Chapter 135 CHAPTER 135
Evelyn’s POV
It had just come suddenly, an anger that I couldn't place. I didn't mean to ruin dinner but I was tired of pretending that I was okay with eating in front of a man who tried to kill my baby.
Our eyes met.
“What is she saying?” he asked, not addressing me.
“I asked you why you tried to kill my child,” I repeated.
“Evelyn -”
I looked at Alpha Michael. “You said we can talk about it, trash it within the four corners of this mansion. So he should tell me why he did that?”
“Let’s talk,” he said, rising to his feet.
Alpha Raymond stopped him. “We can talk at the table, Michael,” he said. “There’s nothing to hide.” He looked at me. “That child you are carrying can never be accepted into this family,” he spat out.
I felt my stomach churn in anger.
“Father!” Michael yelled. “Enough of this madness. I told you to stay away from us. You should be apologizing to her instead of saying that.”
I pushed my chair backwards. I felt nauseous.I felt stupid. What if he had put something in my food? I rose up and Micahel tried to hold me.
“Please, wait.”
“No,” I said, walking away as fast as I could towards another end of the garden. I felt my chest tightening and I tried to force myself to throw up the food I had eaten. I could hear a heated exchange between Michael and his father.
After successfully throwing up a significant portion of the food, I sat on the ground and hugged my knees. I rocked my body forward and backward and tried to numb my mind from what Alpha Raymond had just said to me. There was no way I would forgive him for saying that about my child. He showed no remorse for what he did. And in his eyes I saw that if he had an opportunity to do it again, he would do it again.
I loved Michael, but I hated his family and I had good reason to do so.
I didn't know when someone walked up behind me and I was even more shocked to see it was Alpha Raymond. He stood beside me, looking at the distance with his hands pocketted. I looked away from him and twisted my fingers in frustration.
“You may not like the way I do things,” he said. “But everything I've done is for my family.”
There was a short silence.
“When you’ve had your child, you’d understand you would do anything to protect them. And you’d do everything to protect your company. The higher up you go, the more things you need to protect. Things are no longer just black and white.” He paused. “Until you have these things, you cannot understand the things I have done. Or the things I will continue to do.”
I looked at him again. “I would never do the things you did,” I said. “Nothing would make me do the things you did to me to another person. Nothing excuses you being evil.”
He was quiet again.
“I loved Philly,” he said. “I met her when I was a young man, still building the company. She was a clerk and she was the most beautiful woman I had ever laid my eyes on. I gave her everything except the thing she wanted the most - my time. We disconnected, and then I found out the truth about her.”
My heart raced. I knew what he was about to say.
“She was your type. A nine tailed fox. I was ready to keep it quiet between us, but she started asking questions. She met this man who was trying to teach her things about her new identity, and she fell in love with him.”
He paused again.
“I had to let her go. I was left to choose between fighting for her and fighting for what was really mine. I couldn't have both.”
He looked at me. “Michael cannot have both. It’s either he has you or he has this,” he said, gesturing at the expanse of the mansion. “You are a temporary thing in his life. A thing of his recent obssession. It will pass away but what will never change is that he is a Greywood and this legacy is his to protect. When that time comes, he would do exactly what I did to Philly. You will have to leave because he can’t have both of you.”
I rose up to my feet. “Michael is nothing like you,” I said. “And you can have both of it. You are wrong.”
“Rosaleen will marry my son," he said as I began to walk away. “She’s the right person to be by his side. Perhaps all I can let you be to him is a mistress.” He glanced at my tummy. “And that child would never grow up in this mansion.”
I felt my chest tighten with anger. “You cannot decide what happens in our lives. Michael will choose, and whatever he chooses, I will live with it.”
I walked away from him as fast as my legs could take me. The heels were tight around my feet and I could see Alpha Michael in the distance walking towards me.
“Did you talk?” he asked, reaching for me. “He said he would apologise.”
I smiled. “He did not.” I glanced at the dinner table. “I guess dinner is over then.”
“I’m so sorry, Evelyn,” he said. “What did he say to you?”
I looked at him. “He said a time will come when you’d have to choose between me and your legacy. He said you would choose the thing that is permanent.”
He stepped forward and cupped my face in his hand. He looked at me with all the love in the world in his eyes. “There’s no choice between you and any legacy, Evelyn. You are my entire being. There’s no legacy without you.”
He leaned forward and kissed my lips.
“I love you with all my being, Evelyn Moon,” he said.
I closed my eyes and held on to his words. Those were the only things that mattered.