Chapter 10
Years ago after the death of Alexander’s grandmother, all silk was burned from the household. Assassins infiltrated their mansion and strangled her with a silk cloth.
After her horrible demise, grandfather couldn’t even look at the fabric without flinching.
Alexander had explained the incident as a taboo of their household yet Stephanie never paid much attention to the tale of ‘the old woman in grave‘.
“It’s elegant right?” Stephanie offered, unsure why the room had gone so quiet.
“Grandfather…..it was a mistake.” Alexander’s throat dried. “She didn’t know.” he muttered trying
to find an excuse.
But his mother caught it right there. “Didn’t know or didn’t bother to remember?” she said coldly.
“Atleast Lavina would never have made that mistake!”
“It’s just silk…Alex, your family is biased over just anything.” Alexander’s heart chilled as Stephanie refused to apologize.
“So this is the type of woman you like? Vulgar and insolent?” Alexander’s father said icily. “Girl It’s not just anything when it offends the dead.”
“No! Stephanie is not vulgar…she is just too pure and honest. Tonight I brought her to tell you all that the woman I adore is Stephanie and not Lavina!” The room instantly turned into an ice cellar
as murmurs arose.
It was at that moment Alexander driver came running from outside.
“Mr. Stone its bad! Madam…Madam Lavina is gone!”
“What do you mean gone?”
“She is not at hospital and neither at home, she just left this envelope for you and a gift for
Grandmaster.”
Alexander stood up abruptly. His chair scraped against the marble floor.
The driver handled over an enclosed envelope given by the doctor with trembling fingers while grandfather opened my gift slowly.
Inside lay the gold pocket watch, the heirloom he had given to me on my wedding day. The one meant to be passed on to the next generation, coupled with a ruby flower hairpin- an exact replica of what grandfather gifted grandma on their first wedding anniversary.
Alongside it was a delicate painting.
A watercolor of withered roses.
[Goodbye grandfather~ Lavina]
Grandfather had sweetly called me his little ‘rose‘, a grand–daughter his wife would have adored but with this I was cutting all ties with the Hamilton family.
Shredding the paper, Alexander looked at the document in his hand with trembling fingers.
[DIVORCE AGREEMENT]
“Take me to Lavina! he growled, his voice low and dangerous as he turned to the driver “Now!”
The driver hesitated. “Sir… she is not here. She… she left.”
Charter a
213 31.03
2:35 pm
“What the hell do you mean left?” Alexander snapped, his heart skipping. “Left where?”
“W–When I left to bring Madam here the servants told me that she had long packed her belongings during the time you punished her and today she just went home to take it. A cat dropped her at the airport hours ago.”
For a split second, the air around Alexander seemed to still.
I wasn’t sulking.
I wasn’t waiting for him to show up and apologize like I always had.
I knew.
About him and Stephanie.
He barely remembered how he got into his car. The engine roared, matching the sound of his pulse as he drove through the city like a man chased by ghosts.
“She couldn’t have gone far. Not Lavina. She always waited damnit!”
“She always forgave. Yes she loves me more than her damn life so she will never dare to leave me like this.”
The villa loomed ahead, wrapped in dim lights. He stormed through the doors, calling my name.
No reply.
He sprinted up the stairs, two at a time, flinging open the bedroom door.
But the sight shocked him to the core.
My closet was empty.
The soft pink robe I used to wrap around herself after a bath was gone.
My slippers, always slightly misaligned at the door disappeared.
The tiny gold hairpin I once accused him of stealing but secretly liked when he used it to tease me….all gone.
Alexander’s grandfather still sat at the table angrily before standing up in rage.
‘It was you son who created this mess right?” he asked looking at Alexander’s father and mother with such cold eyes that they almost staggered.
‘I will give you a month, go and grovel at Lavina’s feel, if that child doesn’t comes back then forget about the Hamilton Enterprises, I will not even give your son a small piece of land to
survive.
If he marries that vulgar woman then I will banish him from the Hamilton buisness empire.”
Chander 10
