Chapter 26

“tell me what?" I asked, looking at him. With wide eyes.

“Nothing, there is absolutely nothing to tell you” he quickly said looking away from me. “And didn’t I tell you to go inside?”.

“You know, i am not a child.” I looked at him, irritation clouding my thoughts.

“No one said you were, I only said you should go inside”

“Why?”

He rolled his eyes at me.

“I know you are not stupid Ally, it was kind of obvious, some things are business and confidential.”

I Skipped the insult, and left. I had no desire to be In the kitchen.

“Allison” he stopped me from slamming the door. “For future reference, you don’t go near that woman, ever”

It really annoyed me how he spoke to me like a child. I entered the room slamming the door extra hard as i went in.

**

It’s been two weeks since the whole Incident and Ben seemed to have significant calmed down.

He was back to his usual sweet and loving self.

‘I miss you already’ he messaged causing me to roll my eyes at him.

‘I’ll be home before you know it ‘ I messaged him back, coming down from the car and walking down to the café

After enough stalking, I was able to get hold of my real birth father. It wasn’t easy since my family had not been in contact with him.

I walked in to the restaurant. If what they said was true, I had no intention of going into private property with him

He smiled, waving immediately he saw me.

“Hi” he stood up to hug me, but I stretched my hands his way. There was no way I was going to let him that close to me.

He saw my hands stretched out and awkwardly shook it.

“Good day, I’m...”

“Allison chuck” he smiled at me

I nodded. “I know who are” he said smiling at me, but not in the weird and creepy way.

He smiled, looking genuinely happy.

“I never thought I would have the opportunity to see you like this”

“Why did you do what you did” the question that had been ringing in my mind since Grace embarrassed me in the café came out of my mind.

He smiled dropped he let out a tired sigh.

“I know sorry isn’t going to fix anything, I can’t tell you how sorry I am. There were days I wanted to go and get you, I couldn’t help to think that I was going to watch you grow without me by your side.

“That’s it? You are sorry for abandoning me? Nothing else?” I wasn’t by any means close to my mother but no woman deserved to go through what she went through.

He looked confused.

“how do you feel knowing you took a woman’s innocence”

He blinked once, twice... “what?”

“I got to know how you raped her! You were the reason she always treated me like trash! How could you even do that to your brother’s wife! You’re disgusting” his face got more and more surprised with each word I spoke.

“Look, i don’t know where you heard that from, but I can assure you, it isn’t true. I loved your mother so much to do that to her.”

I eyed him up and down

Something in me was telling him to listen to him, for even a moment. he sighed, seeing that was willing to listen.

“Your mum was my girlfriend, and she was the prettiest woman I had ever seen, and honestly, I was smitten. I thought we were in love, but that quickly changed when my brother came back from Italy and she discovered that I was not the richer sibling.” He bowed his head, as If in regret.

“I wasn’t bothered at first she had always had an eye for the finer things of life, so I thought she would get bored and come back. She always did, and I loved her enough to always forgive her. It wasn’t the case and soon I was receiving their wedding invitation.” My heart broke for him, he was just a poor man in love.

“it crushed me. The thought of giving my lover to another person.” He cleared his throat, blinking rapidly. “the week of the wedding, I drank, I couldn’t tell what was what or even function properly because I was always drunk that was except for one night. I was drunk but not as drunk she came to my room, crying that she didn’t love him and she wanted to be with me and she didn’t even know why she was marrying him. She was drunk, I knew it. Things got heated up and well... but I swear, it was not what you think. A drunken mistake.

“And i can believe this how?” he shook his head.

“it’s fine if you don’t. When your mum woke up, she was happy, we talked and all. It wasn’t until my brother came into the room that she pushed me, rolled off the bed and started screaming that I had raped her. Off course everyone believed.”

He looked at me then faced back down. “why did no believe you? Surely if you were innocent there would be a way to prove it.”.

“my brother had always been bitter. He knew his wife to be would always not love him. So he saw an avenue to justify his grown hatred for me. And my parents, well my brother was the favoured child”

I nodded knowing exactly how that must have gone. They go with whatever the favourite child wants.

my mind went to several instances where I wasn't even at fault and then I still.got the blame because they needed someone to put the blame on

“but I swear, your mother wanted to raise the child. She always assured me that you were well then care of, so i thought it would have been better I backed off.”

I shook my head no. He was so Far from the truth.