Chapter 80: Love Is A Weakness
REAGAN POV
Two guards each flanked me by my sides, their heavy boots echoed against the marble floors of the grand hall as we made our way towards the manor’s east wing where I knew my mother was staying.
As I walked, the emotions inside me fought for supremacy with anger against regret at the same time. Every word Heather had said embedded into my mind like blades which pierced my pride to deeper and more painful depths. I couldn’t believe what I had just heard and I wasn’t willing to listen it but then everything made sense.
Dahlia looking pale, frail, almost sick! Hells, thinking about it made me sick. To think that she would go through this extent made my stomach churn. Looking at Dahlia, seeing her once bright and spirited self reduced to nothing but the shadow I had confronted earlier made me angry with myself. I couldn’t believe that I had been too blind, too consumed by my anger and bitterness to notice it!
I clenched my fists tightly as we got closer to the east wing. The distant low level of voices reached my ears and I could tell my mother was inside. The guards who stood guard at the door tensed at the sight of me coming towards them, their faces unyielding.
"Sire!" One of them greeted with a firm nod.
"Open the door!" I demanded, my voice cold and unwavering.
Without hesitation, the guards immediately did as I had asked, opening the door and I stepped inside where I found my mother seated gracefully by the window. A calm atmosphere surrounded her while her fingers delicately touched the rim of her tea cup which rested on a small nearby table. Sunlight from the window exposed her facial features making her seem heavenly if only I didn’t know any better.
Her gaze shifted to me as I entered, and a warm smile appeared on her face, her dark eyes lighting up the way they always did whenever she saw me. "Ah, my son!" She said rising up from her seat to come and huge me while giving me a peck on the cheek, something I didn’t like but she still always goes ahead and do it and I always let her since it brings her comfort.