Chapter 98***ESTHER*** By the way, they are communicating and staring at each other, I have an earnest wish to know who she is. I want to ask Caden about her. I want to ask Caden about her but I am not getting time to ask him about that.When I am lost in my own thoughts watching them, I feel someone pulling the hem of my dress down on my knees. It’s her. The little girl Dorothy.“Hey!” I call her as I pull her over to my lap but she doesn’t seem to come to me.“Are you his wife?” she asks and her voice is quite irky like she isn’t happy that I am his wife. Well! I actually am not his wife but I don’t like the way she is asking that question. It sounds quite rude. But it’s fine as long as she is cute. She is just a child. I cannot be angry with a child, right?“Ummm… Not now. But I guess I will be one day,” I answer. After hearing my answer, she turns over to her mother and smiles. What’s that weird smile and why?“Momma, she said they aren’t married yet. She isn’t his wife. Why wou
Chapter 99***ESTHER***I cannot believe my eyes when I see the thing in front of my eyes. I don’t know whether to believe my eyes or not.“This picture!” I say in exclamation.“Oh! This one. This place belonged to my sister when she was here. Dad made this place for her to spend time when she wanted to be refreshed and wanted to write the poems,” she says.“You mean Caden’s mother?” I ask.“Yeah,” she replies.“Mom wrote poems?” Caden asks.“Of course, she did. You can still find some of her poems in the school’s library. She used to love writing poems a lot,” she answers. I am shocked to know about her but Caden seems to be shocked over here but that shock is quite pleasant.“Mom loved writing and we never knew about that,” he smiles and tears down. It’s really rare to see Caden crying. Seeing him crying makes my eyes wet in no time.“Maybe it was her choice to do that,” she says.“But that’s not the thing that I am shocked about right now. The thing is my dad, my dad is over there
Chapter 100 ***CADEN*** “What do you mean by surrogate mother? Why would that bastard need a child? When he has such three lovely kids? What’s wrong with him? Something is really going on in that man’s mind or else he wouldn’t do something like this. I know how much he hates the kid. It can’t be because he loves the kid,” she says in a suspicious way. She really knows a lot about dad. I have never known my aunt knows a lot about him cause I rarely saw my aunt in our house when I was young. She must have visited mom when I was little or when I can’t remember. “Caden, why is you stupid dad want to have child at his age? Do you know why?” she asks. I shake my head because I don’t know anything about it. “Dad remarried? Don’t you know about that? Werent you informed about it?” I ask. “What? When? Why? You must be joking?” she gives a sarcastic laugh. I don’t know why is she laughing at him right now but it completely shows that she doesn’t believe what happened to him. “Few months
Chapter 101 ***ESTHER*** The first sight that I see as soon as I open my eyes are the twinkling stars right above my head and they are many. For some moments, I feel as if I am seeing the dream. I have never seen a lot of stars in a long time. I don't know if I had thought they were less important to ever observe or maybe they were less visible in the high pollution of the city area, I just hadn't seen them as beautiful as they are right now. And most of all, the moon shining in between them as the brightest catches my attention the most. They all look amazingly beautiful, the stars and the moon and even the dark sky. "You see them? See how they are twinkling even in that dark sky?" I hear Caden's voice right beside me and his voice shocks me all of a sudden. I didn't know that he is right beside me and watching me watching the stars in the sky. I quickly steer my head to his side. He smiles as he sees me and pulls me closer to him. "Take a glance at them, Esther. Don't they lo
Chapter 102***ESTHER***She walks steps ahead of us. Maybe because she is a child and is very energetic than us, she reaches the house before we do. In case of me, I feel quite tired even after walking only that much. It is just ten minute's distance but for me, it was like climbing a tall mountain.Holy Jesus! I hadn’t felt like this when I was pregnant before. I was so much energetic and so much active before but I don’t seem to be the same as that now.I am starting to sweat just after those few steps like I have done some heavy work.“You okay?” Caden asks me as he holds my arms. I let him do that as I am not feeling quite well.“A little dizzy, I guess,” I say.“Should I take you to the hospital?” he asks. I shake my head. I am sure it is just some normal pregnancy problem. I have already been pregnant once. So, I know this kind of thing happens at times. It’s not a strange thing.“No. I will be fine once I have something and take some rest,” I say and we both walk inside the ho
Chapter 103***ESTHER***“Esther! Esther! Wake up!” I hear his shouts. I open my eyes slowly as I see him dim in front of my eyes. I am rubbing my eyes trying to decipher what is going on but before I could say or do anything, I am pulled up by him.And after that… I get into reality. I see it’s still dark outside through the attic and I don’t realize what the hell is Caden trying to do.“What happens? Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?” I shout at him.“In the middle of the night? Esther, it’s 4 am in the morning,” he says.“So? It is always 4 am of the morning right at this time,” I say trying to get away from his hands but he is gripping my hands firmly that I cannot let go of my hand from him.He is taking me somewhere and I am following like a good little child. He isn’t rough and he isn’t being harsh to me. He is gentle yet stubborn and he will take me somewhere where he wants to take me at any cost. He is behaving exactly like a child who tries to show his par
Chapter 104***CADEN***Did I just mishear something? I'm sure she doesn't mean the thing she is saying right now. How can Esther's dad be my mother's first love? Just how?"You aren't serious, are you aunt? How could you say something like that? What if Esther listens to what you are saying?" I say."I am not joking around Caden. Do you think I would joke about the life of my dead sister? I don't even dream about it in my imagination. Listen to me first. Listen to me child," she says trying to calm me down. I know it's a history for her but it's a shock for us.This new information is giving me a great torrent and I'm sure this is going to give even more turbulence to Esther's heart when she finds out about it."But it's wrong. It's wrong if they loved each other," I stubbornly say."How could you say that Caden? They loved each other even before meeting your dad. He was the first ever man whom she loved a lot and wanted to spend her whole life with him," she says."Then what happene
Chapter 105 ***ESTHER*** It burns my heart to know that Cameron wanted to kill my dad years ago even when I wasn’t even born, even when he hadn’t even met my mother. I hated the fact that my dad didn’t love my mother but his mother instead all his life. I feel bad for my mother though she was the one who was understanding in this whole situation. But somewhere in my heart, I feel bad for my dad and most of all his mother too. I don’t want to be selfish but when aunt Era tells me about what Caden’s mother had to go through I cannot but be sad about her. I feel bad for her. After hearing the story, I don’t think there was any wrong there. My dad and her, mt even before my mother. They met and fell madly for each other but look at the funny part of the Karma. It sometimes fucks up with the wrong people, to the people who don’t deserve to be served like that. Or I would say, it does that time and again. But the more shocking thing over here isn’t that one. The more shocking thing was