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Chapter 2

  • ...Even if you are not here but your very existence resides deep within my soul- A source of Salvation for me...
  • Evelyn POV:-
  • "SHAWN!!" I heard Aunt Kyla's voice. Uncle was on the ground panting heavily. We rushed to his side.
  • "Father!" Both brothers yelled and began to rub Uncle's hand.
  • "Adrian! Call an Ambulance!" Lawrence said panicking. Adrian nodded and stood up to call an ambulance. Father also came and bend and held Uncle's hand.
  • "Edward... Everything is ruined..." Uncle said as tears formed a screen in his eyes. Looking at him like that I also began to cry. I have never seen him cry before looking at him like that breaks my heart. Father began to rub Uncle's back.
  • "Don't worry Brother. I am here." Father said reassuringly.
  • "Nothing can save it... No one can save my lost respect now.." Uncle was panting heavily as his face was filled with tears. Lawrence and Adrian are also at the verge of crying.
  • "Don't say like that Father!" Lawrence finally broke and cried. Looking at them my heart sank as uncontrollable tears fall from my eyes. Please, Uncle, be alright. Lawrence and Father helped Uncle to move and shifted him to a room. My crying mess form walked towards Adrian's extremely stressed form.
  • "What happened Adrian?" I asked.
  • ".. There's too much traffic out there. I have called our family doctor instead of the ambulance. He'll be here at any moment.." He said running his hands in his hairs. I looked down and wiped my tears.
  • "How can this happen, Evelyn!? Soon brother was about to get married. Everything was going so smoothly and perfectly. I was also about to- leave it." Adrian said as a tear released from his eye. Looking at this wrecking havoc made me dejected. I wish I could do something to help.
  • "Where's my father?" Adrian asked.
  • "Father and Lawrence shifted him in a room." He nodded as we both went to the room.
  • Uncle is in a crying mess form. Everyone was trying to calm him. I can't look him in this turmoil. I couldn't bear to stand there, I walked out and began to cry.
  • After a while, The doctor came. He examined uncle and gave him an analgesic and a few medicines.
  • "What happened doctor?" Aunt asked.
  • "He had an anxiety attack. He's already a heart patient. Such attacks are not good for him." Doctor said.
  • "But what caused it?" Adrian asked. A deadly silence fell upon the room. I shivered at this. I wonder what happened. After a few seconds, the doctor nodded and left. I stood there dumbfounded about what happened. Aunt called Lawrence and took him somewhere. Adrian and mother stayed with the uncle as Father took me somewhere.
  • "What happened, father?" I asked.
  • "Evelyn. Save my brother." Father said crying. I gulped and asked,
  • "Tell me, father, what happened?" A truly terrific sensation is surging through me.
  • "Lawrence future wife, Emerald, she ran away..." Father said still crying. I stiffed upon hearing this. Just a few moments ago, I was teasing Lawrence and now. I tried to speak but couldn't maybe I understood what father's going to say next and deep in my heart I begged it to be a lie.
  • "Please Save my brother. Who knows what will happen when he's gonna wake up. Please Marry Lawrence. That's the only thing that can save my brother" My mind went blank. I lost my senses. A shallow breath escaped my lips. The feeling that is evoked within me that moment is inexplicable I lost my strength as I fall on the ground.
  • Marry Adrian's Brother?
  • Tears rolled onto my cheeks without any control over them. Before my mind could comprehend what is happening. I heard my father's voice again which shook my very core,
  • "Please Evelyn. I am begging you. Save my Brother. I beg you, please." My hazy mind drowns in the pool of guilt when I saw father begging me.
  • No matter what I felt but I can't let it happen. My feelings aside, I can't let my father, who has done so much for me to beg me. I never begged him and he joining his hands and begging me to save his brother. I felt heartbroken looking at my father like that.
  • I am not that heartless that for my feelings I would let my uncle die.
  • Uncle is like a second father to me. I can't let it happen. I muster some courage and stood up. My trembling legs walked toward the room. My quivering lips let out a shaky voice as I bend on the floor and held Uncle's hand.
  • "Uncle.." Uncle looked at me and said in a croaked voice.
  • "Evelyn... Why me? Why my Lawrence? Everything's shattered."
  • "No, it's not.." My voice came out like a whisper. Father came in and said,
  • "Shawn. I have a proposal for you." I closed my eyes and let out tears. Uncle let out an empty laugh and said,
  • "Nothing can save my lost respect now, Edward..." I felt like Uncle has smiled at me and I am too broken to pay attention to it.
  • "I would like to ask for your Son Lawrence hand in marriage for my Daughter Evelyn." Uncle's eyes widened as I shut my eyes more tightly and let out my tears.
  • "You don't have to marry me, Evelyn," Lawrence said. My father's statement surprised everyone.
  • "Yeah Evelyn, You are like my daughter. You don't have to. I don't want to force you." I sniffed as I wiped my tears.
  • "It's alright. I am not that heartless." I stood up and gave a cold look to Adrian who stood there absolutely stunned.
  • "If I have to swallow my feelings to save you..." I looked at Uncle and smiled,
  • "I'll gladly do it." My answer shocked everyone in the room. No one expects me to say something like that.
  • "Evelyn..." Uncle began to say.
  • "How can I ever thank you," Uncle said wiping his tears.
  • "I am your daughter. How can I call myself your daughter if I can't do that much for you." I smiled sadly.
  • Uncle kissed my forehead. I wiped my tears as me Aunt And Mother left the room to get me ready for my marriage to the brother of my childhood love...
  • I don't know what I have done is right or wrong but, I know for sure that I couldn't let my father beg me and my uncle to die like that. As for my feelings, Adrian already broke them. I don't think mine and Lawrence marriage might work but, there's nothing I can do about it.
  • I shiver at the thought; "Sister in the law of my lifetime love". My heart began to beat at an abnormal pace as I lost myself. I accepted my defeat against those cruel and merciless games of fate. I lost.
  • With crushed dreams and a heavy heart, I agreed to marry the elder brother of the person who stole my heart years ago...
  • Adrian POV:-
  • "If I have to swallow my feelings just to save you, I'll gladly do it," Evelyn said. When I heard those words, I felt like an arrow has pierced my heart. Like I am crumbling slowly. My mind went blank. I couldn't comprehend what's happening around me. I never liked Evelyn so what is this feeling of heartbreak. I know Evelyn loves me, Evelyn knows she loves me. And now she is the soon to be the bride of my brother. How awkward this situation could get. I just know that it's my fault. If I accepted her feeling that time, this wouldn't happen. But I couldn't accept her feelings, she was like a family to me and I seriously don't think that my father would allow me to date the daughter of his dearest brother. Keeping these thoughts in my mind, I reject her. I neglect her feelings and broke her heart miserably-even though I don't want to. Ever since I broke her heart I felt guilty about it. I began to feel things about her I wasn't supposed to feel.
  • But now, there nothing between us and she is nothing but my Sister-In-Law. Even if my heart stabs to say that but it's all my fault and I vow to myself I would never think about my future Sister-In-Law like that.
  • ....I ruined everything just by my stupidity...
  • Lawrence POV:-
  • I stiffed when Evelyn agreed to marry me. Why is she destroying her life just to save our lost respect? I felt like I am responsible for what happened. I have devastated not one but two lives. I can see that Evelyn doesn't even want to marry me yet still she agreed just for us. Evelyn is truly something. I am sure her heart is made of gold. She is such a selfless girl. She is an embodiment of a liberal person. She didn't even think about her and agreed for marriage.
  • I was lost in my thoughts as father called, "Lawrence, I need to talk to you alone and Adrian, tell the guests the marriage will continue soon." Adrian stood still. He must be shocked as we all are.
  • "Adrian?" Father called him again.
  • "Yeah?" He said in a vague tone. What happened to him? Even I am not that lost.
  • "Tell the guest marriage will continue soon and apologize for the delay," Father instructed him as he nodded and left. Father motioned me to come closer, I came closer and bend on my knees and held father's hand. Even though I want to say a lot of things to him that it's his fault this all happened but I didn't.
  • "Lawrence, I am sorry son. I shouldn't have arranged you in marriage. It's all my fault. I ruined not yours but also Evelyn's life." Father said with his head down in shame. I want to comfort father but I couldn't, I just couldn't think of any words for his comfort. What he is saying is true.
  • "I am sorry son.." Father said once again. My grip tightened on his hand as I passed him a reassuring smile,
  • "It's alright, Father. I just you to be with us. Never leave us, We are nothing without you." I kissed my father's hand. He petrified me. The thought of losing him frightened me without any extent and today I felt like my whole being stopped when he had that anxiety attack.
  • Father put his other hand over mine and began to say,
  • "Listen, Lawrence, I know both of you don't even like each other. I know she is nothing but family to you. But now, After your marriage, she is your everything. You have to take care of her and respect her feelings. Give her some space and time. I am sure your marriage will work. But remember one thing carefully, She is your Responsibility. Protecting her, Caring her, Loving her, Helping her, Respecting her and all those things; you'll have to do it. Okay, Son?"
  • "I promise father, I'll take great care of Evelyn and will try my best to be a good husband." I passed a faint smile to father and stood up.
  • Even though you don't want to be my wife but I promise I'll fulfill my every duty as your husband.