Chapter 29: Compensation
While the two friends were talking inside, Arthur stood out motionless for sometime realising the great misunderstanding she had towards him.
She actually believes that Cyrus’ death had the Boswell family’s hand in it and they planned and did it as a means to bring her to her knees knowing how close she was with Cyrus and since she is also implicated, in a moment of desperation her grandfather had to agree to the wedding which resulted in what seems to be the win of the Boswell family.
She is not wrong to think that way though. The video of her shooting Cyrus was not first reported to the police but was broadcasted in the evening news of the private network owned by a close ally of the Boswell family.
And there could be other ways the situation could be resolved other than immediate marriage. She just had turned sixteen and he was eighteen. She on her own cannot marry since she was not an adult that time but she can marry with her family’s permission according to the laws of their country.
But... They didn’t have to conduct the wedding immediately. They could have announced the engagement and waited for her to become an adult which would have been the proper way to handle things.
Maybe these are all the reasons that made her think that she was forced to that marriage.
But everything that happened were entirely different.
After she came to their Manor and made a scene, she was kept in his room for the night. The Lockhart family and their men searched for her like hounds everywhere and they even created a big fuzz in the Brunton Estate. But they got news at the middle of the night that she is actually with the Sinclair family and they tried to barge in their estate but was stopped by their guards. Arthur’s father was the President and the Lockhart family could t do much other than wait for Talia to leave.
Even Arthur was surprised that his father stood guard by the door himself to protect Talia. He thought his entire family hated her. His brother Ray was screaming and shouting that they should kill her themselves or if they are worried for their reputation, they should hand her over to the Lockhart family and let them kill her. He wanted to not let that crisis go to waste when such an awesome opportunity presented itself. Arthur really was worried his father would change his mind. After all the feud between the families had gone around for centuries.
But his eldest brother Roderick asked him to take care of her and promised on his honour that they will protect her. Only then Arthur was relieved. He always believed his eldest brother. And the videos and the news stories covering that incident were all taken down immediately.
But something odd happened in the early morning and the men from the Lockhart family left the Sinclair Estates rather not pleased.