Chapter 79: RICHARD
A lot of things have been said about heartbreak. A lot has been written about the subject and I used to think people unnecessarily hyped the experience until...
I sat nonplussed at the sofa wondering how I was supposed to break up with someone who has taken over my heart in all entirety. Someone who a day without feels bleak. Someone whose presence I couldn’t do without.
It was impossible. And I couldn’t even bring myself to think of the possibility of a world where I wasn’t in speaking terms with Melissa Borders.
Claire had scrambled away after I almost landed my hands on her, the look she threw at me from the stairs, pitiful which was rather odd because I expected her to be mad.
I don’t know how long I sat , pondering the possibility of changing my father’s mind and dreading thoughts of the inevitable.
My mind came up with various options, running away, going public about our relationship to the extent that my father would have no choice, but to let us be, try reasoning with my father again, or renouncing my name for love.
The options were good, but they were inviable. How could we run away without Edward seeking us out, the man dealt with shady stuff and I doubt there’s any place we would go without him finding us, heaven knows, he had the means.
I could afford us running away, but what happens when he goes after Mel’s uncle and his family?
And what happens when I tell Mel that I wasn’t destined to live long? That my days were numbered? Would she still want to go? How about when I require a transplant, what then?
My mind railed and railed until I crossed off the option of running away.
Then about going public like a social media announcement on the official Wellington pages with over hundreds of millions of followers. That held the possibility of helping, but how do I keep the post available so that it would generate enough reactions to sway my father who had the right to demand that a post be taken down immediately?
And even if the post manages to stay online enough to get people to rally to our side, to force my father to remove himself from our relationship, what then?