Chapter 89
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ALIYA TORRES
'He is your son", I muttered angrily.
I thought I would be calm for Jaxon but when he started to pretend like he loved me, telling me things like he searched for me and what not, my fury skyrocketed because deep down my heart beat rapidly trying to convince him to believe him and for a while I would have believed him.
'Aliya, is that you?" Mila said behind Ethan, her hand clutching Ethan's daughter until I felt like me and Jaxon were the only people out of the equation. We are the people who didn't belong in his life.
The little girl with brown gravy hair stared at me hiding behind Ethan's leg. I could understand why she was scared, maybe her mother had taught her that any woman who talked to Ethan was a threat to her family.
Needless to say, she did have Ethan's blue eyes and there was a certain way she held herself that reminded me of myself.
I couldn't unleash the anger I felt on the child, she was just as innocent being caught up in all this drama. My eyes riveted to Mila, how she she had aged.
There were wrinkles forming on her face and her black hair was now completely grey even her eyebrows..it was nice seeing her again, I didn't think I would see her working for Ethan even after all these years.
'Hey Mila", I greeted but she came straight away for a hug and I hugged her seeing Ethan's glare on me condescending.
When she parted from the hug, her eyes went to Jaxon who had held onto my leg like a skinny tight. It must have been hard for him too and I felt bad having him find out this way.
I had not imagined things to go like this. What I had imagined however was that I would tell Ethan Jaxon was his son and then I would explain things to Jaxon.
'And who do we have here?" Mila asked bending over to greet Jaxon.
Jaxon hesitated before he stretched out his hand to Mila.
'I'm Jaxon",he said.
'And I'm Mila, aren't you the cutest thing. My word, you look just like Ethan when he was young",Mila commented standing up straight as realization dawned on her.
'He is-' she started and Ethan cut her off,
'My son",Ethan said between gritted teeth and Mila stepped back.
'Why don't you tell one of the guards to drive you and Elise to school? I need to talk to Fernanda",Ethan thundered and a stunned Mila took the little girl who I now knew was Elise walking with her to the car.
Minutes later, Ethan's car drove off and we were left standing there glaring at each other with Jaxon caught up in between.
'You had no right to keep him away from me!" Ethan shouted startling me and Jaxon at the same time.
For a woman who has claimed to be strong, I felt weak while I watched his chest heave up and down. I was tongue-tied because I felt guilty when I saw him look at me with hurt in his eyes.
Maybe it was my fault, I should have let him know but it was also his fault because had he not used me for sex, we wouldn't be in this situation. Not that I regretted it, I never regretted our love making because to me it was the best night of my life and from that, Jaxon had been born.
'I'm speaking to you-Fernanda. He was- he is—" ,he stopped eyeing Jaxon who preferred to hide behind me.
I could see the hurt in his eyes when he looked at Jaxon. There was also a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth as if he had just heard the best news.
'Hey buddy",he leaned over calling Jaxon but Jaxon absolutely refused to look at him.
'I'm not gonna hurt you",Ethan continued and I glanced at the sky warding the emotions that were rippling through me. I felt like crying when I saw Ethan trying so hard to get acquainted with Jaxon.
'You are not my daddy!" Jaxon cried and I saw Ethan back away from us in disappointment.
'I want to get to know him. I want him to get to know me",he said sternly.
'I only came here to make sure he knew who his father was, nothing more"
'Nothing more? He is my son and you kept that away from me. I'm going to have him Aliya or whatever you call yourself these days. I'm going to have my son",he lashed.
'He is not your son", I poked his chest angrily,"I raised him single handedly. I took care of him so that he wouldn't have the chance to get hurt by his father rejecting him"
He chuckled nastily before saying,"Is it my fault? Had you told me about him, I would have been responsible for him and please reject him? I rejected you but I would never not even once reject my own flesh and blood"
It was the way he said ‘he had rejected me' that hurt me the most. All these years and he didn't regret a thing. I should have seen it coming, I should have seen that he was the same Ethan Carter from years ago.
I would never let him take my son. Never. He had his own family now so he didn't Jaxon, he wanted my son so that he could hurt me. Nothing more.
'Goodbye Ethan Carter", I muttered opening the car for Jaxon and letting him in. I closed the door going to the driver's side to open the door.
He grabbed my wrist and I tried to yank myself free from him.
'I'm letting you go now because I don't want to make a bad impression on our son, Aliya. But trust you me, I will get us back together even if it kills me"
And he let go of me, I instantly opened the door closed it, buckled my seat belt and got out of there like a scaredy cat high on catnip.