100 Days With Mr Romero

Catherine tried to stop Fiona from leaving but Fiona seemed determined. She saw how tensed and in a hurry Fiona was. She kept wondering what must have triggered this sudden reaction in her god daughter.

“I am very sorry aunt. ” Fiona told Catherine in a sincere tone. She pulled her skimpy dress down to cover her thighs.

“Come on Fiona. ” Catherine said trying to snatch Fiona’s luggage bag but Fiona hesitated and pushed the bag farther from Catherine.

“We can fix this. ” Catherine insisted but Fiona kept swinging her head from left to right signaling she had given up and is bent on leaving.

“I’ll talk to Gideon my dear. We can resolve this. ” Catherine said to Fiona casting her eyes on the luggage but Fiona wouldn’t give in.

Fiona knew she couldn’t reveal to Gideon’s mother that she was leaving because Judy was blackmailing her and also, coupled with Gideon’s lack of interest in her, Fiona is determined to take this bold step of leaving for Florida. She won’t let anything hinder her acting career from reaching it’s peak.

“I am very sorry Ma’am. ” Fiona said lifting up her bag in an attempt to drag it further.

“We will keep in touch. ” she told Catherine and pulled her luggage downstairs while Catherine hurried after her sobbing and screaming. Fiona didn’t look back.

Catherine crashed on the stairs and began weeping profusely after Fiona left. She got up, ran to her room, got her phone and called Gideon’s number.

Catherine sounded broken on the phone which made Gideon’s heart freeze for a moment. Shortly, he was at home after driving as fast as he could. While panting like a cheetah, he went to his mother’s room in a hurry.

“Mother! ” he screamed as he entered her room.

Catherine was seated on her bed, her legs folded and she was sobbing.

“Are you okay. ” Gideon said and quickly moved to her side. He noticed how sore her eyes were and he knew she had been crying. What could have made his mother cry? Gideon thought.

“What’s the matter mother? ” Gideon asked turning around as if the problem was in his mother’s room. “Why are you crying? ” he asked her.

“Fiona. ” she said in between sobs. “Fiona is gone. Gone to Florida for good. ” she revealed to Gideon placing her back against the bed and crying loudly.

“Oh come on mother. Is that why you are this devastated? ” he asked her placing his right hand on her lap.

“Look how sorrowful you are. ” he said to her and she immediately pushed his hand away from her lap. His hand landed on the bed.

“It’s your fault Fiona is gone. ” she screamed at him and bursted out crying again. “It’s all your fault Romero. You wouldn’t listen to me. ” she insisted turning her eyes away from him. “Now Fiona is gone. ” she said making the statement sound like it was Gideon who caused it.

Gideon knew arguing with his mother will do him no good especially considering her broken state. Meanwhile, he was glad Fiona had gone even though he didn’t see her sudden exit coming. He looked at his mother who kept sobbing and cleaning her teary eyes.

Gideon’s attention wondered to the dark days when his father died after his mother was discharged from the hospital. When he went to her room to see her back then, she was sorrowful and much more worse than she was before him at the moment.

When he kept crying pleading to see her after his father’s burial, Nanny Grace will carry him away from his mother’s shut door telling him his mother was grieving. When she became better, Gideon felt she grew worse because she sent him to a boarding school afterwards.

Gideon quickly moved closer to his mother on her bed and laid his head on her laps as he did when he was a boy.

“I am so sorry Fiona left. ” he told her.

“You never wanted her right? ” she asked him stroking his hair. Gideon said nothing. She was right. He never liked Fiona.

“I have always wanted the best for you Romero. ” she said clearing her throat.

“I know mother. ” Gideon replied even though he often find his mother’s way quite questionable.

“I wanted you to marry Fiona. She is the ideal woman for you Romero. ” Catherine said and Gideon immediately got up from her laps and sat on the bed close to his mother.

“But you prefer that gold digger called Judy huh? ” she said staring into his eyes. Catherine had stopped crying now.

“Oh Mother stop insulting her. ” he said.

“I have nothing to do with her anyway. ” he added stretching his leg further on the bed. “She’s my personal assistant and sometimes secretary. It’s strictly professional. ” he confirmed to his mother.

“You don’t know this women Romero. ” Catherine explained with her palms shaking.

“They identify a target, work their way to him with suiting techniques and when you least expect, they strike. ” Catherine hinted.Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

“I am not getting any younger Romero. ” Catherine said lowering her tune. Gideon knew where she was driving at so he lowered his head.

“I need a grandchild. Lot’s of them. ” she expressed facing Gideon who was staring at the frame on the wall instead of his mother.

Gideon knew Catherine was right and he couldn’t bring himself to tell her that he wasn’t ready for any sort of romantic relationship or rather still marriage. How will he explain to his mother that since Emma left, a part of him left too. How can he inform her that it is impossible for him to love anyone. As far as Gideon is concerned, he wasn’t sure if he could love ever again.

“You will move on Romero. You will marry Fiona. ” Catherine declared and left Gideon in her room sitting shocked on the bed.