204: Chapter 204 – Matters of love can be very complicated

Chapter 204 – Matters of love can be very complicated

1Cobby was not surprised about how shocked Devin was. 2

Even he was equally shocked upon hearing about it the first time.

"Yes. Robin's father loved Sabrina like a daughter. I just never thought he would go to that extent and was also surprised when I heard about it."

"So, when do you plan to tell her?" Devin asked after recovering from the shock. 

He could now understand the reason why Sabrina endured all those years with Robin. 

It was because of the love she had for his father.

Devin was sure that if not for Zayla's appearance, she would have remained with Robin irrespective of how he treated her. 

"Robin would tell her about it at the right time for which reason he doesn't want to touch the diamonds. Only she should determine what it should be used for."

Devin bobbed his head in agreement. The use of the diamonds should be based on Sabrina's prerogative and nobody else's.

"That makes sense but I doubt that he would take the money back. He seems like he's ready to do anything for Sabrina. I don't know why I never saw it before," Devin said with regret.

Robin must have been a jerk but he indeed loved Sabrina. His problem was the desperation that gave him away to deception. 

It was even evident at the time Devin picked up Sabrina at the court that Robin loved her. If not, why would he put up such a fight back then?

"That is why I always tell you to be more open-minded. Robin was very young when he lost his mother and that was when he began getting close to women."

"He was quiet about it so no one knew that it hit him so hard until it was too late." 

"As he grew up, it changed to something else. It was the reason why his father and I agreed to get Sabrina married to him."

"We thought that if he had a motherly figure in his life, he would change."

Cobby smiled bitterly. It wasn't only Ronald who loved Sabrina but he also loved Robin very much like a son and wanted to see him getting better. 

"It wasn't about the business. Ronald and I were too close for that. He would easily save my business and I would equally save his if I had the means with no strings attached."

"We only made up that business ordeal to prick both Sabrina and Robin's conscience," Cobby revealed the whole truth about the forced marriage arrangement. 

Robin was already broken before reaching his teenage years and it got worse when he tried to build himself with women.

"And Robin kept making her suffer because he thought that Zayla saved his life and should have been his wife," Devin put the pieces together whilst shaking his head out of pity for Robin.

"When did you find that out?" Cobby asked, not knowing that that piece of the puzzle existed.

"Today," Devin affirmed with a sad countenance. 

He wished he could change back the hands of time. He would have been open-minded and even Matilda would not have kept so many things from him.

He explained to clear his father's puzzled look,

"Everything he did to Sabrina was to make her suffer for coming between him and Zayla and for his father forcefully sending Zayla away."

"I feel pity for him. Maybe if Sabrina had not kept it a secret, things would have been different and she would not have suffered for nothing."

Cobby was nodding his head in agreement but Sabrina's reasons for keeping it secret were genuine.

It wasn't right to make Robin love her because she saved his life. That would be like blackmail to her and not true love.

"Matters of love can be very complicated," Cobby said thoughtfully, Devin recalled something else and said,

"But Zayla is pregnant for him."

Cobby shook his head. "I doubt it."

He was certain that if Zayla was indeed pregnant for Robin like she said, Robin would not have allowed her father's company to go down the drain. 

Robin might have told him but he suspected that Robin was up to something and must have found out more in that letter than he revealed.

"Dad, is there something else I should know?" Devin asked seriously, not wanting to be kept in the dark concerning the things happening in his family anymore.

Cobby chuckled and revealed,

"Robin mentioned making it up to Sabrina on her birthday. I think we should just wait and see."

Devin recalled something and equally said, 

"That reminds me. I perchance went to his small bedroom in the office and there were just pictures of him and Sabrina. There were no pictures of Zayla."

Cobby smiled, already sensing trouble. 

"Robin is so full of surprises but for now, I will inform him to let the video out."

"Sabrina should see it too," Devin insisted, Cobby agreed.

"Then we should send it to her now."

"I agree," Devin said and forwarded the video to Sabrina through WhatsApp. 

She and Matilda had just succeeded in getting Lizzy to her bedroom when her phone beeped.

When she saw a video from Devin, she almost ignored it at the thought that it might be one of those funny videos he sends occasionally to make her smile and to view it when she goes to her room.

She changed her mind when she saw the message pinned to the video. 

'Martin doesn't know that we have this so it's for your eyes only until it goes viral tomorrow.'

Sabrina quickly clicked the video and the sound got Matilda interested, she inched closer to watch.

By the time they finished watching, Sabrina was as white as a ghost, as Matilda said, 

"It's a good thing that Devin got proof. Perhaps it was the reason he hasn't been in the office like Lizzy said."

"But why would Martin do this?" Sabrina asked, not able to understand Martin's heartlessness, adding,

"And he's telling me to marry him." She was so furious and regretted ever being nice to him. Matilda was more vexed.

"He must be mad to say that to you."

Sabrina thoughtfully went to check the original video to hear Martin's words once again when she saw the video of her father's meeting with the press.

Worry nudged her heart and she said, "Why would father say that? We don't have that kind of money."

Matilda was equally disturbed and suggested,

"Maybe, you should ask him."

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