Chapter 49 Partial Freedom (One)

• “Soon after that, Sebastian was discharged from the hospital and James took him and his wife and disappeared without a trace from the town we lived in then. My mother was heartbroken because she had come to fall in love with the bastard, plus her family disowned her when they found out that she was pregnant, so she was all alone, pregnant at the age of twenty. After she gave birth to us, we really suffered. I remember us being homeless for the better part of our lives before we turned seven, when she managed to track the bastard down. He was living large and was extremely rich while we were living in squalor with not even a roof over our heads. After months, she managed to get an audience with him and begged him to take my brother and me even if he wanted nothing to do with her. Do you know what that bastard did? He sneered in her face, called her a harlot, and told her that he wasn’t the one who fathered us and that he now has a son … Sebastian. When she insisted and threatened to go to his wife, he had a DNA test carried out which showed that he fathered us, whereupon he gave my mother a large sum of money and made her sign an undertaking never to contact him again and that he never wanted to see us again. My mother took the money and came all the way here where she had this house built in the woods and remained a recluse as she wanted no contact with people again, especially men. She died some years ago, but she told me everything before she died. She urged me not to take revenge because she knew how much I hated him, and I agreed at first, but now everything has changed.”
• “I’m so sorry that your mom went through all that. No mother deserves to go through that.” Jessica said. She could not bring herself to include that she was also sorry for Charlotte and her brother.
• “Yeah. Anyway, as I was saying, the situation has changed. Some months ago, I did some snooping around and found out that the old bastard was very sick. Apparently, he doesn’t have long to live again.”