WINNING HER HEART

WHY THE THINGS ARE COMPLICATED

Patrick’s P.O.V.

I stormed inside the house and found her talking with someone on the phone in the living room. I stormed towards her and snatched the phone from her hand and smashed it on the wall in front of me. “Hey”, she protested and her eyes went wide in horror when I smashed her phone. “Are you crazy?” she looked at me with tears that startled me. She ran towards her phone.

“Are you real, Patrick?” I almost jumped on my spot when I heard the cold voice of my father. “Dad… what are you doing here?” I asked him in a startled voice. I didn’t notice that he was sitting on the couch here. He was about to say something when someone grabbed my arm, pulled me on the other side and in the next second, a felt a sharp sting on my cheek.

I looked at the person who slapped me so hard and found Sara looking at me while breathing heavily and fuming in anger. The tears from her eyes were running down. “Who the hell do you think you are, Mr Patrick Warner? Who gave you authority to even touch my things without asking me?” she yelled at me like a crazy woman and was crying bitterly.

“And what do you think you are doing there, huh? Is that your way of doing your business by w*****g around, huh?” I yelled at her with the same intensity. How could she assume that she could do anything out and I would tolerate it?

“If I was w*****g there then what were you doing there by making out with that s**t in the public, huh? Tell me…. I am a w***e by only talking with a man in public then what are you?” She roared in the end making me speechless. We both were breathing heavily while locking our gazes.

“Answer her, Patrick…. what are you then?” I snapped my head towards my mom who was also standing behind the couch behind my dad. “You know what she was doing out in this hour of the night, mom?” I tried to reason out my action and she scoffed. “Exactly, Patrick…. it was me who knew from the beginning what she was doing out there with Nick in this hour because it was me who told Nick that she was there with her PA Emily. But I didn’t know anything about you…. What you were doing with that girl on your lap, huh?” mam asked me in a bitter accusing tone and my eyes went wide.

“Yo… you knew?” I asked her in disbelief and she sighed while rubbing her temple. “I didn’t know that you are so dirty mind, Patrick…. if you are making out with a girl then you are a gentleman and if Sara even talks with a man that is already in knowledge then she is a wh**e, huh? Why this double standard?” this time my mother raised her voice on me.

“And above all…. You smashed her phone???? What kind of behaviour is this, huh??? In my 28 years of marriage, your dad has never raised his voice on me let alone showing any kind of violence and see at yourself, what are you doing?” mom yelled at me this time and I grunted in frustration and anger.

“You should have seen her there, mom. She was literally drooling over that man. Do you think that it was alright for her, huh?” I questioned my mom this time and she rolled her eyes. “You spent every night with other girls even after your marriage, Patrick. Do you think this is justifiable and right, huh? Why you are questioning her character when you are already deeply drowned in mud, huh?” mom almost screamed at me in the end and dad immediately held her hand.

“We are trying to contact Nick for a crucial advertisement for our new project but we are unable to contact him by any means. Fortunately, your mom pulled some string of hers and convinced him to meet Sara there. If I am not wrong they only talked about exchanging their numbers when you showed your (my dad looked at me from head to toe making me feel inferior in front of him)… your man ego there when you were already there with a girl and we all know what kind of business you were discussing with her. (his tone was so cold indicating that he was only trying to suppress his anger)…. Now Nick has refused to work with us… not now… not in the future”, dad’s words poured a full bucked of cold water on me.

My mom walked away from my dad and I watched her coming to Sara behind me. “I … am really sorry, honey… If I had known that my son would show this kind of cheap behaviour there, I never asked Nick to meet you there”, mom apologized to Sara who was still crying silently while looking at her now broken phone.

“It…. It’s okay, mom… you don’t need to apologize for others’ fault…. You meant nothing wrong there… it’s just… I have some sentiments attached with this phone”, she said with a weak smile on her lips. I scoffed and said, “it’s just a phone… you can buy a new phone anytime” She snapped her heads towards me and narrowed her eyes on me.

“Do you know how did I buy this phone, huh?” she came near to me and I just looked away carelessly. I meant… it’s just a phone… what was a big deal to buy a phone. “Let me tell you then, Mr Patrick Warner (I looked at her in anger because she was mocking me by taking my full name)… I saved every single cent for more than three years to buy this phone… I worked in a café to save enough money to buy this time (she took another step forward towards me while raising her voice with every word that was confusing me now)…. I didn’t buy even a new shoe for myself only to save enough money for this phone… So… for me, it was not just a phone but my hard earned for two years that you smashed like nothing only to show your anger”, she screamed aloud while trembling in anger.

There was silence in the room. I was literally confused by her words now. She was the daughter of White’s and now my wife. Why did she need to work in a café if she wanted to buy a new phone? “I….. have never used my parent's money for the things that I want to buy for myself and even today…. (she pointed her finger this time on me)… even today.. I only use what I earn for myself… then don’t f**king give me the reason what is the big deal”, she screamed again.

I looked at her with disbelief and confusion right now. “One more thing, Mr Patrick Warner… Don’t ever …. Ever try to question my character when yourself is fully covered in dirt. I was not sitting on his laps. It was you who had that girl on your lap and I am sure that you have come back after showing her how the best manwh**e you are… So… don’t… don’t ask me loyalty for you”, she said in a cold and bitter this time. Without giving me time to react, she stormed away towards her room.

I didn’t know why but her words stinger worse than her slap. Heck… I didn’t understand why I reacted at the first place when I want nothing from her. “We know about your one-night stands and flings, Patrick… but… (my father sighed and stood up and I lowered my eyes)… I didn’t expect what you did today by questioning a woman’s character when she was not at fault. She knew that you were sitting behind her and were badmouthing her. Still, she didn’t utter a word there… See what you did”, I didn’t muster the courage to lift my eyes at him.

Both my parents went away towards their room. I sighed and went to the couch. I slumped down on the couch and closed my eyes. Now.. my mind was now cooled down and felt what I did wrong today. Why did I react in that way? It was not like they were doing something there. She just asked him for his number so that she could contact in future for a meeting. Why it infuriated me so much that I not only shouted at her there but also called her by so many names in front of everyone.

I hardly acknowledged her presence in our house in a short span of two months of our marriage then why it hurt so much. Her words were still ringing in my mind. Why did she need to work in a café when she was billionairess by herself? Why…. Why things were so complicated here about her???

I took out my phone and called my trust man. I asked him to find the information about her and her family. I needed to find out what was the mystery behind her actions and reactions. What did she do that her family never acknowledge her?