“My dad was a gay?!” Vincent clenched his fists, “Am I right?”
Gordon felt stunned, but then he laid down on the chair.
He looked into Vincent’s suspicious eyes, he clenched his fists, and he looked like he’s holding on to something. He stared at Vincent. Vincent was Eric’s son, he inherited Eric’s intelligence and wisdom, but he wasn’t soft and indecisive like his dad, he was strong and resolute, whenever he had doubts, he would keep asking and looking for the answer until he got it.
Vincent looked at Gordon in doubt, “The one my dad liked was Brian, the one he loved was Brian, didn’t he?”
“No!” There was a moment of hesitation in Gordon's eyes.
“You lie!” Instead of believing in Gordon, Vincent sneered back. Vincent’s cold face and eyes were as sharp as a hawk and made him look cold and arrogant, he looked at Gordon’s frustrated face. “My dad loved Brian, as for you, you must have an indescribable relationship with my father. You --”
Gordon’s face changed. Vincent gazed at Gordon, Gordon’s face became pale, he didn’t say anything.
“You have a problem too! You were in love with my dad! Am I right?!” If what he guessed was correct, then this should be the case. “Actually, my father and you both had the potential. Both of you were bisexual, so both of you had your own wives. But in those days, you and my father's feelings were not recognized, and neither of you even dared to say how you truly felt. So you got married, had a wife and children, but both of you were also harming the life of the wife and children, both of you were equally selfish! Among the three of you, only Brian was heterosexual, am I right? My father couldn't love the one he loved, that was why he was miserable and depressed, in the end he went on, to the dead end.”
“Brian felt sorry for my father because he wasn’t gay, he couldn’t respond to my father's abnormal secret love, and you were best friends, as close as brothers, that was why you three felt very painful! My father passed away, Brian felt guilty towards my father, after all, you were all good friends, and you, you liked my father, so you felt heartache. Director Gordon, am I right?”
Gordon was a little absent-minded with the complicated emotions he felt.
His silent acquiescence made Vincent feel heartache as though his heart were torn apart. Was my dad that kind of person?
Vincent’s handsome face could no longer remain calm.
Finally, Gordon murmured, “Vincent, what you guessed is right! That's right. Yes, I did have unspeakable feelings for your father, but we remained our friendship as it was and never talked about it! I've never told him my feelings. I never thought that you could see how I feel inside, I don't deny it.”
“You never told him?” Vincent was a bit surprised.
“Do you know why Brian won't tell you the truth??”
“Why?”
“Because he wants you to remember your father as a perfect and great person, not someone with abnormal feelings! Therefore, he has never explained anything, and because he promised your father that he would not say it out, even though he thought it was only brotherhood for your father. Vincent, Brian is an indomitable man and a good mayor. He feels guilty towards your father because your father confessed to him the day before his death and told him his depressed feelings. In addition to the mine disaster, your father only said those words after drinking. Brian has rejected your father; he told your father that the love and feeling he felt was just an illusion. Otherwise, how could he marry your mother? But no one thought that...on the next day, your father left…”
“So the truth is really like this!” Vincent's dropped his shoulder, “My father, he was someone like this.”
He couldn't believe it. He felt a sense of suffocation going stronger inside his heart.
So this was the truth, his father was like this, his father loved a man, no wonder his father was so indifferent towards his mother and himself, no wonder he was always frowning.
Everything that happened in the past slowly faded away from his heart bit by bit, he was wrong!
The so-called revenge between him and his mother turned out to be so ridiculous! However, he could not repay his guilt and debt towards the Hunter family even if he died.
Vincent's heart was throbbing with pain. His gloomy face was entangled with pain, he felt that his heart was swallowed up by the pain little by little. He was wrong! He’s sorry towards Brian, sorry towards Macey, sorry towards Leila!
“Let your mother go! Your mother didn't know all this, she may have had doubts, but she didn't know how your father was! So, don’t let her know what I have just told you! Save your father his last dignity!”
Vincent didn't know how he left Gordon’s office.
In the ward.
Gordon was reporting to Brian everything that had happened just now, little did they know, coincidentally, Leila came with the thermal pot to deliver soup to Brian, she heard Gordon’s words, in that moment, her mind went blank. It turned out that this was the truth.
Leila's mind was in a mess, her face was as pale as a paper, and her heart was feeling bitter. She heard what Director Gordon said to her father, and Vincent had already found out the truth. Her brain felt like getting hit by a thunder, she stepped back and leaned against the wall.
So this was the truth! In order to save Eric’s dignity, her father actually sacrificed her sister and her for him. Do I blame him? But what for?
Not sooner or later. That's just what happened. Who was wronged? Who was really wrong?!
And Vincent, could he bear the blow?
Did he know this was how his father took the blow?
Leila was still standing there, like a rooted tree, standing at the door of the ward for a long time. She couldn’t calm her emotion.
She pressed her cheeks with her hands. Her hands were cold. She felt that her throat was like being strangled, she murmured to herself, “The truth was really so absurd.”
After being puzzled for a short while, she held her breath and calmed her mood, she knocked on the door and walked into the ward as if nothing happened just now. Since her father wanted to hide the truth and keep his promise for Vincent, as his daughter, it’s best for her to not ask anything.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...