CHAPTER 9
- Hum... Hum, called Bill. Several times... to get the attention of Jack and Elizabeth, who were still in each other's arms, in an embrace that no one could tell where one began and the other ended. With great difficulty they looked at Bill, they are faces with a light red due to the embarrassment of being caught red-handed in their love, where they are transported to another world, the world of just the two of them.
Bill smiled, knowing that love, well... love can leave us like this and it was very beautiful to see the love of those two young people growing and going through all the obstacles always together.
- Children, let's sort things out, sit down, because we have little time and the conversation is serious.
- Bill, what do you mean by that? Asked an already seated Elizabeth with a face full of fear.
- Daughter, now I will explain everything to you as a judge and you will listen to me in silence until the end. Your father, he sent this telegram, demanding your return. You can be sure that he already has this document in his hand or will have it in the next few hours, all it takes is a judge to sign it. Another thing, when he has this document signed, he will use it at the education department and they can send you away, you can be accused of being immoral for the children or incompatibility of function, lack of professionalism or both accusations and you will have no way defend yourself .because they will falsify evidence. No city or school will hire you, meaning you won't be high sustainable anymore. Besides, he will have already ruined your reputation, which forces the judge to sign that your father must be responsible for your destiny and your marriage and another thing you are only twenty-three, the age at which a father still decides for you. He will have supreme power over your life, claiming that you are not adult enough for life decisions, claiming lack of experience in life.
Elizabeth wept silently as she listened. Jack held his hands up in support of his bride.
- Elizabeth, I want you to know that your father will take drastic measures against you. And girl, you will be obliged to go wherever he wants and with whoever he wants. And he can ask for the use of the law, which obliges me and even Jack as a mountie we could be compelled to arrest you and hand you over to them.
Elizabeth looked at him startled, stood up.
- I will not allow that I will not let them use you two and hurt you. And throwing back his chair, he left the room.
Bill saw everything that was going through that girl's head, she would never give in without a fight, but she wouldn't put him and Jack in that difficult position either.
- Calm down, my daughter. And a bear hug went through her body and held Elizabeth until she spilled her sorrows.
- I will not allow them to take you from here. Lifting her chin and looking into her sea blue eyes, Bill made her a silent promise...
- Could you be my father... Could you pretend just a little bit...I need a father so much right now. Elizabeth wailed, with those lost-dog eyes that made Bill's legs go weak at the sight of the fragility and fear inside.
Jack and Abigail were thrilled with that scene. Abigail had no more tears to cry so hard. Bill hugged her tighter and that was when tears ran down her face and with a hoarse voice he was speaking very softly to reassure her.
- My daughter, you've always been a daughter to me and now you make me the happiest person in the world by calling me a father. I'm going to be your father, but it won't be just a little bit, it will be forever. without your love my daughter. And no one will harm you.
Elizabeth, standing on tiptoe, kissed Bill on the cheek and fell into his arms. At the exact moment, she just wanted to feel like her daughter, to feel loved in the arms of the man who loved her like a father." THAT YES WAS YOUR FATHER". Because a father, he doesn't need to have blood ties, a father is the one who is there for his children who fights and loves above all.