Ok so here is chapter 23 hope you enjoy :-) Sorry it took so long!
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Chapter 23
Liam's Point of View
It all happened in slow motion. One minute the drink was hitting the floor the next I was against the wall. Ted was holding me by the collar and I closed my eyes waiting for what I assumed was going to be a painful punch.
"Dad stop!" Ophelia cried.
I heard her come up next to us but didn't dare open my eyes.
"This is his fault. You had a future before you met him!" Ted hissed.
My heart was pounding. I always thought Ted would be more reasonable than my mother. I was wrong.
"I still have a future it just includes Liam now!" Ophelia argued.
Ted pulled me away from the wall but slammed me into the other; clearly he wanted to get away from his daughter.
"Are you not going to talk?" He questioned me.
"N-N-Not really sure there is m-m-much I can say…" I stuttered.
Before Ted could reply someone else came into the room. It wasn't until I opened my eyes and Ted stepped to the side that I saw mum walking towards us. I breathed a sigh of relief as Ted let me go.
"This doesn't concern you." He stated as she approached.
"I'm afraid it does, in more ways than one." Mum replied.
"I suppose your right, it is his fault!" Ted snapped.
Mum rolled her eyes and gestured for Ted to sit. He hesitated at first but finally walked over and collapsed down on his chair. Following suit both Ophelia and myself followed.
"Ted this isn't anyone's fault. It just happened and you know it takes the pair of them right? I mean Ophelia contributed?" Mum said sarcastically.
Ted shot me a glare before fixing his stare on his daughter.
"She only started acting like this when he came on the scene." Ted sighed.
"Dad I love Liam, he is the one I want to be with. We are happy, why can't you be to?" Ophelia asked.
"Because I think you are throwing your life away and I'm sorry but I don't want you apart of this family. This isn't reality O, this is a circus and you know how bad things get." Ted remarked.
This done it. Ophelia jumped up and raced from the apartment. I jumped up to follow but hesitated when I remembered mum was there.
"Go, I got this." She mouthed to me.
I nodded in response and whispered thank-you as I set off after Ophelia.
However she was running that fast that by the time I reached her she was at Eleanor's door. I was about to interrupt but Len opened the door and let Ophelia in and I knew better than to interrupt. She was in good hands; all I had to do now was take the time to convince Ted.
Eleanor's Point of View
"O, what's wrong?" I gasped when I opened my door to reveal a sobbing Ophelia.
She didn't say anything. All she did was launch herself into my arms. I stumbled backwards as I hit the door closed.
"You told your dad." I sighed, no longer needing an answer.
She nodded into my shoulder as I led us to the bed and sat down.
"Didn't go well then?" I asked.
Ophelia shook her head and continued to cry.
"Want to talk about it?" I added.
"N-N-No…..not right n-n-now…." She sniffed.
"Ok well we can sit and wait until your ready. I'm going nowhere." I smiled.
Liam's Point of View
I was standing outside the apartment bracing myself to go in. finally I mustered up the courage and walked inside.
"Mum I need to talk to Ted….alone." I stated.
Mum looked rather surprised but she got up and left none the less. Once she was gone I sat down opposite Ted who refused to look at me.
"Sir what can I do? What can I do to prove to you that I love your daughter?" I asked.
Ted sighed loudly and looked at me.
"I can see you love her…I just don't want her in this family." Ted admitted.
I nodded in understanding. It wasn't exactly a normal setting.
"I get that, I do but I can't help the family was born into. I can however promise you that I will never let any harm come to your daughter or our baby." I replied.
"You can't promise that." Ted argued.
"Look at your father, your brother, your mother and even Eleanor. Terrible things have happened to them." Ted said and I could see a tear in his eye.
"Then we can move. We don't need to live here. I'm not on the throne I don't need to be in England. We can go to America and O can have the life she always wanted." I suggested.
Ted stared at me, as if considering how honest I was being.
"You would do that? For her?" He pressed.
"I would do anything for her." I insisted.
"Even leave the life you live here? Your status, your reputation your palace?" Ted questioned.
"I would do it in a heart beat if that's what she wants. I will do whatever it takes to make her happy. I don't care about my status, my reputation or this palace. All this is the life I was born into not the life I chose. Your daughter, this baby and everything that they come with are the life I have chosen, that is the life I want and will do anything to get." I assured him.
Ted nodded in response and wiped away a fallen tear.
"Good answer son." He mumbled.
"Thank-you Sir." I replied.
"Guess I have an apology to make….." Ted trailed off.
"Wait until the morning. She is with Len and I wouldn't dare interrupt their bitching session." I told him.
"Bitching about me are they?" Ted smirked.
I nodded in response trying not to smirk as I did.
"Well then I will start with my apology to you." Ted smiled.
"Beer?" He suggested.
"Oh definitely." I agreed…
Until next time ;-)