Since he’d already entered the study room, he had no choice but to close the door behind him.


    "Father..."


    "Tell this man to divorce Selene and leave her alone. She doesn’t belong with him. I will find her a better husband, not a killer like him," he spat with so much venom it would have poisoned a snake.


    ’I’m also a killer,’ Ezekiel thought to himself.


    [Author’s Note—We will uncover their secrets and get to know the rk family much better in the future :3]


    Xavier’s teeth silently gnashed against each other, as he resisted the urge to punch Jeffrey across the face, sending him to the nearest wall to kiss. But he reminded himself the man was Selene’s father.


    If it hadn’t been for that title he held, he would have resisted no more.


    "You didn’t inform your father, Ezekiel? I didn’t want any trouble when Selene found out she’s rted to your family. So, can you kindly tell your father, in case he doesn’t understand me, that I’m not divorcing Selene, no matter what," Xavier said, his voice calm and devoid of any hidden agenda.


    "Father..." Ezekiel called his father one more time. From the change of atmosphere in the room, in addition to the dark aura Xavier was emanating, a fight would break out soon and he had an idea who would win. "We can talk about thister. Selene is downstairs and I’m sure you wouldn’t want her to hear what you are asking Xavier to do," he tried to convince the middle-aged man.


    Jeffrey eased a bit, as he unclenched his hands.


    "Honestly, I have no problem if you want to have the conversation here. I doubt Selene will start looking for us anything soon since Mrs. rk is already fond of her. However, it would be aplete waste of time to continue with this conversation since my answer will be the same," Xavier suddenly said. He nced between Ezekiel and Jeffrey.


    "I’m not going to divorce Selene over a family feud you’ve refused to let go of for the past two decades. That would be downright ridiculous. And then you call me a killer..." Xavier scoffed, the corner of his lips stretching to one side with an unbelievable look.


    "You!" Jeffrey barked.


    "Father," Ezekiel interrupted, stopping him from speaking further. "I think it would be a bad idea to ask them to divorce since Selene loves Xavier very much. We’ve only just gotten to know her, and it wouldn’t be wise to get on her bad side now." He tried to exin things to his father, but the middle-aged man was still hellbent on getting them to divorce.


    He could see from Xavier’s calm and unbothered expression that he wasn’t going to change his mind and he never will. All his father was spouting, the energy he was using to say such threats was all going to waste.


    Just because the two families had a feud that hadn’t been settled yet, Xavier wasn’t willing to end things with Selene based on absurd excuses.


    "If that’s all, I would like to get going now. I wouldn’t want to be separated from my wife for too long," Xavier said as he headed towards the door, but halted when he recalled something. "If you try to cause trouble in our rtionship, I won’t bat an eysh when I take Selene to a ce you would never find her," he threatened.


    Without waiting to hear Jeffrey’s outburst reply, he opened the door and slipped away.


    "Father, you should drop the idea of getting the both of them to separate. It’s not going to work. We can’t afford to drift away from Selene when we just found her," he tried to make sense with Jeffrey. "I also don’t think Xavier was bluffing when he threatened he would take her away from us."


    "We will see about that. I wille up with a n and get the both of them to separate," Jeffrey promised. "I don’t want my daughter to be associated with such a family."


    Ezekiel could only pinch the skin between his brows in frustration. The incident that urred decades ago did leave a sense of betrayal on his father from Thomas Wace, Xavier’s father, and from the look of things, a deep hole had been created since that betrayal, and it would be difficult to fill up that hole with assurance that Xavier loved Selene.


    <i>Love?</i>


    The image of someone shed in Ezekiel’s mind, and immediately, he shook the image off his mind.


    Now wasn’t the time to be thinking about such a person.