Fifty Three

I stare at my dad, waiting for him to snap out of whatever daze he is in and start explaining what happened.

"I offended some people, I have lost everything, every single thing to them, except you" I noticed how he stopped and didn't include my mother, making me wonder what happened between them.

"I wanted you to marry Taylor Wright because their family have no association to the underworld, but they had the power to protect you from harm, Zoey I know how much you detest Taylor but I had to do that to protect you, I didn't want to getting hurt over my mistakes. But then I heard you married Zach Lee instead and I got furious, I didn't want you getting involved in the underworld, He IS the underworld. I confronted him at his office and he didn't even argue with me, he just let me do what I wanted, but then I got to agigated and my heart....it's starting to get weak, I didn't know when I collapsed." At this point there were tears falling from my eyes. My dad is sick, and I didn't even know, he said he's lost everything, meaning the company is gone too. I can't believe it. And Zach is also a part of the Underworld, this keeps getting crazier every minute. Choked sobs escaped my lips and I move to hug my dad, he hugs me tightly and it's now I know that it's been a while since my dad and I talked like this.

"Oh dad....why didn't you tell me any of this? It could've saved us a lot of stress" I asked staring in his eyes.

"I didn't know how to tell you, I've lost the company, I don't know how to get it back yet and your mother has turned on me!" He exclaims and I'm surprised to actually hear him say that. My mother, turned on her own husband? It's a move I should have expected from her, of course she'll duck when it gets hard.

"I can help you get it back" Zach says in a serious tone from his seat beside me.

"Really?" My dad asked, in utter surprise.

"It seems you offended someone I know, and there's anything I know about the underworld, it's that everyone bows to power, and I have a LOT of that" he says, a small smile appearing on his face, Dad looks at home, and I mean REALLY looks at him and I can already see the gears turning inside his head. He was formulating a plan, the excitement on his facial features were very obvious.