Julianne MacLean by Love According to Lily

Author:Love According to Lily
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Have you no respect for mine?” Lily answered back, shouting now.

The two of them glared at each other like cats.

“Have you told James about this?” Marion asked.

“Not yet,” Lily replied. “I suspect Whitby is telling him at this very moment.”

Sophia stood, too. “Right now? That’s what the note was about?”

“Yes.”

“Good gracious,” she said. “Poor Whitby.”

“Poor Whitby?” Marion said. “I hope he gets what he deserves! I hope James thrashes him. No offense, Annabelle.”

Sophia gazed worriedly at Lily. “He might very well do that. I can only hope Whitby has gained some of his strength back this morning.”

“Well, he obviously has,” Marion said bitterly, “if he was energetic enough to seduce a young girl.”

“He did not seduce me!” Lily said, her head now spinning with fury. “If anything, I seduced him!”

Her mother shot her a look. “Lily!”

Lily stood firm, fighting the urge to cry. “I am in love with him, Mother. There is no one else in the world for me. I would rather die alone than marry another man. I only wish you could accept that. Please.”

Lily could see the censure and displeasure in her mother’s expression. For a long time, she stood staring at Lily, as if she were trying to figure out a way to change her mind, but in the end, she appeared to be accepting that nothing would change Lily’s mind. Not even her own intimidating force of will. Lily was no longer a child. She was a woman, and she would make her own decisions, whether they were right or wrong. And Marion had finally given up. She was giving up all hope that Lily would ever make her proud.

“You will not have my blessing,” Marion said. “Ever.”

“Mother, please…If you could just try to be happy for me.”

“Happy?” A breath puffed out of her chest, something resembling a bitter laugh.

A long, tense moment ensued until Marion stepped away from the table. “I refuse to argue about this,” she said. “Go ahead and marry him, Lily. I don’t care what you do.”

Lily felt the denunciation like a knife in her heart.

Marion glanced at Annabelle and Sophia with one last silent reproach. “I’m going to London. Don’t expect me back until Lily and Whitby are gone.”

She walked out, leaving Lily to fight stinging tears, wishing that for just one moment in her life, her mother could have understood her heart, even if it meant she had to watch Lily make a mistake.

And though Lily had finally stood up to her mother, her mother had nevertheless won, for Lily was stricken with grief. Today of all days—when all she wanted was to be happy.

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