Neglected Marriage

8.Shock

Mrs Stella watched with shock as everyone else on the road.

Mr and Mrs Knight looked at their daughter to see shock,disbelief ,horror and embarrassment. She was a deep shade of rouge.

William pushed  Eugene away with a huff. Wiping his mouth on his cuffs. Eugene laughed hysterically.
He approached Mrs Stella as he was about to kiss her ,William pulled him away .
"Stay away from her Eu-eu".he huffed.
Eugene giggled",You called me Eu-eu. My sweet endearment for your love for me Willy. Be gone with you ,you handsome rake".
William shook his head entered his carriage and said",Go home Eugene".
He closed his curtains.

Eugene watched them depart with amusement.

Mrs Stella sat awkwardly away from Mr Stella .
Mr and Mrs Knight also noticed.
"So,how was your meeting with Eugene Langhart. eventful presume?".she said coyly.
He looked at her coldly and said",Do not mock me Mrs Stella. He embarrassed me in front of you,your parents and everyone else. "
"So? You should have been more careful. Now people think I married a homosexual. Not that it is a problem. You should have told me."she comforted him patting his shoulder in understanding.

One he did not take her for four years. Or kiss her for that matter.

He looked at her and said",I am not homosexual,I am very straight I am sure you know that".he said to her ,she turned red at the innuendo.
"Eugene is however bisexual. Always has since he was abused by both men and woman in his youth due to his beauty. Do not fall for his happy facade ,underneath all that is an angry monster waiting to unleash its wrath on those who caused him pain and those who continue to do so".
He explained rather sombrely. Recalling how Eugene used to cry over what happened to him.

"You care for him."she patted his hand.
"I love him" Mr Stella provided.

Mrs Stella's eyes widened in shock and she blinked twice too many times.
"What?".she asked.
Mr Stella noticed the look in her eye. Pain and betrayal.
"Not in that way my love,I'd never betray you. Eugene is my younger brother".he said.

"You treat him as your younger brother? Cause I thought you hated him?". Mrs Stella asked curiously.
"Besides ,you look nothing alike".
He gave a pained smile"Well believe it or not ,he is my younger half brother whom the public never acknowledged as he is an illegitimate. I found him when the people who raised him ,kidnapped me. I just thought he was just a golden haired boy who had survived living in an underground damp cave all his life ,surviving on the barest of minimal foods. Some times raw rats chrocoaches and other dog scraps.

He knew not his own identity. I saved him when I escaped. I killed all the man who kidnapped us except his daughter who believed she was desperately in love with me. She gave us Eugene's documents. Apparently his mother was a disgrace for falling pregnant  with a married man who had a child and status. They tried to make him take her as a consort but he claimed she was taken in the night. I was two. Eugene was yet to be born. He ,my father let his own son be born in a cave and grow there like an animal. Not see the light of day until he was fourteen and I rescued him. He saw his mother beaten and defiled everyday until she died when he was nine according to his memory.  Then they defiled him next.He was like an animal. He couldn't speak,couldn't walk straight,didn't know the sun. My mother knew and encouraged my father to dispose of the child for the sake of money and reputation. His papers showed he was the sole heir of her family's estate. I had him adapt his maternal surname Langhart. My father hated Eugene but tolerated him. My grandmother was able to show a semblance of compassion. It was only I who loved Eugene. Trained him. Made him the master of etiquette he is today. It took months to break him. After finally making him a perfect Prince,father wanted to be closer to us. I got a vacancy with the government. Had Eugene as my partner and built an empire without a cent of my father's. I want none of it to this day. Eugene had similar ideals. We started rescuing people in his similar position. Those who had nothing to go back to ,the government helped. Eugene opened an orphanage on one of his estates for foreign children or sex slaves. Sex slavery is his passion.
He may look happy and all,but he is still haunted. He kills mercilessly anyone who threatens children . Which brings me to why I hate him."he sighed.
"There was an ambush on a boat. I was unprepared. The woman was heavily pregnant. When we saw the assassins we should have moved her away. But she and the unborn child died. Eugene accidentally shot her then he shot me and sided with our enemies. Rapists and traffickers and harlot masters and auctioneers,slave traders, and kidnappers. He left me to bleed out to death.