The Grand Mistress

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The news of Hawk and Feather's marriage was all over the city. Every media outlet was filled with nothing but the wedding arrangements and fittings that the couple seemed to have attended happily. Even the streets were filled with tarpaulins and congratulatory  messages about them that one day, Simione found herself staring very surprised at one tarpaulin she saw on the street.

Her feelings then were conflicted. One side of her was mad, the other was thankful that Hawk was okay. Eversine she left him in that hospital, she never really got any news from him and she was so scared to give him a ring. Many things have happened between them—unsettled things and yet here they were both standing away from each other—Hawk getting married and she, still struggling with the predicaments of the Tang's.

Simione wanted to stay more where she was standing but her phone suddenly rang. It was a call from Tang's mansion and when she answered it, she could hear Lyndon's angry voice in the background and the sound of breaking things.

"Miss please come home right away," It was a maid on the line, thoroughly in panic.

"Why what happened? Why was he screaming all the sudden?" Simione was confused. The last time she checked, Lyndon was okay and he had been recovering well. What's with this sudden twist of things?

"Miss we all did not tell him about Miss Feather's marriage but I think Madam Silicia accidentally left a magazine in his room featuring the miss' wedding!"

The maid's words sponsored a sudden thrill on Simione's spine and she closed her eyes frustratedly. Knowing that it cannot be  helped anymore, she replied, "I'll come, just wait for me. In the meantime don't allow him to leave his room no matter what,"

"Yes Miss," 

Simione immediately called for a cab and headed straight to Tang's mansion. Her days had been pretty busy and stressful. She started reporting to work again and at the same time was working on with grandfather's Tang's case. Her hands were pretty full and yet it seemed like what she got right then wasn't enough and another problem needed some attention. God! What was she going to tell Lyndon then?

Half an hour later, Simione was already running upstairs to Lyndon's room and can still hear him screaming angrily. When she pushed the door open, she saw Tang's young master on the floor with his weak legs tearing a magazine down into pieces while pieces of broken things were being carefully picked by the maids one by one. She could also see one of the maids bleeding signifying that Lyndon had thoroughly lost his mind over it.

"You!" Lyndon immediately pointed a hand at her. "You lied to me! You lied to me,"

"Brother Don," Simione held a deep breath and held onto the sling of her bag. "You understand why I have to do it right? Look at you now, how are you going to get better with this,"

"How am I going to get better at this?" Lyndon repeated her words. "I won't get better anymore Sisi! I won't! How come you hid these things from me? How come you betrayed me?"

"It wasn't a betrayal," Simione's voice went hard on his accusation. "I did it for your own good. Besides, you didn't believe your own grandmother when she told you Feather didn't come and so do you I have an option then? If I say she didn't come you'll just accuse me of lying like how you accused grandmother,"

"But Sisi…." Lyndon seemed to have woken up from his blurred senses by Simione's words.

"Besides, it was Feather you betrayed you but why is it that it was us who you are blaming for it," Simione couldn't help her tears anymore. It's not that she was hurt by Lyndon's accusations, it was just that she had gone through many things lately—with Hawk, with grandfather's case, with so many things she couldn't help but let her frustration out. "What did we ever do to deserve this and yet Feather, despite all her betrayals, she seemed very okay and you, look at yourself,"

"I should have not woken up! You should have just let me die!" Lyndon went on with his self pity. The truth was he had been utterly frustrated about his life ever since Simione rejected him a few years ago. The girl refused to marry him and left Tang's mansion the next day leaving him with nothing. To prove to Simione that she had been wrong in leaving him, he tried to be better and be happy with Feather. The Han's heiress had been all over him anyway so why would he need someone who doesn't want him. So for years, he had fixed himself with Feather and thought of nothing anymore but just lived a happy life with her. They had been happy and successful together and thought that when he meet Simione again, he can can boat on her on how happy he had been without her. However now, he couldn't think of anything to boast about with the girl, not with his career that was surely halted when his legs could not function anymore but also with the woman whom he cheated on her with, who apparently at this time was already with someone else, someone much more bigger and richer than him.

"Fine!" Simione screamed at his face frustratedly. She immediately then threw her sling back on the sofa and grabbed one of the sharp pieces of a broken vase then immediately went to Lyndon. "Here! Kill yourself! I am so done with you! I am so done with your patheticness! I am so done with your selfishness! Go ahead! Kill yourself and let Feather be happy with what she did to you! Go ahead!"

"You fool!" Simione added while staring at Lyndon's surprised eyes. The man had never seen the girl break down that much and so the sight of her becoming like a wild woman gave him not only fright but instant realization of things.