Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221

Amelia’s POV

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Standing in front of Jake, I felt utterly defeated. I had tried keeping things secret, and that hadn’t worked. I had tried to find the answers on my own, and I got caught.

What else could I do now but tell him the truth and hope he would give me a straight answer?

If I had already disappointed him, then what did it matter to hide the truth? Let him at least know why my heart. was so conflicted, and why I felt I couldn’t walk away from this without some sort of resolution.

I stood still as Cara explained to Jake exactly where I had gone, even giving the name of the street, Carter Ave.

As Jake listened, his face grew harder and more devoid of emotion.

I sunk further into myself, wishing the floor would open and swallow me whole.

When Cara finished, she stepped back, taking her usual spot in the space behind me. Jake considered me again.

“What were you doing there, Annette?” he asked.

“I wanted to see something,” I said.

“What?”

This was the make or break moment, and I had to decide whether to tell Jake the truth or to continue to hide everything.

Jake was my brother. I loved and trusted him. Or, at least, I wanted to.

Perhaps this was his opportunity to show me that he was worthy of that trust.

So I straightened a little, and I said, “I went to the same spot I had after my date with Ian.”

“Why?” Jake asked.

“When I was there before, I saw a man I felt I knew. He had two little girls with him. His daughters, I think. Our eyes met and I… I don’t know. I felt something. And then the girls called me ‘Mom.””

Jake went very still.

I couldn’t read him at all. He probably wanted me to stop talking, but I couldn’t now. It was like the floodgates had been opened, and all of the feelings I’d kept locked up since seeing my fantasy man the first time came pouring out unbidden and without a filter.

“I had this feeling, seeing them, that maybe they knew me from before my amnesia,” I said. “Is that possible? I wanted to talk to them, to find out more. They could know something about me that no one else does.”

“Impossible,” Jake said. “There is no one who knows more about you than your family here.”

“But, Jake -”

“I’m serious, Annette,” he said firmly. “There is no way you could know those people. You’ve always been here. That man and those girls have absolutely nothing to do with you.”

That didn’t seem right, and I hated how dismissive he was being.

I had given him a chance, trusting him with these feelings, and here he was, throwing them right back in my face.

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My face started to crumple. I could feel it, my heart sinking, even as I tried to hold myself together and be strong.

Jake’s hardness immediately softened. “Annette,” he said with compassion. “I’m not saying these things to hurt you. Please. I just worry. I know there is nothing for you there, and if you keep pushing this idea that there is something else, you are only going to end up hurt.”

I wanted to believe him, and knew I should. He was my brother and Alpha. He knew what was best for me, as he so often told me. My memory had been fragmented at best since the attack, and feelings couldn’t be enough to remake memories.

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