Filed to story: A Girl Nobody Wanted Book by SansaR
“Do you think about going to the 10th floor in your faculty frequently to meet you is a good idea? His security people can’t go there, and there are no CCTV cameras as well. Anything could have happened. Also, do you think to go to an abandoned building in a dark evening to save you from a set of drunk gangsters, is a wise thing to do? Do you know even going to Luke’s house, without letting his security people know is very risky? I don’t blame you for those because you don’t understand the seriousness of the life threat we have, but he clearly understands all those. His mom has to stay in a wheelchair for her entire life, the risk associate with our lives is that critical, yet he chose to risk his own life just to have fun with you!”
I felt downhearted. Jake is stupid to put his life in danger, Mr. McMiller, but he didn’t do those to just have fun with me. Risking his life, most of the time, he just needed to see me and talk with me. I highly doubt you know anything about love at all. “Anyway, Sarah… He was lucky enough not to fall into trouble all those times. But this time, his stubbornness made him fight for his life. Also, I believe this is something you could avoid…” He said, making me shiver again. What is he talking about? Does he know I forced him to go there yesterday?
“Don’t be confused… I thought you are smart enough to understand who is behind this accident.” he then said.
“You mean… Mr. Patterson is behind this accident?” for the first time without asking me to speak, I spoke. I had this doubt about Mr. Patterson from the beginning. But with the way Jake’s dad talks, I guess he has confirmed it already.
“Of course… He told me that by himself…” he replied indifferently.
“What he said that by himself!!!” I exclaimed. Then what the hell are you doing now, without arresting that a**hole? He tried to kill your own son… I wanted to yell at him. I don’t care if you do anything or not, Mr. McMiller, but I am going to kill that a**hole. I won’t kill him at once either, he deserves a slow, painful death for what he did to my Jake…
“You might think if he accepted he did that, why am I not taking any action against him,” he said calmly. Of course, Sir, I think that. Not just me, any sensible person would want to ask that.
“I have made a promise…” he said, freeing a sigh…
Since I met him, this is the first time I saw sadness and helplessness in his eyes.
“I can guess to whom you may have promised, sir… But he tried to kill your son, can you just forget that? Jake is fighting for his death while the man who tried to kill him is freely walking out there, I don’t even know how you stand this crime.” I asked sharply. God knows from where I got that courage to speak up to him. But I truly felt what Mr. McMiller is doing by overlooking this crime is suck. He is a father. How a father can act like this? I don’t think if the same thing happens to Shane, my father would think twice before choking Mr. Patterson to death.
He looked at me with surprise in his eyes. Then he chuckled.
“Not just smart, a loyal, brave girl too… I think I can understand why my son prefers you over all the other girls.” then he said with a small smile on his lips…
My face turned red, and I looked down…
“Anyway, I can’t break the promise I made to my sister. Also, not just Andrew is responsible for what happened to my son. You are equally responsible, Miss Anderson!”
He is talking about the offer Mr. Patterson brought me, isn’t he?
“If you agreed to what he asked, then none of these things would happen,” he said calmly like what he said was extremely logical.
I stared at him…
“Sarah… I want you to use your brain now, not your heart… Try to understand what I am now going to say.” he said, looking deeply into my eyes.
My eyes filled with tears… I think I know what you are going to say, Mr. McMiller… Please, I beg you don’t say that… Please don’t…
“I think you can understand the gap between you and my son. I am capable of giving him anything. Also, with his talents, knowledge, and his look, he can get anything he wants even if he doesn’t get anything from me. But you… I think I don’t need to talk about it even. You exactly know your status.”
Well… I know that. If Jake is the sun who lits up the whole world, I am not even worth to be a tiny star in the same sky. My parents are not wealthy. I am not from a high-class family. Even if I graduate with a first-class and get a good job, I will never be able to match with him. I understand my status very well, but until now, I have never felt so helpless and miserable because of how poor I am… I don’t even have words to explain how vulnerable I feel right now. Why God, why you made me this poor and powerless so that I can’t be a matching girlfriend to the person I love more than my life.
“However, even if we ignore the difference between you two, I can’t ignore the threat my son is having. Andrew is not going to let my son live quietly until he gets what he needs. I can’t take any actions against him either. I know you and Jake have gone to extends that you both feel you can’t live without each other. But I think considering all the facts only option we currently have is you leaving my Jake and marry Andrew.”
I have heard many things people said to make me feel bad and less of myself… But when we take all those cruel things together, they can’t even come closer to what he just said to me.
It is not just because he can’t break a promise to his dead sister, but he wants to make this an opportunity to remove this poor, low-cla’s girl from his loving son’s perfect life.
When my mom once said that she wanted to kill me when I was in her womb, but dad didn’t let her do that, it made me miserable. The day she said that for the first time was the day I got the first text from Jake. Since then, my life changed so much, and I was really thankful for my parents for allowing me to live because I could have someone amazing like Jake in my life. But at this moment, I really hope my parents dared to remove me from my mom’s womb… If they did that, everyone would be happy, and there will be no “I” to get this heartbroken and fell worthless…
I was silent for a few minutes… My mind was filled with different thoughts. I was battling with my own thoughts to decide what is the answer I should give him.
After all, all the politicians are the same, aren’t they? One of the main principles in his election campaign was equality. In almost all of his speeches, he talked about equal treatment to all the citizens. But when it comes to his private life, he doesn’t give a s**t about equality. He is willing to break his son’s relationship because I am not from a matching family to them. For the whole time, I was drowned in my own thoughts, he didn’t disturb me. Though I didn’t look at his face directly, I could feel his gaze on my face.
I knew there is no point in waiting speechless in front of him. Though he has only one option, I have two.
I can either agree to what he said and leave my Jake, or I can ask him to fu** off and wait till my Jake recovered and make a decision for us.
I know there is a risk in waiting for Jake to get recovered and solve this for us. Who knows what that A**hole Patterson would do next. He can secretly enter Jake’s room and remove his ventilator as well. He is even capable of that, there is no doubt.
But how can I so easily agree to what Mr. McMiller suggested? If he asked me to kill myself for my Jake, I will do that without thinking twice, but marrying Patterson… It will be like killing myself each and every second. Any way I can even do that for my Jake’s safety, but when he gets recovered, how he will be able to endure this. He will definitely go mad.
Finally, I took the decision. My love for Jake knows no limits. We have dreamt of a beautiful life together. Both of our lives are bounded to that dream. Without that dream, we would be just lifeless, emotionless robots. So I am not going to give up on that dream, not without a fight at least…
I raised my head and looked up at Jake’s father.
“Mr.McMiller, earlier, I thought you don’t know anything about love. Now I realized you know nothing about your only son as well,” I said boldly. I believe the pureness of my love for Jake gave me the strength to talk up to him.
He looked at me with surprise, but this time he didn’t chuckle.
“Even if I agree to marry Andrew, do you think Jake will accept that and stay without doing anything,” I asked.
“No, he won’t,” he replied, freeing a sigh.
“But I can make him accept that. I am his dad.” he then added.
I chuckled… His lips twitched, and his eyelids fluttered. He seemed angry. But I don’t feel afraid anymore because I have lost all my respect for him.
“You are his dad, and you knew him for his whole life. I knew him for a short period, but I think I have understood him way more than you have understood him. When he gets to know, I agreed to marry that bastard to save his life, he will drag me forcefully to a registrar and marry me. If not, he will kill that bastard and go to jail happily.” I said.
“Well… If you think he will act like that, then don’t let him know you marry Andrew to save his life,” he said casually.
“What?” it slipped from my mouth without even thinking.
“You can pretend like you agreed to marry Andrew because your parents want that.”
“He knows well that I am not going to marry Andrew because my parents want me to.” I replied.
“Andrew will do something to make everyone believe that you agreed to marry him because your parents force you to do so. You don’t have to worry about it,” he said confidently.
Really, Mr.McMiller? You and that bastard Patterson are so much alike. I thought I have the worst parents, but it seems like my father is a thousand times better than him.
“It seems you and Andrew have planned everything. I highly doubt you knew about Andrew’s plan to hurt Jake earlier, and you just let it happen because you want to remove me from his life.” I shouted at him. Yes… I shouted at the current president of the country. Well… I was furious at that moment, and if it was Donald Trump in front of me, I don’t think twice before yelling at him too…
“Ms. Anderson! How dare you tell, I willingly put my son’s life in danger. If anyone knew that Jake’s life is in danger and didn’t do anything to protect him, it was you. Only you!” he said firmly.
Then he stood up from where he sat and gave me another piercing look.
“I don’t have time to waste. I have asked you to think about this problem with your mind, not with your heart. Now the decision is all yours. You can decide if you want to let my son’s life in danger or you want to keep him safe. I have to tell you one more thing. Don’t ever think of harming yourself, or running away from this problem. Because anything you do other than marrying Andrew will make him get that revenge on my son.” he said. Then he left, leaving me alone in that room…
As soon as he left the room, I couldn’t control myself self, and I buried my head on the table in front of me and started sobbing.