Her Father's Expectations by Chevel Grant (classic children's novels .TXT) 📕

went downstairs to see Antonio and Gertrude stacking presents underneath the tree. "Merry Christmas, papa" Reina said as she hugged Antonio. "Merry Christmas, hija" he replied. The family weren't going to be over until in the evening for Christmas dinner.

They were opening presents when Reina's phone rang. "Hello?" Reina answered. "Ah Reina sweetheart" her father said. Reina stiffened. "Hello father" Reina said. "It is Christmas and you don't even call your own father?" her father said, his voice deadly calm. "I-I am sorry. I didn't have the time" Reina replied honestly. "Well do you have the time now? Can you come over to the mansion?" he asked. Should she? "I don't know". "Oh come on, sweetheart. I want to have a talk with you" he told her. Could she really trust him? Just go over there and hear him out then leave -her conscience told her. She sighed. "I will be there soon" Reina told him. "Good girl" he replied as he hung up. Reina grabbed her coat and car keys. "Going somewhere?" Gertrude asked. Reina nodded. "I won't be long. An hour at the most" Reina said as she left. She got into the car and drove over to the mansion.
Reina had to let herself in because it was always her father's policy to let the servants go home for Christmas. "Father?" Reina called as she entered his study. "Over here, Reina" he replied. She turned to look at him. He was drinking a glass of brandy. "Take a seat, Reina" her father told her. She did. He got up and closed the door. "So how is college? Are your grades good?" he asked. "Good and my grades are excellent father" I told him. He sat on the edge of his desk facing me. "Malik has been calling non-stop" he told me. "He never contacted me" Reina told him. "Maybe he never will... now that you are pregnant" her father said. Reina just nodded while looking at her hands. "Did I not give you everything you ever wanted?" her father asked. This made Reina look up at him. She nodded. "Then why do this to me?" her father asked. His voice raising a bit. "I-I didn't do anything to you, father" I replied. I got to my feet. Her father grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to face him. "What are you doing?" he asked. "I am leaving. Obviously you just want to put me down, so I am leaving" I told him. He shook his head. "Not until I have said what I needed to say" he told her. Reina knew that tone of voice and it chilled her to the bone. Her father's anger was clearly not in check. One wrong movement, one wrong choice of words and he would hurt her. Reina wasn't so much worried about her life but about the life of her twins. "Father let go of me!" she told him trying to wiggle free. He slapped her then, one solid hit on the cheek followed by another and another. Her eardrums were ringing. "Malik is a good man! A man with a lot of money! He could have made you happy! But now you will never know what it is to find true happiness Reina! You did this!" he said staring scornfully at her stomach. Reina tried to step back but her father tightened his grasp in her hair making her stand still. Her heart was beating like crazy! Reina only had one intention in mind. To run!
She gave her father one solid punch to the face and made for the door. She hauled it open and ran to the staircase. Her father was right behind her. When Reina was at the first step upstairs when her father kicked her in the back making her fall forwards! Reina started rolling down the long ever winding staircase! When Reina reached the bottom, she was in so much pain she could barely see! She lied there at the bottom. She heard her father's footsteps and pretended to be unconscious. He check to see if she was but not before giving her one solid kick to her abdomen before he left the house. Reina felt that kick to her soul! She was bleeding everywhere and blood streamed down her face. Reina hauled herself over to a phone. She dialed Lorenzo. When he answered all Reina had the strength to say was "Lorenzo... Help..." before she passed out.

Demetrius had gone to the pharmacy for some pain relievers for Cybil who was complaining about having a headache. He slipped into the house unnoticed. She was on the phone. "Of course he doesn't suspect a thing" Cybil told the person on the other line. That made Demetrius step behind a wall to listen to the conversation. "I know Malik! I want that too but with Demetrius I can have anything and everything I want" she said. "I know you can give me those things too but Demetrius is richer and I want our baby to have the Vassaliadas last name... Of course I love you, Malik... No, he still thinks the child is his... Well it is your own fault you know! You should have been more careful!... It was quite simple. I had seen him go off with that little bitch named Reina Cortes and I went to see what they were up to. Well Reina went into the bathroom and I followed her in there and it was then I thought of the plan. It was so fun to see Reina want to cry when I told her I was pregnant for Demetrius and he was marrying me. She looked so heartbroken. Of course Demetrius didn't even know he was going to propose yet" Cybil laughed. Demetrius was so angry he couldn't stand to hear another word. He walked up to Cybil who gasped, took the phone and gave Malik a piece of his mind. Calling her and Malik names that would make a nun blush. When he was finish Cybil was so shocked she couldn't say a word. "Get the fuck out of my house. I don't ever want to see your face again! You... You damn user!" Demetrius shouted. "Demetrius I- "Get out you lying, cheating, conniving bitch! Get the fuck out of my mansion!" he shouted again. Cybil was so frightened she couldn't make her legs move. "Cybil... get out now or I'm tossing you out on your fucking ear!" Demetrius roared. Cybil ran out of the house not even with shoes on.
He had given up Reina just to do right by Cybil! When she had only concocted this scheme to make him think it was his child when it wasn't! It was Malik Conner's child! He was so angry. Reina suffered so much hurt and it wasn't even his child! Now Reina was pregnant with another man's children, she had moved on. He didn't care if she was pregnant with someone else's children as long as she would have him, he would raise the kids as his own. Love them the way he would love his own children, as long as Reina would take him back he would do anything. He loved Reina. He sat there thinking of ways to get Reina back when his phone rang. It was Lorenzo calling. "D-Demetrius. Reina was in an accident" Lorenzo told him.
Reina's Accident

"What happened?" he asked. "A lot of things. She is in surgery now" Lorenzo replied, his voice cracked. "I'm on my way" Demetrius told him as he grabbed his car keys. His bodyguards followed in one of the Audi SUVs. When he pulled up to the hospital, the paparazzi hounded him. "Will Reina be ok?" "Do you think she will make it?" "Is she even still alive, Mr. Vassaliadas?". If they only knew what those questions did to Demetrius. He saw his entire family in the waiting room. Carly and Gertrude were crying and a tear slipped from Antonio's eye. The rest of his family were praying. He made his way to Lorenzo. "What happened?" his voice barely audible. "She went to our father's house. I don't know what happened but when I got there, there was so much blood. I thought she was dead at first. She had a weak pulse" Lorenzo told him. Demetrius felt as if his feet would give out. "Where was your father?" Demetrius asked. Lorenzo shrugged. "He wasn't there when I got to her. Reina was unconscious by the phone cradling her stomach" Lorenzo cried then. At that moment a doctor with blood stained scrubs came into the room. "Mr. Vassaliadas, Mr. Cortes. May I have a word with you both?" he asked.
They went into an unoccupied examining room. "Mr. Vassaliadas while Reina came in and out of consciousness she kept repeating that you needed to know. I am not sure what though" the doctor told Demetrius. Demetrius looked at Lorenzo.
"T-They are yours" Lorenzo said referring to the twins.
Demetrius fell to his knees then. "Why didn't she tell me? Why didn't you tell me?" Demetrius's voice cracked. "She begged us not to. You were already marrying Cybil and she thought it would be best that you didn't know. Flashback- "Do you love him?" Demetrius had asked Reina. She turned to look at him. "The twins' father, do you love him?" he asked. She looked him in the eye. "I do, so much it hurts" Reina had told him as she walked away. Flashback ends.
"Mr. Vassaliadas" the doctor said pulling Demetrius out of his thoughts. When Demetrius looked up at him, he continued. "She is in a coma. Her babies..." The doctor started, darting a look at Demetrius. "Are they...?" Lorenzo couldn't bare to finish the sentence. "That is why I am here. We want your permission to terminate the pregnancy should we need to" the doctor finished.
Demetrius couldn't believe what he was hearing! "Mr. Vassaliadas they are your children. We need your permission. We don't know if we can save all three lives". Demetrius couldn't talk, he didn't want to choose. If he chose the twins life then he would lose the most precious thing to him. Their mother. And if he chooses Reina's life she would never forgive herself for losing the twins. "Do whatever is possible to save all three of their lives, doctor. Should anything go wrong save the twins. Are they old enough to breathe on their own?" Lorenzo asked. "Their lungs haven't been fully developed yet but we will know more when or if we take them out" the doctor replied as he left the room. "M-my babies?" Demetrius asked, still on his knees. "She thought it was best that you didn't know. Believe me we all tried to convince her that you needed to know but Reina can be so stubborn" Lorenzo told him. Demetrius found the strength to stand. "Let's hope for the best" Demetrius said as he and Lorenzo went back to the family.