“You have to be kidding me Kingsley” Moana raised her voice when they got into their room.
Audriana and Dimitri going back and forth, saying anything sayable to each other, and it caught the attention of both parents, they were not pleased with how things turned out.
What started as a peaceful reunion turned out to be an argument fit.
“Moana,” Kingsley calls.
“How...how could you do that? How could you do that to our daughter? To our Audriana?” Moana asked in disbelief.
She was looking directly into her husband’s eyes, hurt was written all over her face. She didn’t believe her husband could do that and to top it, he kept it from her. Audriana was in on it too and it hurt her so much.
“Moana…”
“This isn’t what we wanted, this… not this at all...how could you? We found each other, we fell in love with each other” she went closer to him and had to raise her head a bit because of their difference in height.
She put her hand on one of his cheeks “We didn’t want this for our Audri...she is our only daughter, our baby girl… we wanted her to find love just like we did” she states.
“Baby I am sorry, I know it is our daughter here but…”
“But what? I agree it isn’t a stranger she will be involved with but... is this what she really wants? Can she bear such? Don’t think I am not aware of Dimitri’s wayward ways... I am not happy he turned out like that but I don’t want my daughter to be at his receiving end”
He held her hand that was on his cheek and kissed it, then walked them both to the bed, he sat and pulled her to sit on his lap.
“Moana, I know… I never wanted this for our princess, I am not trying to be selfish but the company is failing, I know we can still survive even if it closes but… but what about our employees? How will they cope? Not all fingers are equal you know. We have lots of mouths we are feeding. I didn’t compel Audri to do this, I just told her how bad it was and we will be going bankrupt in a few months or weeks and told her about the offer Donald proposed to me and she agreed to it”
“But… why would she agree to something like that? Didn’t you see the manner at which they exchanged words? It wasn’t great, I am very sure Audriana wouldn’t want to be in that kind of relationship” Moana states with furrowed eyebrows “Are you sure you didn’t force her to accept this?”
“Very sure dear and she is single that could help matters” he adds.
“That, I am not sure about”
“You mean she is going out with someone?”
Moana just shrugs and stands from his lap to remove her necklace and hair pins.
“She didn’t tell me she was going out with anyone, I am just stating out a fact”
“Okay” he pauses for a while “Everything will be in place soon my love, soon” he says to her.
She turns to look at him, her golden locks falling on her shoulders.
“I hope so, I just hope so,” she says, then turned to go to the bathroom and immediately stopped.
She turned around again facing her husband with narrowed eyes and hands on her hips, she took slow steps towards her husband. He didn’t know his wife was coming towards him with an angry countenance, he had his face down on his palm.
He raised his head and his eyes met with his wife’s glaring ones.
“Moana…”
“So Bernard Tech was experiencing issues and you don't bother telling me?” she says.
He sighs “Moana…”
***
“Seriously Donald, like really?” Patricia asked giving her husband a disapproving look “Why on earth would you do that? Donald” she asked.
They were in their room, after what happened earlier, Audriana left the place in anger and her Mom followed. Donald apologized and Kingsley just nodded before following after his wife and daughter, Dimitri was about to leave but could not because Patricia told him not to go anywhere but to stay in his room instead.
“Donald, Dimitri has a problem, we both know about that,” she states.
“I know, Pat, I know, but he needs to sit up and stop all these games he plays, toying with women's hearts? It’s not acceptable”
“And you came to the conclusion ‘marriage will solve it?’” she asked.
“Babe, being a married man is a huge responsibility. You are very much aware Dimitri learns in the hard way, allowing him to marry might make him see there is more to life than sex and alcohol, and he can’t achive such by having different women every week” he says “Audriana is a very decent girl and I believe she can tame our son. Look at me I was a handful, and you tamed the beast in me”
“Oh please, you were way better than Dimitri in your youth days, I agree you did all this irritating things but it was not hard at all to put you in place, Audriana is so sweet, when she was a child she is the sweetest girl you can ever have even now, she deserve someone better, I feel it’s selfish. We want our son’s life to be reshaped and letting her be at his receiving end it’s so unfair”
“But didn’t you want her to be your daughter-in-law?”
“Yes I do, I always wanted a girl to call my daughter and when I couldn't have a girl of my own… I hoped that when my sons grow they would marry and I can call their wives my daughter and… and I really wanted Audri to be one of my daughter in laws but not in this condition, it’s selfish” Patricia sat on the small sofa in their room and put her head in her palm.
All this is making her feel so bad, she and Moana had talked about how great it would be if their children got married when they are older and mature, they agreed not to force it on them. They wanted them to find love and if they found each other it would be great.
But this is a different situation.
“It isn’t selfish babe, look” he sat beside her on the bed and held both of her hands in his “Kingsley needs some help with his company and I offered to help and brought up the marriage of Audriana and Dimitri… it’s a win-win, they get the needed assistance they need for their company and in return our son becomes more responsible”
Patricia gave her husband a confused/’what in the world?’ look.
“Really? Does that sound good to your ears?” she takes her hand from her husband “Dimitri can be better with or without marriage,”
“Pat this could be the push he needs to become a better man, remember us?… how we started our arranged marriage now turned love… you know how I was then, you changed me”
“This is different”
“How is it different? If a wonderful woman like you could make me a changed man, Audriana is a gem, a wonderful woman also and I do believe she can and will change our son...trust me on this”
She looked at her husband and sighs.
“Fine, just talk to Dimitri not to be harsh on her, I will try my best to talk to him too… I don’t want her to be hurt not just because she is my friend’s daughter but because she is like a daughter to me too”
“I will do so, okay? Now give me that captivating smile of yours” he kissed her hand and she smiled.
“You this man” she lightly hit his chest and they shared a hug.