Even the daughter and son of the Bailey family were not aware of such happenings.
“Is this true or false?” Declan asked his mother.
Mrs. Bailey’s face was ghastly, she trembled and nodded, “This is true.”
“How could father do such a thing?” with no hesitation, the fifth daughter stood up. She didn’t dare to believe that her father was someone this heartless.
They only knew their father placed more importance on boys than girls, but never did he come across as such a person.
“This is unthinkable.” the second daughter too, was in disbelief that her father was this inhuman.
Mrs. Meyer sat in the corner without uttering a word and made no comments either. As a daughter, she had to obey her mother whenever she was called upon, but she never once thought about doing anything for her father.
She even resented why she had to be born into this family.
“Someone must be framing him, otherwise how did this incident from such a long time ago resurface again? Everything was exposed in such a detailed manner.” Although Mrs. Bailey was horrified at the time, as a good wife she remained rather composed, “With the situation now unsalvageable, someone must be behind all of this.”
Those people showed up out of nowhere and exposed the incident through media channels, the interviews that happened on-site streamed how pitiful the victims were to garner sympathy from the viewers. Now the public demanded for an official statement by the Government and gave them immense pressure as the full story unravelled, which threw them completely off guard.
It would be unfeasible for this incident to spread like a wildfire if there wasn’t a mastermind.
“Did father offend anybody?” Declan asked.
Mrs. Bailey shook her head, “I’m not too sure myself, it is inevitable to avoid conflicts in the officialdom. Even so, no matter how bad it may have been, it wouldn’t drive someone to dig up such a past.” “We shouldn’t be cracking our heads the cause of things right now, but we ought to find a solution. For a case gone wild, once the truth is verified, punishment will be unquestionable.”
The authorities would take serious action for the matter to appease the hearts of the people after such a havoc.
“My sisters, our father is in trouble, we have to figure out some way to save him,” Athena Bailey, the eldest daughter of the family, announced to her sisters.
“What can we do?” Breenda Bailey, the second daughter of the family, returned a question.
Her husband disagreed on letting her come over, when she answered his call, he even said to her, “How are you his daughter?”
The husband was clearly unhappy about this issue.
If the choice was given to her, she wouldn’t want to be part of this patriarchal family.
It’s not that she was cold hearted and didn’t care for her father, but the fact that she didn’t grow up in the Bailey family, it was natural for her to not feel so attached to them. Her parents paid very little attention to her, and she had never experienced the warmth of kinship. Her husband and Alan were no different, both of them were alpha males, and they never bothered to build a relationship with the Bailey family.
“My husband is not a high-ranking official, I don’t think we would be of much help. I’ll be taking my leave, I still have some matters to settle at home,” Breenda had expressed her she felt.
Declan was infuriated and stopped her, “Breenda, you’re still one of father’s children, do you have any conscience left? You don’t even care about him.”
“Conscience? What even is conscience? Tell me!”, Breenda had a strong temper and spoke straightforwardly, “A person with a conscience will never do such a thing!” Declan was angry, but couldn’t refute it. He couldn’t find any words to refute it.
“You are Dad’s daughter; you have an obligation.” Declan could only find these words to refute after a long time.
Breenda laughed sneeringly, “What is my obligation? Is my obligation to protect someone who has no principles and no conscience?”
Mrs. Bailey slammed a hand on the table, “Look at how you are talking? He is your father!”
Breenda turned her head to look at her mother, “He is my father? Has he ever shown me fatherly love? Has he ever treated me as a daughter? I have grown up this much without ever feeling fatherly love, let alone the warmth of family.”
Mrs. Bailey was tongue-tied. Indeed, because their eldest daughter was born, they wanted to have a son the second time. However, another daughter was born again so she was placed in foster care at her older brother’s house.
It was easily imaginable that her life could not have been good under someone else’s roof.
“I don’t have the ability to handle this situation. If you are willing to admit that I am your daughter then admit it. If you are not willing to do so, then act like you didn’t give birth to me. In any case, you didn’t raise me.” She turned around and left.
As she walked to the door, she stopped for a moment and turned to look at her younger sisters sitting in the living room, “If you want to take care of this, I won’t stop you. If you want to acknowledge me as your sister, then do that. If you don’t want to do so, I won’t complain. Call me as your sister when we meet and we will still be sisters. If you guys are not willing, then we can just be strangers when we meet, and ignore each other.”
“Breenda…”Eunice Bailey, the fifth daughter of the family, wanted to persuade her.
“There is no need to say anything anymore! Even though we are from the same womb, and it is true that we are sisters, we cannot interfere with each other’s personal thoughts and behavior. I have already made myself clear, if you cannot bear to see me, just treat me like a stranger and treat me like the one if we never know each other.” The Breenda interrupted the Eunice.
After speaking, she continued to walk away, her footsteps straight-forward and decisive.
At this time, Maisy also stood up, “Alan is famous and known by everyone. I won’t say much now. He is my father and I will not comment on what is right or wrong. Alan will definitely not be meddling in this matter and I should leave if I can’t be of much help.”
“Maisy, you also don’t care about your dad?” Athena looked at her in disappointment.
Maisy said anxiously in a hurry, “It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I cannot take care of it. You tell me, how can I handle this?”
Athena had nothing to say. Everyone knew that Alan was famous in the circle.
After this incident, everyone’s eyes were glued to these people related to the Bailey family and were paying attention to their every move. If there was even a slight mistake, they were going to be involved and criticized.
Athena had nothing left to say. However, children raised at home by their own parents naturally had better feelings for their parents than children raised outside.
She wanted to resolve this matter for the fear that their father was going to go to jail.
“These past few years, I and Alan have never been angry at each other. We also don’t have a son, just simply have a daughter. He loves and cherishes me and his daughter very much. I won’t do anything to embarrass him. Mom, I ask you and all the sisters to please forgive me.” Maisy made herself absolutely clear. She was never going to let her husband get involved for the sake of her father.
“You are a brute! You don’t even care about Dad’s safety!” Declan threw the table angrily.
Several sisters couldn’t help but look at him.
“How can you talk like that?” Daphne Bailey, the forth daughter of the family, was very dissatisfied with this.
No matter what, they were all born from the same parents and were siblings. How could he curse her?
“Maisy has already made it clear why she cannot intervene; how can you curse her? You are such a spoiled son, don’t you even have any moral integrity?” Daphne was panting with rage and had already disliked Declan for a long time. He was the only younger brother who had no respect for his sisters.
If it wasn’t for their father, she wouldn’t have been sitting here.
“All of you stop fighting!” Mrs. Bailey’s chest rose and fell quickly in anger. Although, she knew her daughter’s reason, she still felt angry. However, thinking about Alan’s identity, she extinguished her anger and talked nicely to her daughter.
“Maisy! Alan’s identity must be of a little help…”
Maisy interrupted her mother, “You must have heard about the way Alan is, he will not interfere. It will not be of any use even if I ask him. If you want to see us getting a divorce, then I will go back and argue with him. I will do as you say.”
Maisy deliberately left the decision with Mrs. Bailey.
As long as she cared about her daughter even a little bit in her heart, she wasn’t going to let her family break apart.
Mrs. Bailey had no word’s left to say.
Except for the eldest daughter and the youngest son, she had not fulfilled her responsibilities as the mother for the rest of the daughters. She merely gave birth to them, never shown them love and care. “Leave, if you want to. Do you think we cannot save him without you?” Declan couldn’t see his mother embarrassed like that.
Maisy bowed a bit to her mother and said towards her sisters who were staying, “What I did may be wrong, but please forgive me.”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.