BXBX NOVEL Chapter 170 Esong's Defense Of His Wife
"I will take care of them of them," Carolyn said, "Bring them all to me."
"Yes," Gertrude went away quickly.
Mega Su spun around and glared at prince Markay, the genesis of what in their opinion was a regression to the progress of their daughter's healing. "You," she said with a stiff smile on her face, "Let's talk about your actions."
Markay squirmed in the chair on the kitchen island, feeling very uncomfortable under the intense glares of all the Su's. Markay's guard Juan who always followed him everywhere was further back in the corner, lined up with the other guards. He had never seen anybody treat the seventh prince so disdainfully and remain on their feet.
"I am so sorry, my actions were foolish, I truly was just trying to help but I didn't know that this would happen. Honestly, anyone that has never witnessed her in such a condition will think that the story about her illness was made up."
"Did anyone ask for your help to settle whatever discomfort is between my sisters?" Adler tapped down on the island furiously. "You had no right to intervene." Right now, Adler did not care if this was the prince, he could be the emperor and he would still face him this way.
"I am Carolyn's boyfriend_" Markay mumbled.
"Not her husband!!!" Beord retorted. "What made you think that this was a good idea in the first place?"
"Yesterday, you were all showing off the pendants she bought you from the temple but my Carolyn doesn't have one. It's bad enough what she did to her in the past but freezing her out now when she was the one that betrayed her, it's wrong. You all protect Scarlet and praise her for every little thing but what about Carolyn?"
Everyone stared at Carolyn wanting her to explain this, wondering if they did not give her enough affection or praise. She on the other hand took a pendant out of her storage bracelet which had been gifted to her by Markay and said to him exasperated like, "Heeey, I received a pendant from her before them all months ago when the temple had just opened. I don't wear it for personal reasons, this is why I told you to let things be, I never should have shared that story with you in the first place. This is all my fault." she was speaking directly to Markay but blaming herself mostly for all this. She should have known that Markay would intervene somehow.
Folsom came hurrying over with a the new med bed, the one which would adjust to the needs of the patient. They had all been to the hospital to see that med bed. Scarlet had once spent many months sleeping in a med bed.
"Will sister go in a long coma again?" Elroy asked worriedly. "What will we tell Justin if he comes looking for her tonight for their bedtime ritual?"
"Nothing, nobody should tell him anything." Dorian replied.
"Things are not the way they used to be in the past, he will not accept simple excuses. They are now attached at the hip!!" Elroy reminded them all.
"Just tell him she is already sleeping, I am going in to keep an eye on her for the rest of the night." Esong told them and he stood up.
"Maybe we should go to a hospital." Beord suggested.
"No," both of his parents said sternly at the same time. "There is a med bed in the castle and the new health monitoring bracelet on her wrist shows that she is just fine. Let us monitor her for the night and then we will see what to do tomorrow. Everyone should bathe, eat and prepare themselves in case it turns out to be a long night." His father added.
Esong went into the room and the rest of the family followed, getting their first glance at Scarlet's bloody, burnt and clawed body in different areas.
"Oh merciful Buddha!!!" Mega exclaimed and she turned her eyes away for a second. As always, she started crying. "What did she do to herself?"
"She is going to be fine." Dorian assured her.
Esong set the med bed up and soon Scarlet was inside of one, being treated and all of her injuries vanished but still, she looked pale and remained unconscious. A few of them had been holding their breath in, hoping that she would open her eyes when the med bed had finished doing it's magic on her but they were disappointed.
Halley started to cry and Dorian told Elroy to take her outside. She was probably scared, but so were they.
"I think you should all leave now." Esong told them, earning himself furious and curious glances. "I am going to clean her body, even if you are her family for the men to be here is a little inappropriate."
"I will do it." Carolyn picked up a sponge and pulled the hands of her shirt up.
Esong looked at her coldly, the stoic freezing look of undeniable anger in his eyes was scary, it made the hairs of the necks few people stand on end.
Carolyn gasped and dropped the sponge, it fell down into the basin of water and made a small splash.
Markay was quick to step in front of Carolyn and hide her from Esong's terrible gaze.
"Brother," he said nervously, "I did this, not her. You can blame me, beat me up any way you want but don't blame her. I will accept all the responsibility for what has happened here today."
Esong smirked and laughed in a mocking tone. "Do you think I won't do it? Beat you up?"
"I know you can." Markay replied in a smaller voice than usual.
To the Su's, the prince of death looked like he was addressing the king of death. Apparently he was not the apex predator in the area, there was someone that frightened him more.
"Alright," Esong let go of Scarlet's hand, and touched the side of her cheek which had been previously scalded. He then stood up abruptly and told Markay, "Let's go. Since you have volunteered to pay for your mistake I am going to beat you up and break a few of your bones for every injury which was on my wife's body." He looked at Carolyn and told her, "Thanks to this idiot I don't trust you around my wife anymore. You have been keeping grudges even though she has apologized and made it up to you a dozen times over. Tion told me that he called my wife the original villain because she ruined your dreams. I will speak to the emperor and have the case reopened, then you can return to the school and study what you wanted and I will bear the expenses. In return for all this, I would rather not have a resentful person who refuses to accept my wife's apology around her. So, when you return to the capital, stay there with Markay permanently."
The Su's were shocked into silence after all, no one expected Esong to stand up for Scarlet this much. But his words also made them unhappy because this was not a solution but a widening of the gap between the two sisters.
"Another one that is ruining things, hey, butt out." Adler said to Esong and he cursed in his heart. His sisters should have just remained single because these idiots were creating more problems and making the issue bigger.