Escape his embrace

Continuation of flashback…

Lucille's POV

Two weeks passed and dad was still not convinced of merging without marriage. I do lay reasons and other alternatives for us not to tie a knot, but dad always reject these points and continue being stern to what he likes. Hubert already left to his mission and Gildrow was occasionally here to visit Leslie who's still bedridden since that day. He's also sometimes here when dad wanted to have a meeting with him. He tasked me to tour Gildrow around and tell him the basic procedures of the syndicate. I also think this is his way of letting us 'know each other', but majority of those times, he's with Leslie and I was secretly letting them meet each other, as I know that's what I can only do to make them happy.