Love and Obsession

5. Condition

Thomas POV

I now had the ring waiting patiently to speak to Isabella who was receiving guests for this small dinner party in her fathers home.

"Isabella, may I speak to you alone for a moment?"

"Of course, Thomas." She looked at me smiling.

"Isabella, would you fetch Miss Lucille Sharp. I should like to her and Mr. Thomas Sharpe for a moment." Carter Cushing said ordering Isabella like she was servant than his own daughter.

Within seconds Lucille and I were in Carter Cushing's study.

"Mr. Sharpe, I think that you could tell that from the moment I met you that I didn't like you." Cushing turned his back to us as he had an envelope with some papers in them.

"Yes sir, you made that clear from the start." I said trying not to sound annoyed.

"This document hear confirmed my suspicions of you." I looked at the document shocked at what I was seeing.

"That's the most honest reaction I've ever seen out of you." He went back over to his desk writing a check from his bank account.

"Now you seem to be the most sensible one." Cushing said while looking at Lucille.

"This check here is more than generous. But if you want that to clear than I have my conditions; First is that you both need to be on a train bound for Manhattan in the morning and you better be on it. Second tonight you will announce that you are going to marry Isabella and tomorrow you both will take her back to England with you both. Furthermore Me and Edith never want to see her again." Cushing said looking at the both of us.

I couldn't believe at what I had just heard and nor could answer him back.

"Alright of course we will accept your conditions." Lucille said to Cushing.

"Father the guests have arrived and our waiting for you." Edith Cushing said walking into the study unannounced.

Cushing then left the room as we followed the sooner that I asked Isabella to marry me the sooner we could leave this place never to return.