Trinket ✔️

CH-18

"Regrets"

2020

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to accept them, and Owen was yet not ready to accept his sinful deeds.

His mother's anger was the only thing he feared in this world and it was the last thing he wanted in his married life but Ivy, why, why she always had to do things he didn't like, 'oh how much angry he is with her right now'.

his mother had strictly warned everyone that until Ivy's due date arrives no one was allowed to meet her because she was very weak and she couldn't take any more mental or physical stress in her life. she was carrying the heir of Jacksonville's, and she herself was the loving daughter-in-law of this prestigious family, Olivia was way too insecure for her and it was clearly visible in the great palace of Jacksonville.

Ivy on other hand was getting better day by day, she heard the whispers from the servent that how Owen tried to enter the palace but failed and got caught every time. she was not happy but she was relaxed that she can see her baby. She wanted to meet her father but Olivia was very angry when she heard Elias saying that "abort this sinful child and let's leave for Munich". which made her even more furious and she strictly ordered Elias visits will also be prohibited.

One night with all huddles and his best tries Owen got successful in entering the palace without anybody noticing.

he was master in doing that it not to remember failed many times, whenever he wanted to escape the palace at the midnight to meet his friends in the barns or their parties he knew how to do that. he was a loving child and he never degraded his parent's name. 

once his mother caught him sneaking through the second entrance, he got the earful of how good boys should behave and how important was for them to be generous with their parents. he was just fourteen at that time. 

Smiling on his sweet childhood memories he entered the main hall and found all the lights off, it was not common because the hall's secondary lights were always on and it was never pitch black since ages.  he slowly started to walk towards the stairway to make it to his room where Ivy was staying.

he wanted to touch her, kiss her and most importantly apologize to her that he was wrong to treat her like that and this separation of them taught him the lesson that how important she and their baby's life was for him. He fcuking loved her.

He would do everything to get her back, he couldn't see hate in his wife's and mother's eyes at the same time, the guilt was killing him, he tried to call his mother but she was dodging his call and was not ready to listen to his apologies. he couldn't live his life like this and he wanted peace, mic drop!.

he knew he couldn't explain what he did to her and he was simply wrong, he finally accepted.

and most importantly Ivy, he wanted her around him always and when she needed him the most, he was discarded from her life. he will love his child the same way he was loved by his parents. and for that, he had to make peace with HIS child's mother first.

Slowly taking cautious steps towards the stairway he was thinking about so many aspects that how would Ivy react after seeing him in his room but as he was taking his next step something came under his shoes. he ignored it first but something made him fall hard on the ground and he found something liquidy on his hands. he was not being able to see anything due to the darkness but he sure got the idea it was a human body. but who's??

Panic rose in his body with the wave of shiver, he was in fear, so many wild thoughts were playing in his head like a reel, what if it was someone he loved the most, was it the same fear Ivy felt every time when he took their unborn children from her? was he dreaming? was god giving him punishment for his mean sins... so many scenarios were going on in his head and he was frozen for the moment.

he slowly stood up in the search of a switchboard to turn on the lights and when he saw the dead body of his very loving babysitter Jules, he was terrified to his death. she was his second mother and she loved him like her own son. and there she was lying lifeless on the floor with her eyes wide open and fresh blood oozing from her head, it was the last scene he wanted to see of her.

he fell on his knees causing the nearby vase on the table to stumble and shatter in hundreds of pieces justifying his state, with his trembling expressions and shaking voice he started to sob like a little boy, hearing all the sound, the family members, and few servants gathered in the hall and when they saw Owen with blood on his hands and Jules lying lifeless on the floor made them shiver on their places.

Olivia and martin were horrified by the scene and they were just praying somewhere in their hearts that Owen was innocent. "Oh my God, how can this happen to her, I can't believe she is dead." Olivia cried her heart out, slowly walking to her son, she looked at his terrible state and hugged him consoling that it will be fine.

Martin asked the servants to check on Ivy if she was fine and sound sleeping in her room but when her caretaker came with the foul news all three of the Jacksonville lost their color to pale and Owen started to panic. "she is not in her room, sir," said Ivy's caretaker.

Soon the watchman ran to the hall shouting "Elias took Mrs. Jacksonville and they left the premises of the palace a few minutes ago, I tried to stop them but...." Everyone looked at each other and Owen, without a thought next ran towards the main gate to chase them, he was furious, he was fuming in rage, he was in the other state when it came to his Ivy. "how fcuking dare he took her away from me, how dare he??" he shouted gripping his starring wheel and speeding his car. With few turns, he saw a familiar car of his father and he knew it was them.

Driving his best and rational he tried his best to chase their car, but destiny was not in the favor of him, he was not meant for her and he will get what he deserved.

The car lost it's balance and that was it for the Owen Carter Jacksonville.

With many turns and twists, that car took his soul almost with the death-like sound of scratching and joy like the bounce of fear of losing his love and his baby, he saw the car stopped for a fraction of a sec but no one came out.

his body was upside down, his head was bleeding, his breaths were short and his vision, just wanted to see his wife for the last time. with that, he closed his eyes accepting his fate for his selfish behavior.

when Ivy saw his car got in an accident her breath hitched right away, she asked her father to stop the car, but he was scared and coward. he speeded it more just by the little pause he took, when he heard the sound of Owen's car scratching. According to him, he should not survive and if he stopped, his daughter would be taken away from him.
Forever
so he did the same, what every father would do.

"dad, please stop the car, please dad... he will die, we have to take him to the hospital," Ivy said with sobs and holding her fathers forearm, she wanted to save him, whatever he did to her but he never deserved this not in the far world.

"he will not make it Ivy, that was it for him, he got what he deserved." Ivy was not happy with her father's words and she wanted to jump from the car but then again she was carrying the life and she couldn't do that with it.

so she silently sat back to her place and prayed to God for Owen's safety and his sanity.

'Killing Jules was not my plan, she came in between me and my daughter, in the heated argument, she lost her balance and fell on the edge of the staircase, and straight away died on the spot. I somehow escaped Ivy through another side of the staircase and in my defence I switched off all the lights of the hall. I wanted a good life for my daughter and I will make sure of it.' Elias thought to himself.