novelxo Chapter 226
216-There Is A Hope!
Akin dropped me home as I have asked him to do. Pamela and my mother seemed to have gotten into a heated argument, but by the time I arrived home, the two had calmed down and were waiting for me. Mom was in her room while Pamela was outside the house, nervously waiting for my arrival.
"Beatrice! I am so glad you have come back. I was so worried about you.' Pamela began to chase me into the house. I didn't want to speak to her for now. What she did could have been avoided if she had used her words instead of her hands.
"I need space,' I muttered to her, rushing into the room and slamming the door shut in her face. I know now why she was so into begging for my forgiveness. She was very well aware now that Akin cared for me. Once in the bedroom, my mom began to pester me. I saw it coming.
"Why didn't you expose her? If only you had been honest with him, he would have gotten US out of here." Mom started nagging me for not telling Akin the truth about Markus and his mother.
"It's none of your business," I clenched my jaw, giving her the taste of her own medicine. If she can keep secrets from me, I can too.
I didn't have any reason to be honest with her and keep pleasing her. I needed answers from her, and she caused a whole ruckus out of it, and now she wants to talk?
It is my business. You are my daughter, and I care about you,' she hissed at me, approaching me while I stood in the bathroom and washed my face.
"If you really care about me, then tell me if— if Elex was my father?" I closed my eyes, leaving the tap on, and questioned her.
"What?" she was shocked to hear about Elex from me.
"I am tired of you keeping things from me. Tell me, why is it that I am finding out about your affair with Elex now?" I turned to her, watching her realize she could not avoid having this conversation anymore. "Fine! I will be honest with you," she agreed, making me believe she would now tell me the truth about me.
"Elex is not your father!" she mumbled. "He was my boyfriend at that time, but I didn't know he had a mate." She continued.
"So when you came here, you had no idea Pamela was his fated mate?" I inquired, reaching for her and standing in the doorway of the bathroom with her.
"Honestly speaking, no! which is why I couldn't answer you because I was shocked myself. I was nervous and lost when you showed me that picture,' she gulped, anxiously rubbing her palms.
"If you have found out, so will she. And Beatrice! It will not be good for US." Mom looked scared of Pamela finding out about her, but it wasn't just a normal scare. Now I could tell why she desperately wanted to leave this place after finding out she had been sleeping with Pamela's mate in the past and now we are living under their roof.
"She will not find out," I mumbled, not too certain at the same time.
"How do you know that? And where did you get this picture from?" She then asked me, making me wonder if I should have stayed in the basement and gone through the stuff.
"It was in the basement. Pamela hadn't opened his stuff till no-w,' I gasped, wondering if I had accidentally given Pamela the courage to finally face the truth and go through Elex's belongings.
"Then he must have more stuff to point fingers at m-e,' mom looked devastated as she covered her face in her hands and sobbed out of misery. Who would have known the past will come haunting her when she had least expected?
However, there was one more thing for her that I found out from Akin back when he was dropping me off. I wondered if I should tell her to let her be.
It is not like hiding it would change anything, but finding out about it from me instead of Pamela would be good for her.
"There is something else," I uttered, stealing my eyes from her. She was watching me attentively this time, preparing herself for another disastrous announcement.
"What is it now?" she asked with horror-filled eyes.
"Lord Vasquez is accepting Varisha very soon," I have only said till that part that my mom broke down into tears.
"There was no way they wouldn't do that,' she cried in her palm, "the moment he brought her in, I knew something was not right.'
She had been telling me the same thing from the beginning, and now even I could tell Lord Vasquez had started an affair with Varisha the moment they met again.
"I knew it," she pushed me out of the bathroom after getting on her feet and rushed inside to lock herself inside and cry her heart out.
"Mom!' I knocked, but then didn't want to bother her. I believed it was okay if she cried a little and got it out of her chest. While I stood outside her bathroom with my hands in my sweater's pockets, I felt the paper in my fist and closed my eyes with ease.
Suddenly, a ray of hope had emerged in my life after seeing that drawing. If there was even a tiny bit of possibility that Markus knew something and his drawing was hinting at the future, I was going to give it my all. Even when I knew my mom's world was crashing and she was breaking down in the bathroom, I felt like I was in a different phase.
I am not going to look for your body anymore, Helel," I said, sighing sadly. "I am going to look for a way to make sure you come back and live the life you deserve,' I said determinedly on the basis of the drawing in my
fist.