Chapter 19
**CHAPTER 19**
**"I am so disappointed in you."**
Her words struck Allison like a knife. There was nothing that could make her sad but make her parents disappointed. Her heart felt heavy with guilt. A tear fell from her right eye. She was always the perfect daughter, every parent in the world would want her. She was beautiful, obedient, and smart. If teenagers out there would talk back to their parents, Allison was different, whenever her parents would scold her, she would just bow her head down, listen to every word they say, and apologize to them relentlessly. She did everything to appease them, she practiced the violin, flute, and piano even though all she wanted to do was to play outside with Brent. She studied every night even though she didn't want to, she worked hard even though they hadn't given her an ounce of the attention she needed.
"I'm sorry..." she apologized while looking down on her shoes with a hoarse, crying voice.
"Well sorry doesn't fix it, young lady. Do you know what society will think of our family if they knew that our only daughter lost her virginity out of wedlock?" That stung Allison, all this time, her mother had only been thinking about their family's reputation? How the people would think of them? That's what she was only been concerned about? She wasn't mad and disappointed at her because she cared? Not because she loved her daughter? She thought her mother would be the one to defend her, she thought that her mother would be the one to give her solace but those were only assumptions, and assumptions didn't come as we least expect it. That gave her a bitter thought, since when did her mother act like that anyway?
"Irina," Jonathan Taylor's menacing voice roared in the drawing-room, making her shudder. She met the angry side of her father when she was in high school. She escaped the mansion to join a party where she and Brent were both invited. She remembered how angry he was that she almost pissed at what she was wearing that time, she didn't want to meet that side once again but it looked like she was going to.
Irina Taylor turned her back against her daughter and ambled away to sit beside her husband. Allison followed, she was about to sit beside her mother when an enormous hand caught hers and a strong force pulled her that made her land and sit on the sofa opposite to her parents'. It was the sofa where Hades was sitting. She wasn't able to stop herself and slapped his chiseled face with all the force she could muster. The startled man turned his face to look at her, his stormy grey eyes filled with surprise.
"How dare y..." she seethed but she was cute off when her father, Jonathan Taylor suddenly spoke.
"Allison," her father's voice boomed, she looked at her father reluctantly and almost cowered in fear when she saw the anger scorching in his green orbs, it was more frightening than how her mother's angry eyes looked. Her father was a man of his own words. He grew up coarse and bitter, like Hades, he was a business tycoon and was forced by his parents to marry her mother to gain more connections and money. The business world always revolved around competition and money, you would do anything to gain more, even if it meant sacrificing your freedom of marrying the person you love.
"D...dad?"
"I am very disappointed in you," she felt the same nasty and hurtful feeling when her mother said the same words, the pain on her chest was more than what she could take. Tears started streaming from her eyes to her cheeks.
"I'm sorry," that was all she could say between her sobs while looking down, staring at her fists that were resting on her thighs. A warm hand stroked her back, soothingly, gently. She knew it was Hades, she ignored his attempt for solace out of fury.
"I'm glad Mr. de Vries here told us about the circumstance between you two," her father continued, his voice turned formal and bitter. "I'm very thankful that he checked up on you after you did that," that stunned her, Hades was checking on her? She didn't know if she should feel creepy or disgusted. Her father then continued, "And according to him, you are bearing his child."
Her eyes widened in bewilderment and her lips gaped open out of astonishment. He told them that she's pregnant with his child? Where did he get that idea? Did he even have proof? Why would he tell them that? What did he want?
"I...I beg you..." she wasn't able to finish when her mother showed a pregnancy tester that had two red lines. Allison's jaw gaped open; it was Rebecca's pregnancy tester. Her father said that Hades had been checking her so that meant he saw her throw that in the trash bin. She covered her mouth with a hand, he must've thought that she was pregnant with his child that was the reason why he's here. To ask for her hand in marriage in order to take responsibility.
She didn't know what to do or to say. If she told them that it wasn't hers, they would ask to whom did it belong, and it would expose Rebecca's secret. If she told them it's hers, there would be a possibility th...
"It seems that you are not denying that it is true," her father's voice brought her back to reality. Her lips trembled, she didn't know what to tell her father, her heart was hammering inside her chest in panic. Jonathan Taylor closed his eyes and dropped his head for a moment before sighing, lifting his head, and opening his mouth again. "So, after hearing this circumstance, your mother and I have decided that you and Mr. de Vries should get married."