Chapter 34

ARIANA’S POV

It felt like my world ended at that moment. I suddenly could not breathe and began to feel my heart beating rapidly against my chest. I swooned and felt Rob hold me steady.

“What? What do you mean?” I asked.

“Nate is Flora's son”, my father repeated.

“What do you mean?” It was Rob this time around.

I finally raised my head up long enough to look at him. I saw a shadow pass over his face. There was more than one question on his mind and my heart began to break into a million fragments.

I was finding it difficult to wrap my head around this new information. Flora had a son? And my parents had withheld that knowledge from me? I stumbled again and this time held on to my father's desk for support.

Life seemed to be dealing me blows from different angles.

“Flora fell pregnant a year before her death”, my father said in a low tone.

“You mean you've been hiding that child from me for years? Flora was hiding him from me too?” I nearly screamed.

Rob started to walk towards me bu