22 22. Is That Your Plan?

"Hi, Yara. Is Beckett in?" Leony said to Beckett's secretary.

"No, Miss Leony. He's gone out but he just called me that he is on his way to the office so you can go in and wait or if you want I can give you the key to his private room." Yara offered.

"No, I'll wait in his office. Thanks."

Fifteen Minutes Later...

Beckett returned and sent Yara to go get him something to eat from just across the street because he wasn't able to go for lunch due to his visit to the O'Dwyers family house.

Yara informed him of his girlfriend being in his office before leaving.

"Baby, sorry you had to wait. I had step out of the office for a short while." Beckett said as he hugs her from behind. He didn't let her know that he knows the truth about her relationship with that man.

"Okay. But I need to tell you something important right now before I end up leaving without telling you today too."

Leony removed his hand from her waste and pulled him to the sitting area in his office.

Beckett could sense from her tone and body language that she was tensed and he became agitated.

"What is the problem, baby? Tell me." He said while massaging her hand to calm her down as they sit side by side facing each other on the sofa.

Leony looked at him. Now is the chance. "Babe, I am with child." She blurted it out faster so as to not to overthink it.

She looked at him with worry in her eyes not knowing how he'll take it.

There was a knock on the door but the two were distracted at the moment.

"You mean...?" Beckett was trying to process what he just heard.

"Yes. I am pregnant, my love. I am expecting our baby." She explained anxiously, waiting for his reaction.

But before Beckett could react...

"What?! You!" The two lovers were startled to hear the exclamations from two other people in the room.

Beckett couldn't move at all from his seat the moment heard a particular voice. He was looking like a deer caught in headlights.

Leony turned to the direction of the voices but before she could register who the owners were...

"Slap." A loud and painful slap landed on the side of her face to her nose, making her very reddish and hot.

There, in the middle of the room now by their side, stood Beckett's mother. She was the one who just served her the hot slap. And beside her is her sister, Alexia.

Everyone in the room was shocked. Beckett could see that his mother's ring has left a mark on her face but he couldn't do anything.

Leony stood quickly up from the sofa upon seeing who it was and was quite disoriented. Not knowing the reason for being slapped.

She turned to look at her lover but he wasn't looking at her. It seems his mind was elsewhere.

"Slap." Mrs.Lyons added another slap, making her stumble and fall on her buttocks this time.

Her palm was on her bleeding nose, it seems she has broken it again for it was quite painful.

She supported herself on the floor with one hand, while the older woman towered over her. She couldn't dare to get up.

"You witch, what are you doing to my son? After all these years you are still trying to drag him into the mud with you right? Are you trying to destroy my son's life just like you did with yours? Right? Is that your plan?"

Beckett's mom was beyond angry. She grabbed her by the hand and yanks her from the floor as she drags her towards the door.

The impact of the second slap caused her nose to be crooked and she started finding it difficult to breathe well.

She had to open her mouth wide in order to breathe and her chest heaved up and down while being forcefully dragged to the door.

Alexia moved out of the way to allow them passed. She didn't want to get involved.

"Mom, please stop." Beckett who has been in a trance since he heard his mom's voice finally came to his senses.

He rushed up to stop his mom before they step out of his office.

"Mom, please. We're at the office. Please let her go." Beckett tried to break his mother's hold on his girlfriend.

"Slap." Mrs. Lyons slapped her son across the face making him to stumble back. Her other hand still held unto Leony.

"You your stupid boy. Get out of my face before I sleep you again. After all the warnings we gave you to stay away from her, you still made her crawl back into your life again. Do you want to end up like her? Is that what you want?"

Yara who had just returned from her errands knocked but no one answered so she entered was shocked by the scene before her.

One of her fears was playing right before her eyes. She greeted and quickly went in to place her boss' late lunch on the desk.

She would've put it on the centre table but the situation made it dangerous.

Leony was becoming weaker and weaker as the time goes by and she started to lose her focus on what was going on.

Just breathing was already hard enough enough.

"Mom, please. Let go of her and let's talk. There are people in the office. Please." Beckett tried to reason with his mom.

"Thud." Leony collapses on the floor as her hand slips out of Mrs. Lyons hold.

"Leony! Miss Leony!" Beckett rushes to his girlfriend's side and checks for her pulse which was very faint. She wasn't completely out as she was grunting and gasping for air.

"Yara. Quick. Call the ambulance. Call 999." He instructed his secretary who quickly got right off to it.

In the meantime, removes his tie and positioned her well for CPR*. He gave her chest compressions for about thirty count, followed by two breaths while waiting for the paramedics.