â**Chapter 23**â
â¢Madison
All this time, I'm searching for my parents' justice, I'm looking for the one who deserves to be punished⦠All this time I thought Dada wants the best for us but I'm wrong.
It didn't make sense back then when he asked me to stop looking through my parents' justice, but now it does make sense, a perfect sense.
"How could you do this to me? You know how much I want to know what really happened to them right? To have their justice." Tears were already falling from my eyes as I spoke to him, he couldn't even look me in the eyes. "Oh my god, We've been living with our parent's murder and I'm so clueless." I'm too frustrated that I need to take a seat.
I hadn't slept for 24 hours since the morning of our flight. I wanted to rush back here so I could help him but what I found out makes me feel disgusted. My blood was even boiling more that he doesn't even want to look me in the eyes. Liam, Zane and Ace were just behind me, I'm sure they're aware that no one can stop me once I get mad.
"What now? Are you happy? That you got to fool us? Does that makes me a stupid? Is that what you're trying to make us look like? Fuck." I hold my head in my hands and wipe my tears, I don't know why I'm crying but I'm certain it's not because he's getting arrested. "Why did you do that? To your own son?"
I'm waiting for his answer but he just look down to his feet making me snapped at him, "Why the fuck did you do that?!? Answer me!."
"Madison, calm down." Ace speaks up and I can hear that he doesn't feel abit sympathy for him either.
"You can't even look at me in the eyes for fuck sake. I don't care about you being my grandpa anymore, just like how you did not care about us. Does killing them make you feel better? Why?" I slammed my hand on the table making him look at me with tears in his eyes. "No, don't use that on me. I've had enough, because of you we have to live the rest of our life without them, and Don't try to tell me that you're the one who raised us when died because that's what you really need to fucking do after killing our parents. You hid it from us for 16 years and until now I'm suffering from my nightmares thinking that I'm the reason that has happened. I can't fucking look at you the same as before anymoreâ¦"
"I only did it because your Dad chose your Mom over me." He murmurs, making me pissed even more.
"What does Mom have to do with it?"
"Because she's a lowborn, isn't?" Liam who's been holding himself back finally went next to me. "Ever since I was a kid, I saw how you treated Mom when Dad was not around."
"I'm really sorry, I wish I could turn back the timeâ"
"YOU COULDN'T!!!" I again slammed the table, shutting him off. "That's the biggest fucking lie I've ever heard⦠Oh no⦠It's not⦠the biggest lie was when you didn't admit what you did to them." My teeth gritted as I tried to avoid shouting again. "I don't even know if you told us any truth, or was it all just a pile of fucking lies?"
"I cared for you all my life, I just really didn't expect that your Dad would go home thenâ"
"Then you can only kill Mom? Did you not think about what would happen to us before doing that?" Liam added while taking the seat next to me.
"If the person who you asked to do your dirty work didn't go to the police station and didn't admit it, are you just going to hide it all to yourself and take it quietly in your grave?" Finally, this stupid tears stopped.
"I didn't have the courage to tell you, you've been through enough for now. You're depressed because of your babyâ"
"My baby has nothing to do with it so don't try to make an excuse with him so you can make yourself at ease⦠you could have told us in that 16 years though? But you didn't."
"I did it for you, for Zane and Liam, you don't deserve that kind of woman to be your motherâ"
"That's a bullshit, you know nothing about her so shut your fucking mouth." I felt like I'm being suffocated just being in the same room as him, I held my bag and let out a sigh "The last thing you could is to spend the rest of your life in prison regretting everything you did that you'll just wish you're the one who died and stay away from us. I don't have a Murderer Grandfather." I stood up to my seat, the same as Zane, I know Liam will stay for a little longer to handle his case, to make sure he'll get imprisoned.
Even if they don't feel abit sympathy towards him, no one will after they found out what he did.
"Also, while you're in there, try to forget us, because that's what I'll do to you." With my last message, he broke down to tears and Ace stood next to me and held both of my arms with a "It'll be okay" smile.
Right now, All I want is to forget everything in the world except Ace. He's the only one who I want to be with. I've been crying here but I know that if Ace and I go alone, I will break down.
It's not even a week yet when I got a miscarriage and now this? I'm tired of everything.
If I could just shut down my life and just turn it on again when I'm sure that it'll be peacefulâ¦
****
"Water?" Ace softly said while handing me a glass of which I gladly accept.
As I took the water from him, he sat on the chair just in front of the bed where I'm sitting right now.
"How are you feeling?" He asked, making me sigh.
"I don't know, Happy that I finally got my parents justice, Frustrated about the truth⦠I don't know, but I'm tired." I took a sip on the glass and put it on the nightstand.
It's already 9 PM and I still don't feel the urge to fall asleep.
"Out of all people, he's the last one I expected to do that. It's the worst feelings I've ever felt for him. I want to rest."
"Take a rest then, I'm just here." He smiled reassuringly while holding my hands. He pressed a soft kiss on it before tucking me to bed.
"Sleep beside me, I don't want you to go anywhere." I mumbled making him smile.
"Okay, I will, then you'll sleep okay?" He asked softly as he lay beside me and wrapped me in his embrace.
With his hands around me, and me snuggled in his chest, I felt his warmth. The warmth I've been comfortable with every time I feel it. But now it just made me cry, thinking of what worse could happen. I don't want to lose anyone anymore.
"Shhh, It's okay, you can let it all out." He gently rubbed my back and let me cry myself out. I couldn't wish for anything more but please Don't take this man away from me too, he's all I want and need.
"Did I tell you that I hate seeing you cry?" He whispers while now caressing my hair.
"No⦠I don't rememberâ¦" I said through my muffled sobs.
"Then I'm telling you now."
â¢Ace
Just as she fell asleep, Zane and Liam arrived asking about her. These days have been tough for them and I understand it.
"So, What are you planning now?" Zane asked before chugging down his beer.
"I think we'll go straight to Switzerland tomorrow, she doesn't want to bother Liam anymore so she asked me to book a flight tomorrow afternoon."
Liam put his glass down and looked at me. "Where are you going to stay there?"
"I just bought a cabin in Lauterbrunnen earlier. I've been contacting the owner ever since the day we got out of the hospital after what happened to Ezekiel so I got it in no time."
"That's nice then, just tell me if you need anything else." Liam said sounding like a big brother making me somehow smile, just at the thought of how they cared for her makes me feel at ease.
"Actually, I want to ask something for both of you, more like a favor." I notice their exchange of looks before nodding.
"It's about Madison, not for now though, I know it'll take a year before this butâ¦"
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"Do you like it?" I asked, smiling at her as she looked around the cabin before turning to me.
"It's so pretty."
"I'm glad you like it." I put our things down in the living room and turn the lights into a dim one.
It's already 7 pm when we arrived at the cabin and what she immediately did was run to the kitchen and come back to the living room with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm already hungry, is there something to cook here?"
"Yeah, I asked the caretaker to do groceries before we arrive."
"Good, I'll just go to the kitchen and cook our dinner now." She smiled at me sweetly before pecking my cheeks and running to the kitchen.
I'm sure she'll love it because it's exactly what she wants, a kitchen with a clean marble counter, stove, oven for her to bake while she has nothing to do here so she won't get bored and there's also a pool outside. Which is perfect because you can perfectly see the green mountains from here and the small village just on the bottom of the mountain.
"I'll unpack our things in our room, call me when you're done."
"Yeahhh!" She shouted as I walked out the cabin and took our things from the car.
Ever since yesterday she hadn't talked about her Dada anymore. She's hiding it but I know she cared for him, he's 67 years old after all. They can take back the case if they want to but they didn't, it looks like the three of them are really mad at him.
After almost an hour, I was folding her clothes and putting it in the closet while listening to some soft music when I heard footsteps from the stairs, it's probably her.
"Hey, Dinner's ready." She walks in the room and leans on the door frame while watching me.
"Almost done."
"But there's still two suitcases, come on, let's eat first." She walks to and takes the clothes from me, she puts it down on the bed and holds my hand to drag me out but she hasn't taken a step when I pulled her back to me and held her waist to keep her closer to me.
"Why is it that you're so happy today? Did something great finally happen?" I asked, making her grin at me.
"Nothing, it's just, my dream came true to have my own family and our own house. Though, it's just the two of us for now."
"For now? Then when are you planning to have another member of our family?"
"Maybe a year or two, you're already over your wish to be a Dad in your 30's, so I won't make you wait any longer." She wrapped her arms around my neck and tiptoed to peck my lips. "Besides, It's our first day here so it needs to be something graceful."
"Yeah sure, graceful." With my hand on her waist, I rest my head on her neck and slowly move to the music.
"I didn't know you're kind of this romantic." She chuckled.
"I don't really know, you're the only one who makes me do everything I haven't done back then."
"Really? Like what?"
"Holding hands in publicâ¦"
"And?"
"Love at first sight, though I'm in denial at that time."
I can feel her smile as she kisses the side of my head, "I love you." She whispered.
I look up to her and kiss her lips, "You're making me blush."
"Do I?" She said as she stared at my cheeks then burst out laughing. "You're cute when you're blushing."
"It's one of the things I don't usually do but because of you, I did."
"I should be the only one who can see that okay?"
"It's not like I'm having a heart-to-heart conversation with anyone but you." I tighten my arms around her and kiss her forehead.
"You can really be a cheesy person sometimes." She teased me, making me smile.
"I know⦠Madi?"
"Hmmm?"
"Can you promise something?"
She looks at me confused for a moment before smiling, "Go ahead."
"After all of this⦠I hope you seek your happiness first. Do everything that will make you happy, okay?"
As she looked right into my eyes, her lips smiled even more as she attached her lips with mine. Pulling me by my nape, she deepened the kiss making me smile between our kisses.
After a moment of taking my mouth in her, she slipped her tongue smoothly in my mouth and roamed it inside.
Not letting her do all the work, I wrapped my arms on her waist and carried her which she immediately understood as she wrapped her legs on my waist still not breaking the kiss.
"Make me forget everythingâ¦" she whispered in my ears as she went back kissing me deeply, roughly, full of lust, but even so, love was still there. I know it, I can feel it.
Carrying her in my arms, I walk to the bed and carefully put her down. As she lays on her back, she looks at me as I hover on top of her. Bringing my hands to remove the strand of hair from her face, I looked at her now dark Hazel eyes because of the light, and whispered, "Do you really want to do it?"
"Why are you asking me that?"
"Because I want to know if you're ready for it, that you're not just forcing yourself on me."
She just looked at me but her hands went to my shoulder as she leaned in to kiss my forehead. "You ask me to do everything I want, that will make me happy, that will make me forget about everything right?"
I didn't answer her but I think she took my silence as yes as she continued. "That's what I want⦠Please." Using her pouty expression, I let out a chuckle and began kissing her again.
This time, we both know it will happen, we both wanted it, and we both love each other. By some strange fate, the woman I accidentally got pregnant by one night stand, happened to be my wife.
If this isn't destiny, then I don't know what to call it anymoreâ¦