Chapter 55
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ETHAN CARTER
I didn't want to see what was right infront of me but it was hard not to especially when my mother kept avoiding my eyes.
The man called Roman asked about my age and with an apprehensive look I asked,
'How do you and mother know each other?"
The answer was right infront of me but I wanted to confirm my suspicions. No wonder she wanted us to leave immediately and if the truth is as I thought, I don't think I would have strength to forgive her after all those years of deception.
'We uh- friends. Though we went out with each other a couple of times before she left town",the man said and my mother shook with fear.
They went out? I thought my mother never went out with another man since my dad died while she was pregnant.
'Ethan I can-' she turned to me touching my shoulder and I felt her hand scathe me with fury.
'If you'll excuse us. My mother isn't feeling well", I said trying to sound calm.
'I can offer you a lift if you would like",Roman said and I didn't know what to think. Had he figured it out too?
Had we both been jilted by my other? He too seemed nervous as if he couldn't believe I existed. And for the last few minutes we had been acquainted I could see how he assessed me as if I were a miracle. As if I were his…
I dragged my mother out of the event not caring whether my little outburst would land in the media come tomorrow morning or not.
Immediately we got out of the restaurant and I could suddenly hear my mind think, I paced across the lifted ground watching Jai bring the car around. I leaned down against the car window telling Jai to head on home and that I would take a cab.
After I watched my car glide down the road among other cars, I turned my gaze to a shaken Lisa Carter.
'Who was he?" I growled.
'We c-can go home and discuss this-' she tried to reach out for my hand but I took a huge step back.
'Answer the question, Lisa. We are not going anywhere until…until you tell me that he- the man out there is not my father! My father dies years ago, he was a renowned architect, right?!"
'Ethan-'she cried and I felt my fury unleash from my body like bullets.
'My father was an architect- he loved me. He loved us. He died- he died of cancer-' I said it,more like tried to convince myself.
My father inspired me to be the man I was today. I was willing to get a loan from Julian Perez back then so that I could start a business that would make my father proud. I aspired to be him. To be like him. To be a man who loved his family more than anything and now?
I wasn't sure who my father was anymore. I wasn't sure who I was looking up to anymore. I wasn't sure who it was I prayed to every night to be proud of me.
All these years…all these years she lied!
'He-am sorry, Ethan. I wanted you to have a father to look up to-'she started and I snarled.
A father who wasn't my father? I had pictures of a man I thought to be my father. I had done everything to be like my so called father.
'That's a cruel way of doing so, don't you think? Does he know?" I asked barely recognizing my own voice.
'He doesn't. He never found out. I left the city before he could find out I was pregnant",she explained and at that moment, I felt like hating her there and then.
'And the other man", I sniffled,"who the fuck have I been calling father for all these years?"
'He-he was my husband. He died of cancer before we could even have children. Ethan please- if you could just-'
'Am done", I said walking back to the party,"I never want to see you again because you-you are to blame for everything. I cried every night asking you why my father wasn't alive. I cried every night wishing I had a father to take to school on father's day yet you knew he was alive and you didn't think it right to tell me?
I had been trying to make a dead man who wasn't even my father proud of me! The man in there is my father and yet you-you never gave me the chance to know him. You were the one person I trusted most in this world, mom but just like that in a snap of finger, you betrayed me.
You betrayed me for all these damn years!" I shouted going back to the party before I did something stupid.
It hurt me to have left her out there crying like that but I was hurting! I was the one hurting thinking about everything. Thinking about the loan, about Julian, about my company.
I wanted to be successful to make my dad proud, to give my mother the life he had promised to her. Ha! Turns out he wasn't even my old man.
I went back to the counter instructing the bartender to give me the whole symmetrical bottle of Jack Daniels. I needed to get drunk, I needed to cool off steam, I needed Crystal.
I needed Crystal to make me forget about everything. I needed to get laid badly maybe then I would forget the party even happened.
I scanned the room check-in for any sign of her. There wasn't any sign of Roman either and I thanked God because I wouldn't know whether to hit him or embrace him as my daddy.
I spotted Shreya busy yapping about something as usual and I went to ask her about Crystal's whereabouts.
'Where's Crystal?" I asked.
'I think you are drunk, Ethan. Crystal doesn't deserve to see you in this state",Shreya commented and I was in no mood for one of her know it all quotes.
'Where the fuck is Crystal, Shreya?" I growled.
'The bathroom. Do you want to follow her there too?" She snorted and I made my way to the back of the restaurant bumping into a few people on the way.
The restroom was just up ahead and I didn't care whether it was the girls bathroom or not, I had been to the women's washroom before and it was certainly not a big deal.
'Ah-ah fuck Landon. Fuck. Harder…mmh just like that daddy"
'Shh!"
I heard followed by someone panting and another gagging. Normally I wouldn't have bothered to check what was going on.. people hooked up in this sort of events everytime.
Rather it was the voices that caught my attention. I heard Landon's name being mentioned so obviously Landon was in there but the feminine voice, it was one I knew too well.
I slowly turned the knob, making sure I didn't startle both of them or make them aware that someone had seen them.
And then I saw it. Surrounded by a few brown boxes, was Crystal holding onto the metal that held the shelves up with a sweaty Landon ramming her from behind.
She moaned urging him to continue and like a bull on testosterone, Landon slammed in and out while I slowly retreated my head back, closed the door and pretended that I hadn't seen what I had seen.
Landon..and Crystal?