Beautifully Forbidden

Chapter Nine

Mattheo's P.O.V.

I'm actually terrified right now. 

What the actual fuck does Tom want? It must be important if he's willing to leave to minister in order to talk to us privately.

I look over at Rina as we walk in, she seems pretty tense around her parents. I can't help but wonder if her parents treat her and her brother the same way Tom treats me and Alexa.

Speaking of her brother he hasn't stopped glaring at me since he walked in the manor, okay I get it I didn't exactly make the best first impression but he should focus on the bright side, at least I didn't kill him.

Tom clears his throat, an action that grabs everyone's attention.

"So, Mr.King, Mrs.King and I have been discussing your recent relationship." Tom says, looking at me for a few seconds.

I can see Rina looking anxious as she waits for him to continue speaking.

"And we have decided that once both of you graduade from Hogwarts you will get married." Rina's father finishes Tom's sentence for him.

My eyes widen. Married? After she finishes Hogwarts? That's one and a half year away.

"Tom, no. There is no way I'm going to get married in less than two years." I protest.

Carina is silent, so is her brother.

"Mattheo." Tom gives me a warning look, I can feel his eyes practically ripping my skull open, basically daring me to say another word infront of the Kings.

"Don't Mattheo me, I am not marrying anyone." I say. 

"That's not your choice, brother." Tom glares at me.

"And whose choice is it? Huh?" I scoff. "If I don't get to choose who the fuck I'll get married to and when who will? You?" 

Tom looks like he's about to errupt. He takes a deep breath in order to calm himself down before turning to Carina's parents.

"Would you give us a moment alone please?" He asks politely.

They both nod and gesture for Carina and her brother to follow them outisde.

Carina gives me an apologetic look before obbeying her parents' order.

Once the Kings are out of the room Tom turns to me again.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing Mattheo?" He shouts. "What exactly is your goal? To ruin our reputation, to have some random death eater family think I have no control over my younger brother?" He takes a deep breath, trying really hard not to yell right now that the manor is filled with guests.

"Do you have any idea how embarassing it is for me to have my younger brother defy my orders infront of some family? It makes me look weak." His anger is rising again, this will not end well.

"Listen to me and listen to me good, you will get your act together and you will listen to me. You will be getting married to Carina King next summer and that's final, if you don't like it then feel free to leave, but before you do remember that leaving means abandoning the death eaters as well, something that can result in your death." He says, he doesn't show any emotion at all, yet there's something in his voice-perhaps a warning tone-that's telling me to not defy him.

"Fine." I give in. "I'll marry her, but o one condition." 

Tom nods, waiting for the condition.

"Being married to me will mean that she will be under my protection and therefore under the death eaters' protection as well, I do not want anything to happen to her." I say.