Free Web NovelChapter 192: Reunion (1)
"Don’t be. It was interesting to see the normally reserved Hamiltons bicker with each other. Though I wasn’t exactly pleased they were ganging up on you back there and judging by your reaction, it isn’t the first time. Makes me want to marry you right now and take you to my place. You can do whatever you want there."
"Nice try Timothy but I’m going anywhere," Regina left the door allowing him to come inside without saying it.
"Ah yes, you would like your childhood home. I have my ways to buy it from your family and then my wife can live here with me. Emphasis on my wife," he closed the door behind them. "Just say the word."
"I want you to buy me this house," she said the words she thought he meant.
"Wrong! I meant I do," he corrected her.
Timothy looked around the room that had changed since he came in here when he was younger to place a frog in her bed. Most of the girlish things were gone but other than that, it was pretty much the same.
"Don’t let your eyes roam too much in case there is something I don’t want you to see Timothy. To be honest, I shouldn’t have let you walk in here so freely after all the pranks you pulled on me in here. I should’ve placed a bucket of water over the door or something first," Regina started plotting her revenge.
"Easy there tiger. Our past of pranking one another is over. We are lovers now and lovers do not prank each other. Besides, I wouldn’t want to win over and over again."
"Win?" She laughed at his delusion. "I beat you every time."
"I have a skilled doctor in the family. I should have him check you out for your bad memory. When can we make an appointment?" Timothy asked, enjoying the expression on Regina’s face.
"You have not changed one bit Timothy but I suppose that is a good thing. Everyone around me suddenly changed. Most of their change has been bad. Nice to have at least two people who remained the same," Regina sighed, taking a seat on her bed. Living in this house was draining her emotionally and she was normally strong when it came to things like this.
"What’s so important about having your family home? Why not go somewhere you can do whatever you want? Do you honestly want this house or do you want it just to get back at your family for something? I’m going to bet all my wealth on the second one."
"How do you know me so well?" Regina was surprised to hear him guess it right. Honestly, she would like to get away from her family but the only reason she stayed was to prove her mother, Samuel, and Minnie wrong. She wanted to take what they most cared about and that was this house and their wealth. "It’s impossible for me to own this house."
"I just wanted to prove that they should have included me in their plans for who gets to inherit this house. Samuel’s the perfect golden child. Always have been, always will be. Why did I waste my time playing around thinking I could take this from Samuel? Minnie just dismissed me from working and my father couldn’t say a word to her."
"Nothing is impossible when you have me by your side. There are other ways to make your family realize how much of a powerhouse you really are. You realize when you get married your family will put some businesses in your name for you and your husband to be in charge of. It’s really an offering to your husband for marrying their daughter but I have no use for any more businesses. I can hand them over to you," Timothy proposed a plan.
"You’re really doing everything in your power to make sure we get married. Is there another motive for doing this? I can’t see why you are interested in me when I have not been nice to you. Like ever. We are always at each other’s throats when we meet. Does that turn you on or something," she gave him a look.
"Do not look at me like that. I really do love you, Regina. I’ve had the option of getting married many times but was waiting for you, who hates marriage, to open up to the slightest idea of getting married. If I approached you and confessed my feelings before you were looking for someone to help you against your family, you would’ve laughed at me."
Regina shrugged her shoulders, unable to argue with that. She most definitely would have laughed in his face thinking that he was trying to prank her. "You’re right. Still, I don’t understand how you came to like me. I get it that I am wonderful, beautiful, smart, hilarious-"
"No need to carry on with the list but yes, all those things are what made me love you. I promise there is no other motive for me doing all of this. We can live in separate bedrooms until you love me. I won’t keep you caged up in our home or give you any rules to follow. You can do whatever you want. What’s mine will belong to you," said Timothy.
Regina tapped her fingers on her arms thinking about what she would do. She was certain in some messed up way it made sense that she and Timothy would end up together. After all, boys always picked at the girls they liked and she had fun messing with Timothy. She should’ve seen it coming that they might get married.
"You better not propose to me in some cringey way. I might not be the best marriage lover but I still want to have a grand proposal. If it isn’t, I’m going to leave you where you stand with the ring in your hand" she poked his chest to show how serious she was. "Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, but you realize, you just indirectly said yes already?" There was a fluttering feeling inside of his chest hearing that she agreed to marry him granted that the proposal would be grand. The proposal wouldn’t be an issue.
"True but there’s no one around who heard me say yes. Saying yes around others is what matters. Now hurry along and start planning how you will propose to me," she started pushing him towards her door for him to leave. "Don’t even think of proposing to me today since I’m going to be busy."
"How? You don’t have a job to go to anymore," he joked but then instantly regretted it when she shoved him hard out through the door.
Regina held onto the door watching him fix his attire after he almost fell thanks to her. "Don’t ruin this before it can even start," she closed the door afterward, not waiting to hear his rebuttal. "I can’t believe I just agreed to marry Timothy. This might be the day the world ends," she leaned back against the door amazed but what just happened.
She wasn’t straying from her original plan of marrying a man with enough influence to help her raise her ranks in the family. The only difference would be her not killing Timothy. Aurora would be shaken to her core with this information. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
"If only you knew what was happening here Aurora," she chuckled imagining how the two of them would be on her bed squealing to the top of their lungs over her getting married. Who knew there would be a time she had no one here to celebrate this with. "Let’s try this again."
Regina became determined to try the communication spell again now that she was alone. She’ll work on the puppet spell too and try to have it mastered by the end of the day. She could summon the witches if she wasn’t making any progress.
Regina left the door to get a chair and then came back with one in her hands to place it right under the door handle. She locked the door but her family members would have no problem gaining access to her room with keys. The last thing she wanted was for one of them to walk in while she was practicing the spells.
She made sure it was secured at first before running back in a hurry to her closet. Regina closed her closet door with a chair also as an extra precaution in case someone got the first door open. She would be able to hear the first door open if someone made the chair fall and the chair behind the closet door would buy her some time to get rid of all evidence. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Regina spread out everything she pulled out from the hole. She flipped the pages of the book looking for anything close to her being able to communicate with Aurora.
"Useful for spying on someone," she read when she came across a mirror spell. "I need Aurora to be near any type of glass for me to spy on where she is but I need six items that belonged to her. I have to go to her room," Regina realized but that wasn’t going to be an easy task.
