I want to file a complaint against my phone! Seriously - this thing rings everytime I've indulged more than a little the night before. That damned Fin!
I can't feel my body...and the phone keeps ringing.
Dammit! Make it stop. The only good thing is I'm home, yeah...we managed to get home and continued our gallivanting after getting home.
My poor back, legs, hands, mouth...
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Don't ask for details.
I'm never mentioning the word "feed/fed" to Fin ever again.
"What?" The only way to shut the phone up is to answer it, letting it ring makes it ring more.
"You've made the headlines. Trending, the most talked about. Whatever is a hit, you name it."
Oh, it's that manager I'm thinking of firing. How fitting! Besides my mother, who else has the nerves to wake me up?
"What?"
"Trent Dion is out of the market, ladies and gentlemen. If you've been wondering where she's been, she was out...doing conjugal visits!" No way...they wouldn't!
"They get better from there...this people are really creative. Get online and read about yourself, I think you'll find you're very...um...promiscuous." What!
I'm fully awake. My body fully functioning too... I typed my name in the search bar and...
{I have to give it to Trent, she thought why settle for a good-looking trust fund baby, a good-looking trust fund ___ you know what is better.
I'm sorry for the ___ I fear for my family's lives.}
{You know I thought her rebellious image was just that but this... Trent, are you sure your family's safe?"
Yeah, comments like that all over the internet...about me...and Fin but with just my picture. Fin's is blurred. Good for him, he's feared and they blast mine all over the place. Great!
At least they used good pictures.
I'm trying to find solace where I can. Just what the hell?
"She married someone like him, of course people are going to talk!" Greets me when I come down the stairs. Certainly my parents' morning is super. Yay me!
"She chose him, what did she expect?" But wasn't my mother team me a couple of days ago, why did she change so soon?
"I've been getting calls all morning. Congratulating me, but they're clearly laughing at me. So what if he's rich? It doesn't change the fact that he's a criminal. A murderer!"
I hastened getting ready prematurely, I should've known. Would my mother not be in the loop? My morning...
Okay... Where's Fin? I hope he isn't here to hear all this.
"Look what you've done! You were keeping you marriage a secret, what changed? Are you trying to make it impossible for us to live in Bronze?" Like they need me to that...
Where is Fin?
I go to the breakfast table and help myself. Just let her get it out of her system. Impossible to live in Bronze? All those people are probably racking their brains on how to get Fin to work with them. Should I be ashamed? My husband's so handsome...
My personality is skewed...don't mind it.
Really though, none of us have the full story on what happened, we know what was reported and...nothing was reported...not really, all that made it in the news that time was people were killed and Fin was arrested. That's it. I won't judge until he tells me to...and he hasn't, probably never will.
Does it bother me? - I can't say for sure.
"TT, how are you going to handle what's happening online?" Handle? Is there anything to handle? Not like what's being said is false, it's just more...animated. What harm can it do? I know - I'll be the town's gossip, only - it's not different from the usual. Why bother?
"Let it be, Fin will take care of it if it gets out of hand." I hope. Where is Fin?
SOS: I have a husband who keeps disappearing, should I be worried?
"Don't you think you need to say something? Your brother can't arrive to this kind of environment - right?" Of course Lydia will comment. Honestly, I don't know what to say to this woman anymore...
What brother? What environment?
I continue eating my breakfast like she didn't say anything, what do I have on today? No, I can't go out.
Who knows what's waiting for me out there? Nope, don't want to risk it.
"Lydia, your child is going to have Frederic as a father and you as a mother, do you think Trent can do more damage than that?" Huh?
The food I was chewing are now on my plate. Yep, my mouth opened that wide and I forgot to close it. Say what?
Mom - 1
Lydia - 0.
Does it mean she's on my team again? Probably not, she's just developing distaste for Lydia. Here, here... I second that motion.
"Frederic, I can say what I want to Trent, she's mine but this...of yours, tell her to mind her place or get her to move. I won't have it."
I'm getting a whiplash.
Huh? What's wrong with the world today? My mother is... actively defending me or herself?
"Sister..."
"You're staying at Trent's house and think you can tell her how to live her life, who do you think you are?"
Someone tell me what's going on on! I'm about to go crazy. This isn't as simple as defending me, did they have a falling out? Oh, please tell me they did and my parents are going to get the custody of the baby. Please, please, please...
"Myra... stop. I'm sure that's not what Lydia meant."
"Yeah, I'm sure that isn't what she meant." She scoffs as she leaves the table.
Ah...They can't keep fighting in front of their child, right? It's uncomfortable. If only I could bury my face in the bowl of porridge...
"TT..."
"I'm running late dad. We'll talk when I get back, Fin will be there too."
I'm just running with no destination! I don't have any plans but staying in that house, with them, for the whole day...
I'm better facing flashing cameras.
Where the hell is Fin?
I get in the car, the driver takes off and I tell him to keep driving. Fin's phone is off, typical. Where does he go exactly?
The situation online is getting more ridiculous, the news about yesterday's altercation are out, along with Sebastian's pictures.
This Mikayla...
The article has already been shared over half a million times,
{What can you expect from that kind of person?}
{He didn't reform, how can they let him out when he's not reformed?}
{Trent, good looks aren't worth living walking on egg shells.}
Comments like that are everywhere. This woman, she doesn't give up. How many times is she going to cause trouble and this time using Fin?
I'm furious!
"Let's go to the company." I tell the driver after scanning through what's happening online.
I thought after last night I won't hear about the Druids for a very long time, seems like whatever grudge Mikayla holds for me outweighs her fear of Fin but I can't figure it out...what on earth did I do to her?
Could Chris be right about her? But...why would she want to make my life miserable because I rejected collaboration? This mentality is... unstable, isn't it? If anyone who's ever been rejected in life wanted to take revenge, how would the world work?
"Hello?" interrupted by my phone again. Sheesh!
"Am I talking to Trent Dion?" an elegant voice comes through, cool...collected voice my mother uses whenever she's being Mrs Dion outside but this isn't my mother...
"Yes?"
"I'm Mrs Merwe, Infinity's mother." Huh...what?" My mother-in-law? What?
"Hello..." What do I say? No no no, why's she calling me?
"Have you seen what's happening online in your country?" Um...
"Fix it. My son's never been a public's thing to judge. Manage your life well." Then I'm left with beep of the call being ended.
What?
The very first time my mother-in-law talks to me and I'm reprimanded? I can't even get mad, she's not wrong. When people think of Infinity Merwe, they think of power. Since when is it Trent Dion's husband - and not in a good way?
My head... I'm getting the beginning of a really undying headache.
I have to end whatever this is with Mikayla Druid, I can't keep getting attacked from hell and back like this. The mother-in-law I've never met reprimanded me! What impression of me does she have now? Certainly nothing good. Dammit!
I go straight to Chris' office when I get to the company, my mood's not good. To get a call like that from my mother-in-law...But I meet Fin there... looking like he owns the place. My husband...
"Fin?" Why are you here? I look at Chris and he shakes his head, he looks miserable... frightened to be precise - ha - this is just what I needed to lift me up. I ignore his pleading look, let Fin torture him a little more.
"Mrs Merwe, you're late." I am? How am I late when I didn't know he'd be here?
"Yes, you're late. I was just telling your manager, since he's a manager, he should manage or I'll get someone to do it for him."
Are my eyes still on my face? They didn't drop from being opened too widely...right?
What?
I take a seat in haste, almost fall but Fin catches me.
"Thanks. What do you mean?"
"How long has it been since news about you broke out and he's letting them fester, what exactly is his job?"
No wonder Chris looks frightened. What? I'm getting frightened!
"Something this simple, it didn't take too long for my assistant to find out about it yet, your manager is doing nothing, what's his purpose?"
It's really close for Chris and I to cling to each other for moral support. What's happening? We are going to deal with it...aren't we? Why's he so serious now?
"Fin..."
"About me, my family won't tolerate it. End it soon or they'll be on the next flight out." What? My in-laws...here, because...their son is in the tabloids? That too because of me? - As our first meeting, not to mention I married their son without ever meeting them...
I'm wiping off imaginary sweat from my forehead, I look at Chris and he's doing the same. Argh... we've never cared about reputation and now?
SOS: My husband has completely changed after marriage or I'm just finding out about him, I'm so scared. What should I do?
"Mr Merwe, you don't have to worry, I've already started to deal with it. You won't find any of this in an hour. Don't worry."
"Please do or don't bother working for my wife anymore." Sheesh...
Has Fin always been so...serious?
Poor Chris. I don't want to be at the end of that gripping tone.
"Mrs Merwe, I'll allow you to play as much as you want but don't let it get out hand. Or else...I'll punish you at night." What?
How's this my fault!
Damn Mikayla Druid. I have to meet this woman and end whatever this is. Who knows what kinds of troubles she's going to bring my way!
Fin drops a kiss on my forehead,
"I'm sorry for leaving early today...I'll see you tonight, okay? Wait up for me."
It's just Chris and I, now...
"You...you...you don't pay me enough for this! Your husband...he's so scary! I quit. Go...go..go away. I refuse to work under threat."
Yeah, try answering a phone from a mother-in-law you've never met. You think you're the only one under threat?
That Mikayla...I'll find her even if it means going to the Druids house.
I take the file Fin gave Sebastian and leave. Let's end this.