CHAPTER 19: PAINFUL TRUTH

CHAPTER 19: PAINFUL TRUTH

The doctors had to use a defibrillator to shock his heart three times before Senior Jones opened some big red eyes and struggled to speak. The doctor encouraged him not to speak.

Kate was now crying because the doctors were telling her to let her dad rest. Who said senior Jones could rest? He was sweating and crying at the same time. It wasn't easy.

"I will kill that idiot!" senior Jones struggled to get up. "Let me get you."

"Dad, please... What is happening to you? Are you running mad?"  but another call came in and senior Jones didn't pick it, instead, he fainted directly. So Kate received it. Funny enough, Dallas was calling.

"What happened to you after that senior Jones? I never heard from you."

Kate walked a few metres and asked, "what happened to him? He's here in hospital fainting."

But Dallas cut off the receiver. So Kate had no choice but to go back home and inquire from Anes who wasn't shocked by the news of everyone terminating contracts with their company. He gave Kate the whole story and warned her not to get herself involved.

"In fact, with all contracts terminated, that company can't stand on its own. We have lost about sixty million in an hour. If I were dead, I can sell the company." Anes said.

So Kate decided to give Katherine who was still in in Great Nolan Empire a call and tell her the situation at home. Katherine wouldn't allow her to drag her into the family matter of the Jones so she turned her down. She was now on her own. Besides, she knew all this were Fidel's commands. So she drove to the Silver Castle again but found Fidel left for office that evening. This was becoming an extremely long day for her. She decided to beg Lian.

"Sister, do something about it. Dad is running mad and I can't help it."

After Kate left, Liam had gone back to sleep so she didn't know anything. Ryan was already back browsing on his phone since he didn't have anything to do. 'staying with the prince is this fun? Am not going back to that country again."

"What are you talking about? I don't know anything. I have been asleep and he is at the company. He can't be behind this." Lian said shocked.

"He is the only one with that power. Besides, dad tried to kill you so it makes sense that kind of revenge." Kate pleaded.

"Bit at least he didn't kill him to return. I'll see what I can do about it. But I can as well choose not to do anything because my own dad tried to kill me. I have to do a DNA test to see if he is really my dad. I can't be born with such a heartless father." Lian said seriously. Well, does it make sense trying to kill a daughter you already sacrificed for monetary value? A daughter you never treated as your own daughter? That was beyond the bottom line already.

"Sister, I will be waiting for the results. In fact, am going back home." Kate said politely. Right now Lian was the redeemer.

In fact, she wasn't to worry about the DNA. Fidel had handled it the moment he send Ryan out. He had blood drawn from Lian, and as for senior Jones sample, that was not a problem since he was already in hospital. What Lian was thinking was the same thing that troubled Fidel. Can a father have the heart to kill his own daughter?

When Fidel heard that Lian was out to find the truth, he came back from the company because it was already dark. He pulled her gently into the bedroom and gave her the papers. At first, she was confused, but after looking at the papers, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"He's not my biological father?" she didn't believe it at first.

"No father can be so heartless." Fidel comforted her as she was already crying. This was the hardest truth to accept. So, where are my parents? She wept inside while hugging the papers. This made her life even hard to accept both sides of the coin. For the first time, she hugged Fidel voluntarily. That night she couldn't eat and that meant Fidel not eating also. It was the longest night of her life.

"Are they always like that?" Ryan gulped down a piece of meat and asked. The guards were good at accessing people so the moment Ryan showed signs of being loose and staying around, they knew they found someone to joke with.

"Do you enjoy it?" Kai snorted at him. His madam boss had just run downstairs crying and boss had followed to comfort her. No one was enjoying the drama at all.

"Kind off." Ryan said. "though am not sure if I appreciate it."

Kai didn't know what to do so he stood there silent.

In the room, he had given Fidel the photos taken at the hotel earlier that day so Fidel held the photo of when he made an arc in the sky. In fact, the reflection of light and the camera lens made a rainbow and it was visible in the photo. Lian smiled and said, "I didn't know you were this handsome"

Fidel snorted and looked at the photo, "Am I not in real life? Are you not in love with this face yet?"

"Did you keep your promise? In fact, everything is worse now. I look like someone who just appeared from thin air with no parents, siblings or even worse a background." Lian said in a distant voice.

"But I just did make you realise that the person you thought was your dad is actually not your dad. We're slowly unfolding the truth." He replied.

Lian fell asleep in his arms unlike how she normally shys off every day. Looking at them, it could be difficult to know these people really never got intimate after their marriage.

When morning came, Fidel was ready with his new plan with Dallas. He had been tracking him so Dallas hidden place was not a mystery.  But Lian asked to be escorted to hospital to see senior Jones. When she walked on, senior Jones wanted to just crawl to her and beg for forgiveness because he had already connected the dots.

"Please, the devil lied to me. Just give a second chance and I will kill that idiot with my bare hands." He had stabilised so he begged.

"Am not here for that. Am here to ask you, who is my dad? How did I find myself in your hands?" she went straight to the point.

"Of course, you are my daughter." Senior Jones said shocked. "Not after doing the DNA test. You're not my biological father and am here to beg you to show me my roots." Lian said.