CHAPTER 6
Elizabeth was pale, tears rolled down her face, her blue eyes now had something strange, Jack noticed the moment he looked at that blue sea, she was getting lost inside her, he saw something there, he saw fear, he was seeing dread in your eyes. Jack called Elizabeth twice but she didn't listen, rather she didn't react, Bill and Abigail also noticed the difference and how she got rigid when she saw that telegram, everyone had already seen that it was from her father Willian Thatcher, but what did he spoke there to leave her groundless like that there. Jack wasn't liking that; they didn't want anything or anyone to make his fiancée afraid. He took the telegram from her trembling hands and as he read it anger came over his eyes, he couldn't believe what was written there. How could a father do that? Elizabeth was now in Abigail's arms and was in tears, Bill was pulled by Jack and they went into the next room, where Jack showed the telegram.
Bill was seething with rage... where have you seen that before? What was this man thinking?... She was his beloved daughter... What time are we in for someone to think of that as a solution? And how could a father put business above his daughter's love? Besides, above a precious daughter, honest and who loved everyone with an enormous intensity, now Bill understood the tears she suffered, this girl would not have many paths the following now, her father took extreme measures against her. But he and Jack weren't going to allow anyone to hurt her.
-Jack, do you understand this telegram? You realize that with that Willian Thatcher, he is using the father's right in justice and he will determine the fate of this girl's life, with whoever he wants and he can take her wherever he wants too. Until her marriage, she becomes her father's right because she is considered that way because she is only twenty-three years old and after being married, she is her husband's responsibility.
- But, can he do that to her?
- Yes, Jack. If he sent this to her, you can be sure that he must already have something being asked in court and even worse, he is sure that this judge chosen by him will sign and authorize it. A word from him as tycoon William Thatcher that his daughter does not have the physical or moral capacity to lead her life alone and yes, he will gain the ultimate parental right over her.
- But Bill! What if she was already married? Would the husband have the right?
Meanwhile in the next room, Abgail was talking to Elizabeth, she knew and understood all the seriousness of the situation, Elizabeth was a sea of tears as she counted word by word what was written in that telegram, Abigail smiled intimately when she saw her standing talking, it even felt like she was hearing her father's voice...
URGENT. ELIZABETH
RETURN TO MARRIAGE IN TEN DAYS TO ARE ALREADY BEING STEP FOR OUR COMPANIES AND RETURN WITH CHARLES.I HAVE NOW THE SUPREME RIGHT OF FATHER AND YOU MUST OBEY THE THATCHER.
Abigail, how can he do this to me, he's selling me to Charles's family, they're trading me in exchange for benefits from the companies of both families. at most a brother since I've known him since he was a baby, I can't marry him because I love Jack Thorton. And my feelings, nobody wants to know where they go? What I want?
And again, she cried non-stop. Abgail told her that unfortunately the law still took everything away from women, either because of their age or because they weren't married and even because they were a widow like her. She knew that, as a widow, several women had similar problems, as parents always asked for this supreme power and thus could determine the fate of their daughters' lives. Abigail started to tell Elizabeth that when she dated Noah, he was sent by his father to Hope Valley, to work in the coal mine that was six months before their wedding. His father always liked Noah, but then a very rich man arrived in their city who bought the hotel, his spoiled son was used to having everything he wanted, he was a spoiled child who took the toy, it spoiled and then threw it away when he got sick of it .Well... he started to see me with Noah and our happiness, he insisted and tried to catch me causing situations that Noah needed to defend me from, one day he got tired and asked his father to buy me, that is, I became his new little toy, and he wasn't willing to not have me, he had to prove to everyone that everything he wanted he had, no matter how or why. There were many situations they put me or Noah in, but he always tried to approach, and of course my father was liking the idea, especially when he realized their purchasing power. You know, I don't like to talk about it, I'm very ashamed, but you are very precious to me, our friendship is very great, so I'll tell you about my past, here in Hope Valle, nobody ever knew about my story. My father was an addicted gambler and accepted money from Mr. Simas who owned the hotel, where he played in the casino. My father didn't even care about the reports that Marion, the spoiled son of Mr. Seamus, treated women with violence and that after using them he threw them away. It was a lot of money at the time and my father's greed and evil was also huge. My father was the head of the miners, Noah was transferred to Hope Valle, a city we had never even heard of, even a telegram or letter would be sent only once a month when some diligence passed here. this city, years ago, where there were only men from Minas Gerais living. Noah began to suspect when the first letter from me arrived, it was months after he was here, I cried a lot when I wrote the letter hidden in my room, and there were marks of tears fallen on paper, where I asked him why did you abandon me? What did I do wrong for him not to love me anymore and leave me for someone else? At home, my father tells my mother that Noah decided not to marry me and stay in Hope Valle, where he found another woman, my several letters that I tried to send in the previous months, my father had intercepted, this letter only went through because he was very drunk he had gone to spend his new money on gambling. Marion and Mr. Simas, they were on top of my father, they demanded their right to use my person...
HE SOLD ME...