Chapter 117
ASHTON
I shove Ashley into his room and slam the door behind us.
"What exactly is your plan here, huh? On the one hand, you were trying to convince your wife to forgive your mistake and accept you still. On the other hand, you stood there like a statue and watched her being dragged away, screaming and crying, to be locked up in her room until she accepts your inhuman decision that only worsens her plight in all this? Are you nuts or something?"
"What would you have me do, Ashton?"
"STAND UP FOR HER! Jesus, Ashley, it’s not rocket science that Demi wants you to stand up for her! She literally mentioned the other day that she refrained from telling you about your baby because you stood still and watched father humiliate her. Your silence cost you the joy of learning you’re going to be a father because she misconstrued it like any woman in her shoes would and now, you also stood mute while father humiliated her again today. You didn’t stand up for your own wife even once. How in the world is she supposed to trust you with her heart or her life when you’re just a puppet of father’s?"
"I AM NOT...."
"DAMN RIGHT YOU ARE!" I leer at him, my chest heaving with breath. It fucking hurt to watch Demi being hauled away, to see the fear and helplessness in her eyes that had briefly wheeled towards my direction. I hate to have my hands tied given my past affiliations with her and my fiancée’s presence in the house right now. So, I am going to prod my stupid brother till he mans up and saves his wife from that distressful situation.
"You’re a spineless punk, Ashley and you have no clue how to get into a woman’s good graces without going through the hole between her legs." Ashley starts to fume now.
"Back off, Ashton. You don’t want to go there." I don’t budge when he tries to shove past me and leave the room. Instead, I yank him back and toss him roughly on his couch.
"Stay out of this Ashton!"
"Too late. I watched that disaster unfold outside. You went against Asher’s plan. You were supposed to coax Nicci to give the baby up for adoption. You went behind our backs and proposed a distasteful idea to her without batting an eyelid. You knew Demi wouldn’t like the idea so my guess is you did this for mother and she’s in on it too." His steamy gaze wavers at my theory.