
" Belle..." Feeling her name called to make Belle, the young girl who was still unstable stopped stepping both feet who were about to get out of their luxury home in the center of Barcelona.
" Otherwise Dad? Isn't our conversation yesterday over?" Ars approached his daughter who seemed still angry with him at this time.
" Belle, Daddy did this for you too, for your future."
" What in this increasingly modern era is there still such a thing as arranged marriage? Or is Daddy some kind of psychic who can guarantee the future? Does a marriage guarantee a happy life? What if Belle was in a match, Belle wouldn't have experienced what Mommy used to experience that even Daddy could cheat on mommy-"
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" Belle..." Crystal immediately approached his daughter who had just been slapped by Ars.
While Ars, his own hand shook violently after raising his big hand against his little daughter who immediately got a hard slap from him.
" Belle, let's treat Mommy's wounds baby." Crystal was about to take Belle to the sofa to treat her wound, let alone the corner of Belle's bloody lips at this time.
" Belle, mommy please darling." Crystal said again when her daughter didn't want to follow her.
For God's sake, Crystal couldn't hold back her tears from seeing a silent Belle like that after getting a hard blow from Ars.
" Daddy wants the next one again? If yes, then do it. Do as much as Daddy wants if it can get Daddy to call off the match." Ars couldn't answer Belle.
Crystal himself who sees it all can only stare disappointed at Ars who has dared to do that to Belle.
" When it's over, Belle goes back to Paris. Belle has class tomorrow. Tell Belle if Daddy no longer wants to pay Belle's tuition fees, then Belle could be a pianist in the men's city for the money." Without saying anything else even he did not care anymore about the call from Mommy Crystal who just kept calling his name.
Belle left with a big wound. A wound he may never forget.
Wounds that will always be broken. The wounds that he will make memories as a reminder that he did not receive any matchmaking other than with Rigel.
" I hope that my struggle and prayers during this time can really be fulfilled. I believe that God loves me. I'm not a son of a dissident, and if what I did earlier was a form of dissident, then I'm also sure that God will forgive me for this." He said so sure.
Belle had already flown back to Paris, while in their home, Crystal was still standing before Ars and looking at him with a look of disappointment.
" Winner..." Ars can no longer bear to speak up because he does not want his relationship with the wife to stay away because of this which is certainly going to happen estrangement between the two of them.
" You have betrayed your own promise. You have made a mother's heart cry when she sees her daughter struggling to endure the pain of her own father's slap. You should realize that the first love of a daughter is her father. But look, look what you did to my daughter. You have dared to raise your hand and even throw it so easily into my daughter's face. Can imagine how painful it is and lucky my daughter is a great daughter. Dis didn't even look like she was in pain when she got hit that hard. And that hand, the hand that hurt my daughter's heart and feelings, I want to know how good she'll be at protecting her daughter." Crystal left Ars staring at the wound on his hand that had injured Belle.
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