Mr. Knight

7|Legal

"When nothing is going right, go left.
And if there is nothing left, go ahead"

"Scarlett Jones, do you hear me? You are going to sign the contract once I'm done with it.", Alexander finished.

He still had a very, very firm grip on her arm and she still was inside, hiding from him in her way by disconnecting from herself.

How would one know you ask? Well, it's easy if you are observant and you do so by not letting others know that you are observing them very, very carefully.

Her eyes, the usual brown ones that shined bright whenever she was excited and had a few freckles or spots of gold around them that only, truly showed whenever she was really happy, truly or smiled from the heart.

Well, these gold spots occurring had been so, so scarce that one would think that it didn't take place at all over the last four or three years.

But when a situation like this happened, one which put her into this little hiding even though she was there was one like when a fictional werewolf, who hasn't suffered much comes in control and the little scared human sits in a dark corner, both in the brain and the mind.

She would disconnect, have no idea of what was going on around her and would neglect every other person around her and then finally think of the light in the dark, find the hope to be alive and be back as if she was never gone and cover these too often occurrences with the most believable and common lie,- but not completely a lie though- that she was not
good and was probably a little ill.

And no wonder everyone believed her. She had quite a few tricks of her own under her sleeve to pull up the fake 'please let me be for a while' act while she would just be locked up in her room and would remember all the things that she had, for so long tried to forget.

Xavier kept shouting at her but she didn't respond.
Guess he didn't notice her now pale eyes that had only a few traces of brown as if her eyes were never brown.

"Answer me dammit!", he shouted increasing the grip he had that would leave a very visible bruise on her hand.

At the same moment, Matthew came in and detached Scarlett from Alexander's grip and hugged her to his chest and rubbed her back soothingly.

This gesture strongly reminded Scarlett of her father who had done the same every single night that she had cried because of all the nightmares she had.

She hesitantly wrapped her small hands around Matthew and cried in his chest.

After a few minutes of calming down, Matthew asked her what everyone wanted to know.

Why had she agreed to Katherine? Why?

"Because she paid for Grayson's mom treatment in that unfairly expensively priced hospital which was nearest to us that time. She even paid for a full-time nurse and said that she would ask her to give her wrong meds and that could gravely hurt her. I don't want that to the nearest mother figure I've had. Like the family of my brother if I had one. I couldn't repay them like this when they took care of me all the time. ", she said.

" Then you should have told her that you a have a boyfriend! ", Alexander said.

" Did you not hear a word of what I just said? He's like my brother and she knows that. We were in the school. Oh, God! I wonder how you run this big ass company.", she said releasing an exasperated sigh.

"Alright, I'll get a contract made with clauses that you both want in it. Since it's happening anyways get time to know each other you both are to remain married for at least two and half years. And if before that you get you separated I want my grandchild in my arms. The contract will be annulled automatically at the end of four years. Agreed? ", Matthew said.