“Good then! I’m at the office right now and I need to understand what you said earlier. What did you mean when you said that person was Harry’s mom?” Benne asked curiously.
“Things are a lot more complicated than we thought. Harry’s mom isn’t dead. She abandoned them days after giving birth to Harry. Aaron lied to Harry because he didn’t want Harry to grow with the pain of abandonment, and now he’s scared of telling Harry the truth knowing how Harry feels about being lied to by those he loves,” Celsie explained, and Benne sighed.
He had already figured out that much about Sara or whatever her name was already. He didn’t need any physical evidence to know that it was true. That Sara lady looked like someone who was capable of doing something like that.
“So what does she want now? Why does she keep bothering Aaron?” Benne asked with a frown, feeling sorry for Aaron who had to face a coldhearted witch like that again.
“She wants to meet Harry and be introduced to him as his mother. Although, I have a feeling that this is related to her ailment. She is ill and I think she might be in need of a transplant. What is Harry’s blood type?” Celsie asked thoughtfully since she knew a thing or two about medical stuff thanks to all those big medical textbooks Lucas used to leave lying around the house sometimes.
“O negative,” Benne said, and Celsie smiled. That definitely explained it. The universal donors. Her mother too was an O negative, and she could bet Sara knew of it.
“I think she is trying to get back into their life because she needs a transplant,” Celsie said more firmly now, and Benne’s face contorted with anger.
“She wouldn’t dare! She won’t dare do that to Harry or Aaron! I won’t let her!” Benne growled angrily.
“Don’t worry. I had a little chat with her and…”
“You had a chat with her?” Benne asked, his anger turning to surprise.
“You definitely couldn’t have expected me to leave Aaron in his state to face her himself, did you? Besides, I also had something I needed to confirm,” Celsie explained.
“Celsie…”
Sensing a scolding coming next, Celsie decided to shock him further and make him forget the scolding, “Remember the daughter I told you Aaron was asking for in his sleep?” Celsie interrupted.
“Yes. But Celsie…”
“She happens to be Harry’s twin sister.”
“What the fuck? Harry has a twin sister?” Benne asked in disbelief unable to believe what he had just heard.
“Did that crazy person take the girl with her when she abandoned them?” Benne asked, beginning to believe it was possible to despise someone more than he despised Anita and her family.
“No. It’s worse than that. She lied to Aaron that the girl died at birth, but she actually sold her off to a wealthy couple. Aaron doesn’t know this yet,” Celsie said, and Benne who had been pacing around his office paused and lowered himself onto the seat closest to him.
“She did what?” Benne asked weakly, not knowing whether he was feeling more sad than angry right now.
“You heard me, Benne. She sold off their daughter. Aaron thinks the child is dead, but I just confirmed from Sara today that she didn’t die,” Celsie said as she waited for this to sink in before she would continue.
Benne’s eyes darkened with anger, “Who is she, Celsie? I want her names. I want every detail you have about her. I’m going to ruin her life and take everything from her. I will do everything I can to make sure she pays for making the mistake of hurting Harry and Aaron in this manner. How can she have the guts to show up after the evil she committed?” Benne asked, his entire body trembling with rage.
“That woman is my aunt, Benne,” Celsie said, and this time Benne rose from his seat in shock.
“What are you talking about?”
“She is my mom’s twin sister. I found out about it when I saw the picture of her, and that was why I got involved and had to speak with her,” Celsie explained in a flat tone, somewhat ashamed by the admittance that she was related to a person like that.
“Your mom has a twin sister? You never mentioned it,” Benne pointed out, and Celsie sighed.
“I’ve never met her until today either,” Celsie said and went on to explain what happened between Sara and her mother, and how both ladies were estranged.
“WOW! I can’t believe any of you are related to someone like her. It’s frustrating that evil people like that exist who are breathing the same oxygen with us!” Benne exclaimed in annoyance as he walked over to his window, not sure of what to think or how to feel.
“How did you get her to tell you what she did to Aaron’s daughter? Is she aware that you’re her niece?” Benne asked after a moment’s pause, and Celsie explained what had transpired between her and Sara.
“That was a risk you took there, Jewel,” Benne said, feeling worried about her getting involved with someone as evil-hearted as Sara.
They were yet to deal with the Miller family, yet another person had crawled out of hell’s hole to cause a different sort of problem for them. He knew without a doubt that this was going to shatter Harry, and he wasn’t looking forward to the day when Harry finds out.
“It was a risk I had to take else we would never have known the truth. I thought the whole childbirth thing sounded suspicious so I decided to act on my hunch,” Celsie explained.
“Did you say you have the recording?” Benne asked, and Celsie affirmed.
“Can you send it to me? I will love to listen to it.”
“Alright. I will do so after the call. I don’t have to tell you that you can’t tell Harry about any of this, right?”
“I’m not stupid,” Benne said, feeling slightly offended by her question.
“You can’t tell him about my relationship with him either,” she reminded him, and Benne paused when it suddenly hit him that his best friend and his girlfriend were cousins.
“Oh, shit! You’re cousins?”
“I guess so,” Celsie said, and Benne groaned.
“Now Harry is never going to let me be. I just know he’s going to go on and on about it when all this is over,” Benne complained, and a ghost of a smile played on Celsie’s lips.
“That’s not all, Benne,” she reminded him since he seemed not to care about Harry’s missing twin sister.
“There is more? Are you going to tell me you are Harry’s twin sister too?” Benne asked with a frown, and Celsie almost laughed.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.