"What?" I whispered, my voice was barely audible.
There was a long pause before she replied, maybe she was comprehending that she shouldn't be joking with me at this crucial time, right?
"That's right, Alice. You are the one who destroyed my life." She harshly said.
Now this was getting on my nerves. Is she in her senses? She's saying that I'm born out of rape? How is this even possible? If this another lie then please I want to die than to feed myself with tons of lies.
"What are you even saying?! Are you in your senses, mom?! I'm Alice. You and Kevin's daughter." I shouted. But this was not right time to shout at her. I should make her realise that this is the most pathetic joke that she can do with me.
She didn't reply but continues to stare at with with cold and calculating eyes. I moved forward and very gently held her hands in mine.
"Say that this is a joke, mom. Please don't do this with me." I pleaded. But she was staring me with cold and dark eyes. She harshly pulled her hands out of my grip and put a mocking finger on my chest.
"This is truth Alice that you must deal with by yourself." She said with a hard stare.
I stumbled backward and fell on my knees. I hugged my knees to my chest and started crying.
This isn't happening, right? It's a nightmare. I hope she'll start laughing and embrace me that she was messing with me.
"Honey, don't you think that we should leave because taking stress isn't good for you. And you're taking stress for whom? For this ungrateful daughter who is reason that you can't escape from your past?" I heard Nick saying this to mom by cupping her cheeks. I would have slapped him but I was in no good condition to confront him.
"No honey, I want her to know the truth so that she would never come back to show me her face. Her face reminds of what I faced because of her father!" She said by pointing towards me.
"My father is Kevin. You're lying to me!" I yelled. I was trying to make her believe that I was not coming into her trap but in actual I was trying to believe by myself.
"I don't need to lie to you Alice. This is reality. You're Joe's daughter. The same man who destroyed my life completely." There was loathe in her expressions which was proving that how much she hates the man that she calls Joe.
I closed my eyes and prayed that when I open my eyes and it would go away. This situation would go away and never return.
"I and Kevin were best friends of each other from childhood. We were neighbours and one day Joe's family shifted in our neighbourhood. We three used to play together and loved each other. We used to even eat meals at each other homes. This was how much were attached with each other." She told me about her childhood. There were tears in her eyes as well as warmth when she was talking about her lovely past.
If they were friends then why Joe would do that?
By the expression on my face, she understood that I wanted to know more but I was afraid of hearing furthermore. I don't know what truths she has with herself that needed to unfold.
"I was close to both of them but I was in love with Kevin and I knew that he loved me back. One day he proposed me in front of the families and I said yes. We were in happy relationship unaware of what joe was going to do with us." A lone tear fell from her eye when she talking about the past. I was feeling very bad for her.
"One day he said to me that he's in love with me and asked me to leave Kevin. I thought he was joking and I burst out laughing. He got very mad at that. I never thought that he was serious. He knew that I and Kevin love each other. He became a psychopathic man. He kidnapped me and brutally raped me." She burst out crying at the thought. My heart constricted because last night I went through this trauma but what she has gone through was intense and incomparable.
My eyes widen when she was looking at me with murderous eyes. My eyes shone with unshed tears.
"He was sentenced to jail for lifetime. Kevin was with me throughout this trauma but I was expecting the rapist child and that is you Alice." she pointed towards me and saw me with red eyes. I shivered under her scrutiny gazes. "I wanted to abort you but Kevin didn't let me do this. I always hated you Alice and Kevin considered you as his own daughter. There were complications in your birth and I was unable to carry another child because of you." She yelled at me.
Many emotions whirled through me and I tried to find words but couldn't. My tongue felt tied and my throat constricted.
I covered my ears and closed my eyes. This was too much! I can't listen anymore. I was feeling like throwing up. Why God is so merciless with me. I was hyperventilating. I was taking gulps of breaths. It was like someone was choking me.
"Because of you Alice, I was destroyed. I wasn't able to have a child." She howled like a wolf.
No, that's not my fault.
"Because of you Kevin and I had differences because he wanted me to accept you whereas I always loathed you." She roared.
Dad! This is not truth. I was crying miserably. I was a mess. My life was a mess.
"Because of you Kevin died and left me in such a young age." She accused me of dad's death. My knees lost all their strength and buckled under my weight.
I saw her despair. She hates me this much.
"And now that I'm happy with Nick, you're back again to destroy my happiness. You ungrateful bitch." She shouted. She came forward and held my elbow and made me stand. I couldn't stand by my own. It was because of her hold that I was standing.
"I hate you Alice. You have destroyed my life enough. Don't show me your face again because you remind me of your bastard father who was a rapist. You are a rapist daughter." She yelled at my face. I was taken back by her harsh words.
But I'm her daughter too, am I not?
"Mom, it's not my fault about what Joe did. I am still your daughter. I'm innocent. I'm already very alone after dad's death. Please spare me. I've not done anything that could harm you. Why would I? I've always considered you and dad's as my parents. I always obeyed you mom. Why are you doing this to me?" I tried to make her understand. I was trying to awake love for me that every mother has for their children. I was her daughter.
She jerked me and by the force of it, I stumbled back. She let out a groan.
"Get out of my home Alice right now and do me a favour" she said to me with cold and murderous eyes. "Never show me your face again." She said and stormed out of the room angrily. She was followed by Nick who probably enjoyed the whole drama.
Those words were like the final nail in the coffin which contained my hope. She had so easily stripped me off my rights as a daughter and moreover as a human.
Now I can't live here. She doesn't want to see my face. My eyes welled with tears. But I have to move out from here. I took my suitcase which I didn't open fully and packed it. I threw all my things inside it and zipped it. I took the photo frame which was on side table. It was a happy picture of me and mom. I was very happy in it whereas I don't know if mom was genuinely happy carrying me in her arms. But the story that she told me few minutes ago said otherwise.
I kept that picture with me too. God knows if I'll be ever able to see her again or not because she doesn't want to see me. I saw my room in despair and left the home.
I was walking aimlessly and the street was dangerously quiet. It was noon but still I was feeling chills in my body. I felt like I was being watched. I turned around and saw nobody behind me. I was being a paranoid. I shrugged and continued moving.
After a minute, someone hit my head with something heavy. I fell and my head started hurting very badly. But it was not strong enough to knock me out. I was laying on ground when three men, all in black approached me and looked at me with smirk.
"She's a good one." One said said with smirk.
"Don't even think about it. It was our task and we will not touch her. We will take her to boss and see what he decides to do with her." Other one said with stern, hard and cold voice.
The third one kicked me in my ribs multiple times. I was hissing in pain. My grunts of pain were falling into their dead ears. My ribs must have been bruised by now. I was in so much pain now; mentally and physically both.
But who they work for? Who's their boss?
Done with 10 chapters. That's a huge success for me. Thank you for all your love and support.
This was a lengthy chapter.
James is in next episode. Excited?
Who do you think is the boss? Any guesses?
Aleeza❤️