you 3 should be in on this call together” I said when my father still would not say anything.
Bradly looked at my father who was now sitting on the edge of his desk with his legs crossed along with his arms still and called for his wife and Maxwell to come to the office. Maxwell came into view along with his mother Michelle who had a smile on her face that quickly faded as she obviously saw the look on my parents’ face. “Mia honey are you ok….” “Max would you like to explain to your parents why my parents are calling yours” I said cutting his mother off before my father lost his cool. The silence lasted for so long I was dying inside and just wanted someone to talk so I started the conversation. “Mr. Mrs. Buckingham I’m sorry that we are disturbing you on a Friday afternoon when I’m sure you were all just settling in or heading off somewhere. Maxwell and I had been talking the other day and it got a little heated when my bodyguard overheard us and took my iPad from me. Long story short my bodyguard took my iPad and brought it to my father, let’s just say the private conversations and messages that Maxwell and I had exchanged have now been seen by my father. Then without my permission or even talking to me first others have shared with my parents and told them what had taken place between Max and I.” I stopped seeing that Maxwell was starting to tap his fingers on the desk as he sat next to his father.
The look in his eyes told me not to do it or else which would have scared me back in the day, but I was stronger just like I had been when he had hurt me for the last time. I shook it off and wished my father or even my mother would have stepped in to take over, but I knew they wouldn’t leaving it to me since I was an adult now. They wanted to hear it from my mouth and Maxwell’s. “MAX…. for fuck sake… help me out here please be a real fucking man and tell your parents what you did to me and don’t leave out anything or I will tell them everything paint them the pictures of the after math” I yelled out at him. Maxwell was in front of the camera swearing at me in the tone he used to do to me when it was just the two of us. His parents were scolding him a second later. “MAXWELL…..HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND WE DID NOT RAISE YOU TO BE DISRESPECTUFL OF ANYONE AND MOST OF ALL A WOMAN” Bradly yelled at him.
Maxwell turned on his father so quickly with his fists balled up and ready for a fight and before I knew it Maxwell was out of camera view as his father took him to the floor. “SON…… THIS IS NOT WHAT ALL YOUR TRAINING WAS FOR..SO NOW BE A MAN AND TELL ME, YOUR MOTHER AND MIA’S PARENTS WHAT YOU DID” Bradly was now screaming at his son and I had never heard him so angry. Michelle stepped closer into the camera and apologized for the spectacle the men were causing. “Give us just a couple of minutes while we compose ourselves” she said before muting the mic and stepping out of view. I could only imagine what was happening on the other end since he was the man. His father was probably lecturing him big time and wanting to know the whole thing before they got back on the line. My mother was now calmer and collected as I sat down next to her. She curled up next to me putting her head on my chest after I put my arm up on the back of the couch.
Sebastian and my father had been watching one another as they both took turns watching my mother and, I. While I was now waiting for my father to ask if we were sleeping together. My father was about to open his mouth and say something when the mic was turned back on and Maxwell and his parents came back on the line with Maxwell at the forefront. “Sir, Ma’am…. I know it was wrong of me to hurt Mia in the way’s I hurt her and I’m not proud for doing it. I was just under a lot of pressure, and she was slowly slipping from my grasp, and I was scared… and I know there’s no excuse for what I did, and I’ll be forever in her debt. Now yours, sir and I know I have a lot to make up for” Maxwell said with a shaky voice. I waited for him to say more since there was so much more and when he didn’t I knew he had not told his parents everything. “Max son is that all you have to say to me and my wife… because if it is that tells me that you didn’t tell your parents everything in the last oh how long has it been that we’ve been waiting?” my father asked as he looked across the room at his clock on the wall. “Over an hour..” Sebastian said as he stepped up next to my father looking at Maxwell and his parents and trying to shield me from what was happening.
Maxwell cleared his throat and was about to lie and I knew he was by the way he looked at them which caused me to strike while he was weak. “Ok, enough is enough Max look I told my parents pretty much everything including the fact that I was pregnant… of course that’s as far as I got when all hell broke loose on this side and now here we are” I said and now it was Michelle who was crying and Bradly asking about the pregnancy and what we had done. “Maxwell, son where is my grandchild?” he asked in a firm tone to his son who looked so pale it was not funny. My mother stood and made it to us wanting to hear the answer as they all waited for one of us to tell them. I knew Max was shutting down and would not be saying another word now. I gathered such a big intake of air and held it before letting it out as I closed my eyes after looking Maxwell in the eyes.
Maxwell was silently asking me not to tell them what had happened that night and that there was no baby or babies. “Max…. do you have the ultrasound photo still?” I asked him in a firm tone and watched as he pulled out his wallet from his back pocket and opened it taking out a folded-up picture. Maxwell laid it on the desk and his parents looked down at it and they both started to cry showing just how hurt they really were. The pain was just as real as mine, my parents and even his even though he did his best to hide it. It felt like forever before anyone talked again as my parents held one another and Maxwell’s parents did the same as they held the photo of their two grand-babies. “Max I just want this to be over between us now once and for all and this is what is still keeping you from moving on from us… so please everyone listen to what I’m about to say because it’s very important. Once it’s out I’m done talking about it once and for all. There are no babies…yes babies mother, father we were to have 2 both being little girls who I miscarried with on my 20th week…” “
Maxwell chose that moment to cut in “I was the cause of her losing them…. it was after we had come home from Prague and Mia said it was over and that she never wanted to see me again. I drove to the house and found Mia alone and she asked me to leave after tossing an ultrasound photo at me and yelling at me for getting her pregnant. She had planned to keep it from me and everyone else until she could give them up for adoption or so she said, but then I just saw red thinking about her giving up my children. I got close to her and she hit me so hard in the face knocking me on my ass and it didn’t faze me much. I got up and hit her back but it wasn’t in the face because I knew it would leave a mark. I didn’t know that hitting her where I hit her would cause her to have a miscarriage since it didn’t happen right away…” “of course it didn’t happen right away because you hit like a bitch and the next time you saw me after you left my house you pushed me down the bleachers at school” I yelled out at him for trying to start another lie.
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