One Shots 'The nursery nurse'

Our Family Name Part III

Reece let the door close behind him.

"Hey, Reecey," Mia's voice rang out.

He followed the voice to the terrace, where the redhead was sitting with a cigarette in her mouth, painting her toenails.

He sat down without saying anything.

"Was the meeting with daddy deares that bad?"

" He wants us to get married..."

Mia stopped what she was doing. " What?"

That wasn't part of the deal, Mia thought to herself. She just stared into space.

"Mia, I know you don't want to get married. But if I defy my father... I don't want to know what he'll do..."

'If I say no, he'll never give me the information.'

'If I say no, I'll never be able to give my mum an answer.'

Mia closed her eyes. "Ok..."

Autumn stared at the computer screen after the conversation in the morning. She couldn't concentrate on anything else. The fake friendliness she always put on here at work was gone.

She didn't realise how Marjorie was looking at her with concern.

"Autumn? Is everything all right with you?"

" Yes."

" Really? You don't look well?"

She wanted to tell Marjorie the truth, but she didn't have the words. What's more, Marjorie was a Van Gould. And Autumn didn't know how close she was to her family. The young woman tortured herself through the day.

When she had finally finished her work. She stormed out of the building. Winter tried to stop her, but she ignored him. She couldn't bring herself to tell him the truth.

She knew that if she defied her father, the consequences would be catastrophic.

She wanted to protect Winter at all costs.

Reece stared at his phone. After taking several deep breaths, he called his father.

"What do you want?"

"Hello to you too," Reece said. "I just wanted to tell you that Mia and I are now engaged."

"Good, is that all?"

Reece looked at Mia, who was sitting opposite him with her arms crossed.
"We're going to get married, just like you want. But we won't have children."

There was a brief silence on the other end.

"You're going to get her pregnant! Whether she wants to or not!"

Even Mia could hear his answer, a shiver ran down her spine.

"Reece! Must I explain to you in one easy lesson how the world works?"

The sarcasm burst out of Reece.
" Please explain it to me. Apparently, I'm not as smart as you!"

" We have to put our family first! Make sure that our wealth stays in our family! A good man does everything in his power to better his family's position, no matter of his own selfish desires!"

A laugh burst out of Reece.

" Do you think this is funny?!", Roger was getting fed up with his son

"No, it's a very good lesson. That you talk about family always coming first! That we have to give up everything! It must be so easy when you make all the decisions!"

"Easy for me?!" shouted Roger.

Now, the anger in Reece was slowly awakening." When have you ever done something that wasn't in your interest but solely for the benefit of the family?"

" On the day you Mother left us! I was done with this family! I wanted to carry you and your sister out into the wilderness and let nature take you two! But instead, I let you live. Because you're a Knight!"

Reece could no longer answer his father, he hung up.