Chapter 106
Amelia's POV
"Fuck this? Why is she not taking her calls?" I growl hitting the phone on the wall, after calling the number CEO Casper gave to me as the supposed girl that look like me contact for the tenth time.
Frustration reeked my body and desperation consumed me, not being able to reach her and the ball was tonight. In a few hours, the ball will kick off. I have been to the address that he gave me and I didn't find anyone there, the place was locked, not even a soul to ask about them.
"Aunty? Is everything alright?" Roe's voice rattled me, and I clutched my chest, my body jolted.
"Hey, you startled me,"
"Sorry Aunty, you were gone the entire day, you didn't tell anyone your whereabouts and Grandpa was worried about you,"
"Sorry, I just thought of helping, in sending out the invitations, I know Grandpa and you had been working your ass out, for the anniversary, so I thought, a little helping hand would be perfect." I gave a forceful smile, hoping he didn't read my lies between the lines.
"Sure, this is more than helpful, you know Grandpa didn't want it to flop, even though I asked him to rest since he doesn't need the stress in his heart, that I could take care of it but he insisted that he should help and aunty is coming back,"
"Aunty Miranda, is here?" My heart palpitations increased, she never did like me and I was sure, she was happy those times I left, and all these years that I have returned, she didn't for once show up at the mansion.
I don't know what happened between her and the old man but I don't think it was a good one, the old man never talked about her.
"Yes, she said she is coming for Grandpa's company anniversary."
"And did Grandpa accept?"
"I don't know, he didn't say anything about it, and he didn't decline, so I guess we are meeting her, and I heard she had a son,"
"Yeah, she had a son, he should be two years older, I guess,"
"Oh, so I had a brother?" Squinting my eyes, I shake my head.
"You shouldn't be excited about the woman and her kid, she is a demon, even though our family is complicated, Aunty Miranda is more complicated than any members of the family," I said picking up my broken phone.
"Like how complicated your life is?" I turned abruptly to look at Roe.
"What are you saying?" He reached out the photo in his wallet and gave it to me, my eyes bulged seeing the only picture I had of my little girl Nadine that had gone missing for years, I grabbed it from him and hugged it.
"She is your daughter right?" I gagged his lips with my fingers while tilting my head side by side to search if anyone was around, that could hear us, before I pulled him into my room, shutting the door.
"Where did you find it?" My voice was almost a whisper
"It had been with me since I was four or five, I couldn't remember but I had taken it away from you when I noticed every night you would cry while holding that picture, I didn't want you to keep crying, it breaks my heart every time you hold on to that picture and cried." I sniffed the air.
"I love you as my mom, even though I knew you are not my biological mother, the love I had for you was the same you had for Grandpa, you call him father, even when you know he is your grandpa, that's the same way I sometimes call you mother even when I know you are my aunty." He moved to the window, "I don't want to see you hurt, it broke my heart when I saw you curled up at the side of the bed, and cried out your eyes, and I got curious, so I stole the photo, and asked nanny Meggie to read those words for me, those were the first words I learn how to read, I love you Nadine, my Nadine." He repeated the words written at the back of the picture, tears welled up my eyes, "she asked me where I got the picture from, and I told her, it belongs to my classmates. She ended up thinking the girl in the picture was my crush, and I didn't correct her impression. For the past two years, I have been searching for the female just as you had been secretly searching for her." I inhaled loudly. "Grandpa knows that you were searching for someone, and he had me follow you a lot of times to track who you are looking for if it's the necklace or someone but I couldn't bring myself to betray the woman I called mother, and I know you went to CEO Casper because you wanted to see the girl, that Grandpa and I talked about. Are you thinking the same thing, I am thinking?" He asked his voice low but his eyes held mine and they bore holes in my skin, and I couldn't even lie to him, if he knew all these years and he didn't tell on me, even when he was much younger, then I could as well tell him everything.
My body collapsed to the chair in my room as the tears welled up in my eyes, was unshaded, "I didn't mean to keep secrets from everyone, especially you and Grandpa, I know you both are my only family but I had no choice, I didn't know how to tell everyone of my stupidity, that I lost my precious daughter to a man that I thought love me and could do anything for me and our child. I don't know how to tell the story that I left home because I was pregnant thinking the male was my happy ever after not knowing it was my doom. I love Todd, and he loves me back, at least, that was what I thought until he took our daughter away from me, he didn't look back, he left with her leaving me with a broken heart and a worthless note that his other daughter wanted a sister. I tried to spit the truth, to shout out my pain but I was too ashamed to tell anyone that the naive reckless seventeen me lost her baby that is just a few months." This time, I couldn't hold back my tears, I sobbed loudly and my hands and lips were trembling, I didn't think I had sobbed hard like this for a long time, apart from the night, Todd took my child.
Roe moved from the window and crouched beside me, he wiped the tears from my eyes before he whispered, "We will find her, I will have DNA conducted on her when she comes, I promise please be strong."
"You would find her?" He nodded to me, then again, how could he get her for the DNA?
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