Revenge On The Scumbags

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Tyler stood opposite his mother as she stared blankly at the plants around. She called him out to have a talk with him but hasn’t uttered a word since. So Tyler, decided to break the awkward silence.

“Mom, what do you think about Rosalie?” He asked waiting hopefully for her reply.

“What else is there to think about? I like her. She has a good personality. She’s better than Janice.” Mrs. Hermsworth answered with a wide smile playing on her lips.

“You mean you never liked Janice?” He asked in surprise.

“Obviously. She’s a brat. Why would I let someone like her get married to my son.” She said nonchalantly.

“But you’ve been forcing me to get married to her for a while now. What’s with the change of attitude?” He asked with confusion written all over his face.

“Well, when her mother came to me to ask if you can get married to her daughter, at first I wanted to say no because of the bad news I’ve heard about her. But then, I got an idea. At that time, your incident occured and you loathed women. I decided that if I told you that the both of you were engaged, knowing your character, you wouldn’t want to get married to her and since you can’t disobey me, you’ll bring someone else to replace her and here we are. I’m so glad my plan worked.” She explained with smile of triumph on her lips.

“So, in other words, you played me mom.” Tyler said faking a hurtful expression.

“I didn’t play you, I just helped you in finding your one true love. I see the way you look at her. I can’t believe my son is finally in love with someone.” She said happily. happily

“Me neither.” Tyler answered.

“So, is she the same girl of that night?” She asked suddenly.

“What girl?” Tyler asked back even though he understood what his mother was saying.

“Oh don’t play dumb with me. I know she’s the one. Her son is five years old, same time the incident happened also, she same here once to look for you.” Mrs. Hermsworth said.

“She did? When?” Tyler asked in shock.

“About two months after the incident. She came in search of you but you were on a business trip at that time. But she didn’t tell me the reason she was looking for you, she only said that she was the girl from the hotel room. That way, it was easy to tell she was the one.” Mrs. Hermsworth said.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Tyler asked.

“I wanted to but you never came home since that day.” She explained.

“Why didn’t you call then?” He asked.

“I wanted to but I decided to find her first but I didn’t know where she went to. I traced her to her home but rumors had it that she was disowned by her father for carrying a strangers child, do she left J city.” Mrs. Hermsworth said.

Tyler sighed. Who knows what she had passed through at that time. But, she came out stronger and fiercer and that made him love and respect her more.

Rosalie was rooted in shock as she listened to their conversation. So, he was actually the one. He was the stranger that took her virginity that night and almost ruined her life. He knew all these and never told her.

Then, he cajoled her into marrying him so she’ll never leave his side. How selfish could he be?? She clutched her fists in anger.

She couldn’t bear to listen to their conversation anymore. So she turned on her heels and returned back to the living room where Alex was.

Tyler has a lot of explanation to do when they returned home.

“There’s no need to worry now. The both of you are married now and she even kept the child because I know most ladies won’t. All that matters now is that the both you should be able to keep your marriage and make more grand children for me.” Tyler stared at his mother in amusement. What else was he expecting??

“I almost forgot. We are hosting a party at the Tucker mansion next week.” Tyler announced.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Really? Why?” Mrs. Hermsworth asked.

“It’s more like engagement party of Rosalie and I because we’re only married on paper but we’ll be preparing for the wedding soon, so you and dad have to attend.” Tyler said.

“Well, I’ll attend but I’m not sure about your father. You know he’s not in good terms with Rosalie’s father but I’ll try to persuade him.” She said.

“It doesn’t matter if he isn’t there. As long as you are coming, it’s fine.” Tyler said.

“Okay. But I’ll still try to get him to attend the party.” Mrs. Hermsworth promised.

“Okay mom. It’s getting kinda late already so we’ll have to leave now.” Tyler said taking a short glance at his wrist watch.

“You’re right. Let’s go in. Rosalie would have been bored waiting this long for you.” Mrs. Hermsworth said and they went in to see Rosalie and Alex still at the spot they had left them except that Alex was already sleeping.

“We’re leaving now Rosalie.” Tyler announced and picked up Alex from the couch.

“Okay.” Rosalie muttered and stood up.

“It’s nice meeting you Mrs. Hermsworth. I really enjoyed your company.” Rosalie said with a genuine smile on her face.

“Just call me mom, after all you’re my daughter in law.” Mrs. Hermsworth answered with a smile.

“Okay mom. I hope we meet again.” Rosalie said.

“Me too. Feel free to visit me anytime. My doors are always open for you and please try to bring Alex with you, I’d love to get to know my grandson.” She said stroking Alex’s cheek softly.

“I’ll try to honour your invitation. Good bye mom.” Rosalie said.

“Bye mom.” Tyler said too.

“Okay. Bye.” Mrs. Hermsworth said and waved at them as they left.

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All through the ride, Tyler noticed that Rosalie was in a foul mood.

“Is it still because of what she discussed with her grandmother this morning??” He asked himself.

But that disn’t seem to be the case. It looked like her anger was directed to him because she would give him angry glances every time. This continued till they got home.

They went into the room and Tyler laid Alex on the bed slowly. When he was sure that Alex was in a deep slumber, he turned towards his sulking wife.

He tried to hold her but she slapped his hands away.

“What’s wrong?” He asked in confusion.

“You’re seriously asking me that?? Aren’t you supposed to know when you always know everything that’s going on??” She asked angrily but quietly so as not to wake Alex.

“Okay where is this attitude coming from??” I seriously don’t know what you’re talking about.” Tyler said in defense.

“Okay. Why didn’t you tell me that you were the stranger I had sex with that night?” Rosalie asked.

“You’ve found out?” He asked.

“Obviously. Why did you keep the truth from me. You already knew that Alex was your child, why didn’t you tell me??” She asked again, this time more fiercer.

“I just recently found out. I didn’t know how to explain it to you.” Tyler said.

“You can explain now, starting from what happened that night.” Rosalie demanded.

“Okay. Come sit here.” Tyler sat patting on the space beside him on the couch.

Rosalie sighed and relunctantly sat down.

“Start explaining.” She demanded impatiently.

“Okay. Five years ago….”

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