Feeling her nerves already fraying, Beca turned to look at her husband and said, "Did you see that? I told you. We haven’t raised a gentleman but a bully. He takes every opportunity to make realize how I probably have failed as a mother."
"Mom!" Ryan sighed, clearly expressing his frustration with how his mother was treating him.
Morgan felt bad for his wife too. He hadn’t been there when everything happened, but the moment he returned, Beca had told him everything. He was furious to know that his son had treated Arwen so poorly. However, since Ryan was no longer a child, Morgan didn’t feel right to lecture him about his flings.
"Ryan, your mother asked you a question. Answer her." But even so, he wouldn’t allow his son to bully a woman —especially to a kind woman like Arwen.
Ryan looked between his parents and groaned, "Why do you think I did something to her? I did nothing! She got herself into the mess. I just thought she would come to push it all on me here."
"What mess?" Beca asked, not interested in hearing Ryan bring up the same story again.
Ryan sighed, then narrated everything that had happened. And by the time he finished, Beca was already fuming hot in anger. She didn’t address her son directly. Instead, she turned to speak to Morgan. "Should I call your son gullible or an idiot? Because even though I want to believe he is the former, he is proving to be the latter."
"Ryan, how could even consider —if only for a moment —that Arwen would try to harm Delyth? Have you not learned well enough about people to read their nature?" She then turned to look at his son and asked incredulously. "Tell me, what more do you need to see to understand that the woman you fell for is nothing but a wicked, vicious witch?
She deliberately made that post to harm Arwen, yet you stood there siding with her? Haven’t you learnt to differentiate right from wrong?"
For the first time, Ryan didn’t defend Delyth, and Beca took this as a sign that he was coming to his senses. Just as she was about to console him for his poor decisions, Ryan’s phone rang, making her frown. Something in her gut told her that this call would again bring everything to square one.
Ryan looked at the caller ID and furrowed his brows. It was from the hospital, so he answered. The moment he heard the person on the other end, he stood up, ready to leave immediately.
"I will be there. Do whatever is necessary until I arrive," Ryan said before hanging up and preparing to rush to the hospital.
Beca, having already sensed his intentions, sternly asked, "Where do you think you are going, Ryan? We were having a conversation. Do I need to remind you not to leave before finishing?"
"Mom, something happened to Delyth. I need to get to the hospital right away. I promise I will come back and discuss this later. If you want, I will even apologize to Arwen. But right now, please let me go," he almost pleaded, his concern for Delyth only making Beca feel more disheartened.
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