Victorian Girl

Chapter 20 - William

After the party I find my Father in my office.

"Hi Father, what are you doing in here?" I ask him as I shut the door.

"What gives you the right to not even tell your own father that you have plans to marry another girl. When I have told Anne's Mother that I have already told her that you were going to marry Anne," he says angrily.

"What!? What gives you the right to have me in an arranged marriage that I don't even know about," William yells back.

"I am your Father, I was trying to help the company, her family has a lot of trading routes in America," he says.

" I am not marrying Anne, I am marrying Emma and that is finally," I say angry.

"If you marry Emma, you not taking over the company and you are out of this family," he says back.

"Fine, goodbye Father," I leave the office angry. I go up to the room that I heard Emma was staying in and I knock on the door hoping she wasn't asleep already. The door opens and I smile sadly at her. "What's wrong?" I hear Emma ask me.

"Can I come in?" I ask. She moves to the side and lets me in her room. I go and sit down on the edge of her bed. Putting my head in my hands. Emma comes over and rubs my back.

"Tell me what's wrong William," Emma says.

"My Father has kicked me out of the family and the company because he doesn't want me to marry you. He wants me to marry Anne so she can help the company," I say looking at the floor.

"Oh," Emma says softly. I look up at her and I see her thinking. I stand up and take her hands, she looks up at me.

"I don't care about the business or what my family thinks. All I care about is you. I love you so much, you mean the world to me and I don't ever want to lose you, Emma," I say and kiss her softly.

"I love you too," I hear Emma say. I smile and hug her tightly.

"Then let's get out of her and elope somewhere, anywhere," I say smiling.

"Let's go to Paris," Emma says smiling.

"Let's go to Paris," I pick her up and carry her out of the manor. I get a carriage to the nearest dock