Control The CEO

Chapter 12

Control The CEO

Chapter 12

❝Victorian era❞

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"Ace! Don't you dare tell her anything!" My brother, Leo says as he walks into my room. I look at him with sorrow. "She won't be able to handle it, she's far too fragile" Leo says. I glare at him. "I'm not fragile" I say to him as I glare at him. I'm strong, though I know that I'm also fragile. I don't show that to them, though I know that they know that. "She can take the truth. She deserves the truth and if you care for her, then you will allow me to tell her the truth. We're after all to be wed and honesty is the way a marriage works" Ace says and gives me a wink.

I look at him with a glare. I'm not sure which glare is angrier, the one that I give him or the one that Leo gives him. Perhaps we are both angry at this man. Though, Ace remains calm through all of this. As if he's used to something like this. I know that Leo and I aren't the only family that have problems. But, this time I think the problem is me and it will always be like that.

"If you tell her the truth, then the deal is off. I want you to leave or I will call security up here and have them remove you from my property" Leo says. This anger that Leo is giving off is something that I'm not used to. He's always been so careful around me. I know that is because I'm sick and he just wants to protect me. I get nervous around others when they are angry and I don't understand what I feel inside when others do get angry, I can't understand it and I don't want it.

Ace then chuckles and takes my hand into his. "Do you want me to leave, Davina?" He asks me. As if he's not even afraid of my brother and I doubt that he is. Ace has always been someone who has been strong and he's not afraid of anything. It's actually very annoying and I hate him, I really hate this man but he makes me feel strangely inside. I hate that as well. "I don't know" I answer. I look between Ace and Leo. They don't look at each other as they only look at me.

It makes me feel uncomfortable. I want to know the truth and I want them to tell me the truth. Who is my brother and what has he got to lose if the truth comes out. "I want to know the truth" I say what I'm thinking. Then I look down at my hands to see that Ace is holding it. He's warm and he's kind to me. It's strange and I'm not sure that it is a good thing or a bad thing. I have no idea what it means and I have no idea what anything means anymore.

Leo sighs as he walks over to me and sits down on the bed. He takes my hand and pushes Ace away from me. "All I have ever done is protect you. The only thing that I ask from you is that you marry him and we will all be happy. It will be all right. I promise you that I will visit you so often that you'll get tired of me. Just don't ask me about the truth and please don't ask him to tell you. I can't bear to hurt you" Leo says to me.

Somehow his words do something to me and as much as I want to I agree to what he says. I know that I won't be able to. Because the truth means more to me than anything. I don't even know why. Leo isn't the same as he was before. He has changed somehow and I want to know who he is. What I don't know is why the truth means so much to me. I think that it should not mean anything to me. "Why do I have to marry someone I don't want?" I ask him. I look at my brother as I did when we were children.

Like he has all the answers in the world and I've always looked at him like that because I've always wanted Leo and hoped that he would always be the one to tell me the truth, and to have all the answers for all the questions that I can ever think of. "Because if you don't, we're screwed" He tells me and gives me a strange look that I don't understand. Then again I've never been that good at understanding looks from others so I think that is normal. "Don't speak that way around a Lady" Ace says.

This time I give him a confused look. "Are we in the Victorian era? Because I would like that. I think the dresses are really pretty" I say and both of them are looking at me. I think they're almost amused, but I can't be sure about it. Then Ace gives me a smirk. "If you're with me, I can give you anything you want. Even dresses like those and galas and everything that makes that era special will be yours, even a castle. All you have to do is become my wife" He says.

I have a feeling that they're trying to trick me into marrying Ace. Did they plan this? To almost tell me the truth? I'm not sure about it nor anything anymore. It would be nice to have those things that people had at that time, but if I do then I'm losing something else and I like being free. Am I free? I mean I don't have wings or anything but I think that I am free. "All right, I will marry you, only if both of you tell me the truth and only the truth" I say. Even if they tell me the truth I'm not going to marry him. Never will I do that. I hate him or do I?