His Redemption

Th rejection

"What are you doing here?" Chris asked with anger feeling his mind, he was filled with this anger because his mother had left him and his father three years ago before his father went into debt.

"Chris" he called trying to hug his grandson.

"Don't you dare touch me" Chris shifted, he believed he was the reason his father had gone into debt, at least that was what his father had made him believe.

One morning his mother had just opted and left because his father couldn't provide for her materialistic needs anymore.

And she had returned to her father's house.

From the corner of his eye, Chris could see a woman come out of the room for confessionals and it was iIt Mother.

The woman who had left him and his father and now they both were at his father's gravestone.

"You left us, so what are you doing here?" he asked his mother with no emotions.

"You need to understand Chris, I did that because of you" Emilia tried to explain to her son who looked so pale and pained.

"Understand what? That you left my dad when he needed youths most and now you are back to pay some stupid last rights to him?" he screamed causing his mother to flinch from the words coming from him.

"Chris I am at fault I caused your mother to leave your father because of my ego, and because he was not fit to be a son-in-law but now I know better" his grandfather explained.

"Wow, and you come back now to pay him homage?" Chris asked mockingly.

"Who has hurt you son? His mother asked calmly trying to find a stable ground where she could talk to him calmly and make him understand.

"Women like you, women who pry on the weakness of their men to soothe their ego, I hate all women and you are inclusive," he said as he made a turn for the exit before he was stopped by her words.

"Your grandfather would have killed your father if I didn't leave, I had to save you and him," Emilia said as she broke down in tears even more.

Turning abruptly he asked, _ "What do you mean?". He asked looking from his mother to his grandfather.

"As we speak I am gravely ill and I need my grandson to take over the empire I have built" James chimed.

"I know of only one empire, and that is my father's empire and I will build it from its scraps," he said determined. He wasn't going to be fooled by these people in front of him.

Chris had considered himself an orphan since all he knew was his father.

"Please Chris just do this for us, for yourself You need to end the suffering you've been through my child please " his mother begged.

"And why should I?" he asked still not understanding what was going on...

"Your grandfather hated your father because he was from an average background and thought he could never take care of me, he made lots of threats on your father hence the reason why I left son, I always watched from afar but never too close because my father is ruthless" Emilia explained hoping her son just might understand her stance.

"And what makes you think he would accept the son of the lowlife he almost killed some years back?" Chris asked as he was yet again sceptical of his mother's stories.

"I am here ain't I?" James asked as he looked at his Grandson. He was feeling frustrated already.

A few hours ago, he had been hurt beyond doubt hence he wouldn't fall for another woman's words even if they were from his mother.

"Your grandfather is on his sick bed son, he realized his mistake he would have apologized to your father but it was too late as your father passed on a few days back, he needs his grandson, he wishes to see you and bind before his last breath" Emilia begged.

"I don't believe you and I don't want to have anything to do with the man who caused the death of my father," Chris said and left his mother and grandfather standing there in confusion, hurt, and remorseful as she thought too.

His father had been buried even before he was told because they considered Gum an unworthy man not fit for the proper funeral as he was poor.

It hurt Chris so much.

Maybe she should have accepted to go close to him those times she saw friends bully him at school, Maybe she should have stepped in when her now late husband was battling the troubles of his company and handled it perfectly, just conceivably.

On his way out he bumped into someone and held onto her waist so she wouldn't hit the ground.

"Would you watch where you are going?" the female voice asked.

Chris was about to apologize but he knew he could recognize that voice anywhere and anytime, that cologne, that waist the body size was something he could never blow off.

It was Liana.

For a minute Chris wanted to keep holding onto her waist just for the sake of it, just so he could think she was still his all the memories of when she would come to meet him at the library with her homework and a deadline and no emotion was enough to to let him go off her waist.

And not just that, her remarks were enough to make him pull back.

"Oh, look who we have here" she began with an evil smirk as she took out some hand sanitiser as though she wanted to clean off his existence from her body.

"You came to beg your father to take the debts off your wretched shoulders?" she asked cleaning his shoulders off the invisible dirt that sat there.

"I don't have time for you Liana," Chris said trying to move past her but she stood in front of him.

His heart was still in ruins and seeing her only hurt him the more as he couldn't phantom how much she could hate him after all their school years of the lovey-dovey she showed him.

"Hey, Babe you were taking so long_" Richard didn't finish his sentence as he came face to face with Chris yet again.

"Oh you came to take me to the car?" she asked emphasizing the car part as she looked at Chris deep into his eyes.

"And Chris do you have a ride home? Oh pardon me, low lives don't deserve the good things in verve hence you just might run behind our car" she said mocking his inability to afford a car.

"Here is my card Give me a call so I can see if I can get you a cleaner job or a driver job at my father's company, or rather my new company as I am the head of Evans group," Richard said whilst Liana handed him the card from Richard's pocket as they were in a tight embrace before finally kissing and then walking off to the direction they intended to go to.

They looked all loved up and he could see that Liana was happy, the way she looked at Richard, he had never received such looks from her.

It was either, homework, an exam, or some library study, and never a date night, not even a kiss to the lip she always gave one excuse or another about not wanting to kiss him.

And foolish of him he fell for that almost all the time as he thought she loved him and he was respecting bee boundaries and he never wanted to make her mad.

Chris remembered the time he asked Liana out to the dance as his date but she turned him down saying she wouldn't be at prom because she had a doctor's appointment at that time only for him to see pictures of her and Richard dancing whilst he was at home hoping she was better as she didn't take any of his calls.

And when he asked she claimed she had felt better Richard asked and she couldn't say no.

He stood there looking at the spot they had just stood and began to walk forward when he heard Liana call out to him.

"Oh Chris, you are invited to my wedding the day after tomorrow, and yeah make sure not to get me any flowers because it just might affect the little of nothing you have," she said as she and Richard began laughing so hard.

He stood there just asking himself what he had done to deserve so much hatred from the woman he had come to love so much with everything he had ever owned.