His Second Wife (A Descendants 2 Story)

Chapter 24 - Toxic

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Evie's POV

My eyes wandered around the gold-painted room as my foot rhythmically tapped against the carpet. Each breath respired loudly into thin air, my patience was wearing thin.

The curtain rings clinked against the rod as the curtain was shifted over. She stepped out almost tumbling onto the ground in her heels. Some things never change.

"How do I look?" She asked. She slowly turned around and lifted her arms in glory. A silent smile was spread across my face to show satisfaction.

Her eyes drooped, "Come on, Evie. You and I both know that a smile won't be enough for those ungrateful people. I need more enthusiasm!" She giggled lost in her own contentment but her contentment which I quickly had to expel of.

"What do you want me to say, Uma?" I asked. Her red lips hid her shining teeth as she bit down onto them. The long-held tension had finally dispersed into the air. Her smile disappeared from her face and her eyebrows straightened. Her heels treaded against the rug as she laid her hands against her waist.

She stopped pacing, "I wanted to hear you say that you're happy for me rather actually that you were proud of me. Maybe I thought that whenever I would ever get to see you again, you would laugh in my face telling me how wrong I was but how much in the right you were. I guess not, huh?"

I rose my bottom higher against the edge of the dresser. I looked at her and all I could see was every form of emotion longing to bust out. I shook my head, "You know what? Forget it."

"No, you don't get to act like that!" She shouted. She quickly took a breath, "If this is about that night seven months ago, I did what you told me to do. I trusted your word and I don't regret my decision."

I shrugged my shoulders, "Well, I do," I admitted. "I made a mistake that night trying to insert myself in your affairs where I had no business to."

She scoffed, "Evie, you had every right to tell me what I could and couldn't do. Looking back, I wasn't even thinking with a straight mind. The Isle has never been my home neither is it yours or anybody on that island. They lied to all of us telling us that we belonged there. You don't fight to survive in a place you're supposed to feel the most safe."

I snickered at her words, "In between that whole epiphany of yours, did you even think about how your decision will affect others?" I asked.

The lines around her face eased, I had caught her off guard. "Of course I did," she answered without confidence.

"But you found your needs the most important?" I asked, finishing her sentence. "Being selfish is always going to be a part of you. You think that you're better off here but you're not. This place is going to change you."

"Last time I checked, you took that opportunity to come to Auradon without hesitation. So, who's the real hypocrite here?" She asked, nearing my face. A smirk was tugging onto the corners of my lips but I tried to keep it hidden. My job was done here. I turned around and began to pack my things.

"E-Evie don't go."

"I have another appointment to get to," I responded coldly.

"I love it here. How do you expect me to give up all of this and to go back to the Isle?" She asked, "Would Doug feel the same way?" My head shot up at the mention of Doug. I promised myself that I would never let the memory of him cloud my mind again, but it was already too late.