Chapter 93
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FERNANDA TORRES
I had croaked a weak yes to him. Yes to me listening to what he had to say. Maybe it was relief after hearing that he wasn't married. Maybe it was my spirits getting high when I realized I might have misjudged him all those years ago.
Straight from when he started talking, I feared that the sledge hammer in my hands wasn't enough for support. I leaned against the wall my chest heaving up and down in denial. He loved me? He came to look for me?
Julian Perez threatened him to marry Crystal? Julian Perez wanted to use Ethan so that he could ship illegal guns and drugs into the city? It was all too much really but the one thing that I couldn't believe was that he had already told my mother everything before we left for London six years ago.
Why did she not tell me? If she had…God if she had, I wouldn't have judged Ethan so wrongly and kept Jaxon away from him.
I was the villain in all this but to be fair, had I known the truth I would have done something. I wouldn't have left.
'Aliya-',Ethan spoke softly walking towards me but I stopped him by raising my hand in mid air.
'I just need a minute", I said leaning against the wall.
'I should have told you everything and I understand why Karen didn't want to tell you, I had done more harm to you already",he spoke and the more guilty and bad I felt.
'You should have told me. She should have told me. All these years I hated you for lying to me, thinking that you used me for…for sex!" I exclaimed catching him off guard.
'Sex? I never used you for sex. Aliya that was the best night in my life and if you want to call it sex, then hell that was the best sex I ever had",he said with a smile.
'I don't understand why you are telling me all this now, Ethan", I said feeling a huge lump in my chest.
'This doesn't change anything between us", I said loudly as if trying to convince myself first.
I didn't love him, did I? I moved on. I wanted to hear what he had just confessed six years ago not now.
'Would you blame me if I thought it would? We might not be together but Aliya I want to know my son, you can't- you can't deprive me of that"
'You threatened to take him away from me!" I lashed recalling his bitter words.
'Only because I was mad! Could you blame me though? Aliya you kept my son away from me, do you know how that feels? Knowing your flesh and blood doesn't even know you exist? I want to fill that void in his life, he needs a father and am his father"
'Fine", I said standing straight,"you can visit him anytime you want"
'Visit? I want more than that"
'Which is?" I asked, my nose flaring.
'I want him to live with me. We'll just have to share him"
Share him? As if Jaxon were some piece of property. Although I had learnt the truth about what happened years ago, I was still apprehensive with the thought of Ethan and Jaxon being together. What if he actually took action on his threats and took Jaxon away from me?
More so, what if Jaxon wanted to be with his father more and not me?
'It's your choice, Fernanda", it's the way he said my name as if he were mocking me, his eyes precise and calculating that scared me.
'Fine", I muttered.
'I'll see you at Elise's birthday party tomorrow"
And just like that he left, his hands tucked in his pockets, his dominating aura still lingering in the room. God even his musky cologne seemed to have rubbed off on me. He spoke about a birthday party. His daughter's party.
The daughter that I now learnt was adopted. I pitied the girl. How cruel people were. How could someone just leave a baby by someone's doorstep as if she or he were a piece of trash?
If it were me getting a beautiful baby girl, I would have been overjoyed. Back when I was pregnant, I remember how big my belly was and for a moment I thought I carried twins. Of course mom was quick to tell me it depended with the size of the baby but still at that time, I had imagined getting a boy and a girl.
I never went for any ultrasounds mostly because I wanted the gender of my baby to be known during birth. I remembered Jaxon's birth and how exhausted I had been trying to push him out. I had fainted the whole procedure only after coming to, did I find my mother with my son in her arms.
And when I looked at my son, I knew there was no way I would ever let him go so it was quite a surprise learning that someone would just throw her kid without thinking things through.
Judging from how shy and sweet Elise was, I didn't doubt for one minute that Ethan had raised her right all by himself. The thought of it brought tingles to my body. I chuckled imagining Ethan struggling with dirty diapers.
Had I not left maybe we would have been a family but we weren't because I ran from the pain instead of facing it head on.
After some more minutes of smashing things, I hopped into my car going back to Vince's mansion to confront one Karen Torres.
She knew everything and for all these years she watched as I spoke illy of Ethan, she watched as I kept Jaxon from Ethan thinking of how bad of a man was. Why would she do that?
Which is why as I drove down the smooth lane, I asked myself,
How many more secrets was my mother keeping from me?