Dagger in heart

After my mind had gone blank a moment ago, I looked up, stunned by what Annie had just said.

" Pardon ?"

I feel lost here, what else is this bitch going to invent?

"Dad asked us to keep it a secret while you grieve your mother but I'm tired of hiding it.. Mark Donovan is my father, he and my mother have been together all these years and it's only to avoid hurting your mother we had to hide."

My head is spinning and I'm about to pass out. Annie's mother and my mother were best friends, how could she do this to her? I can't understand.

" Stop lying .."

"If you don't believe me, just go ask Dad yourself."

I gritted my teeth, in fact it was better especially since I had nothing more to do in this sordid place. Just seeing them makes me nauseous so I'll just leave.

"Baby wait."

"I'm sorry, James, but there's no more like that between us… You and I are over."

After that, no longer paying attention to what he wanted to say to me, I ran towards the offices of my father's company and without being announced I took the elevator to his floor and I went straight to his office.

What I saw made my blood run cold again.

My father and my late mother's best friend were cooing when my mother had just died? So what Annie said is true.

If they are so close now, then despite his marriage, my father continued to maintain this damn relationship.

I hate them all

" Alexia !?"

My father seemed paralyzed when he saw me, swinging his mistress' body to the side as he looked at me in panic.

"My darling… I can explain everything…"

"No need Annie has already done it…"

My father lowered his face and finally sighed.

"So there's nothing left to discuss… 25 years ago, I met your mother and I immediately loved her. I wanted to be with her but I wasn't good enough for her family. I came from a modest background and only had my work for me, your grandfather rejected our union but thanks to Amandine here who was also your mother's best friend, we were able to continue to see each other. For two years we saw each other in secret and finally what was supposed to happen happened: your mother got pregnant. But she wasn't the only one. At that time, your mother and I had an argument and in my misfortune Amandine consoled me... This evening, things got out of hand and I got her pregnant. As you know, you and Annie are two months apart."

"So you got your so-called beloved's best friend pregnant?"

My tone is sharp and he retracts.

"I was young and…"

"Despite that, you continued to see each other behind Mom's back."

"I…your mother was impossible to live with, you know, she kept putting me down and…"

"Dad, you have no excuses... I rather believe that you always loved Amandine but as she came from the same background as you, that didn't help your affairs so you looked for a young heiress... You had love and fortune in this sense, you are exactly like James…"

"Listen, it's the past now let's forget, we can be a family now you, Annie, Amandine and me.."

"The cynicism you show is disgusting… Do you ever understand? I will never accept these miserable people in my mother's house."

My father got angry and hit me in the face.

"How can you be so bad, you're exactly like your mother and…" he stopped in front of my look full of contempt.

"Dad, you hit me for your mistress and your bastard, didn't you? I swear you will pay me for it"

I walked out of there, my heart burning as I walked down the street crying.