Sweet Secret by Karina Castillo (Bekacastle) (classic reads .TXT) 📖

Chapter 30

After I finished getting ready for the big wedding, someone knocked on my door..

"My promise is made.” Opening it, I found Jayden. As I assumed, he would come in the morning to fulfill what he had promised me and Denzel.

I can't believe how far we've come.

“Happens.” I spoke curtly. I actually felt very nervous this day, I had no idea what surprises I would find. “Didn't someone see you?”

"No, I went unnoticed. Your boyfriend arranged for me to get a job as a decorator, so no one will notice.”
“Very well.” I crossed my arms. “Now tell me where my diary is, Jayden.”

After he made a gesture, he nodded.

We left the room and he led me into the room…

“What are we doing here?” I protested uncertainly.

"You wanted to know where your diary was." It's in the top drawer of the first bureau.” He stood in the doorway.

"But it 's the…”

“Just come in, Rebecca.” and I did it.

I walked slowly to the first bureau and opened the first drawer.

There was my diary. My stupid diary was resting there. I held it in my hands and flipped through it. It definitely was.
"I told you I wasn't lying.” Jayden spoke up behind me. “Your diary was always in your house.”

Rage and sadness were drowning me.

“Now you must comply, Rebecca.”

"But it's my mother's room." My mouth broke. “How come my mother kept my diary hidden all this time? Isa hid it?”

"No, Rebecca.” he snapped. “Your mother is the one who exposed your diary.”

"Rebecca." We both turned to see my mother standing in the doorway of her room. She had an expression of fear and regret.

Jayden walked out without us having to ask her for space, and she closed the door.

I sat on the edge of the bed, still holding the diary in my hands. I've ruined my fucking makeup.
"I can explain, daughter…" My mother came over and sat next to me. I can't believe that she, my own mother, was capable of doing something like this to me. “It's not what…”

"You destroyed me." I had no breath left, only expressions of fury. “Why did you do this?”
She fell silent.

"Don't stay silent, I need you to tell me…”

"I'm sorry, daughter. It was the only way for you to lose your obsessions and meet another guy other than Jayden Foster.” I chuckled.

“That doesn't explain anything, Mom. You exposed my diary! You allowed me to be humiliated hundreds of times! Because of you I suffered!”

“I know. But I want you to know that I did it for your own good. I just… I just wanted you to live longer, to be interested in other guys, but I ended up screwing it up because now you're expecting a Denzel Derricks baby and…”

“That is…”

“Things got out of hand. You were so depressed and…”

"I don't want to know more." It is clear that you wanted my whole life to go to shit, and I congratulate you! You got what you wanted!”

“No, I didn't get what I wanted because now you know the truth.” He took off his glasses and began to sob. “I'm sorry for all the damage I caused you.”

"I hope you're satisfied, Mom." Today you lost a daughter, and later you will lose another.”

“I did it for you, Rebecca.” he mumbled. “I need you to know that Jayden Foster…”

"I don't want to know any more." I got up.

“The real reason I published your diary was because you were obsessed with Jayden Foster, I myself went to tell her to stay away from you.”

"Why the hell would you do that?" I mumbled.

“I did it because Jayden Foster is your stepbrother, Rebecca.” My body completely froze.

“What are you talking about?” I raised my eyebrows.

“Your father's last name was Foster. He left us because his lover was pregnant, they live somewhere else, he and his mother, and your father did the same thing to us. But Jayden Foster is your stepbrother.”

"How do you know it's him?" There are thousands of people with that last name!”

“I found out myself. Your father took a paternity test, and when I found out that it was his son, I was in contact with that woman who had him. When I found out you were in love with him, I went to tell them to leave Seattle, but they didn't want to. So I warned Jayden Foster not to even breathe the same air as you. And when I read the things you wrote, I only thought of protecting you…”

“That's the worst protection a mother could do."

"I'm sorry, honey. It was the only way to protect yourself from those monsters.

Ironically, it was the Fosters that were doing the damage, not the Derricks.

"I swear I thought my father was Tyler Derricks," I sighed tiredly. “You are my mother, but I cannot forgive you for this so easily.” And I left her room.

 
 

(…)
 

I finished telling Denzel what happened and his face stayed serious the whole time. It had been a long time since I met him and my diary was exposed at my university, and now that we knew who was the person who wanted to “protect” me from an absurd truth, we were at a loss for words.

I never imagined that the words would go away knowing that my mother was the one who had my diary and that for some reason it never stopped despite the problems it had caused. Jayden Foster was my stepbrother? My stomach churned at the thought of how long ago I was in love with him, with my own stepbrother!

I never knew my father, but something inside me feels like his face was the same as Jayden's, and that's literally disgusting!

The good thing about all this is that my father did not end up being Tyler Derricks, because that would be an impediment to being with Denzel, since he would be my cousin. This is too crazy even for a girl as "normal" as me...

We were at the place where the wedding would take place. My sister had excelled at decorating, but no one else knew about her plan to steal money from her fiancé, cheat on her lover, and run off alone to some place in the world where she wouldn't be found.

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