Chapter 13: An Unlikely Match
Loud Footsteps echoed in corridor that led to a family room where everyone was. Rose Mary sat with her mother as they did some needle point. Once awhile she would glance up and glare at Cassandra who would just ignore her and keep playing the piano. Mrounfully sounds echoed through the wing they occupied, Cassandra's father glanced up from his paper as the door was opened.
"Ah! Duke Charles Booth! What brings you here?" Cassandra narrowed her eyes as she kept playing.
"To talk to your daugther Cassandra."
"Oh go ahead you two can talk here. Come wife, Rose Mary we shall have tea." Everyone got up leaving Cassandra with Charles, she had stopped playing by then and turned sharply to face him.
"Hello Cassandra."
"Charles." He moved closer and bend down to kiss her cheek, she stiffen as his fingers traced her neckline.
"I missed you my love.." He whispered as he leaned forward to kiss her on the lips, she moved her head so that he kissed her other cheek. He got up and smirked leaning against the piano.
"Why are you here exactly?"
"To see you, you are in fact going to by my wife in a exactly two months."
"Not likely."
"And why do you say that?"
"I know your game, you just want my money." He got closer lifting her up to her feet so that he towered over her. He was so close that his breath fanned her neck.
"what are you going to do about it? You can't prove it my love... Noble bonds are the deepest and the best way to get to money isn't it? You know that... You're mum was a rich little girl, your father a poor diplomat married her.. Now.. He has her money... And she killed herself." Cassandra stepped back and tried to slap him but he caught her arm his grip tighten on her wrist. "Now if you go on and tell." His grip tighten so that she fell down on her knees before him. "You'll meet the fate of your mum soon enough."
"I will not marry you!"
"Your father thinks likewise."
"I told my father already that the money that i will gain is my own and not shared!"
"You're step mum can change his mind for me."
"What does my step mother have to do with?"
"Why don't you figure it out. My little asian prize," He bend down and kissed her neck. "I must get going, but before I leave-" He turned her around and kissed her forcefully on the lips and pulled away.
"You bastard!" She snapped but he just smiled and turned toward the door.
"You have no idea..." At that he left her with a bruised pride and a confused mind.
