Falling For The Mermaid

BETRAYAL

THEON’S POV

“I don’t know how to say this but I am sorry for everything I did recently and in the past. I can’t live with it myself. Please try and forgive me.” Tyler said when he walked to my office this evening.

“Tyler, please leave I am in the middle of something.  The last thing I want right now is to fight at my new work please.” I frowned.

“I have talked to my therapist and he has told me that the first thing I have to do right now if I want to be a good person is to ask for forgiveness from the people I have wronged. Tessa will not pick my calls and I was wondering if you would just hear me for one second. You have a good heart Theon and you have always wanted what is best for this family. Please find it in your heart to forgive me because I really want to change and then become a good person.

Ever since mother died, I feel that her spirit is haunting me. I did a terrible thing and I pay for it once I close my eyes to sleep,” He begged me and knelt before me so that I could forgive him.

I almost thought he was lying to me but seeing tears freely running his face after saying this made me feel bad for him.

I wanted him to change and this is like a dream come true. If he becomes a good person then all what our mother has always wished for will be true.

“I will talk to you later Tyler. Right now I am kind of busy as you can see. It is great however that you have tried to change. But, you must understand that forgiving is not that is easy. I will forgive you only when I see that you have changed in terms of your behavior.

I need to get work right away and if you may excuse me please, leave my office already. “I had to be strict before he disrespects me yet I am the boss in that place.

He left the office after telling me to be in touch with him. For the first time in our lives, we exchanged numbers and he told me once I was ready to listen to him, then we will meet and talk brother to brother.

I had started working on the job my mother left for me. It was kind of hard but not something I could not handle. I loved discovering new things and opportunities, therefore, I took this challenges as my uttermost strength.

I finished my work for the day and by that Friday evening, everything in order just in time before my girlfriend Tiffany called me. Tiffany was my collage sweetheart and we loved each other so much. We have dated for the past four years and in a short time to come, I guess I will be marrying her officially in church. There was nothing else I was going to look for in a woman. She was the only woman I wanted whom I found perfect according to my liking.

Tonight, she was coming to my place so that we would at least spend quality time together. She worked away from town therefore her coming on weekends gives us enough time to bond.

With that said and done, I left the office and went to pick her from the airport. She was happy to see me so she gave me sizzling kisses and a long embrace before we got into the car. I skillfully drove the car as she told me about how her week was without missing any details. Now that she comes to see me every weekend, us talking about our week that was always made us feel like we are together all the time as in we are literally living in the same house.

I mentioned to her about how my brother joined me in the office without notice and how he has suddenly chose to be a good man. He was even seeing a therapist for that matter and that is something I had never seen him do in the next fifty years.

Tiff told me that maybe he was genuine about changing. He thought losing a mother would be easy and maybe it killed him that he was the one who facilitated the whole thing and now that he was left on his own, that is the only thing he thought about and it killed him that he did such a horrible thing.

Tiff advised that I should give him a chance and see how it will really go with him. We might fail to give him a chance and then he ends up doing something as bad as committing suicide. Therefore I had to listen to him. With that being said and done, I decided to go see him on Sunday night after I had dropped Tiff to the airport and also talked to Tessa about it. Of course I must talk to Tessa first and convince her to be ready to forgive our brother because he has gone ahead to take bold steps in changing to be a good person.

So Tiff is a good cook and I actually craved got her food all along. I sometimes wonder why she did not end up going to take a course inn hotel management. I swear cooking is literally her cup of tea.

 She prepared fish and fries plus some salad and by the time she was done, my stomach was upside down. I was in the kitchen with her all along helping here and there and we finally managed to set the dinner. I believe that marriage is a commitment and team work and that is why I can’t sit around relaxing as she carries out all my duties for me. I am supposed to be there to help her as we do it together.

We munched on the meal together and in the process, she told me that she was looking for a transfer to coast region and she is almost a hundred percent certain that she will get it. I really hoped for that because we would end up living together and that has always been my dream

I pretended to be watching the movie hustlers yet all along I was just admiring her sexy legs. I was so horny because staying for a cumbersome week without someone you love can be a very difficult thing to do.

In a moment I went and kissed her. We kissed and undressed and I finally made love to my woman. The woman I cared all about in the universe. We did this a lot and also went to so many other dates before I decided to let her go when the time for her to report to her job reached. It was hard seeing her leave but the hope I was left with was that she was going to come in the following week.

She reminded me of my brother and the talking to him thing and that made me head to Tessa’s place after she left. I found her with her boyfriend Nicholas who excused us for a while. Sometimes I marvel how she was young just a few days ago but now she is a woman enough to fall in love with someone as polite as Nicholas.

I talked to her about Tyler and she seemed to be in agreement although she said that she was not yet ready to face him. She would just face him afterwards. She was however kind enough to respect my decision of going to check on him now that he had requested me to do so. Change is inevitable and there is nothing we can do that can be better than accepting the change.

I called Tyler for the first time and he told me that he was at our parent’s house and all I had to do was to join him there so that we could talk. I can say I was a good person and that is why I got to my car and headed to his place despite all he did to me and Tessa in the past.

Tyler was waiting by the beach with a beer on his hand. He offered me one ad I turned him down. Seeing him hurt but what I did, I decided to just drink with him. After all he was my brother who wanted to change for the good of our family. I drank three beers as he told me of our childhood how it hurts him that he was so arrogant. My mother said he took after a certain uncle of ours who was as bad and he ended up dying at a young age thanks to his anger. Our parents were good people and sometimes I think it is a punishment that they have to end up with a bad child like my brother. Sorry, my brother before he decided to change.

“The water is warm, come and let us walk on it.” He urged with a smile etched on his face.

 I did not want to argue so I felt the moment by the moment. I got to the waters and we started by walking before we ended up swimming in merry. Something was not really off till he started going for my neck and choking me. I tried crying for help but he couldn’t let me.

“The managerial position is mine. You are going to die today and leave it for me to manage dear brother.”

He laughed and pushed me deeper into the water. I could feeling myself kicking and struggling for air but he did not even have the last bit of Mercy in his heart. I stopped kicking and he knew that I am a forgotten man. In that moment, I prayed that Tiffany and Tessa will be safe enough for I was not going to be there to protect them.