All Chapters of Two Loves, One Destiny: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Jake“So? What’s the information you have for me?” I asked when the waitress brought us our coffee.“To begin with, you were right about your suspicions. Kiara’s pregnancy is high-risk because one of the babies has a weaker heartbeat compared to the other.”“It was true…” I said, stirring my coffee.I felt a sharp pang in my chest.Another thing I couldn’t understand.Why did I care? It wasn’t my life. It wasn’t my problem. I didn’t love Kiara. I didn’t care what happened to her.And yet, the pang kept twisting something inside me, something I couldn’t decipher.I took a sip of my coffee, as if that could drown the feeling, but it didn’t work.“Yes. I got the information by bribing the hospital receptionist. I was able to access her medical records. From now on, I’ll have access whenever I want, and I’ll come tell you as soon as I find out anything. But that comes with an extra fee,” he clarified.Yes, Derek was very good at his job, but he was also great at squeezing money out of any

Kiara My mother-in-law, Juliette, and I got along wonderfully. I have to admit I was afraid Juliette would reject me when she saw I was dating Thomas. After I divorced Jake, I changed my phone number, and no one in town heard from me again. I don’t know if they sent me messages or tried to call. One of the people I never heard from again was Juliette. We didn’t speak until Thomas and I showed up at her house to give her the news we had kept secret, that we were together. And that we were having children... But Juliette didn’t take it badly. On the contrary, she believed Jake had been an idiot. She called her own son an idiot because she couldn’t believe he left me just for believing my sister. Juliette said Jake was no different from what he judged: he judged me for being with his brother, but he did the same thing by sleeping with and marrying mine. I was glad to have her on my side, but honestly, her validation wasn’t really important to me. I knew who had been wrong in the re

Jake I knew I had to confront Kiara, and I couldn’t wait for another day. I told Irina that I suspected the truth about the babies. “So you’re saying you feel like Kiara’s babies might be yours and not Thomas’s?” She raised her eyebrows, surprised by what I had just told her. “But why do you think that? Did someone tell you something? Don’t you believe they were together?” I noticed worry in her voice. I couldn’t tell her anything about the detective because I knew it would cause problems between us, so I decided to make up a small lie. “No, it’s just a suspicion I have, but it keeps growing,” I said, taking a glass of whiskey. Irina sat down in front of me. “They were sleeping together while you two were still married, so I don’t think they’re yours. You were traveling a lot at that time, and he was always ready, waiting for you to leave the city,” she reminded me. I didn’t like remembering that. Every time the topic was mentioned out loud, something stabbed through my chest

KiaraMy chin trembled desperately when I heard Jake’s words. He called me a whore.Me… The person who had always been there for him, every moment, and who never betrayed him. But I was the whore. The villain of a badly told story. He was the real villain. Not me.I didn’t deserve that treatment. I didn’t deserve those cruel words that hurt me. I never thought anything else Jake could say would hurt me after everything that happened, but he managed to hurt me again. Not even his marriage to Irina hurt as much as hearing him call me a whore.I felt so much rage inside that I wanted to hit him, but I knew I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t do that to myself, because a physical fight would hurt my babies. But Thomas didn’t let Jake’s comment pass.In the blink of an eye, Thomas lunged aggressively at his brother and punched him in the face.Jake fell to the ground instantly. I knew perfectly well he wouldn’t just stay still after that. Jake would hit back. Jake was not the kind of man you hi

KiaraI swallowed hard.“Mom, what are you doing coming into the room without knocking?” Thomas walked toward her, trying to get her out of the room.Juliette looked at my belly.Damn it.I wanted the earth to swallow me whole.It was one thing to ask Thomas to keep the secret, but asking Juliette was something entirely different. She was Jake’s mother. She didn’t want to pick sides, but when it came to a truth like this, I knew she would die before keeping it from Jake.“Go to sleep. Kiara is too tired to talk right now.” Thomas tried to send her away, but she wouldn’t allow it.She slipped out of her son’s grip.“No! Don’t try to kick me out.”She pushed her son aside and took a few steps toward me.“Kiara…”“I don’t know what you heard, Juliette, but it’s not what you think,” I tried to come up with a lie, but nothing coherent would form.Either way, she cut me off.“I heard perfectly well what you said. Jake was right: they’re his children,” she said, looking at me in horror.The