YOUR BLIND DATE, IT WAS ME DAD

CHAPTER 11

Dereck locked up had drunk more than half the bottle of whiskey and was babbling sobbing.

"s**t life what's the use ah, my daughter-in-law died because of me, because of me, because of that f*****g b***h who came into the office to seduce me" he smashed the glass on the floor screaming "God damn it".

He stood there holding onto the wall cursing, there was a knock on the door, it was the housekeeper named Sarah.

"Mr. Dereck are you all right?". The poor thing received a grotesque reply.

"Piss off, I don't want to see anyone, damn it." That was so strange to him that he left to call his employer's wife.

"Hello."

"Mrs. Carla, your husband, he came back from the company and he is like crazy, I think he broke a glass, he shouted at me to get out, please, madam, come back, he is scaring me so much, he sounds like drunk".

"For God's sake, I'll be right back Sarah, don't call him again, leave him alone".

"Yes ma'am, bye."

Dereck's wife called her son, frightened by what she heard.

"Hello, Mark."

"Hello, mom, what's wrong?"

"Your dad son, Sarah says he came home from work and he's locked in his room, looks like he's drunk and broke a glass, I'm yelling at him to get out, my God son, what's going on?"

"Mom I'm already going to see him, talk to me and I think I was to blame mom, I'll tell you later, I want to catch him so he doesn't do something crazy, bye mom".

"Bye son, take care of him, please."

He closed the call and accelerated to get there faster, when he arrived he left the car half parked and entered his parents' house, he went straight to the room where he could hear sobs and things breaking and his father's grotesque swearing.

"I hate this life, I hate me, it's not fair, she was good, I was a bad motherfucker, a son of a b***h".

He remembered that there were copies of the keys to open that room, he went to pick them up and opened the door, what he saw caused him terror, the whole room was stained with blood, the blood of his father who was lying on the table and hitting it, saying in a more muffled voice.

"I'd rather die, dead I don't hurt anyone, she wouldn't have died, it's my fault, I killed her, wait for me ,Judith I'm coming with you".

Mark approached him hugging him, as he was already falling to the ground, slipping because he had almost no strength left, when he saw that he had cuts on his wrists he was alarmed, he called the ambulance and tried to put pressure on both wrists and he said crying

"Dad, please hold on, don't die, dad, what did you do? I thought you were over it (Marck cried helplessly) don't leave me, daddy forgive me, I shouldn't have said that to you again daddy..."

She hugged him against her body remembering that painful moment when Judith died, now it was her father who was all b****y, his body was limp unable to move, he had cut himself with broken glass, his wrists and she heard him babbling with his eyes already closed

"I want to die, Jena is going to hate me."

Marck was in anguish when the ambulance siren was heard, the paramedics came in, they asked him to let go to help him and stop the blood that was coming out of his wrists and other cuts that he had

When they managed to stop the blood coming out, they placed him on the stretcher and when they were leaving to put him in the ambulance, Clara arrived and screamed in anguish when she saw him all bloodied.

"Dereck, what happened? My God, my God". Mark heard his mother come out to hug her and let them take his father to the clinic.

"Mom, please calm down, they already helped him, but come on I'm taking you to the clinic, come on mom calm down, please." He was crying, the ambulance left and the two of them followed her in the car.

The ambulance arrived at the clinic and we rushed in with their patient and Mark and his mother went up to the reception to sign some papers and sit down to wait for the doctor to say about his father's situation, the good thing about that private clinic is that the Black family was one of the biggest shareholders and they knew them.

After two hours of waiting and crying from his mother, the doctor came out to give them the report

"Good afternoon, Mr. Black, your father presented very deep cuts in his wrists, arms, chest and leg, he has already been stabilized and treated, he also presented a picture of intoxication in the exam and the results showed that he had taken an anxiolytic and alcohol, that is very dangerous".

Carla anxiously asked "Will we be able to see him?" to which the doctor took them to Dereck's room.

When they entered he was with bandages on his wrists, torso, leg and arms, his wife came very close to see him, sobbing to see her husband in Intensive Care with tubes and a respirator.

Mark felt guilty for the situation where his father relapsed, because of his fury and claim he made his father react and relapse again and here are the consequences, but his mother does not know anything about what is happening, that had him anguished, he did not know how to tell her.

Jenna, who was far from knowing the misfortune that was happening in her family, was taking some tests that she passed with a perfect score, generating the applause of her classmates.

"Jenna the absolute genius, alive!"

"As always perfect, beautiful and enviable" said Axel animatedly.

"Girlfriend, how envious I am of you, the good kind, but envious, I'm a zombie I want your brains" said Mary jocosa

"Stop bothering me hahahaha, it's just a few tests, nothing more" said Jenna, because she didn't like to be boastful.

They all went out together to the cafeteria to celebrate the great event of their classmate, they ordered juices and sodas and shouted at the top of their lungs

"Viva the best student of the university".

"Jenna the best friend and classmate."

Some professors standing nearby also commented.

"Jenna Black has the best score in college, is jovial, very calm and is very humble despite the fact that her family owns a business emporium."

"And the best female the fraternity has" said Frank, the Dean of Physics.

"Hey Frank, how do you know that?" asked Eve the Cytology professor.

"At the meeting they said it there we all were, or did they already forget" said Frank very calmly.

"Oh that's right, but does anyone know what her alias is?" asked Mary the dean of Anatomy boldly.

"That if private, only she knows her alias, no one knows who she is, wow what is life, only millionaires can access her, I tell you if I were in that category, I would bid up to my entire fortune for her, she is gorgeous and has the most perfect brain."

They smiled and agreed with him, as they watched the happy group cheering for Jenna.

While Marck waited for his mother to come out to be alone, his conscience wouldn't leave him alone and he risked telling his mother... the secret

"Mom...I must uhm...talk to you, tell you something you ignore about my dad, he loves you and you know it."

"What are you trying to tell me honey?" said his mother looking into his eyes that were restless with nerves and she was a woman with a lot of experience, it was not easy to deceive her, so her son took a risk and blurted out

"When Judith had the... accident, she went to visit me at the company and saw something that... drove her crazy with pain (Clara was opening her eyes stupefied) she... opened the door of my office and thought she saw me having s*x with... my secretary, but it wasn't me, I hadn't even arrived at the company..."

Clara watched him very quietly, but very curious she listened to her son trying not to interrupt him

"It was... my dad, she thought it was, I ran away and then the accident happened, when my dad found out he was very nervous, he felt guilty of having let himself go, of seduction, of desire and from there he blames himself for my wife's death, that's why he went... on a trip, actually he went to my friend's psychiatric clinic, he was there all that time it took him to come back, the help was useful, but... I..."

Marck burst into tears receiving the loving embrace of his mother, who wanted to hear everything, letting her son finish talking

"I was angry and he called me to claim one thing and I replied that...now he cares about me...that the day my wife died he didn't care that she saw him...mom I made him remember, all that guilt that had overcome her guilt came back, plus he is afraid that Jenna will find out about it and hate him."

Carla listened to him coldly to everything her son said, she caressed him, but her gaze turned cold, Marck noticed and asked.

"Mom, are you mad?". She just shook her head in the negative, but asked her son.

"Do you know if they've seen each other again? I'm talking about your secretary."

"No mom, he hates her he says she seduced him and that he was a stupid man who fell and passed the disgrace."

"Are you sure son?" Mark hugged his mother and answered.

"Because of my late wife mom, my dad has never cheated on you again, he is very sorry, he wanted to tell you, but... I didn't let him do it, I did it for you, we had just buried Judith".

Clara calmed down she let go of her son, got up and went in where Dereck was, sat down next to him, grabbed one of his hands, put it against her cheek saying.

"My love, your heart must have hurt, but you know I still love you like the first day, I forgive you because I know that temptations sometimes you can't make out, but you tried to tell me and that's love dear, I love you, I'll wait until I'm in better health to tell you that I forgive you, I love you."

Marck was standing in the doorway calmer, his mother understood him and loves his father so much that she is willing to forgive him, he sobbed with joy, at least it would calm his father and not lose him like his wife

Clara must love Dereck too much, she is willing to forgive something that many wives would never do, it seems to have solved a problem that the Black family had, oh, but others were coming that would surely hurt a lot.