Another plan?
Did he just say he has another plan?
What plan?
"But first," he continued.
"You have to promise me that you will never,ever hit me again," he added.
"I do not yet." She said to him,
"I do not want to make a promise that I can't keep." She added.
"Okay. That's fair enough,for now." He said while nodding at the same time.
"So?" She asked her father.
"So what?" He asked back.
"What is the plan?" She asked him and then she rolled her eyes.
"Oh!" He exclaimed.
"The plan." He added.
"Yes, the plan." She said to him and rolled her eyes again.
"She was going to get betrothed to a guy before she died. Luckily for us, it has not been made official." He said to her, his daughter.
"So?" She asked.
"So what?" He asked.
"What concerns me if she was going to get betrothed before she fucking died." She said to him, yelling.
"Hey. Calm down girl." He said to her,
"And why should I listen to you?" She asked, angrily.
"Because I am your father. You have to do as I say." He said to her, yelling.
"Hmmm. Father my foot." She said and rolled her eyes.
"Wow."
"I have a father. That's so sweet." She said and laughed softly.
"I am going to plan a….." He paused and brought out his phone.
He is showing her a picture of Raymond.
"What do you think?" He asked her.
"Uh?" She was short of words.
"Isn't he handsome?" He asked her.
"Yes, he is, father." She said to him and giggled.
"He is your ideal type." He said to her,
"What do you mean, father?" She asked him.
"He is rich and a gentry, from a very noble man. I had someone check his background. How about you get betrothed?" He asked her.
"What?" She asked him.
"What is what?" He asked her.
"But….." He did not allow her to complete her sentence when he interrupted.
"No buts. You have to marry him if you really want to be a gentry." He said to her,
"I am already engaged. How about my fiancé?" She asked.
"Forget about him. He is nothing." He said to her,
"He is more than enough, to me." She said to him,
"I do not care. You will not marry him. He is not wealthy and not from a noble home. Go ahead and marry if you have lost interest in becoming a gentry." He said to her and started to walk away.
He was coming towards my direction again. I shifted back in order to hide properly.
"Father." She said and ran after him.
"Have you made up your mind?" He asked her.
"Yes father. I have made up my mind." She said to him,
"Who do you want to marry?" He asked her.
"The one in that picture." She said to him,
"Wise choice." He said to her and grinned.
"Thank you father." She said to him and curtsey.
She really wants to reap what she did not sow.
I would have called her a gold digger,had it been Mike is not wealthy.
"Don't you want to know more about him?" He asked her.
"I still do, father. Tell me more about him." She said and smiled.
"His name is Raymond." He said.
"No wonder,he shines like a ray," she said and laughed softly.
"I like him already." She added.
"What about his parents?" She asked Mike,her biological father, my stepdad.
"His father is very rich and Hale,but his mother died about twelve years ago." He said.
"Oh!" She exclaimed
"That's sad to hear." She said and giggled.
"Does he have any siblings?" She asked him.
"Yes." He said to her,
"A sister." He added.
"How old is she?" She asked her father.
"Twelve." Mike replied.
"Twelve too?" She asked, surprised.
"Yes. Why?" Mike asked.
"You said their mother died twelve years ago too." She said to him,
"Yes." Mike replied and nodded.
"Does that mean….." She was not able to complete her sentence, when Mike interrupted.
"Yes. Their mother died a few seconds after giving birth to her." He said to her,
Wow.
She is pretty smart.
"How old is he?" She asked.
"Twenty three." He replied.
"Huh?" She asked.
"Twenty three." He said again.
"I'm older than him."
"What?" He asked.
"How?" He asked again.
"I am a year older than him." She said to him, shouting at the top of her voice.
"It doesn't matter." He yelled back at her.
"It does father." She said to him as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"If it does not matter to you,it does to me." She added, as more tears began to roll down her cheeks.
"Nobody would know." He said to her,
"What?" She asked, as she was obviously confused.
"Why would they know?" He asked her again.
"They would know only if someone tells them the truth." He said to her,
"That's not fair, father." She said to him,
Awwwn.
She's got some conscience.
"This world isn't fair either." He said to her and laughed slowly.
He started walking towards her.
She began walking backwards too.
"So, are you still going to marry him or not?" He asked her.
"I can't marry a kid." She said to him, as she was still walking backwards.
"Did you just say, you can't?" He asked her mockingly and laughed softly.
To be honest, ever since I have known Mike, I have never seen this side of him.
He is acting weird.
It's creepy.
The girl,his daughter, is very terrified now.
She stopped when she walked over the wall of the building opposite the house I was hiding.
"Yes." She said,
"In fact, I won't marry him, because I cannot marry a kid." She said, yelling at him and was still crying at the same time.
"If you say that again, I will disown you." He said to her, as he started using his index finger to trace her face.
"It's fine by me, do it if you can." She said to him,
"I will, after I kill you." He threatened her and that made the cold run down my spine. I do not know about her.
"What?" She asked, as she became a bit confused.
"You can't afford to disobey me." He warned her.
"Can you?" He asked her, as his finger reached her forehead and he pushed away the hair that was covering one of her eyes.
"You can't dare to lose me. Can you?" She asked him back and pushed his hand away.
"Yes I can." He replied.
"There are many orphanage homes around." He said to her,
"I can just go in there and adopt one or more,if I want to." He added.
"That is your cup of tea and not mind." She said to him,
"You can go fuck yourself." She added.
"What did you just say?" He asked her.
"I said you should go to hell and go fuck yourself." She said and raised her hand to strike him on the face again, but he was faster, he was able to catch her hand before it reached his face.
He slapped her, as hard as he could, and grabbed her hair.
"Can you afford to repeat what you just said again?" He asked her.
"Yes I can." She said and was nodding at the same time.
"Then say it again,if you want to die right now." He said to her and laughed softly, still holding her hair.
She spat in him, on his face to be specific.
"I said you should go fuck yourself and go to hell, for all I care." She said to him and giggled.
He grabbed her hair very tightly, her face became very red and he threw a punch at her face.
What the fuck?
Is he hitting a woman?
His daughter?
She kicked him on his groin and pushed his hand away from her hair.
She was about to run away, but he quickly grabbed her leg and that caused her to fall down on her tummy, with her face hitting the.
Ouch.
I can't imagine myself falling like that.
Is she still alive?
It will be a miracle if she is still alive.
She raised her head and looked back at him and at the same time, he stood up and quickly grabbed her hair before she could even try to escape and punched her in the face again.
This time it made her nose start bleeding.
Shit!
I would have gone to help her.
But I can't, for two or three reasons.
One, I can't interfere in a family issue.
Two, it's not my business.
And lastly, I do not want him to see me.
He raised her up, still holding her hair and punched her in the face again, which caused more blood to gush out her nose.
Ewww.
That's fucking disgusting.
"I told you that you can't afford to disobey me, didn't I?" He asked her,as he punched her again, causing more blood and making her collapse.
I honestly do not know if she just fainted.