Chapter 100


    Aidan''s POV


    My family isplete now and my joy knows no bounds. It is as if the kidnap never happened.


    Sometimes, I feel like spending the whole day watching Lily y, sleep or giggle, but I can''t do that all


    day.


    I realize Lily only has my eyes but she has a striking resemnce with her mother.


    Anna and I had gone out this morning to visit Tony and I wanted Lily and her nanny toe with us but


    Anna protested. Tony was surprised to see us but he invited us in anyway. I have no idea why I


    followed Anna until I got there. Tony was truly hurt and I realized a man like that can do anything.


    I apologized to him for my behavior the other day and exined things to Tony. I didn''t want him to see


    Anna as a bad woman so I told him I was the one who gave her the right to date other men while we


    were married. It was after she began to go out with him that it dawned on me that I might lose Anna to


    him and I didn''t want it because I loved her and I had refused to admit it to myself.


    He shifted his gaze to Anna and asked her if she loved me too and she nodded. I heaved a deep sigh


    of relief and held her hands in appreciation and happiness.


    Anna hasn''t said the L-word to me yet, even after I keep repeating it to her ears before we go to bed


    everyday or during our lovemaking. I don''t want to rush her, I want her to say it when she means it. I


    know she does but she is still trying to admit the whole thing to herself.


    Now that I know what she means to me and how much she means to me, I will never let her go, no


    matter what. I want to do all it takes to make her stay with me, I still have the fear that she might decide


    to leave us someday.


    "Don''t get us killed, Aidan", she chuckles, making me realize I have been stealing nces at her since


    we left home. "Our baby needs us."


    "Yeah, I just can''t take my eyes off the beauty..."


    "Shut up and concentrate", sheughs again. I join in theughter.


    When we sober up, I peek at her and see her rubbing her hands over her stomach unconsciously. She


    said she has something to tell me when we get home and this thing she is doing is raising my curiosity.


    Is there a baby in there? When she said I shouldn''t get us killed, was she talking about Lily or another


    baby?


    I am about to ask her about the surprise when I see Lucying out of the mansion in a hurry. Anna


    suggests we visit mother in the mansion today.


    Lucy has a small bag with her and she darts her eyes around looking for a cab. When she sees me,


    she begins to run.


    "Lucy?" I park the car abruptly and get out.


    What is happening? Why is Lucy running after seeing me? Where is my mother?


    I didn''t wait any more seconds to voice out my fears to Anna before sprinting towards the gate.


    The gate is wide open and empty. I stop and check around, wondering what the hell is happening.


    Without thinking again, I race for the front door.


    The moment I enter, I stop in my tracks when my eyes falls on the blood on the floor. My eyes bulge out


    in fear and I begin to trace the blood. I still can''t hear anything and it seems the ce is empty.


    Did Lucy kill my mother? I ask within me, choking back the sob threatening toe out of me.


    I can''t imagine my mother dying. She needs to be alive for me. I won''t forgive myself if she is dead,


    because I failed in convincing her to leave her pain behind.


    I hurry up the staircase and the blood trail is leading me to my father''s study. When I am a few


    distances away, I hear his voice.


    Father is inside? Where is mother then?


    I stop to eavesdrop on what he is saying.


    "Sign the papers now, Natalie, or I will kill you", he threatens and I gasp.


    "Kill me already." I hear my mother''s low tone.


    I can''t wait here and let him kill her. I knew my father would never change, despite my threat. I look


    around for a weapon but there is none. I rush to the door and enter.


    "Aidan", mother whispers but I ignore her and go for my father. His eyes bulge open in surprise when


    he sees me and he lets go of the cigarette and the document in his hand.


    "Aidan, wee. I was just cleaning up your mother...." I didn''t let him finish before punching his jaw.


    "Easy there, man", heughs as I move forward with anger to give him another but he dodges it and


    blows me in the stomach. I grunt and charge at him again in anger.


    "You heartless fellow!" I punch his face.


    "The heartless one is your mother", he says, pushing me away. "I stopped loving her when she cheated


    on me."


    "What?" My hand hangs in the air. I turn to look at my mother.


    "He is lying", she mutters weakly. Her face is bruised and she is on the floor without her wheelchair.


    She looks like someone who is going to pass out soon. There is blood everywhere.


    Before I cane back to my senses, my father hits me and I fall to the ground. He begin to beat me


    up as he used to when I was a child, making the memories rush back and making me too weak to do


    anything. I justy there, allowing him to do what he pleases, hoping he will let me be when he is


    satisfied.


    "Aidan, get up and fight him back. He will kill you", I hear my mother say but I have given up. I don''t


    know who to believe.


    Is he acting this way because my mother cheated? Did he stop loving her because she was unfaithful


    to him? I try to recall the happy moments we had when they were still in love but the memories were


    blurry and I can''t recall them.


    The beginning of my childhood now starts with the day he was beating me up and my mother came to


    intervene. She steps in between us and he ps her aggressively.


    Mother stood her ground, saying she won''t move aside until he promises not to beat me anymore. That


    wasn''t the first time he would raise his hands to beat me. It was thest beating for me but the first for


    my mother. I guess he was pouring out his anger on me, instead of venting it on my mother for


    cheating. I guess he was doing all of this because he thought I wasn''t his child.


    Am I his Child?


    Only my mother can answer this question.


    I remember how he pushed my mother after warning her severally to step aside. He pushed her down


    the staircase and she lost her leg. My beating stopped because I became defiant and I was always


    ready to challenge him but he began to beat mother.


    Now I don''t know who to believe. My mother who has stood by me all along or my father who showed


    me nothing but how to hate?


    He punch my face one more time and I can no longer hear my mother''s scream for me to get up. When


    I turn to see if she is still there, I see herying on the floor unconscious with her hand trying to reach


    me.


    I feel like dying right now but I can''t. I am thinking of Lily and Anna. We haven''t spent enough time


    together. I can''t die now. Anna will be heartbroken.


    But I can''t fight nature. As my eyes begin to close on their ord, I suddenly feel my father''s weight


    has been pulled off me. I can''t hear anything but I see a man who looks like a cop dragging him away


    and I see Anna shouting and shaking me with tears streaming down her eyes.


    I love you, I want to say but I can''t say it as my eyes finally close and darkness invades my body and


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