They finally accepted

Aurelio turned and looked at his mother with widened eyes.

"You heard me,if you don't marry the girl I choose for you,then consider me dead" Victoria uttered with so much determination.

"Honey, please don't threaten aurelio at least give him time to think about this" Fred said

"Think about what uhh??,mom why are you doing this??" Aurelio asked in a pleading tone.

If what Victoria was saying was true then aurelio would be doomed cos there was no way he would lose his mother ,just no way.

"Your life is in danger aurelio and with this dangerous life you live you need someone to protect you and my priest already chose her " Victoria said ,she walked over to aurelio and placed her hand in his cheek.

"My baby boy,I know you have grown up but I still have a strong feeling that all this are true and you know that my feelings are always right" Victoria said and she began crying.

Aurelio emotions warmed from anger to love,his mother was the only woman he loved in this whole world and his weakness.

"Am sorry mother but I can't marry any random person just because of what a shaman says" aurelio said and like that he dashed out the house.

"Aurelio!!" Victoria yelled aurelio's name but he was far gone.

Derek sighed "shamans and there seeings"derek shook his head ,he picked up his keys and left the house.

" you shouldn't have made Jim angry "Fred said to Victoria who dashed up the stairs in anger also,now we know where aurelio got his temper from.

~~{NEXT DAY,SANTOS HOUSE}~~

the bright morning light shined brightly into Elsa's room.

Elsa yawned as the light shined on her face,she stood up right and cleaned her eyes ,her eyes were swollen with dark circles around them,to show that she had been crying all night and didn't sleep as through the night.

*you are getting married in two days time,get that into your skull* Marcel words echoed into Elsa mind.

"dad must have been joking"Esmeralda said to her self

A loud sound from down stairs got Elsa rushing down from her room,her eyes widened in shock

"i told you to convince your daughter but no she is still sleeping peacefully in her room"marcel yelled at tina as he held her throat tightly.

"you are choking me"tina said as she struggled to breath.

Elsa felt her heart sink as she watched marcel choke tina almost to death,out of fear elsa rushed to them and held marcel hand as he was about to hit her mother again .

"dad why are you hurting mother,please let go of her"elsa said as she tried to remove marcel hand from tina neck.

"shut up you jinxed child"marcel yelled her used his second hand to push elsa away and she landed roughly on the floor hitting her head on the table .

"great you hurt your self now,what will your in laws think about me that i hit my own daughter"marcel said,he let go of tina and she exhaled in and out to catch her breath.

Marcel walked over to elsa and held her hair tightly,elsa wined in pain as marcel dragged her hair and brought her face close to his.

"please let go of her ,you are hurting her"tina said but marcel paid no attention her instead he tighten his grip on elsa hair and esla cried in pain.

"my darling Esmeralda,you see this cut on your head and the mark on your mothers neck is nothing compared to what i will do to you in this house if you don't get married"marcel said with so much anger laced in his voice. Elsa couldn't find the words to say, she was so freaking sacred of this man in front of her.

"do you get me!!!?"marcel shouted and he held her hair with more grip.

"i will ,i will"elsa said hurriedly,there was no way she could let her mother suffer in the hands of marcel.

a cunning smile formed on marcel lips and let go of esla hair.

"thats good,now get ready your in laws are coming over today with the items for your wedding"marcel said,he tried to tap elsa hair but she moved away from him.

"stubborn child"marcel hissed ,he staggered to the door and out of the house.

Tina immediately rushed to esla who was wimping silently.

"elsa am so sorry am so sorry"tina kept saying as she hugged elsa ,elsa held unto her mother tightly as if her life depended on it.

"mom am so sacred...he will ....will"esla hicupped as tears poured on her cheek the cut was deep so her head was still bleeding.

"shh,dont be sacred my love,we just have to do this the family isnt that bad"tina said as she patted esla back to calm her down,soon esla calmed down .

"i am doing this only for you mom,but i promise you after all this is over i will never forgive marcel santos for ruining his daughters life"esla said with no love or care in her voice for marcel.

Tina couldn't say anything else she knew it would some day lead to see now her only daughter hated her husband. what a turn of events .

~{{LOVE BAR}}~

Marcel staggered into the bar smelling with beer and liquor,he staggered to the table and sat on a chair.

"heyy,bring me two bottles of beer"marcel shouted to the waiter by the counter.

His phone began to ring and be brought it out ,marcel looked at the caller ID then frowned.

"those rich people want to make sure what they want is done in an instant they don't know it takes time"marcel said then picked the call .

"has your daughter accepted the deal,you have less than 8 hours "Victoria said over the phone.

Marcel rolled his eyes then hissed silently

"esmeralda is her name and she has accepted i hope your son has accepted also i don't want any issues tomorrow because if anything goes wrong Victoria ......"marcel trialed off.

"oh shut up marcel ,nothing is going to go wrong tomorrow ,i won't be able to come over but i will send a car to pick her up tomorrow for the church ,then the wedding happens and she moves in with my son "victoria snapped back.

" what ever, send the money to the account i sent you"marcel said and he ended the call.

~{{AURELIO MANSION}}~

Aurelio stood at the balcony of his mansion with a cigarette in his hand.

He had his own mansion apart from his parents but he only spent a little time in this house.

"get married??"aurelio muttered as he puffed the cigarette blowing the smoke out.

"i don't love so how can i live happily with my so called bride,never"aurelio thought to him self.

He puffed the cigarette more profusely until it burnt down.

Aurelio was about lighting another when his phone rang it was a call from fred.

"aurelio"fred yelled immediately aurelio picked the call.

"dad what's wrong"aurelio asked sensing the worry in his voice

"its your mother,she's ...she has locked her self in the room and she isn't coming out please come home fast "fred said hurriedly over the phone

Aurelio didn't think twice before running out of the room straight down the stairs.

"boss are you living already??"one of his guard asked as they saw aurelio rush out with so much speed.

aurelio didnt answer he just ran towards his car and in the speed of light he drove out of the compound to his mother.

~ {{BACK AT ROMEZ MANSION}}~

"come on honey open up"fred said as he banged loudly on the door.

The maids and guard all watched as Fred tried hard to make victoria come out of the room.

"please stop this tantrum ,what are you going to gain??"fred said again but he got no reply from victoria.

"aunty please just open up,we can sit and talk about this"derek said,he too rushed over as soon as fred called him.

"mom!!!"aurelio voice could be heard as he rushed up the stairs to his parents door.

"is she in there"aurelio asked and they all nodded.

"mom,am hear now,please come out of their don't hurt yourself,am begging you mom"aurelio pleaded but victoria kept mute only god knows what she was doing in the room.

"lets break it down,lets break the door down"aurelio said .

He moved back a little then used his shoulder to smash the door in a go,the door fell off.

Everyone eyes widened in shock as they all watched Victoria try to hang her self on the ceiling fan.

"victoria!!"fred yelled as he rushed to her and tried to collect the rope from her.

"no!!,let me die if my own son can go against me whats the use of living,i don't want to live in this world anymore knowing my son isn't safe ,just let me"victoria said struggling to collect the rope back.

Aurelio face harden in anger "so she wanted to kill her self just because of a marriage"aurelio thought inwardly,He walked over to fred and collected the rope then threw it across the room.

"you want to die all because of my marriage when you know fully well that i would die if i live without you for a day,fine i will get married to who so ever you choose for me"aurelio said with no emotion on his face,he wasnt happy nor sad about all this.

Victoria smiled widely "thank you my son tomorrow we will all go to the church and get you married"victoria grinned happily.

Derek shook his head in dismay while fred sighed ,they both knew aurelio wasn't happy about all that was happening.

"honey i told you my baby never says no to me,right aure..."victoria didn't finish her words as aurelio dashed out of the room in anger,derek followed behind him.

"see what you caused you made him angry now"fred said but victoria scoffed.

"he will calm down ,tomorrow is the biggest day of his life ,leave him be"victoria said ,she had a wide smile on her face.

may i know the name of my supposed daughter in law,i at least have the right to know her name"fred said.

"Esmeralda,Esmeralda santos"victoria said cheerfully,how happy she was that aurelio accepted.