Dusk In Moorea

HR#83

Claire stared at the porridge that had been scattered on the floor with teary eyes. In the next second, the beautiful woman immediately grabbed her bag back and ran out of it crying. The two bodyguards that stood guard at the door also followed Miss Mudanya in a hurry.

"Claire !" call Duke Xander who accidentally crossed paths with him in the corridor. However, the girl did not seem to have heard or even seen the figure of Duke Xander at all.

Ignoring the curiosity in his head with Claire's strange demeanor, Duke Xander chose to continue his steps towards Leon's ward.

"Is Claire from here ?" Duke Xander immediately asked after he entered the room.

Zack who was cleaning up the slurry spill and the broken bowl scattered on the floor immediately looked at the source of the sound while nodding.

"What's going on here ? Why would the bowl of porridge break like that ?" duke Xander asked in full view.

After cleaning up all the mess on the floor, Zack immediately put the mop he held in the corner of the room. Shortly thereafter, he pulled Duke Xander's hand out of it.

"We better talk outside, Uncle !" zack said in a soft voice.

"Just here !" Duke Xander sighed Zack's hand from his.

Zack's heart felt a sense of pain when Duke Xander slammed his hand just like that. However, the young man kept trying to hide his heartache in front of his father. Not for him, but for Leon. Zack loved Leon. And the reason for staying put and refusing his mother's invitation to move town was only for the sake of his half-sister.

"Please, Uncle ! There's something I have to tell Uncle," Zack was full of pleading gazes.

Duke Xander was still flinching. Didn't intend to respond to a request from the son he never considered.

"It's all about Leon" Zack said.

Hearing Leon's name as a buzzword, Duke Xander finally complies. He walked first out of Leon's ward and then followed by Zack.

They arrived at the end of a rather quiet passageway. Duke Xander stopped his steps and asked without turning to look at his interlocutor as usual.

"What do you want to say about Leon ?"

Zack took a deep breath. He knew this was not his realm, but he still wanted to do something for Leon.

"I want Uncle to cancel the marriage between Claire and Leon, Uncle !" zack said with great difficulty.

Duke Xander turned around and stared intently judgmentally at Zack.

"You think, who are you ? How dare you order me to do something I would never do" Duke Xander sighed in an intimidating low voice.

"But Leon will never be happy with this marriage, Uncle ! Please ! Just listen to me this once" Zack pleaded.

"No !" duke Xander shouted loudly. "Whatever I have said, I will never take it back ! Don't try to teach me what I should and shouldn't do, Zack ! Remember your position ! You're nothing to me."

Zack bowed with a raging feeling. Is this how Duke Xander hated him ? What's wrong with Zack ?

"If you don't want me, you should never have done anything that would make me come to this world, Duke !" zack said in a voice implying many wounds.

"Get your mouth, Zack !" Duke Xander raised his hand and prepared to slap Zack.

But, beyond a doubt. Zack caught the hand of Duke Xander who floated towards him and threw his father's hand hard so that Duke Xander was pushed back two steps back.

Duke Xander trembled withstanding the anger that had returned to fill his chest cavity. Zack's words seemed to slap him very hard.

"Repair how you speak, Zack ! I'm still your father !"

"Father who never wanted my existence !" sergeant Zack clarified. "What do you think, I want to have a father like you ? The answer is no. I wouldn't have a father as bad as you, Duke !"

"Zack !" snarled Duke Xander.

"Enough !" Frederick pulled Zack. Securing the young man by taking cover behind him.

"Go, Zack ! Go home to rest. You must be tired !" Frederick's orders.

Zack nodded and did what his uncle told him to do. And, now only Frederick and Duke Xander left who slashed each other through their sharp gazes at each other.

"Stop, your revenge right now, Xand !" said Frederick who started the conversation.

"What revenge, Fred ? Don't make it up !" duke Xander replied with a cynical laugh.

"Revenge because you can't get along with your old boyfriend because of our Daddy" Frederick said.

Duke Xander was stunned for a moment. In the next second, he laughed so hard.

"You're kidding me ? Why would I want revenge for something that's already gone ?"

"It really is, isn't it ? All this time you've been suffering from not being able to forget about Yuka. Your asian girl who ended up marrying someone else because of your own fault. You who can't firmly deny Daddy's will we finally want to make Leon feel the same way. The same suffering you've been through !"

"Omong empty !" Duke Xander turned his back to Fred.

"That's the truth you've been trying to deny, Xander !" frederick was firm.

"No," cried Duke Xander who tried to dismiss all the facts Frederick had said.

"Stop, Xander ! Stop torturing yourself and your two sons ! You've ruined everyone's life enough ! Enough of your life, Yuka's life, Inessa's even the Greysha you destroyed. Zack and Leon's lives don't. They are both your precious sons ! Please don't do this again" Frederick said.

"My life is ruined ? No. gabe. My life was not ruined at all. Instead, your life is ruined, Fred ! Because you married a low-caste woman, you were removed from the family. In fact, your legacy was all uprooted. You are poor and destitute now. Then, you're saying that my life is ruined ?" Duke Xander again laughed sarcastically. While Frederick just smiled and shook his head because of his brother's attitude that seemed not to want to change.

"I am poor now, Xander ! My job is just a cop in a small town. My salary is also mediocre to support my wife and my two children. But, I'm happy. At least, I'm not in the haunt of the guilt that gnaws at me every day like you !" frederick smiled.

Hearing that, Duke Xander could only gulp his saliva with great difficulty. Frederick's words hit him squarely in the heart.

"If you don't intend to make Leon feel the pain you've been through, then cancel Leon's marriage that you've prepared" Frederick continued. He then stepped closer to Duke Xander who was still faithful to fixate in his place. He placed a large envelope on his brother's right hand, sighing with concern.

"In this envelope there is evidence to suggest that Jane Claire Savich is not the right woman for Leon ! I hope you will consider it and make the right decision for the happiness of your son !" beat Frederick with a voice that began to soften somewhat.

He then patted Duke Xander's shoulder briefly and rushed to leave the cold man alone. Hoping for his stubborn sister to be willing to think and reflect back on all the things he has done so far. What all of those things are the right thing, or just the opposite.

The shaking of Duke Xander's hand took out the contents of the envelope. A moment later, the cold man's eyes widened in disbelief. It was a picture of Claire along with the man in an apartment kissing hot. In the next photo, also still a photo of Claire but with a different man. And, in the last photo is a picture of Claire's father, Ludwig Savich with business rival Duke Xander who seems to be talking about something important in a room.

"Damn !"