Chapter 486 Am I That Cruel?
"You don't have to worry about you getting married to Derek. That is not something that I'm not going to agree to even if it is your father that wants that to happen." Ruth stated calmly.
Alicia who had not been expecting something like this was surprised by what her mother had said. After all, according to what she understood about her mother, it was that, she usually valued the benefits of the family, more than she valued her.
So, since you already knew about Derek, she was expecting that her mother was already plotting on how the two of them were going to get married. That was something that had been bothering her until now.
In order to be able to get out of this situation, she could only think of one solution. And that was, to get together with Jack. Jack was a person that she loved, and she believed that his family background was not weak if compared to hers. Moreover, it might even be stronger than her own family.
She believed that as long as Jack agreed to marry her, there was no chance that her mother was going to disagree to that. After all, other than the fact that the background of that Jack possessed was not something that they would be willing to provoke, that, the benefits that would come with getting into an alliance with such a family could not be estimated.
But, surprisingly, her mother had said that she was not going to get married to Derek. That was one of the least expected words that she was expecting from her mother. At least, from her father, she could at least believe him. But, right now, it seemed that her mother had made a decision that she was not going to get married to Derek, even if it was her father's decision.
Ruth looked at Alicia who was looking at her with surprising her eyes. In the end, she could only shake her head. After all, she could guess what her daughter was thinking about.
"Am I that cruel in your eyes?" Ruth could not help it but ask.
Alicia blinked her eyes twice as she looked at her mother. She was wondering what had changed about her mother. Then, looking at her mother's curious gaze, she still went ahead and responded.
"What do you think? You are always forcing me to get married to a person that I don't like at all. How is that going to help me in the future? Although it is going to help the family, but it is not as if this is the only way that we can help our family to grow stronger than it is currently." Alicia stated.
Not giving her mother a chance to speak, she continued, "Not only that, but, there is still time. I'm just 21 years old this year. 2 years should not be that much for us to be able to get information about Jack. As for getting together with him, that is not going to be difficult for me. I do believe that I do have the capabilities of making him agree to marry me."
Ruth looked at her daughter silently, waiting for her to continue what she was saying. She knew that what her daughter had said was true, but, there was only one thing that Alicia didn't think much about. She was only thinking about the present, and not tomorrow.
"As for that David, I don't want to say that he is a bad person because I don't even know him that well enough to judge him. But, he just doesn't give me a good vibe. So, there is no way that I'm going to get married to him, and neither am I getting married to Derek." Alicia stated resolutely.
"If I cannot get married to Jack, then, I better not get married. But if worse comes to worst, I can marry another person, but, it has to be different from the two." Alicia finally made her compromise.
It was also at this moment that she thought about Jack, and knew how difficult it was to get together with him. Although she had spoken with confidence that she was going to be capable of making Jack fall in love with her, but, she didn't even know where he currently was.
It was true that she had already made a decision. But, how many people had gotten their hearts broken in a one-sided love? There were too many of them to be counted. And currently, the relationship that she shared with Jack was not that good. Jack did not like what she had done to Celine during the time that she was in the normal world.
"I get it. But, I can agree to you not getting married to Derek. I do care about you, and I do know that Derek is not someone that is going to treat you well after the two of you get married. He is not only after your body, but, he is also after the influence of our family." Ruth stated.
"You are the only heir in this family. That implies that, once he marries you, he will be having some kind of control within this family. So, that is what he is targeting. I'm not ready to have someone who is going to ruin my family." Ruth continued with a cruel glint flashing in her eyes.
"That's right. I had almost forgotten that whatever it is that you do, it is always about the family. Even if you are trying to prevent me from getting to Derek, that is simply because he has his own motives about our own family. I should not have expected more than that." Alicia stated. After that, with a pissed expression on her face, she left the room, not giving her mother a chance of speaking.
Ruth looked on helplessly as her daughter left. What was she supposed to say? This was just a coincidence. Although it might be true that she really cared about the family, that did not imply that she did not care about her daughter. She was her only child after all.
It was not as if she had never considered Alicia and Derek getting married. It was just that, after doing her investigation about Derek, she came to realize his behavior of going to small strongholds to pick up girls. For that reason, she immediately eliminated him.
As for how she came to know about his aims, that was true his father. Derek's father was an ambitious person, always trying to seek for methods that he was going to use to gain even more strength than he currently possessed.
And, he was the one who had been training Derek all this while. So, how were the two of them going to be different? And even if Derek was not as she had thought, there was still his father.
After Derek took over after his father, and then got married to Alicia, wouldn't that guy try to stir trouble from behind? He could simply inform Derek on what he was supposed to do so that their family could get stronger.
'I guess I have to do things faster. I have already sent someone out, but, I don't know when I'm going to get the information about his location. It is going to be good if I meet him personally, rather than making guesses about things that we don't even know about.' Ruth thought as she continued sitting on the couch.
Because of the presence of Derek, she had already received the information about Jack coming into the stronghold domain. So, she had decided that she was going to investigate on where Jack had headed to.
That was not going to be a difficult problem for her to be able to find out, as long as Jack did not prevent the leaking of the information.
Currently, the plan that she was having in her mind was that, after she found about where Jack was, she was going to speak to him personally. The first thing that she wanted to do was to compensate him for what Alicia had done during the time that she had gone over to the normal world.
And after making sure that Jack no longer hated her daughter, she was going to make arrangements for the two of them to continue interacting. And if the interaction between the two of them bore fruits, it was not going to be difficult for Alicia to get married to Jack.
The only problem was that, she was not sure about Jack's character. So far, from the information that she had received from James, Alicia's protector, it was that Jack was a loyal person, and he did not hit on girls like Derek did.
Rather, he was a person who got angry the moment that he realized that Alicia had manipulated Celine. It was true that a gap had already appeared in the love between the two of them, but, from the resolution that was in Jack's eyes during the time that he wanted to destroy Alicia, it was clear that his love for Celine was not something that could be easily taken care of.
'If this plan doesn't work out, I can only try to look for information about his background. After that, I will make some arrangements so that I can meet with his parents. After that, it should not be a difficult to ask for me to be able to separate Jack and Celine, considering that the two of them do not match each other.' Ruth had already made counter plans in case one plan failed.
Of course, what she did not know was that, currently, Celine had already become a superhuman. And, just like Alicia, she also possessed a special ability. So, if the two of them were compared, then, Alicia was going to fall short.
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