Dangerous love - 2
Lionel left Martha resting at his bedroom. He said that nobody would disturb her. Meanwhile he went downstairs and looked for Lana.
"You're so clever" said Lionel.
"She doesn't deserve a future with you!" said Lana.
"Why not? I will make her the happier woman in the world… I love her!"
"You threatened me with her son's life! How can you say that you love her!?"
"Because I do. And he loves me too… but you have risked all telling her our conversation" said Lionel upset "You nearly make her to leave me. And you will pay for that"
"Why are you so nervous? If she try to leave you, you can threaten her as you did with me!" shouted Lana, and Lionel slapped her letting her felt against the table.
"She has to love me!" shouted him "I don't want to obligate her to marry me… I have been always able to do it… but I want her to accept me as his husband… I want to make her happy… I don't want to ruin her life…"
"But you did it with me!"
"Because you were going to ruin my son's life" then he walked to the door and left Lana there.
Martha had got asleep on the bed. She looked as an angel with her eyes closed and her shiny red hair on the bed. He kissed her forehead and she woke up.
"Do you feel better?" asked him.
"I do. It's just that I got really nervous… She scared me…"
"Who?"
"It doesn't matter"
"Lana?"
"How do you know it?!" asked Martha.
"She has discovered Clark's secret these last days before the wedding, and when he found out that I knew it too she thought that I would hurt him… she can't understand that I have changed. Don't be upset with her… she was just trying to advice you… instead she needn't"
"You're so nice, Lionel" said Martha caressing his chin and kissing his lips.
"I have something for you" said Lionel opening a drawer. He took out a little box and gave it to Martha. She opened it. It was a beautiful diamond ring.
"Oh my god!" exclaimed her.
"You already know what it means… but I'm not asking you for an answer now… I just want you to have it, to think on it, to speak about it with Clark… and when you will be sure of an answer, you come, and you tell me… ok?"
"Ok… but I want you to know that instead of what will be my answer… I love you, and I will still loving you"
They kissed and Martha left Lionel at the room.
Clark didn't come home until late, and he found his mother at the kitchen, with her look lost, drinking a coffee and playing with a little ring on her hand.
"It's Lionel's?" he asked.
"Sweetheart!" she exclaimed "I haven't listened to you coming in"
"Sorry… I didn't want to scare you" said as he sat down in front of her and took the ring to look better at it "So… He has asked it to you…"
"He has" whispered Martha.
"And… have you already given him an answer?"
"Not yet" she said with a law voice.
"Are you going to accept it?"
"I'm not absolutely sure…"
"So… you're going to become… a Luthor" he said.
"I said I'm not sure"
"What fuck have this fucking family that they're able to steal me all the women I love!"
"Clark! He's not going to steal me from you… He's just asked me to marry him… but you're going to be my son for ever…"
"No… they have the ability to make everybody to forgive their lives…"
"Clark… look at me…" said Martha holding her son's cheeks "Nobody's able to make me forgive you"
Clark broke down and began to cry on Martha's shoulder.
"I can't understand it, mum… she said that she loved me… but she married him… Why?!"
"I don't know, dear… love is complicated sometimes…"
"But he said me that she didn't love him… Why she married somebody who she doesn't love?"
"Sweetheart I haven't the answer to these questions… I would like to have, but…" she stopped a while "maybe I have"
"What?"
"Lana told me something, but I couldn't believe her…"
"What was it?"
"She said me that Lionel had threatened her with kill you if she didn't marry Lex. But I asked Lionel, and he said me that it isn't true!"
"And did you believe Lionel instead than Lana?"
"He have changed, Clark… he's a good man, now… he loves me!"
"And that's why he's lying you. Mum, he had kryptonite in his security box when you worked him; he had a piece of the nave; he investigated me, and our family! What more do you need to understand that he's too much bad to change as much…"
TO BE CONTINUED…