Chapter 507 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Jade thinks Candace might be related to Harry’s mom…”

“Jade? Please tell me you didn’t tell Jade about this?” Benne asked in a slightly alarmed voice.

“No. Calm down. I’m not stupid,” Celsie said in a similar tone as he had done, before going on to explain what had transpired between her and Jade, and what she thought about Jade’s theory.

Benne sighed, “Oh, man! This is all so complicated,” Benne murmured as he ran his fingers through his hair at the thought that he was not only dating Harry’s cousin but may also have been housing Harry’s twin sister and nephew in his home this whole time without knowing.

He remembered how Harry had talked about her the previous night and asked questions about the kid, “Can you get their DNA samples? I could have someone take a look at them quickly,” Benne said, and Celsie nodded.

“Sure. I’ll do that,” Celsie said with a sigh.

“So what is Aaron’s plan? When is he going to tell Harry about everything?” Benne asked curiously.

“After the weekend. He wants to have a normal weekend with him before telling him the truth,” Celsie explained.

“I guess I’ll have to cancel my plans with Harry. I was supposed to hang out with him at his place on Saturday after dropping you off at the foundation,” Benne said thoughtfully.

“I thought you were going to spend the day with Jamal?” Celsie asked, and Benne groaned when he remembered something else.

“That means Jamal might be Aaron’s grandson?” Benne asked, his eyes lighting up at the thought that Aaron had a grandchild.

“Only if Candace turns out to be Harry’s twin,” Celsie explained.

“I was going to take him there with me. Maybe I shouldn’t…”

“I think you should. There is no reason Jamal shouldn’t be there to keep Aaron company while you hang out with Harry. Jamal will be a good distraction for Aaron,” Celsie said thoughtfully.

“Besides, I’m sure Harry would like to see the kid. Remember how he was asking us about him last night? And he even joked about you bringing Jamal to him if you don’t want him,” Celsie reminded Benne.

“Alright. I will take him with me when I visit them on Saturday. For now, you should try and get their DNA samples. If we do the test and it’s not a match then we can proceed to hire an investigator to look into it while I have someone look into Candace’s case too. But if it’s a match, then we may just have killed two birds with a stone,” Benne said, and Celsie agreed.

“Sure, I’ll do that.”

“Thank you, for doing this, Jewel.”

“You don’t have to thank me for doing it. I’m involved now, remember?” Celsie asked, and Benne sighed.

“You’re going to have to tell your mom about this, right?” Benne asked when he remembered what she had said about her mother being estranged from Sara.

“That will have to be after I’ve told Aaron and Harry about it. They deserve to know first,” Celsie said, and Benne nodded.

“That’s true. How are you feeling about all of this? Are you okay?” Benne asked with concern.

“I’m upset. I feel both angry and sad for Aaron. He lost twenty-eight years with his daughter, and if for any reason Candace turns out to be his missing daughter, his regret won’t be just about lying to Harry anymore, it will be believing Sara’s lie that his daughter was dead and having her live the way she did like an orphan when she had a loving father like him,” Celsie said as tears gathered in her eyes.

“He is going to be broken, Benne. And it’s going to take a lot to help him and Harry through this. I feel sad. And I feel even more terrible because the woman behind all this is related to me,” Celsie said with a sniffle.

“We will be here to help them through it. Let’s do what we can for them, and after they’re able to sort out their emotions we can all take care of Sara,” Benne promised and glanced at his phone when it beeped with an incoming call notification from Barry.

“Barry is calling,” Benne informed Celsie.

“Alright then. I should let you go now. See you later.”

“I love you, Jewel. Very much.”

“I love you too, Ace.”

Sara paced around her hotel room with a bottle of wine in her hand which she slugged from at intervals.

Her blood boiled with anger each time she remembered how Celsie had played her for a fool and she had totally fallen for it. She wished more than anything that she could deal with Celsie and teach her a lesson, but unfortunately, she couldn’t do anything about it right now.

She was ill not stupid. And as much as she hated Celsie and wanted to make her pay for the silly stunt she had pulled earlier, she had come too far up in her life to lose everything because of Janet’s daughter.

It wasn’t a surprise that she hated Janet’s daughter as much as she hated Janet. The only surprise was that she hated them for entirely different reasons. While Janet was a miss goody two shoes, her daughter, Celsie, had proved to be a sly little devil.

Sara would have been impressed by Celsie if her stunt wasn’t at her expense and costing her a possible lobe of liver.

How could she have allowed herself fall into such a trap because of her desperation? How could she have made such a stupid confession? She was smarter than this for chrissake!

It was her genius brain that had brought her this far, not just her beauty, so how could she have been tricked by such a silly little girl? Sara asked herself, more disappointed and angry at her action than Celsie’s.

There was no way she could ignore Celsie’s threat and reach out to Harry now. She didn’t want to risk Celsie making good her threat to expose her with the recording which she had.

But what if Celsie had lied about recording their conversation? She mused, but shook her head at the same time. She couldn’t call Celsie’s bluff. Something about the bold manner with which Celsie had spoken told her that she wasn’t bluffing.

Celsie had come there with a complete knowledge of who she was, and had been prepared to take her on, but she on the other hand had been taken completely unaware by Celsie.

As much as she would have loved to deal with Celsie, she couldn’t. She knew that doing that meant she was going to also have to face her man, Benedict Delgado. And as much as she also didn’t like the way he had acted earlier towards her, she was smart enough to choose her enemies wisely. Benedict Delgado was an influential man, and he wasn’t a foe she wanted.

What was she supposed to do now that her plans had been ruined? From the look of things Harry wouldn’t listen to her or buy the story she had been preparing for him anymore about leaving because she had been devastated by the death of his twin sister and had been facing postpartum depression.

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