Suddenly, Madelyne started to walk towards me, but the heel of her shoe suddenly broke and he lost her balance, falling from the fountain, hitting her head hard.

- Madelyne! – I screamed desperately, my heart began to beat strongly because of my nerves, she had been completely unconscious.

I felt totally terrified, I began to remove in desperation - Mr. Viktor! – I carefully approached Madelyne saying – Madelyne wake up! Please wake up – my trembling hands were about to touch her face, just before an uproar broke out.

- Henry! what did you do? – My father's scream made me startle. Without giving me time to react, he closed his fist and hit me in the face with all his force. My vision swam and I felt the burning of hot blood on my lips.

He grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, breathing heavily and eyes full of rage.

-What did you do to Madelyne? - he repeated centimeters from my face.

- I didn't do anything to her! - I managed to say -. She…she just fell.

- I didn't do anything to her, she fell by herself -  

Viktor lifted Madelyne with his arms and stopped to carefully observe her foot, when he noticed that Madelyne's heel was broken – Grace Did Madelyne make these heels? – he said with a serious voice.

- No... dad - Grace answered with a terrified and timid expression.

- Grace, I'm not playing!

- It really wasn't Madelyne, I made them, we were playing, she would make mine and I would make Mad's - tears of guilt flowed from Grace's face - but I never thought that the ones I made would be of such poor quality - she added.

- So it was just an accident, her heel broke and that's why Mad hit it - spoke Emma, ​​Madelyne's mother - I'm sure she'll be fine, it's not the first time this kind of incident has happened, however... I hope you never act that way again Charles - her gaze, just as deep as Madelyne's, was pointed directly towards my father.

- You don't know my children Emma, ​​you never know what they could do... I especially say this for Henry - my father always tried to put me down, he never faked the contempt that deep down he knew he felt for me.

- I offer you a big apology for the scandal, we are going to retire - my mother added.

The next morning I woke up with a severe headache. My left ankle was swollen and bandaged. Despite my condition, Grace talked our parents into allowing us, along with the Windsor brothers, to have a picnic. And since they always ended up giving in to their whims, I had no choice but to accept.

That's how we ended up lying under the shade of a large tree, enjoying the sun in front of a serene lake.

- Madelyne, how was the talk you had with Henry last night? Grace asked with some intrigue - Since… well, a big scandal broke out.

- Honestly, he seemed like a very rude young man - I responded, without thinking too much about it.

- And weren't you a little rude to him too, Madelyne?- Grace replied. She paused for a moment, as if hesitating whether he should continue - The thing is… his dad hit him.

- What did you say? - I exclaimed, sitting up suddenly. I would never have imagined something like this. Henry… beaten by his own father.

To be continued...

This novel is also being published in the spanish language, through this same platform called Entre el Cielo, la Tierra y el Mar, I invite you to help me as a reader in the same way, thank you very much and we will see you in the next episode.

Att. BF Crunch <3