Chapter Seventeen: Begging

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Marc Anthony's POV
I have been scrolling through the pictures Blair sent me. I am taking in the details of each picture of Bea lip locked with another man. Memories of our love making forbid me from feeling anything less but betrayal.

"If you hold that phone any tighter, you'll crush it."

I raised my eyes to look at the person talking to me. I opened the car door and she quickly got in to shelter from the rain. I was about to get out of the car and speak to my father but I have been glued to my phone.

"I did what you said..." I told Nails about Paris. She recommended that I see it through so that the curiosity is out of the way. "We made love and she was cheating on me."

She craned her neck to look at the pictures.

"Have you asked her?"

"No." Instead I was quick to suspend her from work. I don't care if she stole anything. I care that she is with another man and they will elope. "Should I?"

"Yes. There are always two sides to a story. Listen to her side of the story."

"I suspended her from work. I was mean the her. I feel bad about it."

"Then apologize."

"I don't know where to start. I... Naila, I think I'm falling in love with her. What should I do?"

"Tell her how you feel."

"I am afraid that I will put myself out there and she will break my heart. I have never cared about a woman like this. I don't like how it feels."

"The vulnerability? I know what that feels like." She looked distant for a quick moment. "Ate you coming in?"

"Yes. I have to speak to Wayne."

"Speak if the devil." Naila pointed at our father. I got out of the car to meet him begot he gets in his own car.

"I told you that in confidence. I didn't ask that you act on it!

"Anthony, you're my son. If someone offends you or disrespects you I'm obligated to act."

I told my father about Bea and Lawrence. Now I hear that Bea's father has been arrested. Simon told me. "What do you have in her father?"

"Attempted murder. If you can't have Bea, she can't have her father. He should have made her understand my terms."

"I'll work it with Bea. Let her father go. I promise there will be a wedding." I opened the little case I had in my pocket. I was to offer it to her on the morning after we made love but unfortunately, she left before I woke up. "I have a ring. I will make this happen. I promise. Don't take out your disappointment on her father."

"I'll think about it. No promises." He got into his car and sped off.

Bea Bianca's POV
It has been six hours since my father got arrested. The first person I had called was Lawrence but he didn't answer. I thought of calling Tony but the way things played out at the office prevented me.

Come to think of it, all stubbornness aside, I was only supposed to comply to the dishes if the Bellingerres. That's all. I became stubborn and now my father is gone.

"Are you even listening to me?" She shrieked and shoved me brutally.

I restrained myself from reacting especially because she is my mother.

"Yes mother, I'm listening."

I really wasn't.

"It's not public yet." Blair announced waving her phone. "I have been checking. No one knows about father's arrest."

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