Fleeing my wedding

Sophia's POV

The tension in the living room was like watching a disabled fellow walking on a tightrope over a bottomless pit. One wrong move could send everything crashing down with devastating consequences. I was on edge, with my nerves frayed and my heart pounding helplessly. Like a strike of lighting, Theo hurried to assist his mother who staggered backward and tumbled on the couch. She could hardly breathe as she choked on every word any time she tried to speak.

"Call the doctor! Goodness…You are a Nurse. Come and take care of her!" He growled so loudly that I felt the vibration under my feet. I witnessed his bloodshot eyes shimmering with tears and I immediately understood how hazardous the situation was.

My eyes squeezed in shame as I began to sob silently. My lips couldn't stop trembling as I managed to encourage the elderly woman whom Theo had positioned comfortably on the couch to take slow deep breaths. After a long moment of steady breathing sessions, her muscles finally relaxed.

I shut my eyes and exhaled in relief.

I bent my head backward in extreme happiness, only for my eyes to meet that of Theo who was dead and distant. It held so many intentions that I felt my body shiver in fear.

I jerked out of my scary thought of what awaits my destiny in the hands of Theo when I observed his grandmother struggling to sit on the couch again. He stretched his arm to help her, but she yanked his hand away in extreme fury. Her wrinkles tightened amongst each other and it felt like a powder keg that was ready to explode at any moment. The tension was palpable as the atmosphere cracked with a nervous energy.

It was my mess and I must clean it up.

"Are you not ashamed of yourself after everything you've done to the poor boy?" Granny Andrews cried out in agony. "Did you erase the trouble you caused for his family? I am restraining myself Theodore, but at this point.." She sniffed and blew her nose. Her facial expression was pitiful, and at the same time, I couldn't dare to interrupt her as I used the opportunity to crack my brain for a possible solution.

"Without Fedrick's influence…you are nothing! Without Jeffrey's father, you are nothing! Where is my grandson? Where is my only hope to keep living? You're ungrateful…" She wept and I sob together with her because nothing came to my mind.

"Granny….!" Theo rushed forward to the gigantic flat-screen television. My breathing ceased as I dreaded his action. Unfortunately, he had smashed his right fist on it before I could get to him. The devilish side of him was awakened by the mention of his deceased elder brother.

Theo was thirsty for more things to destroy as he moved towards the expensive window. I was crying profusely as I tried to wrap up how psychic this family might be. Even though I have witness it several years ago, I still feels mentally unbalanced by them.

"You all hate me! I am useless, yeah. Truly, I only decided to change totally after my uncle's death! I couldn't tolerate my cousins waywardness, but you of all people granny…" He pointed his trembling finger at his crying grandmother.

"How could you believe a total stranger over me? I have done all that you wanted to express how remorseful I am. What else do you want?!" He wailed, his neck-bones stretching out through his flesh. I could not look at his eyes as I glued my legs to the floor and patted it with my shivering eyes. A tiny saliva escaped from my mouth when Theo hit his bloody knuckles on the designer window making it shatter again.

The old woman didn't flinch.

"Tell me, The! How and in what way did you show your remorse? My Federick, even as old as he was then, will never display such imbecilic behavior in my presence like what you are doing right now." Granny Andrews continued to mutter each word after a long breath.

"Did you just call your fiancee a stranger?" she scoffs and manages to stand up as determination overshadows her face.

I was scared for Theodore. If his mother could react so rashly at the mention of Jeffery's arrival without her knowing, then she would definitely disown Theo if she saw her grandson's condition.

I was whimpering continuously until I blurted "Ma'am…." I bit my lips painfully. "I was only trying to tell you that Theo has gotten the location of your grandson. They were tracking him down with computers present in a particular room in this penthouse. It was never my intention to make you misunderstand me" I blinked the tears in my eyes and folded myself while still in my kneeling position.

I crawled backward in fear when she looked back." Is this a joke to you, young lady?!" She staggered to me and wiped me hard across the face. I winced in anguish as I held my fluttering cheek. It felt like my brain had separated away from my head. I observed a shadow over me and I slowly raised my head to see Theo holding his mother's hand so tightly to restrict her from hitting me again.

Theo dropped it hard and smashed his teeth against each other in a hard way. "Don't lay your hand on my fiancee mother," He warned. "I will deal with her in a way that pleases me" he reassures and roughly pulls me up.

"Fiancee?" She scoffed, "Of all the women in the world, you choose a useless, disrespectful, and hideous girl to be your life partner. Another reason why I said you can never sort things out your way without getting entangled. You must find my grandson for me before I die unless I will never forgive you! Of course, I wouldn't dare to bless your marriage if you choose the path of that girl." She pointed a finger at me with a disgusting expression. She spat on my face before turning away towards the elevator.

Coincidentally, a guard came to announce the arrival of the doctor who Theo dismissed as his attention wasn't needed anymore. I only listened to him as I was too ashamed to speak or face him.

All of a sudden, it occurred to me that his knuckles were bleeding non-stop the other time. I rushed to grab the doctor's special treatment box and back to treat Theo. I gasped in horror to yank his hand and rushed out my words in fear "Are you okay?" I sniff and smile in relief that we were done with our misunderstanding.

Deep down, I was sad that his grandmother wouldn't accept our marriage even when the relationship was fake. It made me angry that I unknowingly tightened the bandage I wrapped around his knuckles and he took my hands away before assigning two guards to drag me roughly out of the living room.

His eyes were so cold that I could not think of begging for mercy.

Tiny pieces of realization struck me the moment I was pushed inside the same room as my ex-boyfriend. I felt my heart bound against my chest as I looked at Jeffery.

"I contemplated so many times about the person that tried to defend me and concluded that it was just my imagination, but look at who is here" He mocked with his bruised lips.

"I bet you are willing to lose your virginity to my cousin considering how he regarded you as his fiancee. After your strong disagreement to let us do it all these years, you blame me for touching my assistant." He taunted.

Is this all he could say?!

"You owe me an apology for all the lies!"I muttered in tears.

"Says the one who got easily accessed! My bastard cousin surely knew about you and must have set up your meeting. Your brothers? Your background? If only you know how much he his pretending not to harbor your lineage." He threatened and it worked as I shivered anxiously.

"Don't blackmail me with that!" I screeched.

"Only on a condition where you will get back to me. Be my girlfriend again," Jeffery bargained, and smirked like a demon.

"Says who?!" Theo dashed in as he opened the door wide.

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