Let's go home. Cont...Pt9

Let's go home. Cont...Pt8
Julius was beginning to lose his patience. All the things he’d learned about the Lansters and the abuse Resena endured over the years, yet he continued to hold his tongue to maintain peace. But all of that was over, Lanster had gone too far, no longer would Julius stay quiet. Just then, the servants began to make their way to the foyer to see what the commotion was about. Word was already making its way around the mansion about what was transpiring.  

“Listen Spencer, I know you think you run everything, but you do not run this household! You will not disrespect me in my own home!” 

“Disrespect? Disrespect!? Do you want to talk about disrespect? Disrespect is constantly being put down by your uncle from the time you were nine to now for no other reason than her not being blood related. Disrespect is you allowing your wretched wife and daughter to abuse her mentally, emotionally, and physically because she had unresolved issues with her sister and thought it fair to take it out on a child! But the worse of it all, marrying her off to a despicable human like Steelwater knowing what he does to women!” 

Julius was now seething! All the things he’d wanted to say to Delvoy from the beginning started flooding out.  

“Look, I didn’t come here to argue with you Lanster, I’m only here for my fiancé. So, allow us to retrieve her and her things, and we’ll be out of your way. I’m prepared to pay her dowry now so that you can finally be rid of her. That is after all what you wanted correct?” 

Just then, Delvoy became confused. What dowry? The agreement was that Lanster and Spencer go into business together. He’d promised him expansion into the western continent. 

“What do you mean you’re prepared to pay.” 

Now Julius was confused, had he really thought they would still go into business together after what he learned and how he’d behaved.  

“Lanster you surely didn’t think we would still go into business after this?” 

!!! “What!! That was what you promised!” 

“I also warned you…I told you I took my fiancé just as serious, you chose not to heed my warnings, so here we are.” 

Just then, Julius pulled a checkbook out the breast pocket of his jacket. He then reached over to Edwin for a pen. After writing the contents on the check, he then ripped it out of the book and handed it to Delvoy. 

Delvoy looked down at the check written to him, the amount was twenty million pounds, more than triple the usual dowry rate, however, not nearly enough to fix his current business woes. Delvoy began to fume!! This wasn’t supposed to go like this! If he had known, it would turn into all of this he would have just kept that brat with Steelwater! At least he would have had a business deal!! That’s it! Steelwater! Delvoy hadn’t informed Erick about the change if fiancés. His plan was to wait until it was made public in case something went wrong. Well, something had in fact went wrong, and whereas he would have loved to get into business with Spencer as it would have most certainly solved his financial problems and more, if it meant he would have to be controlled by Spencer, he couldn’t do it.

“There’s no way I’m going to allow that little brat to have this much control! I’ll break off the engagement and send her back to Steelwater! HA! I might even tell him to punish her for me! That’ll show her for disobeying me!” It was time to put Spencer in his place, a rarity for sure. Handing him back the check, Delvoy began to speak. 

“You know Spencer, I had thought the combining of our families would be a great thing not only for business but for society. It’s clear however that you have no respect for who is head of this household. I am Resena’s guardian! Me! And I am the one who choses what she gets to do with her life until she is no longer under my guardianship. Therefore, it brings me no pleasure to inform you I will be ending this engagement and maintaining my original arrangements with the Steelwaters. Now you and your friend, please leave.” 

Resena’s heart began to fall, she’d been on the steps the entire time during her uncle and fiancé’s exchange, and now he has just called off their engagement! Resena could feel her knees begin to get weak, the servants all gasp at what they had just heard. It was all over! Not only was he ending her engagement to Julius, but he was sending her back to Erick Steelwater!! Resena could feel her eyes begin to water, if she’d known it was going to turn into all of this, she would have just stayed until her birthday! It wasn’t worth all of this! That’s it! Maybe if she agrees to stay, her uncle will allow her to stay with Julius. Resena dropped her bags and ran down the steps. Locking eyes with Julius, he simply smiled at her. Why was he smiling? Had he not understood what was going on? Just then, Julius walked closer to Delvoy. 

“Lanster, I must give you credit. You’re right, I am used to getting my way. Very seldom am I ever really challenged, for that I thank you. Turns out you’re not the spineless weasel I thought you were. Resena will not be marrying Steelwater, but she is leaving here tonight. Edwin, that’s my fiancé at the bottom of the stairs. Please grab those bags behind her.” 

“Yes sir.” 

As Edwin walked past Delvoy he began to protest. 

“Now wait a minute, Spencer!!...” 

“Before you finish your sentence Lanster you’re going to want to listen to what I have to say.” 

Delvoy turned his attention back to Julius. Completely confused, he’d wondered why Spencer was standing so smug. Walking over to Delvoy, Julius handed him some documents, as Delvoy began to read, his face turned white. 

“You see Lanster, before I go into business with anybody, I make it my duty to learn everything about them. Well, I learned a great deal about you and Lanster Software. Turns out, you’ve been selling faulty software to the east regions of the southern continent. Which caused a bunch of businesses to file civil lawsuits against you. Your company just lost its license causing you to no longer be able to sell here. That’s the main reason you want to move west. Unlike the other continents, the west doesn’t require a background clearance to obtain a software license. Isn’t that correct?”