ZAIA. I stare at him trying to process everything he has just told me. My mind and emotions are wreaking havoc within me. How is this possible?
How could Mom do this?
How could she lie to me like this?
Annette is Mom’s sister?
I’m conflicted, but it’s clear he is not lying. There is so much to take in, including the fact that Annalise and I are not sisters but cousins. It’s our moms who are half-sisters, something even Mom doesn’t know.
This is a mess. First, I learn I have a brother, then I learn Dad had a brother, followed by me learning that Annalise is not my sister and that Annette is Mom’s sister.
That’s… confusing. But more than that is the fact that Mom cheated. I am unable to process how she always portrayed herself as the one being cheated on.
She genuinely looked the part too… I had seen her sadness and her struggle so many times. It’s not possible, I mean I believe Dad but is there a possibility it’s a lie? A misconception or maybe even a trick?
I’ve seen the raw pain Mom’s been in…. the sadness at the fact Annette stole her mate. That can’t be faked, can it?
Only a terrifyingly good actress could put up such an act for so many years. There’s got to be more to it!
She told me when I was old enough that it had broken her, realising Dad had cheated on her and wanted to be with his mistress. Why would she do that and break down into tears?
until the last few years, and even now I feel
feel for him. I love him and I want him to know
had his head hanging, and I smile gently. “Things
do you recover
his usual self. My father
you cheating on her. Is there
was definitely her, I saw her clearly, unless there is a woman who smells, and looks exactly like her then, maybe. It
at the thought but he seems so sure. “I see… then,
mean the truth of Adam being brought to light.” He says quietly. I get it… that
“I understand…”
all this mess with the Blood Born and these attacks is sorted out, I
not going to prison father,” I say, a sudden thought occurring to me. “I have a plan …I can do this without mentioning you. “Zaia, what are you
slightly. I need the truth from her… a part of me doesn’t want to believe this… but a part of me also wants to see her reaction when I question her about it. If there’s even a ray of hope that maybe,
to see her reaction when I show it to her. It’s safe
careful. If that is what you want, and if that’s what
the fact I’m hurting him; and I take his hand. “I believe you Dad, and I am so sorry… All my life I’ve been told by mom that you cheated… you never denied it and I always blamed you for that… but to learn that it was not you but Mom who truly cheated. It’s shocking and I won’t deny
it’ll help you, regardless of what happened between us, your mother loves you, that won’t change, Zaia. Are you certain you want to do this now?” he asks. “I don’t want it to cause issues between you. Live in
you allow me to do
promised him whatever he told me will not leave this room, but I am also warmed by his words in defence of Mom. How can your views and respect for a person change so
it before he nods slowly, frowning. “Very well,” he
you,” I reply. He looks tired, and I know he needs
to ask him why he’s never liked the Kings and I’m sure there’s more to it than
my hands. ” Come, let’s go home,
need to go home, Annette and I have already argued.” He says with a heavy sigh. I frown,
not letting Dad suffer and be blackmailed like this. I brush my tears away and fix my top,
It’s
the reports the guards had written up. Gaspard observes me for a moment and
who is on duty, anyway. Only when
down at the files in my hand, I flip through them. Annette has gone as far as to
need to comb through the guards and pack members and find out if there are others she’s blackmailed or abused… A. full investigation
need to have more solid backing. Mom’s family knew about
it from Mom’s maternal or paternal
lean back against the leather seat, mulling over everything Dad
Mom and Annette’s history…
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