(TERRIFIED MONSTER)
Angela's eyes widened.
Of course, her answer should have been faster than lightning itself.
She wanted to yell so much.
This is all fake! From A-Z!
I don't love your son, ma'am.
I will never love a monster like him, he is deceiving you…he doesn't care about your feelings! I want to go home! Your grandson is worse than the devil himself!
But…..
Angela pressed her lips tightly trying to avoid spilling it out.
“I am waiting don't worry my dear, you are safe with me”.
She assured her.
She closed her eyes and answered.
“Yes…yes.…love your grandson Antonio”.
Suddenly she heard a sob and sniff sounds.
She looked up and found the old woman in tears.
“Grandma?”
“I…was afraid he hired you to be his bride…I know what he is capable of..(smiles as tears kept flowing down her wrinkled face) thank you for loving him..my heart is at peace now”.
Angela didn't know how to feel,good because this woman would have felt broken and sad if she had told her the truth or bad about being so evil to deceive a terminal ill woman and pretending to be inlove with Antonio?
Tears streamed down her face.
“Grandma please stop crying”.
The door opened and Antonio walked in. He looked like he heard everything they said from the little grin on his face.
“What did I miss?”
He asked with his hands folded.
“I didn't permit you to come in”.
His grandmother snapped drying her eyes with a handkerchief.
“I know I chose to get in anyway,by the way it looks like someone has been running her mouth, huh?”
He walked towards Angela.
"Shut up! Now will you ever hurt your fiancée’s feelings?”
Grandma Elizabeth snapped at him.
“I am interested to know what she told you”.
He replied.
“I know you will screw up, what the hell am I going to do with you! You are lucky to find someone who loves you with your disgusting behaviour now apologise to her”.
“Apologise ha! That's not funny grandma”.
He replied.
“I don't remember telling you a joke either, now apologise”.
“It will hurt my manly ego”.
“I will kill you plus your ego if you don't apologise to her, how do you like that?”
“There's no way I am apologising to a woman”
"Oh shut up Antonio!"
Grandma snapped back at him, then all of a sudden, she started coughing uncontrollably, Antonio rushed and held her.
‘Grandma!’
She couldn’t answer,it was shocking and breathless.
Immediately he dashed back to the couch to get his phone.
Angela went quickly to her and held her hand but her contraction worsened and she kept coughing out thick blood clots.
Frightened, she kept asking what's happening.
She only heard Antonio yelling angrily over the phone for the private doctor to come to his room immediately.
"Please be fine Grandma, please”.
Angela’s voice quivered, rubbing the old woman’s back not knowing what else to do to help her.
All she could picture was her own mother coughing just like this before she died in her arms, it was even more horrifying now that she remembered it as an adult, tears clouded eyes and she let them flow freely.
Grandma Elizabeth may not be blood related to her but she suddenly found herself attached to her even more than she thought she could be, her present state terrified her more than anything.
“I hate this as much as you do, the contract ends if my grandma dies”.
The voice of Antonio came ringing in her ears.
She looked back him,he was a mess,he doesn't look like someone who would want his grandmother dead inorder to get rid of her,she haven't seen him in such a disoriented stated before.
His face looked like he was having a daylight nightmare.
"I am fine, it's just a cough".
Grandma coughed, recovering her strength and consciousness. She cleaned her mouth with her handkerchief.
"Just a cough you said? You almost passed out,"Angela said, her breath heavy and tight.
Antonio rushed to them and shoved her aside and knelt in front of his grandma.
“Don’t you scare me like that, the hell you want me to do!”
He cried angrily in a shaky voice.
Even though it was hard to figure out, Angela could tell the tone in his voice this time is nothing close to fake. He was really terrified for her sake , for some reasons unknown to her, this spoiled brat cared so much for his grandma.
Unbelievable!
“Are you going to cry now, what the hell happened to our manly ego? Your bride to be is watching” She teased him with a weak smile.
“I don’t fucking care! Don't tease me, you know I hate that,don't you fucking die okay?!”His voice roared.
He he'd her face in his hands and his face was nothing but like a kid frightened by death.
“Antonio”.
“I will kill you if you die on me!”
He yelled out his eyeballs bulging.
Angela was triggered by the threat but his grandma was smiling, she gently tapped on his shoulder.
“If I am dead you can't kill me, dumb dumb”.
“Just shut the fuck up”.
He buried his face in her lap.