Chapter Sixteen:His Family Is Falling Apart And It's Because Of Him.

That same night Amrita waited for Giovanni to be home, she couldn't believe that he would leave home today without checking up on her, though making the woman fall into depression and Joanna's words about her being barren started seeping into her head, it broke through her strong defenses and rendering her into a state of indecisiveness.

It was not all about her sister in-law saying that she was barren, but she knew herself well to  know that if  she makes the mistake of letting her words affect her, and try to prove otherwise. She might put herself in danger, one that might cost her life but yet, maybe it was worth trying.

Afterall, she didn't know if she still had a child. Giovanni was behaving like he was possessed or something, because her baby boy she knew who always stays by herself on a daily basis, had grown up into something different.

It was a sudden change fifteen years ago, after he was sent to study abroad. An order from his Grandpa, that till today she didn't know the reason behind that, all she got was another version of the bubbly and cheerful young boy, who clearly didn't have a soul now.

While she waited, she made herself busy with her drink in her hand, before glancing at the wall clock to see how late it was in the night. Her husband wasn't back yet, and the loneliness took another form.

Without him nor Giovanni to keep her company, there was no one else to talk to aside from Grandpa who was rarely home. He took the family business seriously, and had involved her husband to give such care and importance to the family business, rather than to pay any attention to her nor Giovanni.

What Giovanni needed was his father, but Edward has been hard on him ever since he left the country to study outside. She could still remember vividly, the way Edward was acting like he didn't care that it was going to be just him, and that none of them were coming with him.

Goivanni never wanted to leave, but staying wasn't an option when his father threw him out as if he was some criminal that he didn't want near him. Now, after everything, they are now blaming him for the way he acts?

She didn't know what happened to him in  UK for him to be so distant towards everyone, and it made her feel bad. If anything, she feels like a bad mother who wasn't able to do anything when she needed him.

She didn't feel the joy of motherhood anymore when she didn't know who her son was, or her son acknowledging the fact that he has a mother. He's just shutting everyone out, including her.

"Amrita, darling. What are you doing out here? You are drinking?" Edward's voice behind her, made her snap out of her thoughts to recognize her husband. He was still in his working clothes and she could see how stressed up he was, he was overworking and stressing himself.

But she knew that everything he's doing is for Giovanni, very soon he would be taking over his father's position in the company and that was something everyone was worried about. Does he want the company?

Considering his attitude towards work, she's forced to think that Giovanni loved anything that involved his father or Grandpa anymore.

"You are here." She said lowly, and went for her drink but it got snatched away from her hand by an annoyed Edward who seemed to understand why she was like this.

"Stop this, Amrita. You are hurting yourself?" He advised, in a really really worried tone, but instead she scoffed at his words.

"Am I?" She asked him, as if he didn't know that this was not her. His wife was the sweetest soul he had seen, and watching her right now was probing at his ego and making him feel guilty that he had done something to her to be so down.

"I'm sorry, honey. What is it you want? You know i would do anything for you, just stop hurting yourself." Edward said, cupping her jaw in his hands while cleaning the tears that threatened to fall from the corner of her eyes.

"I want my son," she whispered, her voice was so croaky and it made him wonder if she had been crying since morning, because before he left she wasn't like this." I miss him, Edward. A lot, but he behaves as if he doesn't have a mother. It makes me feel bad, like…"

"Hey, listen to me. Giovanni is fine, he's just trying to get over what happened at the hospital, stop trying to stress yourself over irrelevant things, okay?" Edward advised, but her hearing his words made her more angry.

Did he just say that her worrying about Giovanni was irrelevant?

She beat his hands off from her face instantly," Irrelevant? Edward, you and your father are mainly the reason why he's like this. You took him away from me without caring if i wanted him to study outside, and now you think it's irrelevant to worry about his behavior? What sort of father are you?"

"Amrita, Giovanni is not a kid anymore." 

"No, he's whatever i want him to be, he's my only child, and you behaving like this makes me wonder if you have any other child apart from him, who knows you might have one outside, one that is not irrelevant." She says harshly, making Edward see reasons why she said what she has said.

"Seriously, Amrita. You think i have a family apart from us?" He asked, he was hurt hearing her say that but she's clearly drunk, and drunk Amrita was blunt to say anything that crosses her mind.

"Then prove me otherwise, I can't stand the way you and your father act as if you don't owe him an apology for taking him away from me when he didn't want to."

"I'm sorry about that, honey." He apologized, but she stood up from her seat, not willing to stay and listen to him talk again.

"You know who to apologize to, bring me my son and then we'll talk." She said coldly, without giving him any chances to say anything else before departing from the sitting room where Edward was lost in what exactly to do, because Giovanni wouldn't be willing to listen to him too.

His family was falling apart, and it's all because of him.