I Swear, Let Me Love You Again

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“Lydia, I apologize on behalf of…” She held her hand up stopping me. In a second, a black G-Wagon Mercedes-Benz pulled up in the parking lot next to where we stood. The man who had picked her up at the mall arrived wearing a black suit and dark shades and instantly got out of the car. “Listen to me, Lydia, I can help with everything else with the law and publicly proving your innocence.” She scoffed, staring at me with a look of annoyance. “Thank you Mr King but I’m good.” She spoke then without uttering another word, she ran into the arms of the man who stood there staring at us. He pulled her into a warm embrace, kissing her forehead and whispering words into her ears, the interaction hurt me deeply. He opened the passenger’s seat for her and shut it after making sure she was comfortable. As he walked to the side of the car, his face was strikingly familiar but I didn’t care about that. We stared at each other until he entered his side of the car and drove out of the parking lot. I rubbed my temples bringing out my phone from my pocket. I called the lawyer who was now about thirty minutes late, as we had agreed to meet here at 6 am. “You no longer have to come here. She’s out.” I informed her and without waiting for her reply I hung up. The anger from last night to this moment filled my entire system, and I knew just the place to explode it. *********** I was fuming as I sped down the road, heading towards my mother’s house. I gripped the steering wheel so tightly that my knuckles turned white. I was focused on getting there as fast as possible, speeding past traffic lights and other cars. My anger was a burning, blinding rage that filled my mind and body. All I could think about was reaching my destination. I finally arrived at my mother’s house and packed right in front of the entrance. “Good morning Mr King.” The employees greeted me and I didn’t spare them a glance as I bursted into the house. “Good morn–” “Where is my mum?” I questioned cutting off the maid who was smiling ear to ear in my presence. “Oh.. sir, she’s having breakfast near the poolside with…” I walked to the back of the house where the pool we rarely used was. I got to the dinner table as soon as I saw my mum and Jenny, I didn’t care for anyone else present. “Mum, what exactly is your problem?” Those were the first words that came out of my mouth as soon as I saw her seated there drinking her glass of juice with a pleasant smile on her face. “Nathaniel, what a pleasant surprise. Come son, have breakfast with us.” The vein on my head was about to pop just from seeing her happy, all smiles as if she wasn’t about to send my Lydia to jail. “You know I’m so sick and tired of you all plotting and keeping Lydia on your mind like you all don’t have better things to do. And you Jenny.” I gazed at her with disappointment and she pursed her lips. “Why are you getting all mad over some gold digger who has the audacity to steal from you after divorcing you and leaving without caring for the health of Jenny.” I rubbed my temples at her continuous repetition. “That happened some time ago! Jenny is fine and I’m great. She stole nothing from me and if she did that is my business, my business. It’s not your place to do anything. This was just purely for your entertainment, don’t act like you were looking out for me.” My mum scoffed looking at me like I had said something stupid. “Nathan, that’s enough. You don’t have to speak to your mother like that when all she was doing was looking out for you. You’re being disrespectful to your mother who birthed you over some woman who is probably sleeping with the officers in this moment to get herself out of there.” Jenny spoke softly and I stared at her for a second laughing humorlessly. “Just keep Lydia’s name out of your mouth. Don’t  ever try the rubbish you guys did ever again and I mean it.” I spoke sternly and my mum rolled her eyes. I observed that Rachel was oddly quiet, she seemed to not have a part to play in this. “And mother, I will have lawyers drop the charges and speak to the press saying it was all a misunderstanding.” My mum was about to protest but I turned my back around. I felt a bit better feeling I had helped Lydia in a way. “Wait, Nathaniel, let’s talk for a moment.” Small steps followed me as I walked away, I turned around seeing Jenny hurrying towards me. “What?” I questioned and Jenny let out a breath. “Look Nathaniel, just relax. I don’t want this to ruin the progress we have made and have you got any idea towards getting back with Lydia or something. Let’s just be on good terms okay?” Her words made no sense to me but her remorseful expression had me nodding. “Just don’t let that ever happen again. Embarrassing her publicly and sending her to jail is way out of line.” I spoke and she nodded her head in understanding. “I will get going now.” I informed her and she smiled faintly waving. “Have a nice day.” I was glad Jenny was compliant to my wishes, at least I didn’t have to worry about another attack on Lydia. Jealousy settled in Jenny’s heart, she was angry looking at how much Nathaniel spoke with passion to protect Lydia, the anger in his tone and face. He seemed to be…in love with Lydia and that was far from acceptable for Jenny. To her, Nathaniel and her were still going to get married whether he knew that now or not.