3 [Ch-1.3] - [Marry off]-[Machine]

"ABIGAIL! GET OUT HERE THIS INSTANT!"

She heard while her frame was in the embrace of this Greek statue, her heart leaped a beat and her body tensed as if she were electrocuted.

'Why is my dad here?'

She thought and deepened her body in this youthful man's warm grasp.

"ABIGAIL, I KNOW YOU ARE IN HERE!"

She received another scream and looked at this handsome man's face as if pleading him to do something.

Exhaling deeply again the young man let go of her body, which he unknowingly found wrapped around her body… but as he was about to let go the door slammed open.

"You see dad I told you she was sleeping around…"

Said an innocent voice from beyond the other side of the door planting more destruction in everyone's minds.

'Emily!?'

"Haaa!"

The young man exhaled yet again and spoke.

"Uncle Harris, what is going on here?"

When everyone heard this, their attention moved from the seemingly shocked Abigail to this handsome young man.

"William, so it's you..."

The middle-aged man with sharp features said which made his anger nose dive and reveal in disdain not even trying to hide his discomfort from his tone.

"So this is the hole you have been hiding in... your father has been asking about you,"

He spoke and his vision moved from William to Abigail with a tinge of resentment and hate in his eyes he muttered under his breath.

"And here I thought I could get to marry her off into a prestigious family… but now she lacks purity…"

James, Abigail's father murmured in a low voice that resounded in everyone's ears.

After noticing his leaked thought, James refocused himself and attention to the girl and added.

"We throw you a party and this is how you repay us, huh!...by sleeping around with any rift raft you find in the streets,"

James said with an unknown disappointment and turned around and walked out of the door, not before saying.

"Don't come back to my house...you can stay with that machine for all I care but don't come back I don't want to see that disgusting face again,"

Abigail was stunned to the core...

"Did I just get disowned…"

Voicing her thoughts, she stared at the now empty doorway in total dismay.

'What...'

For many seconds which turn to minutes in an instant, Abigail's mind was drifting and turning trying to figure out what just happened.

She had not even tried to listen to her side of the story.

'And what does he mean, marry off... ,what machine?'

Question upon question popped in her mind like a tide, as she even forgot she was still in William's embrace and all this time William had said nothing but curiously looked at this girl in his arms...

'Why is my heart beating fast... I'm I having a heart attack!?'

William thought as he couldn't figure out these recent emotions he had been felt since last night after meeting this Abigail.

As the beating got louder, Abigail finally came too her senses and saw the handsome man looking at her with uncertainty and a tinge of curiosity.

'Why is his heart beating so much?.. wait-'

William stared at her chocolate brown eyes through her glasses and couldn't help but feel yet another emotion inside him. He was…

Worried!

"W-what?"

Abigail inquired with a bit of shyness from his stare.

"Nothing... a-are you okay?"

He said with a stutter and unfamiliarity, as if he wasn't sure of what he was saying himself.

"HUH!?"

As they were in their moment someone else appeared at the door and that person couldn't help but be shocked the young man's question.

Moving his gaze from Abigail, William saw a man that was aged about 28 to 29 and his hair was combed neatly and had on a professional black suit with a folder in his hands.

"What is it, Lucas did you get what I ask for?"

He sought with a clear voice and Emotionless yet again different from just moments ago.

Lucas sighed and walked in to the room and placed the papers on the table near the door and said…

"Nothing, young master here is the evidence you requested for and here is the recording of yesterday's events"

After saying his piece he walked out and not waited for anything as he knew there was nothing he would hear anyway.

"Okay, close the door behind you"

"Yes, young master"

Closing the door they were the only one's left in the room and Abigail surprisingly didn't feel any discomfort in William's embrace.

"Im-im okay... I will pack my things and go."

She said, disconnecting herself from him in which she felt a sense of loss from this stranger.

Holding tightly her belongings, she scurried to the bathroom and closed the door and finally letting everything sink in her mind, but she couldn't help but scream inwardly …

"WHAT THE FU*K IS HAPPENING!"

Abigail couldn't figure any of this out at all…it's not that she was stupid, rather she was extremely smart, but she couldn't guess out the events that transpired these last few hours at all.

'My graduation party... sleeping with a stranger... getting disowned"

All this transpired in less than 24 hours, and she had basically no clues of any of it, as if she had been blinded all this time.

Leaning on the door, she slid down and lost herself in a daze, seamlessly lifeless.

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While Abigail was thinking about this, William proceeded to the papers as if nothing happened and open the first page to find a picture...

Which had interesting contents

He went to the bed in his half naked self and sat down and pulled a laptop from the drawer beside the bed and lit in and connected the USB stick he got from Lucas.

Minutes passed...

After the video stopped, he felt a sense of curiosity and anger bubble up inside him and awkwardly grinned to himself.

'What's this feeling... again with this?'

'I seem to be triggering more than usual today…'

He said inwardly and placed the laptop beside him before laying on the bed again and uttering the words.

"Machine, ha."

[END CHAPTER]