His to Hold

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Alec thought he heard wrong, he was getting old after all, his hearing was not as it used to be, however, when he sees Andrew approach’s the receptionist and takes the letter, Alec heart skip a bit. He stares wide eyes at Andrew’s as he tries to make sense of what he just heard. Andrew was not Andrew Colton but Andrew Bloomfield?

“Ah also, Mr. Bloomfield, your aunt just called saying that she will be arriving soon” says the receptionist.

“Thank you Sandra” answers Andrew

Alec stood there as his bloods boils, Andrew was a Bloomfield “your last name is not Colton but Bloomfield?” he says with an angry voice.

Andrew looks at him and answers “yes, my last name is Bloomfield”

Both men were facing each other until the unknown man by Andrews side says “this is not the place for a scene, Andrew and Sir, let’s go up to the office where we can discuss this privately”

“Why should I discuss privately; do you realize what you have done?”

“As of my knowledge I haven’t done anything, but Julian is right, we better head to my office, please follow me” says Andrew

“Why should I?”

“For Jenny’s sake”

At the mention of Jenny name, Alec felt a searing pain as he thoughts about her reaction about finding out. With a nod, he follows Alec and the man called Julian up to the third floor and into a well-furnished room. He watched as Alec sat down on the couch and gesture for him to do the same. Stiffly, he sat down and watches as the other man does so.

“Why?” asked Alec

“Because I asked him?” replied another voice

Marc had arrived earlier and had settle himself in Andrew’s office as he waits for him and his brother. They were to have a business meeting regarding one of their branch oversea. Needing to use the bathroom, he enters the bathroom in Andrew’s office. As he flushes the bathroom, he heard the office door opened and as he opens the bathroom door, he sees Alec. Seen as Alec was there and judging by his impression, Marc quickly concluded that Andrew’s cover had been compromised. When he heard Alec asked ‘why” he answers

Surprise and shocked to hear another voice, Alec quickly turns around and finds himself face to face with the devil himself. The man who had self-proclaimed himself Jenny’s fiancé. He looks at the three men’s in the room and asked “so, you are all brothers?”

“Actually, Marc and I are brothers, Andrew is our cousin” answers the man who Andrew’s had called Julian.

“Alec, do you need anything, like coffee or water” asks Andrew

If stares could kill, Andrew’s would have been six feet under, for Alec stares toward him was as lethal as nuclear bomb.

“You must have some nerve about you, to have accepted to do such despicable thing, do you know, how much she trusts you. She so blindingly considers you as a friend that…gosh…and. It’s funny how one’s come about a true. She sent me here to deliver this suit to you as a token of her appreciation and found myself in the middle of plot that could win an Oscar. You have some nerve.”

“Old man, you said it, you are here to deliver this suit, you have deliver it, and now you can leave” says Marc a bit rudely. He was in no mood to confront this man. He was already angry at the fact this man spends too much time with his beloved.

“Marc?” says Julian

“What? This old geezer here think he can come in here and ask why, like this matter concerns him, well let me inform him, or better yet let me clarify it for him Jenny is my fiancé and who I placed by her side, is none of your business”

“You disgust me” says Alec with pure disgust.

“And should I care?” replies Marc

Both men were facing each both with angry features. Andrew and Julian had gotten up ready to interfere in case things were to turns sour.

“Do you know why you will never catch her attention, because you are weak. You are nothing but a weak man who pretends to be a man. A true man, wouldn’t have stooped so low to take advantage of her”

“Watch it old man?” says Marc

“What? Are you going to hit me? I’ll like to see you try”

“Now Alec, don’t provoke him” says Andrew

“You stay out of this, I’ll deal with you later” answers Alec and continues “have you thought about how this will affect her, once she knows that the man she trusted throughout her new found journey was none other than your cousin. It all makes sense now, how you were always around her, wherever she went. You had your little toy spy on her”

Now Julian was angry and responded “old man watched your language, you may be our elder but that doesn’t mean you can disrespect any one of us here”

The tension in the room was closing in to boiling point where it could explode at any moment and lost within that tension, neither heard the door opened, until a voice says “my oh my, what in the world is going on here?”