The Billionaire's Revenge (The Blank Check #6) - Jeannette Winter Page 0,59
father said.
“See how he is. Always trying to take care of me,” her mother smiled.
She knew what that felt like, just on an entirely different level. That’s why she wasn’t complaining too much to Jordan. She knew everything he did was because he loved her. Just sometimes it felt as though she was being smothered.
“I’m so glad you are here, but I know better than to think you just came by to say hello. What’s going on?” she asked.
Her parents looked at each other and then her mother spoke. “We’re worried about you.”
“I’m okay. Trust me, nothing’s going to happen,” she said. Her parents didn’t even know what Marvin had done to Mary-Lou and Jordan. If they did, they’d be pleading with her to move back home. That definitely wasn’t going to happen. Not only wasn’t she leaving her company, but she wasn’t leaving Jordan either.
“I should hope not. But that’s not the type of worried we were talking about. We’re worried that you’re holding onto what happened with Marvin years ago, and that it’s standing between you and Jordan being happy,” her mom explained.
She knew it was time. Marvin had held this over her head for so long. “Mom. Dad. I have something I need to tell you,”
“You’re getting married?” she asked. Gianna shook her head. “Pregnant?” her mother asked softly.”
Gianna said, “Mom, this has nothing to do with me and Jordan. I want to talk to you about me and Marvin.”
He father said, “Do we have to talk about that man?”
“Unfortunately yes. I know why you’re worried. You think that I never healed from what happened back then. But you’re wrong. I have moved past that a long time ago.”
Her father said, “No you haven’t.”
“And how do you know Dad?” she asked.
“Because you never told your mother and I the truth,” he replied.
“About?”
“Your wedding. You never told us that it wasn’t real. That Marvin practically hired you to play along with him,” her mother said. “Because you never told us, that meant you were carrying it all those years. The only way to really get past something is to admit what really happened.”
They know. It was a weight being lifted off her. “You’re right. I should’ve told you. I just didn’t know how. At first it was because Marvin told me not to. After that, I was…ashamed of what I did.”
“And that is how someone like Marvin controls people. We like Jordan and you seem happy. But it’s important, actually even more important, that you tell him the truth,” her father said.
“Dad, he knows. I told him. You’re right. The lies can hold you down. I’m tired of them too. I’m glad you both know. And I’m so sorry I’m not the one who told you. But how did you find out?”
“Marvin hurt my little girl. Did you really think just because he had all that money that I wasn’t going to go and speak my mind?”
“Dad, you didn’t. Marvin is…unstable.”
“I don’t care. He wasn’t going to get away with hurting my daughter like that. At first when he told me everything, I was pissed and hurt that you went along with it. And then afterwards, I was only relieved that you really hadn’t loved someone like him. He’s not what I’d ever have wanted as a son-in-law,” he said.
“That’s why we were so upset when that announcement came in the mail. We thought…we thought that you were doing it again,” her mother said. “It’s not what we wanted for you. You deserve all the happiness in the world. You have no idea how happy we were to hear about you and Jordan. Now if we get an announce like that from you two, I’ll be crying for a good reason.”
“Mother. Stop talking about us getting married. We haven’t been together that long. And besides, not everyone gets married anymore. It’s not for everyone.”
“You don’t want to get married?” her mother said as Jordan was entering the apartment.
Gianna looked at him and he obviously had heard that comment. Then she looked back at her mother and said, “Maybe we should change the subject.”
Her father looked at Jordan and asked, “Do you feel the same way? You don’t want to marry Gianna?”
Oh God. Not this. Things were going so great. A lovely conversation and now, pressure.
“Dad, you can’t just ask him something like that,” Gianna said.
Jordan walked over and asked, “Why not? He’s your father. He wants to know what my intentions are.”