novelxo Chapter 200
195-Driving Me Crazy!
I stayed in my spot, thinking if walking away was a must.
It wasn't!
Helel at least deserves to have his name cleared. Lord Vasquez punished him because he wanted to look good in the eyes of the counselors. It was unfair how they humiliated Helel. After taking a deep breath, I turned around to face Maddox and approached him again.
"What? you are back for a tip before even serving us?' Maddox spoke very bitterly to me. I noticed the shine of the formation of new tears in his eyes whenever he deepened his eye contact with me.
"Can we talk for a minute?' I asked him, feeling my heart pounding hard in my chest.
I am sure a little conversation would not get him into trouble because he wasn't only Lord Vasquez's son anymore. He was also Lord Winchester's soon-to-be son-in-law.
"Ah! With me?" Maddox pointed a finger to his chest and then turned around dramatically to make it seem like he thought I was talking to someone else.
"Since when did you start talking to me?" He scoffed. Tine. Meet me at the backside of the café." He said after he stopped, forcing a smirk across his lips.
I was aware of Reign's uncomfortableness but I had to talk to him about what happened that day. After I walked into the kitchen and handed Maura the order, I walked out from the backside to meet up with Maddox. I waited only for a few minutes because Maddox arrived as if he had been wanting to have a talk with me. Seeing him walk in my direction, wearing a dark brown shirt, made me take a deep breath and then compose my posture for a heavy debate.
"Say what you have to say. I don't have a lot of time to waste here," Maddox mumbled, his eyebrow raising and reaching high on his forehead.
"I didn't want all that to happen. I was only trying to help you brothers get rid of Flynn," I started with a shaky voice.
"Help us how? Tell me exactly how you were going to help eliminate him by taking pictures of him and Mariah. Or wasn't it out of jealousy? Out of spite?" He made deep eye contact with me, judging me for something admit I shouldn't have done.
"I wanted to use those pictures to save myself from him when he asks Lord Vasquez to make me accept him," I explained, thinking that should be a good enough explanation.
"So you were doing it all for yourself. Then don't make it seem like you were helping us. Your first priority was yourself and then that snake friend of yours. We were just objects you wanted to use,' Maddox said in rage and anger. The increased volume and heavy breaths made me step back from him.
"That's not true. My first priority was you. I slept with him because I wanted him to delete your video." I almost broke down at the memory of what Flynn made me do.
"Oh, come on! Cut the crap. If you really wanted to help me, you should have come and talked to any of us. But that wasn't the case. You got the opportunity to be with your mate, and you thought, why not?' He shrugged, wrinkling his nose to express his disgust forme.
"I couldn't come and talk to you guys. He had his eyes on me. And even if I could talk to you and you confronted him, he would leak the video. It was just one click away." I raised my voice this time at the frustration of being misunderstood.
It wasn't an easy feeling for me to be fucked by Flynn. I kept my tears in so that I can convince myself I am in power in that moment. That was the only thing that made me not suffer a lot, but now that it was backfiring, I was feeling hurt.
"I did it for you, dammit!" I yelled, whimpering a little.
"But I never asked you, Beatrice! When did I ever beg you to save me?" He threw a punch in the air and stepped closer to me in a threatening way.
"You didn't have to ask. Just the idea of you getting dragged through mud was something I couldn't stomach. I was just trying to help," I said. I no longer yelled or raised my voice. I was beginning to see how angry he was getting every few seconds of us talking.
"Next time you think of helping someone, please don't. I wouldn't want another Helel to die. You know what you have done to us? You have killed all the brothers inside. We are just empty vessels walking around while your other mate is enjoying the crown. So thank you for ruining us." Maddox pointed his finger in my face and muttered, "We are done here. Stay away from my brothers,' he warned me before he stepped back without breaking eye contact with me.
I kept staring at him while he turned around and disappeared out of my sight. The door behind me opened, and Maura rushed outside to hug me from the side.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to hear anything, but I am so sorry!' She was sniffling, while I couldn't even let out a whimper.
"I should have done a better job," I uttered, without moving a muscle.
"But you did whatever you could do. We are filled with regret. You were alone, trying to help everyone. It wasn't your fault that you failed." She didn't let me out of her embrace, and, honestly speaking, I felt warm in her
arms.
"Helel deserved that crown, that throne,' I whispered, zoning out.
"But he is dead," she whispered, breaking the hug but keeping her one arm wrapped around my waist while she brushed my hair with her other hand.
"Flynn should be too,' I said determinedly, making her stop moving and probably stare at my face. I should not let Leo Flynn and Lord Vasquez get away with this crime.