Chapter 157: Silent Feud (2)
"Does that explain why he treated you so unfairly?" Asked Cassian as his eyes remained on her face, subconsciously monitoring her expression, and Madeline bit the skin in her cheek before nodding slowly, her lashes fluttering lightly at the vague remembrance of Roland’s disdain look whenever he saw her.
"I’m not sure," she answered softly. "But that is the only reason that fits the hatred he has for me, save for his wife who I think has her own personal issues with me. Maybe because she was left to take care of someone else’s child when she couldn’t have one of her own. You know, people will always talk, so I’m guessing that made me an easy target for her to vent all her frustrations and anger on, I can barely remember the worst of days."
Madeline felt grateful for that, being locked all hours of the day and having to view the world from a window? It almost feels like everything that happened was a nightmare that no longer existed. Her only wish was having her parents by her side again. She always reminisced on how their reaction would be if she ever got the chance to introduce Cassian as her husband to them.
If they were still alive, would they love him?
Madeline was snapped out of her daze when Cassian sat up, and he looked at the half-flushed woman who appeared lost some seconds ago.
"When your father married your mother those years ago, Roland never visited or came to see either of you, only because he doesn’t like the woman your father married?" No matter how he tried to formulate the sentence, Cassian still felt there was an actual valid point missing in that statement, and Madeline nodded, her slim brows knitting cryptically.
"My father never spoke much about uncle Roland to me, but they always exchanged letters - letters my father never seemed happy to write. I was too young to understand what was brewing between them, but if my memory recall this perfectly, he said something about Roland not being familiar with the other towns outside the borders of Carmarthen, and since my mother wasn’t a subject of Carmarthen at that time, Roland was against the marriage and wasn’t ready to form an alliance with a strange Town’s family."
"Hold on." Cassian paused Madeline after grabbing that point he knew was missing in that statement, and he snapped his fingers. "Roland was against your parents’ marriage because your mother wasn’t an indigene at that time?"
"That’s what I was told by my father." She nodded.