If it was just words, Diva won't have believed him. The video clip of him falling into vulnerability smote her insides and made her heart bleed. At the time when she was starting to revamp her connection with him, at the time when she was breaking those ice and stones, and crumbling those walls, she saw from the video, her cousin, Fred weakening and fainting.
' Anything the problem? Should I get you a drink? '. Mr. Edward asked on seeing her fail to draw back her tears.
Diva wiped her tears, sniffing away the remnant from her nose. The video kept playing to the part where he grabbed his gut harder and screamed in agony. Remembering for the briefest that he had asked a question, she removed the earpiece and tore her lingering gaze from the screen to him. ' I'm fine. I'm very fine. I just em... I just need to be left alone '.
He shook his head in embarrassment and the words that left his lips next were in stutters. ' Yeah, sure sure. You can have as much privacy as you want. Please forgive me '. He apologized and turned to leave.
Diva looked at him all the way out. She could now understand that the times he stayed longer with her or seemed to be lost in the application of his job were the times when his concern for her as his sister's child got in the way of his job. She felt bad for him.
It would have been easier if he had just told her that he was her uncle from the beginning and got to be a shoulder for her to cry on, but he didn't due to the secrets her dad and he had to keep and all that he was permitted to tell her was that all would be fine. Now, her heart ached at the distance she was creating between him and herself.
' Sir Edward, Sir Edward '. She called him when he was in the hallway about two to three feet close to the stairs. He halted and slowly he turned to her.
' I wish you stay with me '. To make it more tempting and not easily ignored, she did them, those puppy eyes her father could not resist.
The butler found himself nodding to her request and following her into the room. It was not just her wish, it was his wish too, that she changed her mind and called him in. To the stairs, he prayed so intently in his heart.
He wasn't aware of what the person brought in the envelope directed to her. Going to her room, he felt the urge to open the package and know the content, and if he suspected It would do her harm, remove it. He was pleased when she inserted the cassette into the laptop. Glad to know that it wasn't a gun, or threatening message, or a harmful powder, but the gladness didn't last.
With her change of temperate and her facial expression, he could feel it wasn't a piece of good news after all, but she did not yield. Did not tell him a word. She pushed him out, refused to acknowledge he was her uncle even when they were alone and it pricked him. Made him feel like she wasn't ready to accept his help or anybody's and wanted to stay in her closet where her tears flowed endlessly.
' What was the video about? '. And if she was still going to pretend she doesn't know they are connected, it would be left to her. He wasn't going to pretend any further, especially as they were without prying eyes. He took his seat on her bed.
' It was a video about my cousin, Fred. You know him, right? Fred, that tall, fair guy that came the other day and had breakfast with me '. She described.
' Yes, I do. Your dad's elder brother's son. What happened? '.
Her long exhale made him worry more for not just her cousin, but her. Whatever it was that she saw, he hoped that she wouldn't be affected.
' He is going through Translation '.