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Once we were settled, I told her the truth. “I’ve thought about this moment for as long as I can remember, and now that it’s finally here, I don’t really know where to start.”
“How about the beginning? Where did you go that night before you moved to Miami?”
“My father’s office. He’s the one who called me.”
“Why?”
Taking a deep breath, I replied, “Evie showed up at his office, and he needed me to clean up his mess.”
“Did you know about her?”
“I was getting suspicious that something had been going on. After I moved out, he was home less and less. I knew work took up a lot of his time, but it was obvious that something else was going on. I just never expected that he would have a whole other family outside of us.”
“Family?”
“Yeah. Evie’s four years younger than me. He’s been with her mom since who the fuck knows at this point.”
“Is he still with her?”
“I’m not sure.”
“You don’t know?”
“Evie cut ties with her mom years ago. I’m all she has.”
“So what happened?”
“When I arrived at my father’s office, Evie was already there. At first, I thought she was just one of his fucks. She was only eighteen at the time, and I was disgusted he’d go after someone that young. I called him out on it, but you see Evie’s personality. She doesn’t take shit from anyone. As I was screaming at my father that he was a piece of shit, she interrupted, saying she was my half-sister.”
“Oh wow.”
“I couldn’t believe what I’d heard, and I stood for what felt like forever, just lost in all the years he was absent from our lives. Evie argued that she was there because she wanted to meet me, but my father being the controlling son of a bitch that he is, took the matter into his own hands, calling me to come meet her.” I paused, letting my truth linger.
“I was pissed, and I told him that I was going to tell my mother. That this was the end of his lies and bullshit. My mom deserved better, and I wasn’t going to cover for him. He’d made his bed, and now he needed to lay in it. I never expected what happened next. He pulled a folder from his desk and demanded that I take a look before I did anything.”
Her eyebrows pinched together. “What was in the folder?”
Inhaling a deep breath, I shared, “It was your mom’s secret about your real father.”
She grimaced, gasping.
“He threatened that if I told my mother, then he would tell you that your dad wasn’t your real father.”
“How did he know?”
“After the Christmas party when he ordered us to stay away from each other, he started digging into your mom’s life. You know he’s a powerful man. He found out the truth and has been holding it over my head this entire time. I didn’t know your mom had confessed to you. If I had, I would have moved heaven and earth to find you.”
“Oh my God. I can’t believe he kept us apart this whole time.”
“I called Evie this morning and told her to meet me in my hotel room. She lives in Atlanta but wants to move to Texas to be closer to me. She also wants to meet Ben and have a relationship with him and you. She’s been begging me to just tell you the truth, but I couldn’t do it. I know how much you love your dad. He’s my coach… I was in between a rock and a hard spot. As much as I wanted you to know that I never cheated on you, I couldn’t hurt you again. I refused.”
“Jax, I don’t know what to say. This isn’t what I expected when I heard you on the phone with her this morning.”
“So you Nancy Drewed your way here?”
She smiled, loving the book reference. “Yeah.”
I laughed. “You got some arm on you.” I referred to her throwing the vase at my head.
