Chương 17: Your grandfather isn't here now is he?

ISABELLE.

This is what I wanted, I wanted him to hate me why I'm I getting hurt then? For a few seconds, I am unable to move, stuck… in a daze. The ringing phone in my hands pulls me out of my head and back into my harsh reality. Looking down at the caller ID my chest floods with warmth and even as I fight back tears a smile forms on my face.

"Wow! You called me first, this must be a dream."

"Don't begin to imagine useless scenarios in your head, it was an accident, I meant to call another number. You're not the only Isabelle on my phone." He says, Xavier.

"Well, I'm the one at the other end. Do you like movies?" I ask.

"Are you asking me out?"

"Yes, now answer my question. Do you like movies?" I repeat.

"There is one I've been planning to see but if you want to watch it in a cinema the last showing is at eight o'clock this evening. That in thirty minutes will you make it?"

"Text me the address I'll be right there."

ASHER.

"I mean even though he is fine are just going to let this go? She is not a doctor and she did such a big procedure on grandfather with her dirty hands in an unsterilized area with dirty makeshift equipment."I was exasperated at my reluctant family members.

"We understand your concern and we can caution her on it when next we see her but the doctor literally said she saved the chairman's life. if she had not done what she did the chairman would have died." My uncle stated bluntly.

I walked back and forth getting more agitated as I thought of that unbelievable woman.

"It would not be nice to sue her at this time Asher besides that's just going too far." My stepmother adds "in my opinion she needs to be thanked, she saved this family today. You should acknowledge that too."

"Can't you all see? It's all an act, this woman is not what she seems, am I really the only person that thinks that?" I ask staring at the blank uninterested looks they all gave me. As I open my mouth to tell them about the maid my grandmother prevents me, shutting everybody up well mostly me but the loud bang from the desk she just hit.

"Enough! Not another word about that child, it isn't anything Isabelle has done you have just made up your mind to hate her from the beginning."

"That isn't it-"

With her hands up in the air to stop me she continues "I don't care what you think, but you will marry that girl."

I can't help it, I scoff. "I don't have to marry anyone I don't want to and I rather die than marry that girl. Even grandfather said so" I state bluntly.

My grandmother gives me a pointed look before she speaks "Your grandfather isn't here now is he?"