Chapter 130
Amelia's POV
When Roe told me that it was the DNA result of the girl, he suspected to be my daughter. I couldn't wait to reach home before I opened the envelope that Roe had stretched out to me. I had been waiting for weeks, but it felt like a lifetime. For years, there had been a void in my heart, an aching absence that never seemed to heal, no matter how much I tried to distract myself and hide the pain in my heart. Today, I even risk my life and that of the boy that I had called my son for years, just to get the truth about my long-lost daughter. My Nadine. "We can open it when we get home." Roe's hand dropped on my fingers seeing how inching I was dying to open the envelope. I gave him a tight smile knowing that he wanted us to drop the young girl in the car first before we discussed anything.
"Thanks for the ride," she said pulling the car door, I guess she felt we needed privacy and she had requested to get out of the car earlier before we got here the moment Roe threw the envelope to me but Roe insisted that he drop her here.
"You welcome, is Akira inside?" Roe asked.
"No, I think she went out."
"Oh, tell her, I drop by." He said. She nodded before she turned around and walked toward her apartment. Instead of Roe turning the car and driving off, he waited for her to get inside. I chuckled inwardly, this was the first time, my nineteen years old boy was doting on a female.
We arrive home not too long ago, I look down at the envelope in my hands. "Did you know what is insides?" I asked and he shook his head.
"I didn't open it, I just want you to open it first but know that whatever the results turned out, I wouldn't stop searching for Nadine." I gave him a faint smile. My breath hitched as I realized that in a few moments, my world could be different. After all those years of searching, all the unanswered questions, all the hope, and heartbreak, everything will end. It would either end in happiness or more tears and me going back to Todd, fighting to know where he brought my daughter. I just hope it didn't come to this.
Roe sighed and inched closer before he stood by my side, watching me anxiously. He wanted to grab the paper and open it.
"Don't worry, I will do it," I said stopping him. He was just nineteen yet he acted like the dad of the family, he had always been taking care of me and Grandpa like we were his kids while he was the father. I wouldn't blame him when you have too broken an adult around you. They leave you no room to grow at your pace.
"Are you sure?" His voice broke with concern.
I nodded, though I wasn’t sure if I would be able to survive if the results turned out negative. My heart was still in doubt that the female was my daughter. My heart pounded in my chest, the weight of what might be waiting inside that envelope almost too much to bear. I took a deep breath, trying to steady myself, and then, with one last glance at Roe, before I opened it.
The paper inside was simple, a few lines of text and a graph detailing the results. My eyes scanned the document, my mind racing to process the words, but when I saw it, my mouth dropped and my eyes bulged.
It was her. The DNA matched.
My daughter was alive.
For a moment, I sat frozen, staring at the paper as if the truth it contained might slip away if I blinked. Tears welled in my eyes, blurring the words, but I didn’t need to read them again. I knew I had found my long-lost daughter, my Nadine was back.
“Mother?” Roe’s voice was urgent now and desperate. “What does it say? Is it her?”
I turned to Roe, my face breaking into a smile that felt like sunshine after a storm. Tears streamed down my cheeks, but they were tears of joy, of overwhelming relief.
“It’s her,” I whispered, my voice choked with emotion. “Roe, it’s her.”
Roe's face lit up with disbelief and joy all at once. “We found her.”
I nodded, unable to speak. I tilted my head to my son from another woman. I pulled him into a tight embrace, he was my blessing, in my cursed existence. I had dreamed of this day for so long, but now that it was here, it was like a dream come through, it all becomes possible because of Roe.
When we finally pulled apart, Roe was grinning from ear to ear. “When can we see her? When can we get her back?”
He wiped the tears from my eyes and looked down at me. My heart soared with the possibility of what came next, I knew it wasn't going to be easy, even though Roe had told me that he had given a hint to her that we might be related.
“I don’t know yet,” he admitted. “But soon. I promise I will talk to her first.”
I nodded, my excitement barely contained. “What’s her name? Are you going to talk to her today? Can you make her come home like tomorrow?”
"Mother..."
"Fine, I am sorry, I am just overly excited and I don't know the condition my daughter is living in and I didn't get to see her at the address CEO Casper gave me."
“I understand, you have nothing to worry about, I will talk to her. I promise I will persuade her to come home, if I can't then I will inform Grandpa..."
"No please, I want to be the one to tell Grandpa, I want to explain everything to him," my shoulder drops, "I don't know how he is going to take it."
"You don't have to worry, grandpa already loves Akira, so I am sure you have nothing to worry about."
My smile widened. “Nadine,” I smiled pressing my lips on the results and Roe smirked.
"Come on Mother, you are not going to do that all night. Go have some rest and I will send drugs to you." I looked at him suspiciously, I wasn't sick. "Don't give me that look, I don't know the damage that asshole did to you, I can't take chances." I smiled before grabbing his hand.
"Thank you, for everything, for being my son, for looking out for me, and for treating me and my daughter as family." He smiled pulling my forehead and pressing a soft kiss on my forehead.
"That's what sons do for their mother and sister, I promise I will bring your daughter to you..."
"Your sister."
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