Chapter 68 Not everyone can be a father
“I saw her pictures and I could see the striking resemblance, her eyes, I always wondered why my eyes were different from any other person, and when I realized Cheri is not my mom, I knew it.”
“Was she always good to you though.?” I asked as I stared at him, my mind filled with different thoughts.
“I didn’t push her if that’s what you are asking? She was good to me, but she always showed a difference between Harry and me and the rest of the kids. I always thought maybe it was because she had favorites. I am not one of them, but I realized, it was never about favorites, it was about me not being her kid, it was about her loving her real kids more than she could ever love and care for me.” Adrian whispered and my eyes filled with tears. “I called her mom, but when I found out that she is not my real mom, I didn’t call her mom anymore, I didn’t think she deserved it and after that, I knew that I just had to stay away.”
“When did it all get bad? You said she was okay with everything, she didn’t maltreat you.” I stated
I badly wanted to know what was going on but I didn’t want to pressure him, I didn’t want to force him to tell me yet we both knew that I had to know, we both knew that this was something we had to talk about.
“When my father decided I will be the leader to his family, as the first son and the heir to his first wife; everyone loved and respected my mother and no matter what Cheri did, my father can forget her but the men would never forget her, their recalled how she was and according to the rules, I am meant to be leader; I guess Cheri thought she would outsmart the rules by having Harry a year arter me so he will be leader.”
“She didn’t like it did she?” I asked and he nodded, he had a frown on his face and and a frown appeared on mine.
“She hated me even more and the little kindness she would always show to me, she didn’t show it anymore, she would show to that I am not her kid and she preferred her kids more than she would prefer me; she would yell at me even more; she would accuse me of many things. She would even go as far as telling my father that I did horrible things that I have not done just so that I would not be a leader, when it didn’t work; she wanted me dead.” He explained and my breathing hitches.
“But the files.”
“My father will do anything to make sure if looks like we have the perfect family, when it all got bad was when she slipped and she fell, I didn’t push her, I was merely there at the wrong time and I thought I would be able to help her, my father forced met I accept that I killer Cheri and to make it all worse, I was asked never to tell anyone the truth, I was asked never to ever think of even shedding a single tear because the truth is, my father wanted a monster for a leader, he wanted someone he can control, someone that will be feared all across the place because his biggest desire was to make that his mafia becomes the largest and the strongest of all.”
“He was not a good father Adrian.” I breathed out as I stared at him, my mind filled with thoughts and my eyes filled with more tears; he didn’t deserve him; he didn’t deserve any kindness and I am glad he died before I met him.
“Cheri’s family didn’t take it lightly, they asked for my death in exchange for their sister’s life and my father would never agree to that, my father would never ever want something like that; and they waged a war against us.”
“They were the ones that killed your father,” I asked as I stared at him, my mind filled with thoughts and my breath hitches.
“No, I killed my father, he didn’t deserve to be alive, he didn’t deserve o be called a father, he wanted me to stop the war because the only way to do that, is to murder every one even my siblings, yes Harry didn’t care for me because of what his mom told him and how she died but the rest, they know my heart and they see my heat, they trusted me.”
“You poor thing.” I breathed out.
He didn’t do anything bad, I should have known papa would not make a decision of getting me married to someone that is bad, I should have known that papa would never ever trust Adrian u less he confirms that he is good and my papa never follows protocol or listens to what other people have to say, he always listens to himself and he trust his own facts and anything else.
I glanced at Adrian with a frown on my face, my eyes filled with tears as I held his hand softly.
“We staged the deaths so it will look like they all died, and that wyd we would be able to leave peacefully, Cheri’s family stopped the war because they knew they can’t stand against me and not only that, they didn’t have anyone to fight for, Harry didn’t care for me and he left a long time ago and Holden, what happened to him was an accident; a mistake from all of us, he was never meant to die but he did because he took some thing he should not have, he was just a kid when he drank that bottle of milk, he didn’t know it was laced for me to die, and he died instead and Liam, he left even before it got so bad.”
“They blamed you for it.”
“They all thought I did that, I took the blame, and to protect everyone else from the mafia so they can have a chance at having a normal life, I staged the deaths, I needed that if I wanted to be leader, if I wanted to be respected.” He said and my breath hitches
I leaned in and I wiped the tears that fell against his cheek before his lips softly met mine