Secret love
Chapter 15
” Your mum and i met in highschool and became best friends She was an orphan and was staying with her aunt at the time. I had just moved here with my parents and she was my first friend. We used to do almost everything together and really enjoyed each others company. You know that old truck ,the one you keep on telling me to get rid of, it was my Dads and our get away car,” he said smiling lightly.
“Whenever either of us had any problem at home or school, we would take the truck for a long drive talking about our problems and that somehow made us feel alive. We had become so close that her boyfriend Jake, who i assume is Jims father, became jealous. He kept on telling her that i was inlove with her and she should stay away from me but she didn’t. He was right though ,i had fallen hard for your mum and i didn’t want to ruin our friendship by telling her and anyway she had a boyfriend whom she was so inlove with,” Dad said as we listened carefully daring not to interrupt him. The way he talked seemed like his mind had taken a trip back to the past.
“One day your mum was acting very strange in school. She was avoiding me and that was something that never ever happened. I cornered her after school and she finally told me why she was hiding from me. Jake had beaten her black and blue all because she didn’t want to break our friendship. I was ready to go and break his face something i always wanted to do but she din’t let me. She covered for him saying that he had already apologized and she forgave him.
I tried to tell her that it wasn’t going to be the last time he’d hit her but she was so inlove or should i say blind to see it. Jake never hit her again after that but he always mistreated her and cheated on her more times than i can count. I really hated seeing her suffer but there was nothing i could have done. She was so inlove with him she felt she couldn’t survive without him.
I couldn’t take it anymore and thus decided to enroll myself in a university in the city after highschool. I tried one last time to convince her to come with me but like always, She declined all because of Jake and his false promises. The last i heard of her before leaving town was that she had moved in with her boyfriend and apparently, they were very happy.
I never dated anyone all my life because she never left my heart not even for a second.She was my love… my secret love.
Three and a half years later i was done with university and i moved back to town opening my restaurant. I had not heard anything about her in those three years but a few months later i met her in the most unimaginable way ever.
I was driving my Dads truck at night on my way home from work and suddenly someone appeared from nowhere and i almost hit them. I stopped the car and rushed out only to see your mum standing in the middle of the road , shaking and holding a child with bruises all over. She was still as beatifull as i could remember and as soon as she saw and recognized me, she fainted.
“Wait ,she had a child?! Who was the child? I mean do we a have brother or sister we dont know about out there?” i asked my heart beating fast.
“Well…. i was the child sky,” Ethan said.
“What! I dont get it. Wait… That would mean you are not Dads real son and Jim is your brother?! Oh my God , how long have you known about this?” i asked getting really upset. ” How could you keep this from me?”
“Am sorry sky. I found out when i was fourteen.Jake sent me a letter from prison telling me that i was his son and that Dad stole me from him. I gave Dad the letter and that’s when he told me everything. I dint know anythi
ng about Jim though ,” Ethan said.
“Yes and just because my bl©©d is not running through his veins doesn’t mean he is not my son. We are sorry for not telling you , we were waiting for the right time ,” Dad said.
” This is to much to take in. I could never have imagined something like this , not in a milion years! i said still startled.
“I get it if you need time to take all this in, we can talk about your mum later,” Dad said .
“No, go on. I can handle it,” i said as i gestured for my Dad to countinue.
“Okay…. i took your mum and Ethan and rushed them to the hospital. As soon as she recovered she was so happy to see me that she thought it was a dream. She told me that after she moved in with Jake everything went from bad to worse. He woul beat her up almost everyday and bring different women in their house and also became a drunkard. When she finally gathered the strength to leave him she found out that she was pre.gnant. She didn’t have a job or anywhere to go and she had no choice but to stay. She said that Jake changed a little when he heard about the pre.gnancy and even stopped drinking but that didn’t last long.
She left him one day when he almost killed her but later found her threatening to take Ethan away if she ever left him again. That night that i almost hit her, she was running away from him. That had become her life she said, playing hide and seek with him. She had found him with a Woman in their house and when she asked her to leave ,Jake started hitting her as usual and almost burned the house down with them in it. She managed to escape with Ethan without him seen them. Jake thought they were trapped in the fire.
After that i took her in. She admitted she was inlove with me after a few month of leaving together and we got married a year later. She dint need to get a divorce from jake because they weren’t legally married yet and that made things much easier. A few months later she was pregnant with you and that was the best news i ever heard. I took her and Ethan out to celebrate and thats when Jake spotted her. He stalked her and Ethan and when i found out i did everything i could to protect her. I beat the crap out of him one day when i caught him and even got a restraining order. He tried taking Ethan away from us legaly but lost the case.
The day i’ll never forget ,was the day you were born. Your mum was having labour pains and was waiting for me on the drive way . Ethan was at my parents house. I wasn’t that far away but Jake got there before me and kidnapped her. He beat her up with the intention of killing the baby in her womb. Your mum fought for you with all her might and managed to get away after hitting him with a rock on his head and left him uncouncious. She took his car and drove straight to the hospital . The hospital called me after she gave out my number and i drove like a mad man blaming myself for all that happened.
When i got there you were already born. Your mum was still alive but she looked pale .The doctors said that she had lost alot of blood and only a miracle could save her. She told the police Jakes location and luckily they caught him. She died in my arms after making me promise not to blame myself for what happened and that i would always take care of you two and thats how we lost her,” he said as he wiped away a tear from his eyes.
” Jake was arrested and is still in jail till now and thats the whole story. I didn’t know about Jakes other family.”
“Am sorry i made you relive all that,” i said hugging him tears streaming down my eyes.
“Its okay , i had to tell you one day anyway,” he said as Ethan joined in the hug. “I love you kids so much.”
“Mum really went through so much, i wish i had met her.”
“Yes ,she was a very strong woman. Our super mum,” Ethan said smiling and wiping away my tears.
That night i dint get any sleep . I couldn’t help but notice how Dads story was similar to mine and Jays in some ways. One thing i came to know is that if it was meant to be, it will definetly be no matter what happened!
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