Taming my Bad Boy Husband

Ten

The cake I baked for him somehow lifted the mood between us. However, we only met a few times. Mostly only on campus due to his busy schedule.

As I was scrolling through my phone, my stepsister, Damara, messaged me. She was cursing me about something I don’t even know about.

“Why is she angry all of a sudden?” I spoke to myself as I scrolled through her messages.

She texted that Father was getting bullied for slapping Elena at the party and that it gradually made him anxious. The Renuese sued my father because it damaged the reputation of their family for slapping their oldest daughter.

This is an issue. It also damaged my father’s name but that was because of Elena’s fault, not my father! If only she had kept her mouth shut, then she wouldn’t have been slapped!

I scrolled down a bit. I read all the screenshots she had sent until I came across something about Lacrus and me. Him being cold to me and me not being deserving of the name Valencia

What happened also spread on campus. Us being married also spread like wildfire. Students brought their opinions, and most of them are just as harsh as they could be. What am I expecting from these kinds of people anyway? Well, some defend me and most of them are people who I've interacted with.

“Of course, Lacrus won’t be like that, he is not in love with me,” I murmured.

I could not take all the negative comments about me and my father. I thought of asking Lacrus because maybe he might help me with this. My father can’t stand against the Renuese but Valencia can.

I immediately hopped out and went to Lacrus’ room. I knocked slowly, and he answered.

“Come in.”

I went in and looked at him, busy with his laptop. I hesitated to speak at first but he looked at me, waiting for me to speak.

“As you know about what happened at the party. I just want to ask something, if that is okay?”

“What is it?” he replied immediately.

He stopped what he was doing and focused on looking at me, waiting for me to speak again.

“What happened circulated around us. It became an issue and from what I have heard, Elena’s parents sued father. I just want to ask for help from you.”

He was silent for a moment and spoke.

“Why would you ask for my help?”

“Your name can defend my father.”

“But you are Valencia as well, aren't you?”

I was silent for a moment. Is he giving me permission to use his name to defend my father? About the issue that is spreading about us?

“I don’t have any connection like you.”

“You can use my name.”

I don’t know what to reply but that somehow made me smile a bit.

“And if something bad happens, you can ask Calix for help,” he added.

“Alright, thank you.”

After that conversation, I slowly walked away from his room. I didn’t try to look again and went quickly to my room.

I quickly called Gab to ask for his help to go back to Father's house. He immediately answered and picked me up. I can’t ask for Calix currently since I just learned from Madam Therese that he was out of town, having a vacation.

When we arrived, I saw another car and for sure it was from the Renuese.

“Stay here, don’t come. I won’t let you get in with our issue, okay?” I spoke.

“But, Elsie—“ I did not let him finish what he was about to say and just left immediately.

I immediately went in and saw Elena and her mother cursing and yelling at my father.

Father did not even let a word out from his mouth, he just said sorry and asked for forgiveness. What can he do, in terms of status and money, the Renuese family is much higher than ours.

“Who are you to yell at my father?” I boldly ask and run to him.

I saw my father's eyes widen in shock. “What are you doing here, Elsie?”

“Father, why are you not telling me this?” I worriedly ask him.

“So, is she the one that Lacrus married? Didn’t think he would pick a trash and ugly duckling like you over my daughter?”

I rolled my eyes and faced Elena’s mother.

“I don’t know, maybe because your daughter is stupid and Lacrus does not want to marry someone like her. Too bad,your daughter is not enough for him to marry her.”

I saw Elena’s face wrinkled as she had heard. “What did you say? Don’t you know that all men are trying hard just to get me and you call me stupid?”

“I did not ask for your opinion, Elena.” I could see it in her face that she was shocked by what she had heard. “I will let this slide if both of you will coordinate with me. I would like both of you to leave the house and stop disturbing my family or else you will regret this.”

Elena’s mom laughs. “Why? What will you do? You act highly just because he married an orphan like you? From what I saw at the party, it seems like Lacrus does not care about you. It seems like he was just using you and your father in exchange for money, isn’t it?”

“Don’t you dare belittle me. My family might not be that rich like yours but I know how to fight people like you.”

They did not take me seriously. They just laugh and are not even a little afraid. I don’t know what to say anymore. I just came here to see my father.

Elena’s mother was about to speak when someone came in and murmured something to her ear. I saw her face in shock.

She gritted her teeth and left without saying a word. “Elena, come.”

Elena immediately followed her mother even though she was also baffled by what was happening all of a sudden.

What could she have possibly heard that made her leave so abruptly?