Hunted 142
Chapter 142
Noah’s POV:
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It’s been almost three months since Graceland left with the Christiansens. I can still
remember that day as it lingered in my brain like the smell of rotten fruit. Graceland left with those people without a single word. Fury burned through my parents as the doors
closed behind her and the Christiansens.
“That little bitch! How dare she embarrass us like that!”
My mother scream as she threw a glass against the wall causing everyone to jump back.
“Calm down Sharon!”
“Calm down! Calm down! We just got made a fool of in front of the world’s most powerful family! How can I calm down!”
I could tell my father was reaching his breaking point. In all honesty, I was irritated with
them both. Their complete disregard in front of the very family Graceland was marrying into was nothing short of pathetic. What’s worse, I no longer felt the Christiansens shared the same sentiments about Graceland that we all did. The way they looked at her, it was
as if the sun shined out of her. When Lady Christiansen referred to Graceland as ‘our daughter‘, I could hear the deliberate tone in her words. It was as if they were claiming
Graceland.
Brian decided to speak up.
“I don’t give a shit how powerful they are. What right did they have to treat us as if WE were the ones less than Graceland of all people.”
For once my fool of a brother was right. You could clearly tell the Christiansens held a low regard for us while they beamed with joy over Graceland. It didn’t make sense.
“Am I the only one that felt like they may have already known Graceland? I mean, she never exactly told us HOW she received that proposal.”
Cole looked over at me and dad, suddenly, dad saying it didn’t matter how she received that proposal became the biggest form of irony.
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“It doesn’t matter anymore. She’s gone. Let’s all move on. When they send the wedding invitation, just pretend she’s apart of our family that day. We don’t want to piss the Christiansens off anymore than we already have.”
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With that, father left the room. Mother looked over at me, her eyes filled with anger and traces of sadness. What could she be sad about?
“Did you hear the way that woman called her daughter! That little…first the woman that stole
her and now…”
Her words trailed off as she stormed out of the room. Could she be upset about Graceland being close to another woman? The thought of that seemed unlikely, but if that wasn’t
the case…
Suddenly, Olivia spoke. Throughout the entire situation, she remained the quietest. Her
face had an unusual expression; I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. She smiled warily.
“Well, if the Christiansens do care about Graceland, I hope she has a happy life, even if her husband is a vegetable.”
For some reason, her words didn’t match her expression. She motioned for Jonathan to
follow her as she left the room.
“Do you think they care about her?”
Brian asked me with a worried look on his face. I knew why he was worried; it finally began to dawn on him that Graceland could tell the Christiansens everything. A thought that had been haunting me from the moment they arrived.
“I don’t see how they could. There’s no way she could have met them prior, I’m not sure how or why they chose to marry her to their son. I’m going to do some digging to find out. In the meantime, not a word of her or this to ANYBODY!”
Both Cole and Brian nodded in agreement. Until we got more information, we needed to hold off on bragging about Graceland becoming a Christiansen.
“Still, it was pretty rude of her to leave without even so much as a goodbye. She didn’t even look in our direction. We are her family after all.”
Cole’s words gave me mixed feelings. Were we her family? In the seven years Graceland
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had been here, I couldn’t remember one family act we had with her. Perhaps her anger was warranted, though that didn’t give her the right to disrespect us.
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She’s gone now. Time move forward.
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Now, it’s been three months since her departure, and the realization has been hitting hard. The school year had just started at the University for both Brian and Livie and they
were already on the verge of academic probation.