18 Little Revelation
“The twins are Ewan’s right?”
The white plate in Athena’s hand quivered as her hand became unsteady by the virtue of Zane’s
question.
Already she was in some kind of knot, thinking of the possible union of Fiona and Luca–the when and how the possibility had occurred–and now Zane comes up with the million dollar question.
But that was to be expected. Zane hadn’t made the deduction earlier because he hadn’t known
she was affiliated with Ewan.
Now that he knew, he was connecting the obvious dots.
Surely if Zane could do so, then Ewan would too, if he laid his eyes on the kids.
Athena shuddered involuntarily at the court battle that might ensue after that. However, she was ready if it ever came to that. That had been factored in her game plans too.
“Yes they are. But I will appreciate it if you keep that Information to yourself”
Zane raised his two hands, watching Athena dish food into the ceramic plate. The twins were playing in the sitting room.
“I promise, Athena. The truth won’t leave my lips. It’s not my fault that my best friend chose to be foolish six years ago.”
“Thank you, Zane”
Zane shrugged his shoulders. “It’s the right thing to do. After all, my father will have my balls on a platter if he finds out that I had betrayed you unjustly. Yesternight, he almost had them…”
Athena chuckled and shook her head. Her earlier worries about Zane’s father had been for
nothing. It seemed the old man knew more about her, than he let on.
“Will you ever tell him?”
Athena shook her head. “But he will find out. I will prefer it later though. I need to put some things in order
“Things like what?”
Zane’s question was met with only a blank stare,
Zane mused and turned away. That was it again. He thought. The mystery that kept pulling him in. He wasn’t sure if he loved Athena, or if he just wanted to unravel her, or if it was the both.
“Do you want yours with extra chili sauce?”
And like that, the topic was changed–changed and lost forever.
Zane sighed and nodded. He needed enough pepper to push down the frustration that came
18 Little Revelation
“Extra salt?” She asked, when he took a spoon of food to his mouth.
“No. This is perfect.”
A pause.
“You didn’t ask the question from earlier again..”
Athena shrugged her shoulders. “I didn’t want to come off as eager
How could she be eager for that reply, when the story of the century had landed on her lap! Fiona had a child with Luca! The timing too was crazier!
If Zane was Gianna, she would have enlisted him into stalking the child, getting a hair sample from both the little one and Fiona, and running a DNA test.
But he wasn’t Gianna.
When was her best friend coming back? Wasn’t she done with the work emergency? It was already late.
Meanwhile, Zane laughed at her previous response. “You rarely come off as eager, Athena. At least you don’t make it seem so. You have perfected the act of human relations.”
Athena turned up her lips comically, before closing the pot.
“You aren’t eating?”
She shook her head. “Had a heavy lunch. Let’s go. The children might get silly, after waiting for
us.”
“Like the children of Israel in the old times after Moses went to the mountain?*
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