Chapter 3
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I couldn't keep the tears at bay as I arrived home. This is the one place where I can truly be myself, and I'm glad I am away from those miserable bastards who did me dirty.
"Mom," l yelled for her as soon as I entered the house. I really needed her today more than ever.
"Lea." She ran to me and embraced me. I'm really lucky to have her in my life because she has shown me Unconditional Love ever since she came into my life.
"Oh baby, please tell me what's wrong." She said, leading me to the living room.
"l saw Lisa with Lawrence." l said sobbing in her arms, but I was taken a back when she pulled away. I guess it's because she's just as shocked as I am.
"I can't believe it's taken you this long to figure it out." She sighed and all the sympathy that was in her eyes was gone like it was never there in the first place.
It was difficult but I managed to get a handle on my emotions because I was confused.
"You knew?" l asked in shock. I watched her really closely, expecting some sort of regret in her eyes, but I was just met with nothing. Her face was unreadable.
"Yes, I knew, but it wasn't my problem." She said, breaking the little that was left of my shattered heart. My head was starting to hurt.
"They betrayed me, Mom." I don't know why I felt disgusted even calling her mom, and it's strange because this woman has always been the pillar of my strength. She's the woman who loved me when I had nobody left in this world. She slept with me when I had a nightmare. She reminded me every day how beautiful and strong I am.
"Listen, I'm really tired of having to nurse your feelings and accommodate you at the expense of my own daughter." She said, and I don't know how to explain it, but she completely destroyed me.
The realisation came fast. I saw a dark truth in her gaze. A truth that l was trying to avoid by all means. A truth that l could never believe until l saw it with my own two eyes.
"I'm your daughter too. You raised me, Martha." l cried out. I was trying to avoid the truth that was right in front of my eyes.
"I was stuck with you after all. Your daddy dearest made sure that he left you with everything, and I had to settle with the scraps." She said, and l can't believe it. I thought she was happy with me and that she loved me, but I was wrong.
"Daddy left everything for the both of us." I said in disbelief because that's the only thing that I knew about my dad's Estate.
"Ohh, don't be naive, Lea. Your dad married me just because he wanted a babysitter for his fragile porcelain doll. He left you everything, and I had to raise you in order to survive. " She said and the air seemed to thicken around me.
I couldn't stop the tears that were flooding down my face, and I could barely see her face anymore because everything was now blurry.
This can't be happening. This can't be happening to me today out of all days. This cannot be the same woman who raised me.
"I'm glad you found out about Lisa and Lawrence because I'm tired of pretending, and I don't want Lisa to ever have to live under your shadow anymore." She continued to stab my heart with a double-headed sword.
My chest ached to a point where I felt like I couldn't handle what I was feeling. This felt like a day from hell because I was dealing with betrayal after betrayal. It was even hard to breathe as I felt like the pain was choking me, and all l could do was finally break down and sob.
"Please." I know when my heart that I was begging for all of this to have been a very bad dream, but it wasn't because she roughly pulled me up by my arm.
"Get out." She said with no ounce of remorse.
I wanted to argue with her and just remind her of how much she used to love me. I wanted to call her a liar and tell her to stop joking, but I couldn't because I would be lying to myself.
My whole world was crumbling right in front of my eyes, and I couldn't do anything. l couldn't even say anything as l was pushed out of my father's house.
I don't know my mother, but this is the place where dad used to tell me stories about her. this place holds my childhood memories. This is the only place that still holds a piece of my father.
I couldn't even protest as Martha pushed me out of the house like garbage. I couldn't even cry in pain as I hit the flower pots painfully. Back then she would have ran to my side to check if I was okay or if I was hurt but today I saw her smile at my Pain.
I can't believe everything has been nothing but an act for 23 years. I can't even comprehend how evil somebody has to be in order to do something like that.
I don't know how money can possibly make somebody that crazy, but it turns out my whole life has been nothing but a lie.
The sky no longer looked blue as l lay there in pain emotionally, spiritually, and physically. The world as l knew it was gone and all that left was the memories of Betrayal by the people that I once called mine.
I knew in my heart that I would never be the same after this because the Lea that I knew was gone.
l was completely and utterly alone in this world.
"Found you."
It's Lawrence.
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