The Billionaire's Secret Lover novel Chapter 59

I pulled the car into my parent's driveway and shut the engine. I don't know why I'm suddenly having this feeling of coming to see them but my conscience wouldn't let me be even though they are only my adopted parents.

I rested my head on the steering, my mind flashed back to what happened earlier this week. I knew I shouldn't try to hurt Nina again. I'm reluctant to do that but Deborah won't be happy, I need to please her, she's the woman I love and the mother of my boy .

The sound of my phone ringing pulled me from my trance as I picked it up from the dashboard. A quick glance at the caller's ID caused me to quickly pick it up.

“Hello. Xavier, what's going on ?” I asked him cause I wasn't expecting any of his calls. My eyes scan the front porch of my parent's house, memories of my sister running down the porch flooded my brain as I forced it away. I miss Mia so much.....

“ Doctor Pierre just called me. He said a lady came to asked information about you at the hospital ” I sat up immediately on my chair....

“ What do you say? A lady?” I ask him shocked. No one knew that I was treated in France. Only Deborah knew that I have DID and I have only just found out two years ago. Who else knew about this? I questioned myself softly.

“ He didn't say but just said she was heavily pregnant ” Xavier answered causing me to curse under my breath.

“ Damn! Nina ” I swore vehemently. That bitch. How dare she sent her friend to ask information about me and to think that I was thinking of being good to her...

“ Do you know her?” Xavier asked me slowly trying to decipher my indistinct grunt...

“ It Nina's friend. I'm sure she sent her there” I told him clenching my fists. I felt like punching anything but I wouldn't want my parent's to look at me like the psycho I once was.

“ What should we do? It's too dangerous that she knew about us” Xavier said. I could imagine him pacing down the bare apartment he used once in a while in frustration.

Who wouldn't be? I still can't wrap my head around how she came to know about me. Did Michael tell her? But Michael can't know about this. Only Mia did and she's dead.

“ We'll need to go with plan C,” I told Xavier, who grunted in response. His smile was evident in his voice as I couldn't help but smile back myself. I could only have gone far with Xavier and Deborah beside me..

“ Get back to me when you've found the perfect location ” I told him and hung up.

I sat back in the car, dreading to go in. Don't get me wrong, I do love my parents. I'm grateful to them for adopting me years ago but I still can't forgive them for always looking at me like a psycho.

A knock sounded outside my window as I turned to look at the person. Mom was on the other side giving me a questioning look. I forced myself to smile especially after seeing how frail she looks. I guess she never really gotten over Mia's death. She was the apple of their eyes.

“ What's wrong with you, Austin? Are you in pain?” Mom questioned me softly as concern laced her voice.

I smiled as soon as I stepped out of the car, locking it firmly, I went to wrap my hands around her and hug her tightly “ Nothing mom! I just wanted to come say hello to you, it been a while” I told her as she nodded and lead the way into the house....

“ Where's dad? ” I asked her immediately we where seated on the couch in the sitting room

Mom smiled as she took her knitting basket and started with what she was doing before she abandoned it to come check on me outside “ He went over to help one of the locals this morning. I think his calf gave birth” Mom replied with a shrugh. Her face is completely buried in her work.

I'm glad that she's still able to work with her hands. I used that opportunity to look around the house. Nothing has really changed. Did they keep it that way because of Mia? It been a while but I still can't still read my parent's thought......

“ How's Nina. It been a while you've brought her here” Mom asked me, her eyes were scrutinizing my face suspiciously....

I gulped nervously “ Mom, hmm___ I ___ Nina and I were not really a thing. I had her lie to you” I told her, bracing myself for her scolding which never came.

Mom nodded “ I knew you were lying but I chose to ignore it. I thought that you might fall in love with her she would have been able to change you. Such a sweet little girl” Mom answered as her eyes shone with unshed tears.....

I gasped as I watch mom praised Nina in front of me making me get angry the more.

“ Mom, I'm sorry to disappoint you but Deborah is the woman I'm in love with. You remember Deborah right? You've always wanted the both of us to be together since we were kids ” I told her with a smile on my face. I was glad that I was finally achieving their dream for me.

“ Deborah is not the woman for you Austin. Your relationship is bound for disaster. You both are sick, you need someone to heal you not Deborah ” My mom told me as tears spilled down her face. Her knitting basket was completely abandoned on the floor as she pleaded with me to listen to her.

“ Why can't you be happy for me once in your life” I screamed at her. I had finally lost the little control I had over my anger. I knew this was bound to happened anytime I visit them that's why I seldom come here.

“ Everything I did since childhood is not always right, you always find one excuse or another to rubbish it” I stood up abruptly from the couch and paced around the now empty room which was bare from most of my pictures except the one of Mia and them.