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"Alethea?" Maverick whispered while standing up from his chair, Kavin also stood up after seeing that Alethea had arrived at the café. "we need to talk." Alethea said in a ordered tone and walked out from the café.
Maverick looked at Kavin before walking out, he looked for her and finally saw her figure standing near the sea while the waves and cold wind were blowing her soft, untied hair backwards.
Maverick walked towards her and stood beside, he didn't dare to glance over her instead he kept his eyes on the sea waves.
"you knew everything lately, right?" Alethea asked him and soundly gulped at the end of her sentence, sliding his hands into his jeans pocket and licking his lower lip, he hummed in response.
"why didn't you try to do something!?" she raised her voice after turning towards him, to look into his eyes with her watery ones. "tell me!? why didn't you tell me about this and kept ignoring me! even when you knew that you love me." she yelled again.
she was purely mad at him. mad at his stupidity. mad at his hopelessness.
"i don't think that i deserve—"
"You are no one to decide what i deserve or what not, then why did you, Maverick?" she shouted at him again, pushing him by his shoulder making him tilt a bit.
he wasn't even daring to look into her face, even when he knew that she was crying.
"who told you that i love you?" Maverick asked her gently while finally looking at her eyes, "Andrew. If he hadn't told me all this, I might have lost you, stupid!" She sobbed, tears flowing down to her cheeks making Maverick s heart clench.
"do you— really?" he asked her with tears in his eyes, she took a deep breath while shutting her eyes momentarily.
"Yes, i really love you." she said, and hugged him tightly before crying into his chest.
—
"Andrew, my son, how was your first date?" Jacob asked Andrew as he entered the house, Andrew looked at his father who was sitting in the living room with Alba and bella, Andrew walked towards them before looking at his father again.
"it wasn't a date, dad." Jacob furrowed in confusion, and he put the cup of hot tea on the table in-front before standing up in-front of his son. "what do you mean by this nonsense?" Asked Jacob in a whisper while gritting his teeth in anger.
"don't tell me that you've done something stupid this time too." Jacob growled at Andrew, while Andrew looked up into his father's eyes with anger and clenched jaw.
"You weren't like this dad. why you became this then?" Jacob again furrowed at his son's words, "why don't you care about other's feelings?" Andrew added, "you knew that Maverick loves Alethea but still you wanted me to marry her!" Andrew shouted.
"why you wanted me to ruin Maverick's life—" a harsh slap made Andrew stop in between of his shouting, which was given by his father.
"i just wanted to secure your future! if you were married to Alethea then your future will be secured because her father is MY BESTFRIEND—"
"and what about the Maverick, you married his mother not because she needed shelter after her family arranged her with you but you wanted to raise your kids with a mother figure after mom died!" Andrew yelled after cutting jacob off.
Alba stood up with tears in her eyes after seeing the efforts Andrew was making.
"Are you hearing his nonsense, Alba?" Jacob asked Alba, thinking she would take Jacob's side but she wasn't gonna leave his brother because this time he was doing right.
"Yes, dad, I'm hearing him. dad, Maverick needed you because after marrying his mother, you were his father not real ones but still, it was your responsibility to take care of him, just like his mother was taking care of your children, dad. but you always put us first and not him, and now you don't have any rights to scold him for behaving bad with you." said Alba in a breath and sighed.
Bella was standing and watching the father and children having argument, Jacob was staring at his children being against their own father.
"you still have time, dad. he will forgive you, he's just an orphan." Andrew broke up again into tears.
Jacob glared at bella who was unaware of what was happening right there, without wasting a second Jacob trotted towards his second wife and grabbed her with her arm making her hiss in pain while Alba and andrew were seeing them.
"what are you doing—" , "I'm sure that you made my children against me!" Jacob shouted at his wife, making her flinch at the yelling and she couldn't do anything then looking deep into his eyes with her teary and helpless ones.
Andrew barged between them and yanked the hand of his father from his stepmother and stood in-front of her as a protector.
"You can't pressurize her now, because of your pressurising she could never take stand for her son." Gritted Andrew at his father making Jacob groan, "You all have gone mad!" Jacob yelled at them.
"Dad, you know what, You know that our every word is true but sadly it has become very difficult for you to accept your reality because you've gone too far from us." said Andrew with tears in his eyes, and pulled his hair back.
while on the other hand Alba was breaking into sobs but Jacob just ran out to his study leaving his family broke up.
