The Heirs

The end game

Raymond's POV

   "Dad, I hope you are doing the right thing, are you certain that lady would do the job properly",asked Ava as she sat down looking at her dad buried in office work.

      "I know what I'm doing",said Raymond angrily before shutting the file he was working on.

     "Am I interrupting something",asked Joe as she entered the study.

    "No darling",said Raymond standing up to greet his wife.

    "Ava ",said Joe smiling at her daughter.

   "Dad, I would talk to you later",said Ava ignoring her mom before walking out of the study.

    "She hates me",said Joe sadly.

   "She doesn't hate you, she's just too stubborn to realize how much you truly love her",said Raymond as he faced his wife.

    Joe smiled sadly before leaving the study.

Ever since she had given birth to Ava, she had little memories of her happiness, she just couldn't do it, be a good mother to her when her first child Treasure doesn't have her biological mother with her, all she ever did was see Treasure in Ava, they both looked almost identical in her eyes, it hurts so much to live each day without her daughter and she was so buried in her insufficiencies as a mother to actually care for Ava or at least show she cared that she ended up pushing Ava away and now Ava hates her.

Claire's POV

"Why can't he stop calling me",I said angrily tossing my phone away.

       I have clearly gotten myself into a mess, why didn't my plan work.

   How on Earth did Adrian had to come into my room that late at night, couldn't he have waited till morning.

  "Aarh",I said pacing

I have to come up with another plan, I can not risk loosing everything I have worked for just because of this.

  I couldn't loose my virginity for nothing!

  "Yes Claire, think of something",I chanted severally before turning to see Adrian standing at the door.

   The Adrian I had met in the past few months didn't look any close to the man standing before me.

   He looked so terrible with the overgrown mustache begging to be shaved. His eyes balls looked so sunken in.

   How much sleep did he managed to get last night, I couldn't help but to feel pity for him.

  No no no Claire don't get soft, don't you dare, I thought as I stared at him

   His silence spoke in numbers as his eyes took me all in sadly.

  "I should have taken you out to the dinner last night, I never should have let you stay in this house for another minute, I should have fought for us, I should have done something",Adrian said as he held my elbows as tears rolled down his face.

  I was speechless, speechless

  "This is all my fault, I should never had brought you here, I should not have, how could you ever bring yourself to forgive me",Adrian said in tears

   The last thing I wanted was for him to keep blaming himself.

  "Adrian this isn't your fault",I whispered as I wiped away his tears.

"No it's my fault, my fault how can you forgive me Claire, my brother raped you , how could you ever bring yourself to forgive me, you must have been so terrified and when I saw the two of you I had the gut to doubt you, I'm sorry my love, I'm so sorry, how could I have let this happened to you",Adrian said as he touched my cheek.