Stand By Me Darling
Chapter 267: My Brother Will Call

Chapter 267: My Brother Will Call

"Who allowed you in?" Walter didn’t hold back his displeasure on seeing Asher there. He knew the Princess won’t like him here and asked his father not to let him out the entire day.

Father never listens, does he? I’m sorry, I’ll not protect him today!

"It’s my father’s brewery. Why can’t I be here?" Asher replied with a prideful sneer, without even looking at Walter.

Who will stop me from entering here?

His father particularly sent him here to make sure to learn what his brother is planning by bringing the Princess here. How can he leave?

Talia knew that the Duke of Luxxenshire thinks he owns Walter’s brewery since he named the company as Luxxenshire when all the capital was arranged by Walter himself. The success of the company also depends only on Walter as he made every decisions along the way.

The name Luxxenshire isn’t owned by the Duke, but he was so conceited to think that everything revolved around him. According to him, his son Walter got what he got- the recognition and success, since he used the ’Luxxenshire’ name.

But isn’t Walter the future Duke of Luxxenshire? How can any one person own that name then?

Asher then walked towards Talia and his eyes naturally gravitated towards Celine.

Talia rolled her eyes at Asher who leered at Celine, top to bottom and his perverted thoughts were very obvious by how he licked his lips giving a sideways glance at Celine.

Even Talia felt her skin crawl by how he looked at her and she felt Celine’s hand holding hers was ice-cold.

Talia stepped in front of Celine and at the same time, Walter and Mr. Ed stepped in front of her. In the end, Asher had to back off.

As they walked through the brewhouse, Walter explained how everything works and there were some workers who were working and seeing Talia they all removed their hats and gave a bow. Talia smiled back and Celine as it would be improper to hold hands, had let go of Talia’s hands and was following Talia a couple feet behind her. And Asher was walking behind them all.

Walter then led them back to the tasting room, as he arranged for some refreshments. As they were walking, Talia was started when Walter suddenly lunged towards her.

"Asher, let go!"

His voice was very menacing as he lunged and Talia turned back to see Asher gripping Celine by her arm.

Walter was emanating rage as he tried to punch Asher, while Talia froze for a moment. Asher was standing behind Celine ,using her as a shield, with one of his hands grabbing Celine’s arm and the other reached for her chest. And he bent down trying to kiss Celine’s neck. Celine looked pitiful with tears dripping down her cheeks as she couldn’t move and in her fright, she couldn’t scream either.

"Shoot him dead, Sir Robert!" Talia barked at Mr. Ed as she saw Asher giving a mocking smile at Walter. It was like Asher was telling Walter that he can’t do anything to him.

He actually dared to do this right in the middle of a factory in front of this many people! He is sick in the head and should be put down like a dog!

Talia really was enraged and she glared at Asher. Maybe he realised that he was at loss, Asher backed away.

"Whoa! Your Highness, I was just playing with her. She asked for it by being so provocative. She liked my touch too. She didn’t say ’No’," he grinned.

"Celine, I’m sorry," Talia’s hands shook out of anger and she hugged her. Celine felt no strength in her legs and wobbled and her entire weight rested on Talia.

Talia looked around to see some of the workers, shaking their head as if they were not surprised Asher acting this way.

"You f*cking b*stard! You dared to do do this in front of me?" Walter punched Asher and he skidded backwards and hit his head at the wall behind him.

Talia couldn’t imagine how Celine feels right now. Some guy assaulted her right in the middle of a crowd in bright sunlight. And that too in front of the guy she likes. Also she’s had such traumatic incident happen to her before, and it crippled her, making her lock herself in her room. Just when she tried to move on, and get out, this nasty guy had to do something like this? I’m sorry Celine.

Talia couldn’t hold on to Celine anymore as she felt more and more heavy and she looked at her face and that’s when she realised that she had fainted.

"Celine...wake up... Celine..." Talia patted her cheeks, trying to wake her up. Her eyes filled with tears seeing the state her friend was in.

Walter who was about to hit Asher more, heard Talia’s cry, and got Celine from Talia’s hold. Carrying her in Princess style, he rushed to his office in the upper floor. Talia followed him and watched Walter laying Celine carefully on the big couch in his office.

"Lady Celine," he bent close to her face, gently patting her cheek and seeing her still not awake, he stood up and ran to his table where there was a jug of water.

As soon as Walter moved aside, Talia watched Celine’s eyes moving and her face went entirely red. Talia’s tears that were about to fall from her eyes, stopped.

Is she acting? But she fainted for real. How long is she awake then?

Walter splashed some water on Celine’s face and Celine’s lashes fluttered and she opened her eyes.

"Where am I?" she asked the very clichéd question.

"Lady Celine... You’re at -"

"Dom! I was so scared!" Celine wrapped her hand around Walter’s neck and Talia could see Walter freeze.

Isn’t Dominic her brother? Did she misunderstand Walter as her brother? Talia wondered.

"There... There... You’re safe now..." Walter patted her head in a very awkward way as only his forefinger was touching her hair.

Talia tried to get close to Celine, but she saw Celine waving her hand and she actually saw Celine grinning ear to ear as she took a good whiff of Walter and she gave Talia the thumbs up signal.

Talia wanted to face palm.

What a woman! At least she is not traumatised as I feared. She was happy that Celine saw the silver lining in the dark cloud. And... All is fair in love! So what if she acted? She wanted to be near Walter and she got it.

"Have an eye on Celine, Lord Rodenberg." Talia said and closed the door behind her after she left the room.

Asher still hasn’t left and was standing downstairs with his eyes filled with malice.

Talia dialled the emergency number and recorded her call just in case.

"I’m reporting a s*xual harassment. Asher Trembley assaulted my friend and she fainted out of fright. Send someone to arrest him. He is at the Luxxenshire Brewery." Talia reported.

"Who?" the woman at the other end had a tone of indifference.

"Asher Trembley. The second son of Duke of Luxxenshire." Talia explained.

"The name of the woman..." the voice at the other end sounded irritated.

"As per the law, I’m not required to report the name of the victim, am I? Send officers to arrest Asher. There are more than enough witnesses to prove what happened here and-"

"The usual is ten thousand dollars, if he had s*x with your friend and the allegations are proved. Otherwise the amount is calculated accordingly. What did he do to your friend?" the voice was very causal.

So the emergency workers are used for this? All complaints against Asher are handled this way? They are hogging the phone lines, by negotiating on behalf of a sick scoundrel? What if someone who actually needs the cops for an emergency calls at this time?

"I don’t want money. I want that sick guy to get arrested." Talia said and there was only a chuckle from the other end.

"Honey, do you know who that ’sick guy’ you mention is? He gets more pocket money per week than your annual income. Just stop fighting and accept the money and leave happily. Stop-"

"Don’t patronise me! Do you know who I am?" Talia asked back.

"No f*cking clue, and I don’t care," the woman at the other end scoffed. Talia looked down and saw Asher wiping the blood dripping from the side of his lips and he looked at Talia with a smirk.

"Fine then, you’ll receive a call from my brother," Talia ended the call.

Talia forwarded the recording to Louis and said nothing else. As she expected, the sound of sirens heard at the distance after sometime.

Talia watched Asher getting pale after she mentioned her brother and hearing the sound of the cop cars approaching, he got startled and decided to run.

But he was stopped by Talia’s security and he pulled out his phone. Mr. Ed looked at Talia and she nodded signalling that he can make a call.

It surprised none as he called his father and even before he ended his call, the cops arrested him, chuffing him with handcuffs. Talia wanted Asher to resist arrest so the cops would bash him a little, but Asher was too frightened to move a muscle and complied with the cops’ arrest.

What a bummer!