The tycoon bride

"Adoption? "Melony repeated in dismay. You want me to give Melanie away to strangers?. "      Standing there, white—face and shaking in the shabby sitting room of her equally shabby little flat, she stare at her aunt as if she had just turned into a real live she—devil. In truth, she was having trouble believing that any of this was really happening. In the last few tragic week it felt as if her whole life had been wrenched out from under her.        Now this, she thought wretchedly. "I am going to pretend you never said that, aunt Laura's ".she said, cuddling the sleeping baby just that little bit closer as if trying to shield her from what was being proposed here.          "no you are not, "her aunt countered sternly. "you are going to listen to me. Do you honestly think I would be suggesting this if I believe you were coping? "        " I am coping! "Melony angrily insisted.          Wearing a pin–neat chic little two pieces grey suit and with aher perfectly made update and elegantly groomed blonde hair, aunt Laura only needed to swept her cold eye around the surrounding to completely denounce that declaration.            The place was a mess, every available space cluttered with all the usual baby paraphernalia —the floor,chair and the unit top in the attached tiny kitchen. It was only October but the notorious unpredictable weather was already wintry. Yet the small amount of heat coming from the electric fire was been blocked off behind a clothes–horse laden with wet baby clothes. The washing has to be dried somehow and Melony has no other way of doing it now.     Melony herself look no better, her once outstanding pretty face ravaged by too much grief, by too much worry, and by too many disturbed night caused by a baby who only seemed to sleep when she was holding her.        " I only asked you for help with my rent, for goodness sake "she mumbled defensively,feeling like a stray cat that had dared to beg for food at a queen front door.          "And sometimes people have to be cruel to be kind, "her aunt replied with a cold little shrug of her elegant shoulders."if that means I have to use ruthless method to make you see the error in what you are trying to do here, so be it"          "which Melony presumed ,was her aunt way of saying she is not parting with a penny. But then, her aunt is not know for her charity.              "Melanie isn't even your child, Melony! "             "But she is my sister! "Melony angrily flashed back. "how can you have her taken away from me ".it was a cry from the heart –a bleeding heart that has know too many pain and grief from the past two years. First her father, then losing everything, to her mother's affair, to her giving birth to Melanie and then losing her mother to a massive haemorrhage that she never recovered from .         "You don't even know who her father is "           "what difference is that supposed to make" Melony counters             A car horn sounded outside.              "You are only twenty one years, damn it!, until a month ago you are a student. Now you have drop out of university and you have no job, no means whatsoever to support yourself, never mind a small baby! Now you tell me you can't afford to pay for this awful place! "        "I will find a job soon enough "         " A job doing what? "she instantly challenge           Outside the car horn sounded again.                " Will you leave the baby and listen to me ?,am only trying to help"her aunt continue                "what are our options? "           Aunt Laura smiles , sensing a small victory there. "The are many childless couples who would be grateful to you for —"           "I don't want gratitude, "Melony cut in              No, " wrong move, aunt Laura realised. People who would give her a loving home, then, she quickly backtrack. "and a loving family life with all the security that comes along with that. "              The car horn sounded again " I would have to go," she said now irritated. " I will contact some agencies for you to see what they have, still then take this, " she said opening her small purse. "it should see you through the next couple of day "            Staring at the money, Melony nodded, "Thank you, "          Then, she was gone, leaving Melony standing there staring at the money she had left behind her.