Anything can happen in a blink of the night

Isabelle POV

Everything was going great, I was happy to be here but I know this happiness is going to end in a few days.

I never thought this would end this soon, last night after dinner I ended up falling asleep in the car.

Cyrus carried me to the room. When I woke up in the morning my phone was constantly ringing, when I saw the caller id I tensed.

Everything just crashed when I heard my father's angry voice, he asked me where I was. I said I'm home, he repeated the question. I said the same.

His answer was he is in the house but I'm nowhere to be seen, all the colour drained off my face. A cold shiver ran throughout my body.

I know I'm in deep shit now and no one is going to help me out.

Now to the present, I stood in front of my house knowing clearly that I would be dead.

I didn't say anything to Cyrus I just told him that I need to be home.

He clearly understood that my father is back with my sister and stepmother.

With the help of his helicopter, we were in my hometown within one hour.

"You sure about it?" Cyrus asked me. I turned to him.

"If I'm sure or not, I need to go and face him. That's the only option left for me," I said knowing clearly that this is my present and my future.

Whether I like it or not my father is my only family and I need to listen to whatever he says no matter what.

"I will come with you as I said before and talk to him," Cyrus said with a serious expression on his face.

"No, I will talk with him. I don't want to drag you in this mess."

"You are not dragging me," he replied.

"Please understand Cyrus, I will... I will handle it."

I know my family, I don't want them to hurt Cyrus in any way. They cannot hurt him physically but they can insult him.

I don't want anyone to insult Cyrus. I would be broken if I see them insulting Cyrus when he showed me a happy world.

I respect him and I would do anything to keep his honour.

"You can always come with me. You don't have to be here and face insults or even worse do something that you doesn't want to do," he said.

"You saying to leave my father and come with you?" I asked him. he gave me a blank look before saying.

"You would leave your father anyways."

"Ah?!"

"When you marry that Mick kid, you will be leaving your father anyways," he said making me look at him blankly.

I'm in a situation where I feel stuck. I do not know what to do.

"No," I said.

"I... I will go inside. If we are meant to meet, I would be happy," I say.

He just looked at me and turned around leaving me there in front of my house, without turning back he opened his car door and drove away.

I felt like some part of my soul he took away with him, I felt like crying.

I stand there watching him drive away. I looked at the house before going inside the cold gates of the mansion.

The maids of the mansion opened the doors before giving me a petty look which means they are present in the living room. I walked inside to see Caroline, Sara and my father sitting and talking.

When Sara saw me she gave me an evil smile making me bite the insides of my mouth, "dad, look who's here finally," she said making my father look in my direction.

"Where were you?" he asked me. I stood there not knowing what to say because I know if I said anything he would be furious.

"Ohh, so you are silent now. Then let me tell you where were you these many days," he said before throwing some magazines and newspapers in front of me. I looked at them to see pictures of Cyrus and me together from yesterdays event.

I felt my heart drop, a cold shiver ran throughout my body.

The front page is covered with our picture. I read the captions which said.

"Weinburg and Edwards together?"

"The multi-millionaires daughter is seen with the MULTI-billionaire ZACHARIAH WEINBURG and don't forget the fact that she is going to marry Mick white,"

"Does David Edwards know that his daughter is seeing his biggest rivalry?!"

"The way Mr Weinburg was protective around Miss Edwards clearly shows that he loves her,"

Many headlines and articles were written, I was shocked to see that the event happened yesterday and overnight we made the headlines. And man, they both are enemies?

No words came out from my mouth knowing clearly my father is beyond angry.

"I told you, Dave, not to trust her by leaving her here, and what we are going to answer or say to Mick?" Caroline my step-mother snapped.

Making me hard to control myself before I roll my eyes in front of them.

"I regret trusting her and Mick is a good person he understood and he is ready to marry her after knowing about this," my father said.

Good and Mick won't suit together I thought in my mind.

"Dad, ask her why in the first place she was with him," Sara says to father who is looking at me like he wants to harm me.

"Are you going to say something or stand like a statue?" my father asked me.

"He is my friend," I replied without any expression.

"Oh, I never know that you have friends or should I say, friend?" Sara piped in.

"Why we never got to know that he is your friend?" father asked me.

"Because you never cared to know about what's happening in my life," I wanted to say but I stayed quiet.

"And how you guys met?" Caroline asked me, again I stayed quiet.

"Is she going to say something or not dave, everyone is talking about this. Everyone is calling me to point out what kind of daughter we have. My reputation has gone just because of your daughter. Sara's friends are making fun of her. Tell me dave who is going to marry my daughter if they know Sara's sister is a double digger. Don't they think that Sara is also like her sister," Caroline said.

'What the fudge, double digger? whom did I dig now? we are not even dating and she is here saying I'm cheating Mick. Heck, as much as I know about Cyrus I don't even about Mick and they are both far different from each other. And Zachariah? isn't it Cyrus?'

'God only knows how much of a gold digger of a daughter she has, oh she and my father are blind right. They can't see what their little girl does.'

"Father I'm sorry, I don't wanna talk about it now," I said before walking towards my room.

I didn't wait for his reply as I started climbing the steps. When I was about to climb the last step.

I heard my fathers loud voice saying "it won't be good if you meet that man again, get ready for your marriage. You are not allowed to go out unless your sister or your mother says."

Caroline isn't my mother nor she will, I said to myself before I entered my room.

It was dark as it has been days that I was in my room. I did even care to switch on the lights.

I went directly towards my bed I throw my phone on the bed before stripping out of my clothes to be in a hot tub.

I waited for some time for the water to become warm, father mentioned Cyrus as Zachariah. Which means Cyrus name is Zachariah then why would he tell himself as Cyrus to me? If my father and Cyrus are rivals then why he took me to his grandparents home.

Thinking of Beth and Pablo it makes me sad that they don't even know that I was leaving the mansion. when we were leaving, beth and Pablo was not there.

I'm ready to marry the person I don't like? I questioned myself.

I stepped out of the water and dried myself with a towel, before putting on a robe and sat on the huge one seat comfy sofa in my room.

I don't know what I'm going to do and I don't know what my father, Caroline, Sara and Mick are going to do. I know for sure they are planning for something huge as they are calm now.

I don't even know that Cyrus or Zachariah and my father are enemies if he knows I am Edwards daughter why he treated me good, why he treated me as a family member.

I know for sure there were no bad intentions from Cyrus, he is a good man. He may be a bad person to my dad and others but that is how the world is.

He is a business person obviously he needs to be a cold person. He needs to keep a cold facade in this selfish world, no means people take you for granted and treat you like trash.