THE HEIR'S VENDETTA

CHAPTER 003

It was the day of the party, and D’Oriental Hall had been booked out by the Robinson, the event was overflowing with different elite individuals who were elegantly dressed, donning expensive outfits and jewelry. 

Waiters were dressed impeccably in white and black outfits and a bowties, walking up and down different aisles trying to cater to the needs and requests of the guests.

One of such waiters was Alphonse who hurried up and down attending to different guests and answering the orders of those who called him. He was utterly embarrassed, to say the least, but his only consolation was the promised night which he was looking forward to, the thought of entering into the promised land was his motivation for the night and was what had him going.

Engrossed with the thought of the night, he didn't see Sophia approaching him with a disdainful look on her face,

Splash!

“Did you not hear me call you all day you fook?! Why would you dare to leave our table and guests unattended to?! Huh?!” 

She bellowed loudly, drawing attention to herself,

The wine she had splashed on Alphonse’s dripped down his face, temporarily blinding his eyes due to the alcohol. Sophia ignored his dazed look and continued her screaming after garnering people’s attention, 

“Sometimes, I often wonder what sort of crime my family committed, that made us saddled with someone like you as a husband for my sister!!! You're nothing but a burden moocher, a freeloader, that's what you are!”

While she spoke, some of the guests around let out loud gasps while a few offers had their eyes widened,

“I knew it!”

“Oh my goodness! To be burdened with such a creature as a son-in-law

“He can't even afford to feed himself, they feed him. He has to work for that somehow!”

A lot of guests were beginning to give their two cents as they watched the display. Alphonse’s cheeks had turned crimson, mixing with the wine on his face and he had his head lowered, his chin touching his chest.

Sophia wasn't done with roasting him, as she continued with a glint in her eyes, she was enjoying this more than she ought to,

“Who even named you?! Imagine having a name like yours, Alphonse, such a ridiculous name, as ridiculous as its bearer!” her lips curled upward while she spoke.

Hearing her observation, the guest all busted out in loud laughter, snickering behind their palms, emboldened by their reactions, she further went on,

“Tell me how do you sleep at night?! Not only are you a freeloader to this family, but there's nothing you're good at, you can't get or keep a job, can't do household chores properly, and you certainly can't perform your husbandly duties!”

She said with a knowing smirk and a gleam in her eyes, before she leaned her face, and used her finger to lift his chin up,

“So tell me, what are you good for? You good for nothing bastard!”

No one had noticed Alphonse’s clenched fists and jaw, he was boiling within and he was enraged that he couldn't do anything to defend his honour for no one seemed to be on his side. He subtly glanced around the room looking for his wife, but she was nowhere to be found.

For a moment, Alphonse was inclined to make a retort,

‘I'm good for nothing and I agree, but you who's good for something cannot seem to keep a man for more than a month as they all leave your sorry ass!’

His throat ached to let out those words and throw them at Sophia’s face, but he refrained himself for the year of the crowd that was on her side, and for the fear of her landing a slap on his face, she had been known to do that occasionally. 

Meanwhile, Lady Margaret who had been standing and listening nearby, she alongside her friends was so entertained that she felt Sophia didn't need to have all the fun at Alphonse’s extent,

With curling lips, she approached the duo, avoiding the drying puddle of the wine stain on the floor, she faced Alphonse and smiled smugly before putting up a melodrama,

“Dear son-in-law, I'm currently cash strapped, and I need just a change of a hundred bucks quickly, please hand it over so I can sort the situation out”

She stretched out her hand, and arched a brow at him, her eyes gleaming. The guests once more began to laugh and snicker among themselves, 

“Where does he want to see such money from, I'll be stunned if the impoverished fool has a penny on him!”

“Oohh Lady Margaret doesn't play fair, I wouldn't like to be in her bad book. I'm sure she knows the wretched fool doesn't have any change on him, yet she's asking him”

“If the dunce so much as produces a cent, I'll make sure to give the Robinsons an extra thousand bucks with my gift!”

One by one, all of them opined while looking at Alphonse, Alphonse was praying for the ground to open and swallow him or for him to suddenly develop some sort of invisible or telepathic skills,

With a sadistic smile, Lady Magaret tutted, giving a long hiss

“I'm waiting precious son in law”

Alphonse gulped and lost all the colour in his face,

“Of course, you would not be able to afford it! When you cannot afford the basic things for yourself!! We feed you, clothe you, house you, and even pay the bills of your wretched mother!!! I wonder who cursed us with someone like you!”

Every word she spoke was like a bullet, jabbing Alphonse as he flinched back at each attack, wincing as he did, but Lady Margaret was far from done,

“Your useless mother lies ill in the hospital, unable to help herself and her equally useless son leeches off us, unable to care for his mother, such useless family dynamics, tell me, dear son-in-law, can anything good come out of your family?!”

The crowd sneered, sniggered, and laughed at the rhetorical question while Alphonse only stared with a dazed look on his face. 

Lady Margaret with Sophia still beside her, sneered and got in Alphonse’s face, with her lips stretched in a forced and false smile and her eyes shooting daggers, she asked through gritted teeth,

“What can you do? You useless nonentity!”