Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“Anika!” Akim was more concerned for her safety.
“Don’t worry, Akim, I’m good!” She informed him, getting to her feet, “Just go with them, please,”
After confirming that she was okay, Akim willingly went ahead with his security, glancing one last look at Anika before the car drove away.
But as soon as the car left, Anika made a call to her mother Fiona, “The mission was successful, there would be a friction in their relationship from tonight,”
“Good work,” Fiona told her before she suddenly asked her, “By the way are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing,” Fiona said and unknown to Anika, she was staring down at an image of the both of them captured on the beach kissing.
Meanwhile, Akim was in the passenger seat sandwiched between two guards. He scoffed inwardly, do they think he would do something stupid like fleeing out of a moving car.
He wasn’t suicidal. Even if he was, being crushed by a car wasn’t exactly the best way to die. Moreover, why would he die when he now had a girlfriend. A smile crossed his lips, he couldn’t wait to start the relationship with her. But that would be after he survived tonight.
Even after he stepped on palace soil, the guards didn’t give him breathing space and held him captive until they reached the living room where his parents were pacing up and down from worry.
Oh boy, he was in deep shit.
The moment his gaze connected with his father’s burning gray eyes, he gulped and wanted to take a step back but the guards were behind him and didn’t move at all.
“You ingrate!” Judy roared and strode over to his son with anger in his eyes. Emily, filled with worry, went after him but she couldn’t cover his huge steps.
Akim’s eyes grew wide when his father suddenly grabbed him by the collar and drew his hand back ready to punch him in the face.
Luckily for him, just a second for his father’s fist to reach his face, Emily shouted, “Judy don’t!”
And just like that his fist froze mid-air yet Akim could feel his father’s other hand clutching his collar tremble – the man was doing the best to rein in his anger. Of course, his mother was the only one who could calm him down in this situation.
“Please,” Emily begged him, tears already filling her eyes as she watched her husband and son ready to tear each other apart.
With wild eyes, Judy tightened his fist around his son’s collar and said through gritted teeth, “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t beat the living sense into you right now?”
But Akim snorted derisively, “Why? What did I do wrong?”
That statement angered Judy the more and he tightened his grip almost lifting the poor boy off his feet while Emily cautioned him,
“Akim!” He was making the situation worse. She barely calmed Judy down.
“Why mother? Why do I have to shut it? What did I do wrong if not to get some air outside? What’s so wrong with wandering off on my own?!” Akim was fed up with their rules as well. He just wanted to breathe, what’s so wrong with it?
“How could you be so selfish?! All we did was to keep you safe?!” His father growled at him.
“Keep me safe?!” Akim laughed, “This is not keeping me safe, it is called imprisonment. This place, the whole palace is a prison,”
“Is that all you think about?! You could have gotten killed out there, Akim?!”
“And yet It didn’t happen!” Akim retorted, “Every day you keep telling me how dangerous it is outside, and yet I saw it all today, there was no monster hiding in the dark. Here I am, father! All safe and sound!”
Suddenly, Judy hitched Akim up by the collar of his clothes before Emily could even interfere, “Dont test me, Akim. Just because you escaped once doesn’t mean Fiona isn’t watching! Also, stay away from that girl!”
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The third point of view:
“Also, stay away from that girl!”
“W-what?!” It seemed like Akim didn’t hear right.
“The girl you were with, today should mark the end of your relationship with her,” Judy declared his final judgment, finally letting go of him.
Akim stood dumbfounded, it was as if his father just placed a death sentence on him. How could he stay away from Anika? She was the only person who understood him. She was the only one who understood what it was like to be suffocated here. Why should he stay away from her?
“I’m sorry but I can’t do that,” Akim said, raising his head to look straight into his father’s eyes who looked stunned by his disobedience, “You can punish me for any other thing but Anika? Don’t tell me to give up on her because I won’t,”
“Akim!” Judy yelled at him, the anger returning. Why was he so stubborn? Everything they were doing was for his safety!
“It’s suffocating here!” Akim yelled, beating his chest while his eyes filled with tears, “Do you even know what it’s like to watch kids your own age enjoy freedom while you don’t?” He laughed immediately, “Of course, you won’t understand since you enjoyed an abundance of freedom growing outside the palace and of Lincolnshire,” There was a hint of scorn in his tone.
Judy laughed instead, however, there was sarcasm in his tone, “Other kids enjoy freedom? Well, sorry to burst your bubbles but they’re other kids and you are the prince of this Lincolnshire and have many responsibilities on your shoulders. So that’s the little price you have to pay for bring a prince,”
He went on, “I was raised outside the kingdom? Fine, I admit that. However, do you know the kind of life that exists outside there? A life where only the strongest survive! This life you detest so much, do you even know how many kids your age will kill to be in your position?! So stop being such a baby and behave more like the prince you are!”
Father and son stared into each other’s eyes that were cold and hardened, none of them was ready to back down.
“I’m not giving up on Anika,” Akim decided there and then.
“Akim!” his mother Emily pleaded with him to reconsider his decision. However, the boy was determined.
He faced his parents, “You told me that I could be with anybody I like and you won’t interfere,” He reminded them.
“Yes, we said that and still stand by that decision, however, it would not be that girl!” Judy was firm in her decision as well.
“Why?!” Akim couldn’t understand his parents anymore. They were becoming something he couldn’t understand, “What’s so wrong with Anika?!”
“Because her father was one of the rebels!” Judy finally revealed and that shook Akim so much that he unconsciously took a step back.