Chapter 101: Leave my Mom out

He stood transfixed at a point. Gently, Jane pulled away from the hug and kissed Arianna’s temple. She sniffled and glared at her husband.

“Just look at her Adrian, she’s so beautiful like Susan, so perfect and sweet. But more than that, I see your face in her face” Jane said, sniffling and covering her mouth with her palm to hide her loud sob.

Arianna blinked her eyes and squinted. Jane knows her Mom. But what did she say last, the last line of her words drew her attention the most.

She took two steps backwards and glared at Jane, now with a mixed feeling. She blinked her eyes and asked “You know my mom, Mrs Jane, do you also know my dad?” Arianna asked, not smiling now but looking very serious.

Jane Delmark couldn’t answer Arianna’s question, just turned gently and went down slowly into the sofa. Her eyes now gone red.

“Yes, I am your dad,” Senator Adrian Delmark answered.

There was a long silence that followed. The Earth seemed to stand still in its rotation around its orbit. Time seemed to become meaningless, the air seemed to stop blowing. Everything stood still for Arianna!

Arianna started walking backwards, not certain if she would be stopped by the wall or by the sofa. Senator Adrian’s words were echoing repeatedly in her ears and mind.

She turned her gaze and fixed them on Senator Adrian. The latter looked quiet and calm. But his eyes seemed to have a lot to say.

She remembered the note her Mom left in her safe …if at any time, you found yourself thrown out by your father, Ned Jason. Go to Adrian Delmark, tell him you are my daughter…

Arianna was now breathing hard. She doesn’t know how long she walked with her back but knew someone suddenly came and supported her. She couldn’t believe her ears, he is her father? Senator Adrian Delmark is her father?

She remembered Jace’s words to her in the car. She didn’t get to hear his last statement before the phone rang. Her eyes went teary and the tears started cascading down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry, Arianna,” Senator Adrian Delmark pleaded. What can he say, what explanation can justify his actions, nothing!

The best is to ask her to forgive him and then find a convenient time to explain that he doesn’t know about her existence as his daughter all these years.

“Sorry? You said sorry after twenty six years?” Arianna asked between sobs. After twenty six years, he is saying sorry to her, for what?

What can his sorry do for her? Is it going to compensate for the times she grew up without him in her life? Or for all she went through and experienced in Jason’s hands after her mother’s death?

What exactly is he sorry about?

“He didn’t know about you all these years. Please forgive him. It’s my fault dear niece” Derick pleaded.

Arianna’s red eyes turned in his direction. “You said you knew my mother. That means you knew me as well, right? But you didn’t come to find me after my Mom died. And now, you said he didn’t know and called me your niece?” Arianna asked.

“Just take a hold on yourself, my love. Let’s leave here now” Jace Hudson whispered and wanted to pull Arianna off when she slipped off his grip.

“You knew how much I wanted to meet my father, right? And now that I discovered the bastard, the idiot who got my mom pregnant and left her because of her friend, you want me to leave?

Not so easy Jace. I need to talk some senses into the ears of these people. Just wait for me or leave if you can’t ” Arianna snapped at Jace and turned sharply to glance at Adrian Delmark but Jane pleaded too.

“Please, It’s not his fault. Adrian is not that kind of a man. He didn’t know about you. He never knew that Susan was pregnant” she defended.

“What right do you have to talk, Susan’s friend? You are the reason why everything went this way. You are the friend who took your friend’s lover away because she introduced you to Adrian!..” Arianna snapped at Jane.

“Arianna, don’t talk to my mom that way. I’m sorry but I won’t take it. If you want to hold a grudge against anyone, it’s your father.

Face him, talk to him, call him names like you just did, I will try to block my ears if I can’t take it in. But My mom, leave her out of this” Richard cautioned.

“I should leave Jane, you mean I should leave her out of this when she’s the genesis of everything that happened. Splitting my parents apart.

You don’t want to hear the ugly dirty side of your mother’s scheming past? Why, because she eventually took Adrian away from Susan and gave birth to you as the legitimate child, right?

Your Mom is terrible and mean. She’s a betrayer…”Arianna was saying when Richard yelled at her”Stop it Arianna. Stop it. If you say a single word against my mom again I will retaliate.

If your mom couldn’t keep her boyfriend, what’s my mom’s business with that? You are just like your mom, unable to keep your men until your friends take them away from you.

No wonder you also have a son and couldn’t…” Richard had lost his temper and was now insulting Arianna back when Jace got furious.

“Don’t insult my woman and my son. What right do you have to insult her dead mother? Are you crazy, Richard Delmark?” Jace thundered.

He turned and glanced at Arianna ” Let’s leave here. You don’t need any one of them. They didn’t have any regards for your mom and that would happen to you, too” He declared.

He didn’t wait for Arianna to refuse when he lifted her off her feet and slung her over his shoulder, walking out of the door.

“Jace, let me be. I need to talk to them. I’m not done yet…” Arianna was protesting. Jace took her to the car and Arianna wanted to return.

“Let’s leave here, now” Jace Hudson declared.

“I am not leaving. I want to go back” Arianna was protesting, trying to free herself from Jace’s grip.

“I won’t leave you, Arianna. You are feeling hurt and abandoned. If you go in there, you will only make a fool out of yourself” Jace insisted.

“I don’t care. I just want to go back there and give every one of them a piece of my mind” Arianna protested.

“What is the use of giving them a piece of your mind when the whole is already tainted? Let it go and get into the car” Jace insisted.

Derick walked out, coming towards them. Jace sighted him and whispered to Arianna “If you know you love me, Arianna get into this car this minute”

He let go of her and watched. Like a zombie, she got into the car and Jace shut the door, walking over to get into the car.

“I want to talk to her , please,” Derick requested, walking over to Jace Hudson.

“She is not in the right frame of mind to talk right now” Jace declared and slipped into the car.