Spades & Hearts

Tilt

Everything suddenly fell apart.

For a moment, the sounds around her were muffled. Her mind went blank, her eyes zeroed on her food, and she sat there frozen hearing the muffled laughters of the others.

She had carefully weighed everything. But why did it turn out this way? What went wrong?

Trusting her father. That was it!

Trusting her father was the mistake. Her father betrayed her. He lied. And Suzy felt stupid for not seeing this coming. She should have known.

A hand wrapping hers on the table pulled her out of her thoughts. Briefly, she forgot where she was. She glanced to her side and found Chanyeol, her husband, staring back at her worriedly.

Oh how she wished she could take away that title he hold right that instant!

"Are you okay?" He softly asked; his brows furrowed.

Okay? How could she be 'okay' when her father had chosen him to be the president of their company? How could she when her dream was falling apart?

Suzy sent him a glare in return and whisked her hand away from his. Chanyeol slightly flinched at that, but she could care less.

"What's wrong, Suzy?" Her father who must have seen their little exchange asked, and Suzy felt like clawing off that little smirk on his face when she glanced at him. He knew what was wrong and still had the gut to ask her that just to rub it on her.

"You must be surprised," Chanyeol's mother, sitting across her, commented with soft chuckles. "And happy. Aren't you, sweetheart?" She gave her a smile, but Suzy could barely return it.

"You really shouldn't be surprised though," her father laughed. "You are my daughter after all! So it is only right for me to prepare your husband as my successor. You both are one now anyway."

Suzy curled her hands into fists on her lap. He knew so well which buttons to push to break her apart. If this was how he was going to play the game, then Suzy found no reason to keep on playing it. Maybe she should just announce right then that she wanted to divorce Chanyeol.

But what if... She glanced at her father who was still laughing along with Chanyeol's parents. What if he have other cards under his sleeves? She wondered.

No. She couldn't afford another careless mistake. Her father was a cunning man. One more wrong step and she would lose what little life she was left with. She could only stay silent for now, and replan everything.

Dinner went on with arrangements on when Chanyeol could move to work at the company to be introduced as the president and future successor and to get trained. She could feel Chanyeol glancing at her from time to time in concern of her silence, but she ignored him. Suzy only concentrated on eating her food because that was the only way to appease her mind. That was until her in-laws brought up the topic of trying to have a baby, making her stomach churned and herself nauseated.

"Mom!" Chanyeol warned, no less flustered than her.

"What?" His mother blinked innocently. "Don't tell me you still haven't even tried."

Suzy pressed her lips together and briefly closed her eyes. To be honest, she didn't dislike Chanyeol's mother. But she always hated it when this topic was brought up every now and then when they met.

"W-we're not ready yet. We're...," he briefly glanced at her then cleared his throat, "busy."

Chanyeol's father suddenly chuckled. "Well then it's good that now you will work at the same place. You don't have to wait for one another at home anymore and can make sure no one overworks." His father seemed so pleased with his own idea that Suzy felt it harder to digest her food. "Then, you can probably have more time together and get yourselves ready to try have a baby."