章節 33: Engagement
MICHAEL'S POV
After making sure that Ed was now in the safe hands I climbed downstairs to find all of them seated on the table.
Those who were not a part of it were seated around on the couch. Leslie and Edda were there too.
I still wonder how and why Leslie haven't hurt Edda until now, given her history with all the girls who have been around Eric, she can't tolerate anyone near him.
Leslie couldn't touch Ruth because she was protected by Eric, or else, Ruth would have long become the victim of Leslie's horrible mess.
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"Since everyone is here, let's proceed further!" Dad announced as soon as I took my seat.
"Edda?" Dad called.
"Yes, father!" Edda stood up.
"Since we didn't know that Eric was involved with Leslie we had you betrothed to him, but now that Leslie and Eric have a kid together, I'm afraid but you would have to step down from being Eric's fiance!"
Edda looked at Eric, so he would say a word in his defence or maybe try to save his engagement with Perkins but Eric cared less about anyone right now.
Hurt, she took a deep breath looking at her engagement ring.
"Rico?"
Dad called out Eric's protector who was standing right behind him all armed and he bowed to the former king.
"Yes, master!"
Rico walked towards Edda and she sighed deeply, hurt she took off her engagement ring and handed it over to Rico.
Rico brought back grandma's legacy, the king's fiance's engagement ring and put it before us on the table.
Studded with world's most expensive diamonds, this ring was still the most beautiful and the most rarest of them all.
Our grandfather, Hudson Roerig had it especially designed and gifted to his wife, Martha Roerig.
Although, grandpa Hudson was always loyal to his only wife Martha, she still couldn't make it to high table.
Females in our family are always only to please men. They still had the perks of having a loyal husband, but they would never have a saying in the official works. It was only men, except for our mother, Amelia Roerig.
Amelia Roerig was the first woman to ever make it on the high table and was dearly loved by our father until the day he killed her. And alongwith her, he killed his love for the woman too.
He never remarried again, never even tried to fuck whores! He was a loyal husband to her throughout, even after his death. So, both of them are counted into the most beautiful lovers in the Roerig's legacy.
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Eric used his fingers and started to fidget with the engagement ring inside the box, thinking something.
I wonder what must be going on in his mind right now.
"Do you have anything to say about this Miss Perkins?" Dad asked Edda.
She gently bowed down flaunting her gown. She was always the gentle one. Sophisticated, kind hearted, she didn't hold any grudges against anyone at all, neither Ruth, who has driven Erickson to do thing any fiance would be offended with greatly, nor Leslie, who has done so many things in love of a man, any fiancee wouldn't really approve of.
She was an angel too, except Eric wasn't interested in her angelic charms.
"I just want to say that, Eric, I'm really sorry we couldn't work it out. But if you still want to hold on to me, I can be a mother Ed deserves."
She looked at Leslie, who clearly let out a deep irritated breath and rolled her eyes crossing her arms against her chest.
"At least better than she can ever mother her!" Edda said.
I couldn't agree more on Edda's words.
Ofcourse she was a better mother than Leslie. But it's not into my saying of what happens in our lives, it's only dad.
"Oh just cut the crap you dirty little cocksucking whore! Ed is my son, and I'll be the only mother to nurture him!" Leslie spat at Edda
"Watch your language, Miss Aldrin!"
Dad shouted banging the desk in rage and she immediately shut off.
"I'm sorry, Uncle!" She mumbled under her breath.
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"Nick?" Dad took a deep breath and turned to him now
"Yes, Uncle!"
Nick knew what was coming, and he was rather happy about it, than being sad unlike Edda.
"As you know your fiance slept with another man and even had a legal heir to the throne, you can no longer marry her!"
"Yea, I know!" Nick said laughing looking at Eric.
Eric had no emotions, no expressions, he was just glaring at the heirloom engagement ring thinking, nobody knows what.
"So it would be better to break off the engagement between you two either."
Dad said and looked up at Nick's protector, and Harry Martinez acted on his feet immediately and walked upto Leslie.
"Ugh, finally!"
Leslie sighed off happily and took off her engagement ring and slammed it in Harry's hand.
Harry too kept the ring on the desk and Nick took it back.
"Now, about the re-betrothal of the sons of Roerig family. Edda and Nick, I would like to propose you two to exchange rings between the two of you!" Dad announced.
As soon as dad said this Nick stood up like a thunder and screamed loudly,
"NO!"
Dad don't like to be interrupted in between and so he glared at Nick.
"I-I mean, Edda has been Eric's fiance before. I'm afraid, she must have slept with him countless times. After having a fiance like Leslie and failing an engagement once before I don't wanna try rebuilding my marriage arrangement with another girl who has been fucked before!" Nick said.
"We didn't-"
Edda tried to say in her defence when Dad swayed his hand in air and glared at Edda.
"Women aren't allowed to talk when the men of the family are talking!"
"But-"
"One more word, Miss Perkin and you will face prison."
"...."
She shut off and I glanced at Leslie giggling to herself enjoying the show.
"We never had sex!"
Eric said finally looking at dad, and then he swayed his glance at Nick and continued, "or in your harsh language, Nicholas Doherty, I never fucked Edda!"
Seriously?
Wow!
Edda was hot! How can this guy not fuck a woman as hot as her?
Whatever!
Nick only glared back at Eric, without uttering another word.
"So, now the point of her being fucked by another man is nullified, are you willing to marry her Nicholas Doherty?" Eric asked again.
"I-I.. don't!" Nick said under his breath.
"I can see that you are not willing to marry her, it's okay, The Roerig's never force their sons to marry someone if you are strongly opposing it. Is there another girl you wanna marry?" Eric asked.
Wait a minute.. WHAT?!
Why was I not given that option?!
Nick looked up at Eric, clearly shocked.
"If there is a girl that you would rather want to marry, we can get you betrothed to her?" Eric asked again.
"If not, then I guess it would be better for you and Edda to exchange the ring!"
"I-I umm.. I have a girl in my mind!" Nick said, without wasting another moment.
Ofcourse, why would he?
It was once in a lifetime opportunity for any of the guys at this table.
"Who is it?" Dad asked.
"Ruth!" Nick said, with rather no second thought at all, "I wanna marry Ruth, Uncle Roerig!"
WHAT THE FUCK?!
It's not like I wasn't expecting that he would say that but, now that I heard it, I couldn't control my rahe anymore and flipped my chair, getting up.
"What the fuck, you motherfucker?! How the fuck did you even think that you could marry her?!" I said rather shouting.
"You said any woman, and she is the woman I want to own, make mine and spend my entire life with!" Nick said back.
"The fuck are you-"
I looked at Eric, and he was calm, like really really calm, as if it doesn't affect him at all.
"Did you even hear what's he saying?!" I cursed at Eric.
And he still didn't say anything, just grit his jaw under his breath and glared at Dad, sitting right across him on the table.
Dad looked at Nick going crazy about Ruth and finally stood up banging his fist against the table.
"NOBODY IS MARRYING RUTH!"
Dad said.
"And sit the fuck down you two! Act like a mature, rather than acting like teenagers, high on drugs."
Dad looked at Eric and then gulped.
"Ruth is no longer a woman anyone in this family could marry. From all the times in the history, women are getting married to men in this family to please them and carry their inheritors for them.
I talked to Dr. Scherzinger and he told me Ruth can no longer bear a kid, even if she wakes up. Also, we don't even know if, she is ever waking up or not!"
"She IS waking up!" Eric said. "I won't allow her to die!"
"Just SHUT THE FUCK UP ERICKSON ROERIG! It's YOUR fault that she is like this in coma there, if she dies, I'm gonna fuck you just remember that!" Nick cursed.
And I couldn't agree more on his words.
But I had least dare to say it out to him.
Eric scoffed from the corner of his lips and looked at him, "Don't worry Nick, I don't plan on to be fucked by you either. She would wake up. It would take her months, but she would definitely wake up." He said rather with a large confidence.
Dad sighed and looked at Edda, "Do you have a problem with your betrothal to Nicholas, Miss Perkins?"
"I have a problem!" Nick tried to interrupt but was ruled out
"Miss Perkins?" Dad asked her again.
"Fuck, I don't wanna marry her!" Nick said again.
"Edda?" Dad called her out again and she finally, bowed her head down and sighed.
"I do not have a problem your highness!"
"What?! But-"
Nick was trying hard to interrupt but Dad made his final announcement.
"I announce Miss Edda Perkins to marry my fourth son, Nicholas Doherty!"
"Damn it!"
Nick cursed clenching the ring tightly inside his fist, with a lot of rage boiling inside him.
"Get up and exchange rings you two!"
Dad ordered, and so, Nick took the ring stormed towards Edda in anger and grabbed her hand to slide the ring down her finger.
Edda tried looking up at Nick but he only replied with fire in his eyes.
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"Now Leslie and Eric!" Dad sighed getting back to Eric.
"Leslie isn't capable enough to become the queen. She used to be in a brothel and have had an intimate relationship with half of the men in the city. Also, she has slept with half of the men on high table!" Eric said, trying to prove a point
"But she has a kid with you, Erickson and he is a legal heir to the throne!" Chris finally said the first word.
By the look on his face I could clearly read that he was just waiting for the matters to get to Eric's wedding with Leslie.
"A queen cannot be an un-married mother, you have to marry Leslie as soon as possible!" Chris smirked.
"So then kill Ed, I don't care! I'm not going to marry this woman. Besides, Ed is always going to be a bastard child, born out of the parents who were not married."
Eric said. And he clearly had a point.
No matter even if they marry now, Ed would always be a bastard child and he cannot success the throne with that tag on him.
"You can produce more kids after you marry Leslie, let this one die. Nobody gives a shit!" Chris said again, unbothered.
"So then, if I have to produce a new kid to inherit the throne, why do I have to marry her at all, giving the empire a slut Queen and bastard heir?" Eric said.
"Because you made her pregnant, duh!" Chris said, "If you were so concerned about dirtying the bloodline of the empire, you shouldn't have fucked her in the first place, Roerig!"
I really wonder what even turned Eric on in Leslie.
Years ago, when Leslie dared to mess with Ruth, Eric had her locked up inside a cage with horny cannibal men from chamber of horrors.
They ate her, raped her and almost bleed her to death.
And now that she is alive, she looks more like a lump of ugly skin all over her skeleton. She isn't pleasing to eyes, rather she is very disturbing to look at!
Why would Eric even fuck her when she looks like that?!
"I am not going to marry her!" Eric glared strongly at Dad and Chris.
"Well, dear little brother, that's not upto you to decide!" Chris replied.
"Actually, it should be! I'm the KING and I'm the almighty here, the ultimate decision maker!" Eric said again.
Chris scoffed.
"Actually, you have some serious misunderstandings about being a king, Roerig! Just because you're a king, doesn't mean you take every decision." Chris said.
"Come on dad, You crowned him as the king but forgot to explain the rules?" Chris scoffed looking at Dad.
Eric and us all turned our heads to Dad and he sighed.
"Alright, the king cannot make the decision without the approval of all the others present at the high table. You were crowned as king because you were most suited and could defeat all the other candidates!" Dad continued.
"Your wife, is going to be pronounced as the next queen of this empire, hence, she should be voted for by all of us too!"
I saw Eric clenching his fist in rage which Chris noticed too and laughed
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, we can vote for Ruth too as your bride!"
Chris said, making Eric to furrow his eyebrows at him, "After all, she is you love, isn't she? mi amore?"
Eric didn't say anything again, and Chris turned to all of us on the table,
"Okay, so who else is willing to get Erickson Roerig and Ruth Walker, who is an infertile, a widow and has gone through four miscarriages and two deliveries with multiple men all along as the next queen?"
Although I hate Chris, a lot!
And the way he just portrayed Ruth to everyone here, she sounded more wicked than Leslie, which she is NOT!
I definitely don't mind her being the queen because of her character, I would love to watch my mother's crown on her head, but I want it to be with me, when I'm the king.
But I'm not the king.
The king is Erickson Roerig.
And I would die but watch Ruth being his queen.
"Really? No-one?! Aww!"
Chris pouted, as if he was feeling sad about all of this. He sure was the crazy one and he was all over into making Eric's life difficult.
"How many in the favour of Leslie becoming the next queen who also has a heir to the throne, a cute kid like Ed Erickson Roerig?"
And we all raised our hands, dad, me, Nick and Chris.
Ofcourse dad and Chris wanted to get rid of Ruth and Me and Nick wanted to get Ruth to ourselves.
The other officials at the table, didn't respond to this either.
"The majority is clear my little brother!" Chris winked, laughing heartily.
I could feel the amount of rage there must be building up inside Eric right now but he only let out a deep breath and controlled.
"Fine! I'll marry her, but not now. Only after Ruth comes back to life!"
Eric said getting up, ready to walk away but Chris held his arms while he was crossing through Chris' chair making him stop on his feet.
"Aren't you forgetting the engagement ring brother?" Chris smirked.
Eric looked at the the ring and then at Leslie.
"You have to exchange rings to mark the woman as yours, Eric!" Dad announced.
"Rico?" Chris called Rico and he came back with the ring.
"Go ahead, do the ritual!" Chris smirked again.
Eric took the ring and walked towards her.
Leslie had a broader than usual smile pasted on her lips. She was beyond happy right now, and I understand her happiness very well, ofcourse she got the whole world getting engaged to Eric.
Isn't this what she has always wanted eversince forever?!
Leslie extended her hand out for Eric and she slide the ring down in her finger.
"We'll hold a proper ceremony for both the couples after Ruth regains her senses." Dad said finally concluding the meeting.
"One more thing!" Eric said, turning back to dad.
"What is left now!" Nick said, still distasteful about his engagement with Edda.
"I'm moving Ruth out of here. I trust none of you with her on bed like that. If anything official needing me, comes up, I'll be a call away!" Eric said.
"Okay!" Chris said getting up.
"And one more thing!" Eric said again.
"Ugh, get over with the crap already?" Chris rolled his eyes sitting back in chair.
"During my stay in Poisonvilla with Ruth, I forbid the entry of everyone except Me Micheal and Nicholas there!" Eric continued and glared at everybody, "If my rules are not followed word by word, you can expect your death sentence next!"
"The meeting is adjourned!"
Eric said and walked upstairs heading towards Ruth's room.
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