Mixed Feelings and Emotions

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"Liam did what?!" Nancy screamed.

Cyra was currently at the Longman house and had just explained her eventful afternoon to her best friend.

It didn't take long for Cyra to realize she had already walked two whole miles because of her mixed feelings and emotions.

Her feet were already covered in blisters before she could call Mr Smith and ask for help. Cyra's mixed feelings about what had happened that afternoon had her in an uncomfortable situation.

And after calming down a little, she tried to justify and analysed why she was mad but she couldn't come up with a concrete reason, this made her realize how impulsive she had reacted earlier.

"No, you did the right thing by walking away." Nancy continued.

"You don't get it Nancy, I had no right to react like that, Liam's my boss, my feelings are supposed to matter to him." Cyra tried to make sense of the situation.

"For God's sake Cyra! Stop trying to defend a disgusting man like Liam. I mean who gets mad for a lady, protects her then go fuck another one behind her back? That's just plain evil." Nancy was making a lot of sense with her argument.

"Please Nancy, don't talk about Liam like that, don't make things worse than they already are, I may not have a job this Monday." Cyra snapped.

Nancy calmed down, she knew this was more than just work to Cyra but if she wasn't ready to admit it to herself first, then there was nothing else she could do.

"I'm sorry Cyra, I don't like seeing you hurt."

"I'm not hurt, I'm fine, don't you get it!" Cyra snapped.

Before anything could happen there was a light knock on the door, the two girls faced the door as Penny walked in with a tray.

"I felt like you could use some sweets to help you girls calm down a little, there's a lot of bad energy in the air." Cyra sighed before walking over to Penny.

"You shouldn't do this Penny, what if you fall walking up those steps?" Cyra scolded Penny collecting the tray from her hands and setting it down.

"I've been walking up these stairs for the past 15 years, I never stumbled then, and I don't think I will now, sweetheart," Penny said with a smile.

Cyra sighed and folded her arms, it was like no one wanted to listen to her. Penny placed her hand on Cyra's folded ones,

"What's bothering you, child?"

"It's nothing. I'm fine, I'm definitely not mad."

"In my experience, I'll say he must have done a number on you if you're this upset." Penny smiled.

"I already said I'm fine!" Cyra snapped again.

"Cyra Elizabeth Hudson!" Nancy snapped too.

Penny felt the tension between the two girls and felt she needed to straighten things out so it doesn't affect their relationship as sisters and friends.

"Nancy, set me down, please," Penny said. Nancy struggled to look away from Cyra as she helps Penny to her bed.

"I don't know what happened and I don't wish to, but what I know is, it's never worth it to fight over something we have no control over as humans." Penny started, Nancy sat beside her holding her hand.

"Come here Cyra," Penny said softly, Cyra was a bit shaken up but she sat.

"From my understanding through the years, I believe whatever happened was because of a man," Cyra's breath hitched in the back of her throat before Penny continued.

"Cyra, my darling, you have a beautiful soul and you are a sweet girl, I love you as much as I love Nancy and I love how you've grown into sisters but I need you to understand one thing." Penny raised her hand to find Cyra's face, Cyra sighed placing her cheek in Penny's small hand.

"No man is worth your tears my child, you have a family who loves and cherish you and Nancy here would only want the best for you." Cyra looked up at Nancy behind Penny who smiled back at her.

"But at the end of the day you chose who you allow to hurt you and you shouldn't let just anyone control your life. You know, bad things happen but only you have the power to choose how it affects your life." After that Penny stood up and made her way out of the room.

Nancy tapped Cyra on her shoulder before walking out following Penny. Cyra was left to herself and her thoughts again, as she quietly pondered over everything that had happened today.

Cyra stood up, picked up a random piece of paper from the floor and packed some of the cookies Penny came in with. She needed to be alone, not like now but isolated alone, and where best for that to happen than at home?

She packed her stuff and left the house without a word, Nancy was furious, how could she act that way, how could she act like they didn't matter after everything they did for her?

Penny placed her hand behind Nancy rubbing her back, "Give it time my love, she'll come around." Penny said as well worried.

Meanwhile back at home weren't exactly as serene as Cyra would have expected.

Patricia had gotten word that the company in which Cyra worked was also the same company Veronica's fiancee managed. She feared that Cyra could have a plan to take such a fine young man away from her daughter.

Now she needed to get Cyra under her control as much as possible to protect herself as well as her daughter. All this fortune was her's and no one would ever take it away.

Patricia knocked on the door to her husband's study, "Come in." He answered.

She had brought him a fresh pot of black tea leaves and cookies, Sedrik had a paper in front of him but looked up when the door opened.

"My Lord, if I may," Patricia said now standing in front of him, Sedrik nodded making Patricia smile.

She poured him a cup of tea and placed the cup in front of him, a half teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of honey, just as he liked it.

"What is it that you want to talk about?" Sedrik said still on his paper.

"Oh nothing much, I just wanted to talk." She lied.

"Mmmmm." Sedrik folded his paper and hummed while taking his tea.

"Have you spoken to Roni's fiancee about the investment?" Patricia started.

"We're working on it, I'll visit the office with Deven on Monday and we'll have an agreement and since it's a marriage agreement it'll be much simpler," Sedrik explained over his cup of tea.

"How wonderful. It pains my heart that my daughter would be leaving soon but I'm also proud that she will be with a man who can take care of her and inherit this beautiful house." Sedrik looked at Patricia when she made that comment.

"I said I'd give the house to any of my children that marries first," Sedrik said picking up his paper.

"Well that's our Veronica isn't it, she's the one getting married," Patricia said but Sedrik didn't answer.

"And if we are talking of matters with Cyra, I heard Baron Colton of Armridge is looking for a wife for his son, I don't think it's a bad family to marry Cyra off to." Sedrik knew the Baron very well and although his son was upright, the Baron himself was the problem.

"Besides, don't you think you've let Cyra run a little too free, I mean for a girl of her age, going out very early and coming back whenever she wants could make the people start gossiping." Patricia defended her argument.

If he could talk to the Baron's son then Patricia isn't entirely out of her mind then, but Cyra was stubborn and isn't easily persuaded.

"Well?" Patricia urged.

"I'll think about it. It's not a bad one for once." Sedrik commended.

Unknown to Sedrik, Patricia knew the Baron much more than he did and he would practically do whatever she requested of him. And her end goal was not something that would benefit Cyra at the end of the day.

Just as they had agreed to the plan and had continued their conversation, the doors burst open and an angry Cyra walked through the door.

Without even as much as a good evening, she ignored both parents and just ran up to her room.

"Such an unruly girl she is, forget me but she should at least acknowledge her father," Patricia said satisfied with Cyra's behaviour.

Sedrik didn't say a word but in his heart, he felt he could at least do something for his daughter and if what Patricia said was the only way to do well by her then so be it.

"Do well to set up a dinner meeting with the Baron's but two weeks from now, we need the investment from Fovx Industries first." Patricia jumped up in excitement.

"As you wish my Lord, there is so much to do. From the sitting arrangement to the food, I need to know what they like, I'll have to talk to the Baroness..." Patricia kept talking as she walked away.

"A proper lady would curtsey or announce that she was leaving, and you wonder where my daughters got her bad habits from." Sedrik sighed as he went back to his news paper.

Despite how the women in his household were, he was going to do everything in his power to ensure that they were happy, that was the least he could do before leaving them behind.