Creepy Mr Beau

Creepy Mr Beau

"Ma, you know that this day was gonna come, and you'll have to forget about what people think about your relationship and focus more on your happiness. Do this for me, just for once." Alex walked up to his mother and held her by the arm.

Lara slowly walked to the bed and made herself comfortable. She was hungry and weak, and it felt like her legs were going to give way, but she knew better than to interrupt the moment between mother and son.

She so badly wanted to go downstairs and get something to eat, but the greater part of her wanted to stay here and see where everything goes, not forgetting the fact that she was involved too __ well it all escalated because of her anyway.

Gisèle looked pale, the colour faded from her face in just a matter of seconds.

"I don't know what to do." She whispered with teary eyes.

"Lara, is pregnant with your grandchild, and that man whom you don't want to let go off, is obsessed with her… and it is wrong, no matter how hard you try to look past it.

"Stop Alex!" Gisele cried.

"She told me about André being creepy but I knew that he would not cross over with his madness to her, I thought he was gonna behave himself. You mom, I saw him take those pictures today."

"What are you talking about?" Gisele asked in-between her sobs.

Lara straightened herself on the bed. If memory serves her right, she was the one who pointed out his father to him, so what was he talking about? Except he was about to lie.

He selected some pictures from the stack on the bed. "These pictures Ma," he held them up to his mother. "They were all taken today, and I was there when he took them." Alex said.

Lara's eyes bulged out.

"What do you mean?" Gisele asked

"Silent tears rolled down Gisèle's eyes.

Lara, who was somehow invisible to the mother and son duo right now, watched them with her mouth agape. She was as shocked as Gisele, listening to Alex speak.

Somehow, the adrenaline pumping through her veins right now, coupled with the eagerness to get to the bottom of the story, made her nauseousness and hunger disappear.

"I know that you have noticed it too, especially during dinner…"

Alex looked at his mother, who immediately dropped her eyes, avoiding his gaze.

"Ahh, this is embarrassing…" Alex scratched his head awkwardly. "The other day when, uhmm, Lara and I were, uhm …. making love, I caught him peeping through the door and well…. You know."

Lara's eyes bulged open.

Gisele burst into tears.

"And it's not the only time." Alex added.

"Please stop already." Gisele cried, voicing out a series of swears and curses in French.

Lara was at the verge of fainting from shock.

"I did confront him though, it did not end well, but I thought he was gonna cool down." He took a deep breath. " But then I noticed him sitting at his spot in the garden spying on her whenever she goes swimming, so I commissioned the maid, Kayla, to keep an eye on Lara and him."

Lara could not believe her ears. She had no idea that that was how nasty his father was, not to talk about their father and son relationship. The fact that Alex had to keep all this just to himself was what broke her the most...Andre Beau was his father after all.

"Mom…"

"Stop!" She interrupted him. "Ne parle plus." (Do not speak again). She said in-between her sobs.

"I don't want to hear any of it." She said in French.

Alex wore a sad look on his face.

Lara's heart sank, seeing the scene in front of her. She knew how horrible it must be for Gisele… and Alex too.

Just some of the reasons why she was scared to commit to any man.

She walked up to Alex and immediately wrapped her arms around him when his mother rushed out, sobbing intensely, while leaving behind a dejected Alex.

"Hey, you did the right thing." She whispered softly, while rubbing his back.

He returned her hug but remained silent.

"She is your mom, she had to know the truth."

"He has been like that all along, and she is aware of it." Alex finally replied, with a voice coated in pain.

"Oh!"

"She had just been in denial all this while, probably because of the public's opinion and because of me." Alex said.

"Because of you?"

"Yeah, I am her lone child, the siblings I mentioned earlier, my dad had them with other women. My Mom decided to take care of my two sisters when they lost their mother. She was devastated when dad brought home the girls, but she still took them in."

"I don't know what to say, I can imagine how brutal it is for you, not to mention your mother."

"Yeah."

She broke the hug and looked him in the eye. "You did what you had to do." She said sealed her moral support with a kiss.

He kissed her back as if he were waiting for this moment.

She pulled back trying to break the kiss but he would not let go. He deepened the kiss, forcing his tongue to loiter in her mouth.