RUNNING AWAY FROM MY BETROTHED

CHAPTER 209. SWEET ANNOYING FREINDS

They have always been like this—differing in some things and crashing here and , but I guess that's what makes them solid. They always find a way to solve their and forget the past. I envy them in a way, for how they manage to resolve and, more so, for being able to stand by me all these years despite my . I mean, I have quite a temper, and I don't forgive easily—the complete of them.

Wait, though, did I hear something right?

"Orders? From where or who?" I query, and they all look at each other.

"Your big mouth will get us into trouble someday!" Rose grumbles, scratching her .

What are they hiding from me? "Will you guys speak up or get out right now?" I ask fury when no one says a word.

"Well, you see, it's...Damian. He asked us to keep you company and distract you so wouldn't think about this whole thing too much. His idea was just to cheer you up be with you all the time that he would not be around."

Damian!? Another point! I think I owe him a vote of gratitude. He is doing well and is .

"He cares for you, Ellie. More than anything. His love for you is on another level,"

Grace says.

Forget about love for now. How did he reach all three? How did he find Rose and

Sherry?

"I know he has Grace's contact information, so I won't ask how he contacted her, but two? How did he know about you and even reach you?" I ask.

"He used my brother," Sherry says.

Shoot! Who?

Leo?

He asked for help from Leo. And Leo accepted to help Damian? As far as I remember, are two devils who can't stand each other even for a second! Leo even has a order against both me and Damian. What did he do to pull this off?

"Hang on! Where is Leo, and how did Damian get him to agree to help him?" I ask:.

This sounds merely impossible, if you ask me. Totally impossible. Damian, are you to Leo for help? That is the newest wonder of the world.

"We don't know that, Ellie,” Sherry explains, her voice faint and sadness, etc., on her . She must be feeling for her brother. “All that Leo said when he called was that needed us and that a man named Damian would call us. When Damian called us, requested that we come to the hospital, but we came so late because you two had , but he had left his instructions with your driver, Mark. He drove us here," Sherry .

Sweet, right? I mean, for him to care this much. To go through all that trouble of for help from Leo, of all the people? Their last encounter was chaotic, and I the next time they would meet, one of them would end up six feet under while other would end up in the hospital with broken bones. I hope Leo is alive, but only the sake of the humanity in me. I hope Damian didn't kill him just to get the he needed from him. I didn't know he would step on his ego that much for me. Terrific! Another tick!

"Where is Leo now?" I ask again out of curiosity.

"Probably wandering in the streets? I don't know, and I didn't care to ask. After I him for what he did to you and after the threat your father gave us, we never seen my brother face to face, and we didn't talk until this morning," Sherry .

What? Papa threatened them. With what? I think Damian understood my father better I did. He did suggest all these things that were unfolding to me before.

"What do you mean by my father threatening you? What did he do?" I ask. At least I ’t see any bruises on their faces, so that confirms that it wasn’t something physical.

"Three days after you eloped, your father paid me and my brother a visit,” Sherry , earning my whole attention. “He was furious, desperate, and hurt. He swore to Leo's life miserable for sleeping with Nelly, and I only escaped his wrath I promised to help him search for you. Somehow, he believed in my sincerity Rose and I didn't know your plans or where you were, but Leo's life wasn't spared.

The next morning, Leo lost his job, and before he could start a job hunt, he was barred this city."

Excuse me! He What? OMG! My father did all that for me. He had Leo driven and out of the city. I am speechless!

"Damian was right!" I bitterly smile, not so much because of Damian nor because of fate Leo underwent for breaking my heart, but because once again, I am reminded how wrong I was about my father's love. He cared deeply.

It was immense and immeasurable. He could go to any depths to avenge me, yet I 't see that. I only saw his bad side and his flaws, and I never tried to understand actions in depth. I was so blinded by my desire and rage. I was a bad daughter to !

"About what?" Grace asks.

I emit a bittersweet smirk, smirking at my stupidity. "About everything. I wish I saw my blinding rage. Things wouldn't have come this far," I murmur.

"Don't feel bad, Ellie. You are a human, bound to make mistakes. Each of us has had fair share of our shortcomings, you know." Rose comforts.

"Yes, Ellie. And that chapter is closed now, and a new one has opened for you to what can be amended. Your father loved you so much, only that his way of his love to you was different, and you weren't an angel to understand it all.

But this is a chance to right all the wrongs, Ellie." Grace's words echo with a soothing, sensation, but her words would have hit right home if my father were still .

But he is not! I drove him to the grave with my rage and resentment!

"We have got your back, Ellie! Whatever you want to do to make things right, we are for you. It is never too late until there are no more opportunities, and as long as sun is still shining above you, you have a chance for any change that you want.

The Riccaford legacy is all in your hands, and all the lights of the entire world are on you to see what you will do with it. You can make things right by doing ."

A smilting flicker appears on my gloomy face. Maybe?