(Bit of a warning for this scene can affect people)
She stared at him for a couple of moments and sighed.
"What's bothering you today? I don't understand but maybe if you can tell me I will help. And I'm pretty sure it related to me isn't it."
Nathan's eyes twitched at her sharp words and insight. It seems he can't get away find it tonight. But was he really that obvious?
"Ah! See it was related to me! Look your face changed!" She gasped and poked his face.
Nathan: "....."
Well that's one way to find your answers.
Katelyn was a great actress even thought she didn't choose to become one. She's great a reading people.
Otherwise how else would he not know that in the last life she just acted all the way till their divorce. Still it hurt him just thinking about it. Those words she said to him and made her feel equally in pain. And also how their were others who knew things that he didn't know. That made him feel things in his stomach that he didn't like. No, he absolutely hated!
"Hello, Nathan! Why are you spacing out on the road!! That's dangerous!!" She squeaked as she pushed his shoulder to get his attention back.
Nathan sighed and pulled over the car to a empty parking place. He took off his seat belt and then looked at Katelyn who was clearly confused about his actions.
"What are we doing here?" For some reason she felt her nerves tense up seeing his serious expression.
"Katelyn... today I met your mother..." he hesitated and continued, "today she reached out to me and I accepted."
Katelyn's felt her eyes blur listening to his words. She breath in and out softly. She just need to calm down for a second here. This was news that she wasn't expecting.
Nathan study her face and saw the blank eyes appearing. It scared him and he called out to her urgently.
"Katelyn-"
"Nathan, what do you think about my mother?" She asked and looked at her hands and fiddled with her pinky.
"What I think?"
"Yes, what you think and only what you think." She said.
"... I-I don't like your mother. She's- how do I say it. Strange.. yes very strange.."
"Thank you for being honest." She smiled and looked at him, "Do you want to here a story?"
Nathan looked at her brown eyes and saw something he never saw before. Regret or something like that. He quietly sat and listened to her.
"It all started when I was 12. At the time my younger brother, Liam was 7 and younger sister was 4. They were still babies at the time and so most responsibility fell onto me at the time." She closed her eyes and started recalling all the painful memories.
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"Katelyn!! Katelyn dear! Where are you?" Candice called out sweetly.
Katelyn felt her heart tremble and she quietly moved away from both her siblings room and dash to her room. She clenched on to her stuff bunny tightly and shook with fear. She hide behind the door and opened it a little to see her mother standing before her.
"M-mama. I'm here." She gulped and looked up at Candice standing above her.
"Come here! Let's go! Since your so talented let's show them who's boss!" Her face was fearful that Katelyn struggle to get free from the grasp on her arm.
"Mama! I have school tomorrow, and dad-"
"Quite!!! I don't want to here about that man!!! Such a man like him!! I wish I didn't marry him!!" Candice finally snapped at her and threw away her hand. She felt backwards and looked at Candince with fear.
"AHHH!!!" And ear piercing scream was heard in the bedroom and Katelyn struggle for her little life!
"Mama!! I'm sorry!! Stop!! Mama!! Stop!! It hurts!!! STOP!!!" She felt so much pain in her hand and continued crying.
In the room a bunch of people barged in and took the crazy Candice out while she fainted. She heard a few anxious voices but she felt so tired.
Candice hand stabbed her hand with the scissors she had brought. And it was later found out that she could no longer feel her two finger in her right hand.
It became her disability and also traumatized her at a young age that she became scared of scissors and she wouldn't touch then no matter what.
She would avoid Candice as much as she could and started staying out late at night and returning home later after she fell asleep.
But one night she returned home and found it in shambles. Katelyn at the time was 17 and she rushed to her siblings room first.
She swung open Liam's door and gasped. His whole room was in a mess teared curtains, messed up bed, books thrown around and the glass vase shattered.
"Liam!!! LIAM!!? Where are you?! It big sis!! Come out!!" She moved around the room and then turned towards the closet.
She opened it up and looked around. She grabbed her phone light and finally saw the small body of her younger brother curled up hiding a small little girl in his embrace. They both hid under a pile of clothes that she bought for Liam.
But what she saw anger her to no end. He had bruises on his arms and legs and her face had a scratch mark that was bleeding.
"Sis!! Sis!! Behind you!!" Liam hoarsely yelled.
Katelyn turned around and saw Candice holding a bat in her hand.
"Mother?!! What are you doing?!?!" She yelled in anger and quietly closed the closet so that her sibling wouldn't be seen.
Right now, Candice wasn't sane. She was completely crazy!!
She gulped and looked around she saw Liam's text books and finally had an idea.
"Mother... let's talk okay. Listen to you daughter okay. We should go to the hospital first alright?" She calmly moved away from the closet towards the fallen textbooks.
"Who are you?!? Are you here to kidnap my kids?!? Stay away?!?" Candice held the bat and ran towards her and swung it to her head.
Katelyn ducked and tackled her torso and made her fall down with her shove. She took the textbook and without any hesitation hit the back of her head with it.
She saw her mother slump down in pain and quickly opened the closet and took Stella and Liam with her and ran away.
She called both the butler, doctor and a few guards to take care of the mess that happened in the house.
After taking care of her siblings she returned home and took care of the problem herself.
"How's mother?" She asked their personal doctor Smith.
"Not good." Smith explained the whole medical condition that she was having.
Katelyn felt shocked and decided that it was okay for their mother to be moved to another villa that was on the countryside. She would have Candice recover there.
While she would take care of her siblings here.
Her father wasn't reliable at all as he had a major project that need his attention and so she would tell him later about what happened.
"Listen. What ever had happen today shall stay between us. I find out any of you breaking this, say good by to America tonight." She coldly warned the present people.
From that day Katelyn shoulder all the responsibility of her family. Especially after her father fell into a coma. Basically all family affairs were connected to her as she eldest daughter.
- - - - -
Katelyn stopped her talking and glanced at the man who was in deep thought.
It was probably to much for him to digest and surely enough it would change the view of her and her family.
But she was fine with telling him it. For some reason she felt that even if she told about all the grievances and hardships she went through he wouldn't judge her.
It was a feeling that she felt in her gut.