CHAPTER THREE
LUCIAN' Pov.
My doorbell was a menace, shrill sound that sounded more like a screaming ghost than a simple door bell.
I groaned in the bed as I stared at a still napping sena. With an annoyed huff, I walked up to my PC and clicked on a button that took me straight to my camera and I found my mother and claire stood there.
What was mother doing here with claire? I had already gotten rid of one problem, I didn't need another one so soon.
''Handsome brother" Came from behind me and I turned around to find sena wide awake and looking scared and I felt my heart skip a beat as I rushed to her, fear for her filled me at what had happened the few minutes I left her side.
"Sena what's wrong?" I ask as I quickly took a seat beside her on the bed.
"Ha.... Gotcha" She jumped off the bed and sped out of the room with laughter and I felt it sink that she had just pranked me.
"Oh no, you don't" I took off after her only to find her at the living room with mother and claire staring at her with diverse facial expressions on their faces.
Claire was a pale as sheet, as if she had seen a real life ghost and my eyes narrowed as I tried to uncover what she was thinking but decided to wait for my investigation to be complete first.
My mom looked uncertain, happy but confused.
"Sena this is my mother" Sena was glowing as she slowly walked up to my mother.
"Mother.....Can...Can I hug you?" She asked timidly and my mother looked taken aback but I understood why she was doing that, she missed her family.
"Oh...Okay" Mother opened up her hands and sena flew straight into her as she mumbled again.
"Sena pie" My heart went out to her again and mother clearly understood because I saw her eyes widen then fill up with tears as she hugged her back fiercely.
"Oh baby, In heaven?" Sena nodded into her neck and my mother slowly took her to sit down on the couch, still holding her.
"Luc-"
"Come with me claire, excuse me mother" I turned around and walked straight to my kitchen where I picked up a sharp knife and threw it back without staring and heard a gasp before I heard the knife stick into the wooden door then a squeal of fear filled my ears.
"I can kill you, right here, right now. Who are you?" I ask, turning to face her.
"What?" Her face took on a surprised one and coompared to sena's face, I just knew this one was a complete fake.
How had I been so blind before and never seen her as anything other than my saviour which apparently looks to be a lie.
"Still in denial, okay. I won't press the matter but by the time james finshes with the investigation I told him to do on you, you'll be dead" I pushed past her and walked away as I heard a dull thud and an exhale of breath behind me; She was lying.
"He looks so familiar, familiar, woosh, where have I seen him before?" I walked in to that and saw her brighten up.
"Handsome brother" She called out with excitement as she began to raise her hands up to me and mother turned to me with surprise.
"Handsome brother, that's quite a leap, why do you call him that baby?" Mother turned back to sena who was staring at my childhood photos with a lot of interest.
"He bought me lots of food yesterday at the big restaurant, brother jere. does that for me when he has money to spend so I call him brother, and you are handsome too, I don't like sister though" She scrunched up her cute nose as I gently took a seat opposite them and her face soured.
"Sister? Where is your sister sena?" I asked, leaning forward and watched her eyes go behind me when I heard footsteps.
"Yes baby, you have one? Why not invite her here?" Mother asked with an oblivious smile.
"I don't like how you shake your eyes sister claire, handsome brother, mother, this is sister, claire" With surprise I turned in my seat to the direction Sena was pointing to, to find a pale faced claire who was intensely glaring at sena.
"Who are you? I am not your sister you child" Claire rebutted quickly with a nervous chuckle that I caught, far too quickly and I knew she knew she fucked up but refused to admit it at all and again I wondered at my blindness.
How did I not see how fake and scheming she was all this while? I gave her my full trust, refusing to even investigate her when she came to me because I wanted to do right by the person who I thought was my savior.
"But I'm the eldest, why do you call me ch-"
"Eldest, don't make me laugh sena. You seriously think that you—you are the youngest with your scattered brain?" She gave a harsh chuckle.
"If you had never involved yourself in that stupid accident then I would have had some time before you—- I might even take you as the el-" She seemed to realise what she had just spitted out and cut herself off as she took a staggering step backwards.
Her eyes rotating all round, trying to search for a way out.
"Mother?" She tried my mother but she glanced away with a guilty face.
"You deceived even me who gave you my full trust, regardless of my son's doubts, hwo do you feel when you even did such thing? Now you want my help after you did something so wicked to even me, what has come out your mouth that was even true I wonder" Mother shook her head disappointedly.
"I even warned Lucian that if he did not accept you that I would stop talking to him, all for you and you deceive me and want me to help you? Dream on" Mother lashed out again.
And I saw when her eyes hardened after mother's words then she turned to sena who was still going through my photo album without any concern for what was happening around her.
"This is all your fault you little bitch, it's your fault mum and dad died. Now you have spoiled my life, jeremy's too. I will never forgive you" Claire screamed as I slowly stood up and went to press a button and two burly men in black rushed in through the front door.
"No lucian, I am our savior remember? I saved your life" She tried as I gestured for them to throw her out and they did, amidst her screams.
"What does all that mean?" Sena asked with confusion and mother shook her head at me which I understood perfectly fine.
I was not to tell her anything that we knew would make her sad, she was already struggling and alone at the moment, even if no one saw.
It was there, the mumbling of Sena pie or cutie pie pa, she missed her parents and while her brother worked and gave her food, her sister was being a total bitch to her for something she had no control over and this left her all alone and to herself.
A lot more than I think she admitted, if she even recalled it as soon as the next minute got there.
I feel she was having problems with comprehension and recalling and this night either has something to do with her medical records or her birth.
My palms itched to put a call across to James and tell him to speed things up but I knew I should not rush him.
"Sister Claire..." I gritted out with a forced smile."Was hungry so I sent some people to take her to eat while my mother and I cooked for you" I gave the least explanation and her mouth did an oof shape before she lit up again.
Mother gave her a small smile that widened into laughter at her next words
"Food" She clapped her hands together and I laughed; Such a simple girl.