Rachel's POV
" But she has always been the one who confronted him whenever I or you bullied him, he must have developed some kind of feelings for her, and when he saw that I was trying to get revenge on her, he tried to help her. Maybe he has been in love with Lana from day one. Maybe... "
" Okay, Rachel, stop it. Just stop it!" Marina yelled standing up from the bed and glaring at me. "I don't know what's going on in your head, but I can tell it's crazy shit. You can't think that bad of Ethan just because you caught him with Lana... They might have just coincidentally met in the bar. "
" Coincidence? " I said with a scoff. " How can he just coincidentally meet with Lana in a bar and choose to get drunk with her, to the point that he couldn't even stand? And to make it worse he did it the night we first kissed! " I yelled the last word slipping out of my lips.
Shit, I just told Lana that I kissed Ethan.
' She told you her kiss with Mark, so it's nothing ' my inner subconscious whispered to me.
" The night you kissed? " Marina asked in confusion.
I sighed, falling back on the bed while I stood up from when I yelled moments ago.
" Ethan and I have never really done anything together because I tried to stop myself most times, continuously remembering that he had someone he was in love with, but last night I just couldn't stop myself. " I sniffled remembering everything that had happened yesterday afternoon after I got discharged from the hospital.
" My mum..." I paused shaking my head.
She was not my mother, not biologically or even... She doesn't treat me like her daughter, she doesn't even treat me like a person.
"Martha, Martha only came to visit me in the hospital because she has a favor to ask of me".
" A favor? " Marina scoffed. " I knew it, that woman is not to be trusted," Marina said with a hiss. She had suspected it and tried to warn me about it; I was just too desperate for a mother's love to notice.
Marina turned back to me " What did she want? " She asked, her tone filled with disgust for Martha.
She didn't say anything about me calling that woman by her name, but I could tell she had a remark for that too.
I brought my legs to the bed, sitting in an olden Chinese manner, bringing my food to my lap. "She wanted me to get back together with David".
Marina jumped from the bed. " Over my freaking dead body!" She yelled and I flinched at how loud her voice was.
" Marina mind your tone". I cautioned taking another fork full of the noddles.
" Yeah yeah..." She dismissed. " But you're not doing it, are you? " She asked, staring at me, and my hand holding the fork froze.
Should I just agree to it?
I had thought I had Ethan as a backing, but somehow it turns out that he was with Lana. There was no doubt that he must have told about everything.
" Rach, you are not seriously thinking about accepting to do this right?" Marina asked with a serious expression, her tone telling me that if I said ' I was,' she was going to cut all ties with me immediately.
"No..." I lay, burying my face in the bowl, actually a plate of noodles.
Thinking of it now, why didn't she serve the noodles in a bowl? It was noddles for fuck sake.
"Rachel..." She growled and I shook my head. "No, seriously. And the damn woman gave me a second option too, just so you know."
"A second option?" Marina asked suspiciously. "Okay, spill"
I glanced up at her and back at the noddles.
She was not going to like what I would say next.
" She said that I should ask, no tell Ethan to, to... Er ... " Even saying it made me feel embarrassed. How was Martha so shameless to actually tell me this?
" To what? " Marina asked impatiently. " I can't believe she had the guts to actually ask something of Ethan but I won't say nothing until you tell me what she asked. So tell me, to what? "
I gulped reaching for the glass of water on the table and gulping it down before wiping my lips and looking at Marina. " She wants E & R group of companies to have a business alliance with Andrew Corporation." I said all in one breath.
Marina blinked. Then she scoffed. Then she got up from the bed and began pacing around again, something I've noticed she always did to calm herself before saying something stupid, but the thing was she always says the stupid thing at last.
"She wants the two companies to merge?" She asked in disbelief and I shrugged.
"Now that I think of it, I doubt I have any say in what goes on in Ethan's company. He was with Lana and Lana, their real daughter; she could just do the dirty work for them; I wonder why they have to involve me."
If Ethan and Lana were really in a relationship, that would explain why Lana and David broke up. She probably broke up with him after Ethan confessed his long-time feelings for her, and since he was richer, she went for him.
But why did Martha ask me to help with this? Could it be that Lana hadn't told anyone about their relationship?
"You know what? I don't freaking care about this. I'm tired of just thinking and thinking of what is wrong with Ethan and Lana. I'm matching over to your parent's mansion to get the truth from Lana because I have no idea where Ethan's house is," She said, about to storm out of the room.
I got up at an unimaginable speed and ran towards her, stopping holding her hand and stopping in front of her.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? You can't just dash off and head over to the Andrew mansion; that's freaking suicide." I said holding her back.
My family may not be as rich as Ethan's, or even hers, but they protect their own, and right now, Lana was their freaking egg.
Marina sighed in frustration. " Then what am I to do? Just watch Lana walk all over you again? Rachel I need to speak to that bitch, maybe talk to that mother of yours while I'm at it". She said with a snicker.
"Marina you don't know what those people are capable of." I tried to tell her but she brushed it off.
"What are you going to do to me? I'm Marina fucking Lenard; no one messes with me." She said calling out her surname while beating her chest.
Yep, you heard it right. She was Marina Lenard, the only daughter of the Lenards, who was one of the bloody rich people in the country, and we're totally into business, well apart from their daughter.
Marina was the only one in the family who chose a career that didn't involve sitting in a chair and signing documents all the time.
She picked acting and, later on, directing and, very soon, producing.
"I know, but Marina, what are you going to do? Lana had won this; it would probably be best if I just accept what they're offering me." I said, my shoulders plumping down in defeat.
I don't know how but Lana won.
She succeeded in taking everything away from me, including Ethan. Now I was not sure if she was in on my plan and was just going along with it right from the beginning.
I was getting tired of this, of fighting. It was high time I just went with the flow.
"What... What are you saying, Rach? " Marina asked holding my shoulder and making me stare at her.
"I'm saying..." I sighed pausing a little.
What I was about to say was the decision made last night. It sounded ridiculous even to me, but it was my decision, and I was not going back on it.
"Marina, I'm going to go back to David."