Chapter 5 - His decision

"Mom..." Charles approached his mother, and he hugged her, while she smiled at him and said, "Charles, you haven't answered my question yet? I was waiting for you to return home first, so that we can have our dinners together as a family."

"Good evening, Mom," Charles greeted his mother as he hugged her shoulder and walked with her towards the dining room.

He replied, "She's the one, Mom, and she's very pretty."

"Hmm," First Lady Kira smiled as she kept silent and watched Charles pull a dinner chair out for her to sit down first.

She sat down elegantly on the first chair and continued to watch her handsome son, while he sat on the next chair that was beside her right on the dining table.

Charles replied, "Mom, she's the one, and she's very cute. Where did you see her photo from? I do like her."

"Mmmm," First Lady Kira smiled as she watched the maids step out of the kitchen, and they walked up to the dining table to serve her dinner, alongside Charles' dinner, too, on the dining table.

They served the delicious meals as President Nolan Alejandro wasn't around, because he was in a presidential meeting.

First Lady Kira smiled and replied, "Charles, your father made it known to some of his cabinet members that he was looking for a bride for you, and to know which among his members had any pretty daughters that you would like and choose from."

"Hmm, thanks, Mom. I do like Nancy, but..." Charles' words trailed as he remembered how Nancy had run away from him.

His mother frowned and asked him, "But what, Charles?"

First Lady Kira watched her only son acting nervously, and she waited for the maids to finish serving out the dinners first and leave them, before she asked again, "Charles, do you want us to cancel the wedding? The wedding is in two days' time, and you cannot embarrass your father and me in public and in front of our prominent guests."

"I know, Mom, but the truth is that Nancy ran away from me when I went to welcome her home for her return to the city, and in her family house." Charles shook his head in embarrassment as he covered his face with his palms, remembering how Nancy had run away from him, but with the way her hips had swayed seductively to his views.

Charles smiled and didn't know that his mother was still staring at him angrily, as she wasn't finding his revelation funny at all.

She sparked, "What? Charles, how dare she run away from you? We need to cancel the wedding right now. Didn't her parents inform her that she was going to marry you, and the wedding is next tomorrow?"

"No, Mother, you cannot call off the wedding," Charles refuted, and his mother's jaw dropped as she stared at her only son sadly, who had fallen in love with a silly lady.

"Don't tell me that you still want to go ahead and marry that lady that doesn't love you, Charles. I cannot allow that to happen," First Lady Kira added.

"I know, Mother, but you and Father have always wanted me to marry, and now, I cannot change my choice again, as I can understand Nancy's fears.

She's getting married to the president's son, so she has to be scared," Charles said as he smiled sadly, but his mother shook her head and replied, "No, Charles, she's supposed to be happy with you that you've chosen her to become your wife.

Any other lady out there would have been excited that you've chosen her to become your wife, as she will shower you with love. How dare Nancy run away from you, and you took it lightly with her family? Where's my phone? I need to get her arrested and deal with her this minute, before throwing her behind bars."

"No, Mother!" Charles sparked, startling his mother, and he said, "You cannot do that. If I don't marry Nancy, then know that I won't marry any other lady, too."

"What?" First Lady Kira gasped, her jaws dropped again as she turned speechless and stared at her only son in shock.

She shook her head and said, "No, Charles, this is not happening. I will find another bride for you to marry, okay? That's not a problem, as there are many other pretty ladies out there and more beautiful than Nancy."

"No, Mother, I want Nancy Marlon. I do want Nancy, and no other woman. I want to feel her love, her warmth, and I believe that with time she will love me, too."

"Just give Nancy some time, Mom, and know that I'm truly in love now," Charles smiled, surprising his mother the more.

Her jaw was left ajar, and she gulped as Charles said, "Let's have our dinners, Mom, before it gets cold."

"Okay, my son," First Lady Kira subtly blamed herself in her heart for choosing Nancy's photo first.

She had seen many beautiful young women's photos, since every family wanted their daughter to be married to her only son, even though they ridiculed and wrote nonsense about her family online.

It still didn't deter them from sending millions of photos to her personal assistant.

She had personally selected out Nancy's photo first the moment her eyes fell on the pretty young lady's photos with the other two young women's photos, as she knew that Charles wouldn't have the time to be going through all the photos to choose a bride.

Now she was subtly blaming herself and wishing in her heart that she had never picked Nancy's photo, as the silly young lady dared and rejected her only son, the most handsome and well-to-do young man in their city.

*If it wasn't that Charles loves women, and he's rumored to be a playboy, then what would have given the young lady the right to have rejected my only son and even run away from him? Hmm.* First Lady Kira sighed heavily as she thought in her mind, and Charles peered at her face and asked, "Mom, is everything alright?"

"Yes, Charles," First Lady Kira replied and thought to inform her personal assistant to place a monitor team on Nancy, because Nancy wouldn't just run away from Charles, and not underneath her watch.

*I need to do a personal background check on Nancy to know if she has a secret lover somewhere, which is the reason she rejected Charles, hmph.* First Lady Kira thought in her mind and sighed again, but Charles didn't ask her what's wrong, as they continued eating their dinners silently in the dining hall.

After the dinner session ended, Charles stood up first from the dining chair and set to retire back upstairs to his bedroom, and he said to his mother, "Good night, Mom."

"Yeah, good night, Charles," First Lady Kira Alejandro replied as Charles leaned closer to her and pecked her on her right cheek that was beside him. He walked away towards the living room stairs and climbed them to go upstairs to his bedroom on the third floor.

Charles decided to use the stairs to exercise his mind, and he kept on thinking about Nancy and why she had run away from him.

Charles stepped into his sitting room first and walked up to his bedroom. He stepped into his bedroom and picked up Nancy's photo that he had kept on the headboard.

He kissed her photo on her pink lips directly that he admired the most, and he said, "So pink and lovely. I cannot wait to have you as my wife and to be kissing you every time on these beautiful pink lips of yours."

Charles smiled and kissed Nancy's photo again, as his whole body really wanted her.

He asked himself, "But why did she run away from me? Am I ugly now?"

Charles frowned and walked up to his bedroom mirror to examine his face, as he has short black hair on his head, and his front hair and short beards were neatly shaped, as he's a attractive, handsome black man.

Charles murmured, "Maybe she doesn't like guys with beards, hmm. But she's so beautiful, and I cannot reject her now. Maybe she has a boyfriend, as I'm so sure that she must have one."

Charles frowned as he thought about Nancy having a boyfriend, and her boyfriend was the main reason she had run away from him, and he cussed out, "Nonsense! Is her boyfriend finer than me? I cannot reject her now, and my mother shouldn't dare to hurt her, too. What am I even ranting about?"

Charles walked up to his bed and picked up his telephone, and he placed a call across to Stevo Brights, who was his head security man and very trusted in managing his security affairs for him.

Charles needed Stevo to monitor whatever activities that Nancy was into, her phone calls, her text messages, and to know if she has a boyfriend, that she's probably calling.

Charles said coldly, "Hello, Stevo."

Stevo froze and replied, "Hello, boss, good evening." He was in the security house inside the Villa, and Charles said, "I want you to hire someone trained in the field of hacking and to monitor and give me 24-hour reports of my chosen bride. I will forward her details to you now. You should find out what she does everyday, who she calls, and speaks with daily. Is that understood?"

"Yes, boss."

"Anything else that you need me to do for you, boss?" Stevo asked.

"No, that's all," Charles replied, and the phone call ended.

Charles sighed and stared back at Nancy's photo that he was still holding in his right hand, and he said, "I cannot wait to have you as my bride, and in just two days' time, you will be on my bed and moaning sweetly to my deep thrust. Damn it! I just hope that she runaway."