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He brings me into his arms, and I rest my head on his hard chest, inhaling his woodsy scent. I missed him.
Jasper will always be my home.
“I want to take things slow, and I want to do things the right way, like we should have done from the start,” I tell him.
He leans in and kisses me on the lips. “I’ll be right here waiting whenever you are ready.”
Jasper
Today, I’m visiting Tommy in jail, and this will be the last time I’ll ever see him again.
I have so much pent-up anger toward him but I am hoping I won’t lash out at him.
I watch him sit in the chair across the glass window, and I stare at him as he picks up the phone. Slowly, I pick up my own, his breathing loud and getting on my last nerve. He has been charged with tampering with evidence and being an accessory to murder, while Katie has been charged with first-degree murder. I hope they both rot in jail.
“You’re the last person I thought would come to see me.”
Jace took over Tommy’s media business, and the board members had quit. Tommy lost everything. Lacey FaceTimed me earlier today, crying while telling me how she was sorry for what her parents did to my mother, that she’s planning on disowning both of her parents. For the first time in my life, my last name feels tainted and I wish I didn’t have it.
“Why did you never tell me who my real father was?”
He looks at me in shock, as if he didn’t expect me to figure it out. “Your mother loved him, and I couldn’t allow her to be with him. James and I have always been in competition since we were kids, and… I couldn’t let him win. Not this time. I loved your mother dearly and he took her from me,” Tommy admits.
He truly is a sick man; he allowed his hatred for James to run deep within him. I wish I could say I pity him, but I don’t. Some people don’t deserve grace.
“Is that why you had Katie drown my mother?”
“We had a deal. For your mother to never contact James again, but she did. The only reason I married Katie was because we had a deal. She gets rid of your mother and I marry her.”
Rage courses through my veins. I don’t know what to think. Everything makes sense now. The person who suffered the most was my mother, but she didn’t deserve any of this.
“Go to hell,” I say through gritted teeth.
“James left you a letter in a shoebox in my walk-in closet. It’s on the top shelf. He wanted to give it to you before he passed away.”
I hang up the phone and head straight to his place. Once I find the letter, I make my way home and pace the floor with the letter grasped in my hand. I haven’t read it yet. I’m too nervous to see what’s in it.
I call Poppy and ask her to meet me at our home and thirty minutes later, Poppy walks in with a bunch of shopping bags in hand. She sets them down before eyeing me curiously. “What’s going on?”
“It’s a letter from James, he wrote it to me a week before he passed away.”
She perches on the edge of the couch. “Did you read it?”
I shake my head. “I was waiting for you to get here.”
“Okay.” She rubs my back. “Open it, Jasper.”
I nod and open the envelope before unfolding the paper inside.
Dear Jasper,
As you may know, you are my biological son.
You might not know, but I was in love with your mother and still am to this day.
I assume I have passed away from my illness, but I wanted to tell you, you were my child. Tommy threatened to pin your mother’s death on me, and I would go to jail for something I didn’t do. I’m so sorry for all the pain he has caused, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you in the way I wanted to. I’m sorry I couldn’t be a father to you like I wanted to.
I did the best I could. I was so grateful when Tommy would let me have you during the summertime. I made sure your college fees were paid for, I made sure your car was paid for. He tried to blackmail me into giving him my banking company but I couldn’t do that. You are my only heir, and you deserve it. The reason why I wanted you to get married is to not only have the company, but I also wanted you to experience the love I had for your mother.
