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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
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HIS STORYANDREW'S OFFICE, 3:30PM.Andrew stood in front of the glass windows with his hands in his pockets, his back to Robin. The memories being too painful for him, he didn't want Robin to see how hurt he was by all that had happened in the past."My parents, Silas and Christina Grey got married due to an unexpected pregnancy. Mum was only twenty three and Silas twenty six." Andrew paused and led her to take a seat with him on the couch. He drank some water, before clearing his throat as Robin turned to face him.Andrew continued, "When they first met, Silas had been a womaniser and a party animal. My grandparents had tried all they could to get him to settle down with a girl of the same upbringing and social status as him, but to no avail. He met mum at the birthday party of a friend of his and was immediately charmed by her. She was working as a waitress in the restaurant, where the party was being held. They had a one night stand and lost contact after that day. Fate brought the
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SISTER?BLAZE RESTAURANT, 6PM.Andrew unlocked the car to open the door for Robin before they walked into the fancy new restaurant."Wow, this is Blaze Restaurant! I can't believe you brought me here, Stace has been talking about it. It's so beautiful in here, I love the decorations and I heard they serve very nice food here," Robin exclaimed when they took their table, which Andrew had reserved beforehand.The waiter came in with their order which was some Italian cuisine and after he left, Andrew dug into his food before replying."Yes it's pretty good. I can't believe next week is the regional gaming competition. It came so fast this year, Stanley told me he's finished with most of the work and I just have to finalize some other things. How do you feel to be the mastermind of the game that will surely grant us the trophy?" Andrew fisted his hands as though it were a microphone and raised it up to Robin.She laughed and answered with a laugh "Very proud, I must say."They continued
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NEVER LEAVE METHE BLAZE RESTAURANT, 7:30PM"Andrew, Andrew get back here!" Christina yelled."Calm down honey, he's bound to be furious now. He needs some time to think things through, then he'd come around," Silas said with her hand on her shoulder."I know I have no right to butt in but I have to say what you did is almost unforgivable. I haven't known Andrew for too long, but I've seen the pain that he has gone through during his childhood. Even though you weren't a good father to him, you put so much pressure on him to succeed and just to gain acceptance and some love from you, he has strived as much as he could to be as intelligent as he is today, but you kept pushing him away. How could you even lie to him that his mother was in London, when she has been in New York all this time? Were you trying to keep him from knowing how much she didn't care for him? I don't even know who's a worse parent between you both, but I hope you're happy now that you've ruined not only our date ton
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THE WHOLE TRUTHTHE GREY MANSION, 6PM, THE NEXT DAY."I told you, you shouldn't have worn the dress and heels, you're obviously uncomfortable in them," Andrew said as he and Robin got down from his car in his father's garage.Andrew had finally decided to visit his parents and listen to their side of the story, just for Robin's sake alone.Though he had told her to wear whatever she was comfortable in, she decided to wear something lady like to impress his parents.Her dress was something she borrowed from Clara, a purple, mid length, halter necked dress with sequins at the chest area which she paired with a black purse and matching stilettos.Andrew was totally unable to understand her need to portray an image that was not hers to his parents. Fine Robin liked wearing jeans and T-shirts, but he was totally okay with that, so what was the need to pretend like she liked dresses in front of his parents?"Come on Andrew, don't tell me I don't look good in them," Robin asked with a grave
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THE WHOLE STORY PT 2THE GREY MANSION, 8PM."You're still as impatient as I can remember, Andy. Your grandparents were very much against our union and wanted me to have an abortion. They threatened me severally till the point where your father finally cut all ties with them and decided to get married to me without their permission. It was a big thing indeed, I was very moved by that decision of his, though I wouldn't have wanted us coming together to mean that he had to lose his family and their powerful name. When you were born and they found out we had a boy, they contacted your dad and pleaded with him and finally we reconciled with them.""After your first birthday, we wanted another child, but the pregnancy just wasn't coming forth. We went for several fertility tests and all, but it was still the same. After trying artificial insemination twice, which all failed, we finally gave up and just decided to settle with never having anymore kids. Then like a miracle when you were six,
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HURTING PT 1.THE GREY MANSION, 9PM"Let me answer that, when I left your father, it took a lot of courage to do it. I was convinced that he wascheating on me because I felt that his past playboy lifestyle was something he must have missed. He had been so occupied with work, he was keeping late nights and most times out of the country. I figured that was the reason for his change in attitude and probably he wanted a woman who could give him more children. It's common knowledge that many powerful and influential men like himself, get trapped in the web of manipulating females, who chase after them regardless of their marital status. When I went to London, I changed my writing name to Freya Rain and continued writing children's story books without my picture displayed on the books. I didn't want to be found by your dad, especially after he accused me of infidelity and bringing another man's child into his house." Christina said with a sob.Even after many years, it was still very painf
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HURTING PT 2ANDREW'S SECRET BASE, 10PM."If you keep bringing me to your secret place, then it's not secret anymore, don't you think?" Robin forced a laugh to lighten Andrew's mood.When Robin asked him to bring her to the one place where he felt at peace, he had no opposition to it. He just couldn't endure her tears and was going to deal with whoever made her cry, even if it was his parents.Taking a crate of beer from the fridge, Andrew opened a bottle of beer and took a big gulp from it, before sitting on the sofa in the living room."You asked me to bring you here, didn't you? Now tell me what happened," Andrew asked after five minutes, when they were cozied up together on the sofa.Sitting up from where she lay on his lap, Robin answered, "Your dad asked about my parents and it brought back memories that were just too painful for me to deal with. He wasn't at fault, he didn't know I had lost my parents already. That's your fourth beer babe, you shouldn't drink so much," She repr
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SOMETHING'S GREEN PT 1DAYS LATER...1 DAY TO THE REGIONALS."Okay guys, I believe everyone has loaded their luggage into the bus, we'll be moving soon, but before we leave for The Gaming City, I want to let you guys know something," Andrew said in his deep commanding voice to the gamers from The Braves Club, selected for The Regional Gaming Competition.Harry, Matt, Stanley, Rita, Robin and Sandy were selected by Mr Roberts and Andrew as the executives in charge of the trip. Andrew looked at the team he had set up with a proud smile. The past few days had been very hectic indeed for The Braves, with their latest games not reaching the required number of downloads to qualify them for the round of sixteen teams in the competition.Eventually though, three days to the competition after almost giving up when they still had to get five hundred more downloads to qualify, they were finally able to pass the required points by a hundred more downloads.Andrew had felt so proud when Rita gave
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