I AM SORRY MY SON

CHAPTER 13

Tasha instantly paid for a ticket to Canada. Convenient for her, the job offered to pay all of her requirements. Thus, it amplified her objective. Tasha went straight to the airport as she did not prefer to bid her parents goodbye. She knew very well that if her parents were to know about the job she had applied for, she would have only turned out to be a laughing stock to them and this will compel them to marry her off to Mike. She did not want to risk the chance.

"I wish one day, you will all know my worth, mama and papa". Tasha sadly said as she headed to the airport.

[IN THE MANSION]

In an intoxicated manner, Juan collapsed on the outstanding lustrous armchair, he held a glass of whiskey in his hand as he swirled it around, while his other hand was clenched into a fist. The thought of the girl victimized his psyche, In that, he wasn't thinking clearly. The only thing he did was to drain himself into alcohol, but then, Tasha's image crept in regardless. The scent from the nape of her neck, her soft lips, and her angelic voice nonetheless wavered his mind helplessly.

Juan wasn't sad because of his wife's death, his distress was from the stranger he happened to come upon by coincidence. The exotic sensation and untamed titillation that strangely flooded in his vessels, and which succeeded to satisfy his hunger and thirst. Nevertheless, it appeared and disappeared without a glimmer.

He stood up abruptly and moved to the window that loomed the parkways, his fingers clenched into a fist striving to hold back the emotion

"What do you possess, that every time I kiss you, touch you or lay my eyes on you, I yearn for more, it's like you drain away my energy and radiate a fire within me. I Am confused that any utterance from your soft lips acts as a drug that no matter how hard I try I can't resist." Juan looked at the photo clenched in his hands, which he had taken out from his wallet. He brought his lips near the woman's image and kissed it.

He then walked beside his bed and slept soundly Tasha's photo was still held tightly in his hands.

Mrs linnet who peeked through the half-opened door could only lean beside the wall and cry, it was her duty to make sure that the young master was happy, but her reckless decision of helping Tasha escape tortured her from within.

"Am sorry my son, I only did this for you, I don't want you to question your capabilities as a man, when your next relationship fails, forgive me. . ." Mrs linnet confessed as she sauntered to where Juan slept. She smiled when she saw, him sleeping with his shoes on. Carefully, she took off his shoes and covered his body with the duvet.

At six o'clock in the morning, Juan woke up when he thought he had a voice calling him. When he opened his eyes he saw Mrs linnet standing by his side of the bed.

" Nanny Li, it's 6 a.m." He said when he managed to check the time from his phone.

"There is a problem my son, I think Little Clara is sick, she doesn't eat nor sleeps in fact, she had cried all night." Mrs linnet said with a frowned face.

"What? ? ? ?" Mr. Juan's voice retorted acidly and his eyes broadened with anger.

"My daughter was sick and no one thought to tell me about it?" Referring to Mary whose face was bleak because of fear.

" My son. . .yesterday. . ."Juan interrupted Mrs. linnet when he recalled that he had drowned himself in alcohol. He had cursed himself afterward, his carelessness had made him forget about his responsibilities as a father.

"Nanny Li, please call the doctor and tell him it's an emergency". After that said, Juan shortly walked out of his room and headed directly to Clara's room.

Without wasting time, Mrs. Linnet took her phone and contacted the doctor as quickly as she could. Seeing his daughter in that condition, pierced a hole in Juan's heart, Clara's face had turned pale, he stepped near Clara's cradle and placed his hands on her forehead, he asked when he felt the heat rising from her body.

"Did you call him nanny Li?" Juan asked Mrs linnet who had just walked into the room.

"Yes. . ." Mrs linnet responded to his question as she nodded her head in agreement.

"Then what's taking him long, he should have been here already" Juan's face was already frightened, his voice was trembling.

A few minutes later, a man with a white gown walked into the room accompanied by mary. immediately, Juan's eyes averted to his direction. A sigh of relief escaped from his breath by the sight of the doctor, but still the discomfort he felt in his heart could not leave him.

"Leon, what took you long?" Juan asked the doctor with a yet frightened look on his face.

"My apologies please, I was caught up in a traffic jam," Leon said as his eyes went directly to where Clara was.

"If that was the case, you should have told me, I would have sent my private plane to fetch you" Leon's lips curled upwards when he heard what Juan had said, he knew the man very well since his childhood, and he could tell by his temperaments that he was frightened. Leon felt proud because he realized that his friend was now a responsible man. From childhood, they had made a bet on whom will become a father first, and when they were all grown up, Juan managed to marry Racheal in which they both had a beautiful baby girl, Clara.

Juan had succeeded to win the bet and it was all up to Leon to fulfill their deal. They had made a deal that whoever became a father first, was to stay hungry for two days, dry fasting. The past thoughts drifted into Leon's mind as he was reminded of the old days.