Chapter 36 THE KINGDOM BUILT ON CRACKS
Raphael's POV
Sometimes I wonder if I should give the media credit for how she fails to read the room every chance she gets. At this point, I have to either give it to her that she has an incredible talent for ignoring it or she just chooses to do so and then coincidentally reads it when it benefits her otherwise she has as much brains as a rock.
We returned to Brazen Park to find Jason bedbound, his situation was much worse than how we left him this was why I did not want either of us God for too long it would not be hard for one of the elders to find a servant who could infiltrate the park house and make our son's health worse than it already was.
I had explained this about a million times to the media before I left. She promised me each and every time I told her that she understood and would try to take care of him to the best of her abilities.
I left having full hope that she would keep to her words, perhaps that was my first and biggest mistake. She came chasing after me not long after promising that she would look after our son which allowed him to be neglected like this.
For the first 2 hours when I arrived the first thing I did was to yell at all the servants working there including the medical professionals that were paid astronomical amounts for around the clockwork I did not pay them such insane amounts so that they could slide on their responsibilities everyone claimed that they did that what they were supposed to and who was I supposed to hold guilty who was I supposed to blame?
Even as I wanted to scold them more and do something to them other than just deducting their pay I could not get too careless I had once been very harsh on all the servants taking out my frustrations on them this was how some of them reached out to my enemies in the park trying to turn the people against me luckily I used the same old trick that I had used with that annoying ex mate of mine.
I framed them for something that was along the lines of treason. I mean they were going to get there anyway so I might as well give them the recognition that they were striving for and they were all bandaged afterwards.
So I was mostly trying to keep my cool. I needed to be left alone every time I saw my mate's face. My anger just grew.
She had been a hiccup in every part of this plan for me if only she had just stayed back at the park if only she had just done what I told her to stay put look pretty take care of our son it wasn't hard but she thought she was being cute by chasing after me.
Night game and without a single bone of shame in her body she tried it to initiate intimacy, but all I could think about while she was trying to animate the man downstairs was that I had very limited time now before the council would be back on my neck again demanding to see my son who was supposed to be the future of the park the future of the park who was barely even able to breathe by himself eventually he might even need if breathing and feeding tube.
If the council ever heard of that and not long after the media's infertility entered into the conversation my position as alpha was as good as revoked.
"Honey, what's wrong? Don't I look pretty enough for you tonight?" She was using that little squeaky voice of hers that was high-pitched and scratching my ears like nails on a chalkboard right now, she even threw in some weird swing mannerisms that looked like a worm trying to dig out of the earth.
"Media says that we need to talk," I said to her in a voice that was all seriousness and no jokes. She didn't like that she tried again to grab the attention of the man downstairs and still nothing in wet noodles would have given her more enthusiasm.
She finally pulled away now from embarrassment and shame more than anything else.
"What's wrong?" She said and I thought that maybe I should just throw myself out the window. We were on the verge of losing everything, our status... Our reputation... All the properties and privileges that came with the alpha household and yet she still asked in the most dumbfounded voice possible what could be wrong. She didn't see any problems while we were literally on a sinking ship.
I buried my face in my palms. I never thought that there would ever come a moment when I would miss Celestia so passionately.
Perhaps I was a little too harsh on her. I have lived on a boat's side of the spectrum and rather than having a woman who had no brain and just boobs I would rather have one with a brain in her head and some basic common sense even if she has the libido of a log of wood.
Celestia would have never allowed things to escalate this strongly she would have found a solution come to me and we would have implemented it together sharing the accolades with most of it going to me of course that was how it was supposed to be and it's not like we were never intimidated on after all the pup didn't come falling from a tree.
"Media I think you should sleep in the guest room tonight we both need some space," I finally told her knowing that if I just used up my saliva it would be wasted for nothing.
She looked at me as if I slapped her across the face.
Then she did something I was not expecting, she walked over to the full body mirror in my room and then with full force smashed it against the ground sending the shards flying around.