Chapter 52
Hunter:
“Goodnight!” I bid my mother farewell, leaning my head back on the chair and gazing at the ceiling. She had approached me to talk, but I wasn’t in the mood.
“Hunter! You can’t go on like this. You head to the office and then to the warrior center. You need to eat something to boost your energy,” she insisted, clattering the dishes in front of me while placing the food on the table.
I had gone straight to the study after a shower, avoiding Tara. Just seeing her made me want to gag, I didn’t know when she’d grasp that I had no interest in her. The chances of that happening seemed slim, but I kept my hopes up.
I’m not hungry,” I replied, keeping my eyes closed..
“Did you go see him today?” Mom settled in the chair next to mine.
“He’s still upset with me,” I uttered. “You know, my son is so good-he’s so confident. The way he defended his mother-”
As I spoke about that, I recalled the other things he told me about Tara. 1 straightened up in the chair and locked eyes with my mother, “Do you know that Tara talked with him about my past with Reyna? It angered him so much.”
“What? Why would she talk about it to a literal child?” Thankfully, my mother stopped defending Tara
I’d witnessed her wandering alone in the mansion, initially feeling sorry for her. However, when I remembered all the times she made Reyna cry, my sympathy waned. My mother had tried her best to keep us apart, coming between us and attempting to turn me against Reyna. We faced some hardships because of her, but I never allowed my mother to speak ill of Reyna in front of me.
But it was only after Reyna left that I found out my mother made her life a living hell in my absence. Poor Reyna never complained to me.
I shook my head, feeling sorry for her. She kind of punished me for my mother’s behavior, so she wasn’t a saint either.
“I don’t know, she’s your choice, so why don’t you ask her?” Our conversations always started normally and ended with me taunting her for using me to accept Tara. She was the one who initially suggested I should accept her to get back at Reyna, and
du*mbas*s did. I didn’t realize that it wouldn’t bother Reyna at all. If she was that possessive over me, she would have never cheated on me in the first place. Or maybe that’s why she cheated. She got so tired of everyone disrespecting her that she decided to get out of this relationship. Could it be?
my
“She was my choice when I didn’t know how toxic and manipulative she was. Ah! Sometimes I miss the good old days,” Mom sighed and lowered her head. I knew she wanted to say that she missed Reyna, but she wouldn’t. None of us would.
That’s when my phone rang, and a frown creased my forehead.
“It’s Reyna,” I whispered when my mother tried peeking at the screen to see who was calling me at this hour of the night.
“Well, attend to it quickly; who knows what’s going on,” Mother’s words terrified me. I wouldn’t want to hear another piece of bad news..
I quickly answered the call and started yammering, “What happened? Is Turner alright? Are you okay?” My heart was jumping up and down, and with my mother constantly eyeing me to tell her what had happened, I was even more anxious
now.
“Daddy!”
It was as if my whole existence paused right then and there. Silence engulfed me, and I closed my eyes, taking deep breaths.
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Chapter 52
“Turner?” I was shocked that he had called me.
“It’s my grandson?” Mom quickly punched my arm to make me put my cellphone on speaker. I eyed her but then did it. We were both restlessly wanting to speak to him.
“Hi,” Turner replied in his usual soft and comforting tone.
“How are you?” I didn’t immediately want to ask him if he was calling me secretly, so I continued like normal.
“I’ve been thinking about you,” he spoke so softly and in such a mature tone that a huge smile covered both mine and my mother’s faces.
“Really, what are you thinking about?” I asked, getting comfortable in my seat.
“Just how upset you looked today,” he replied from the other side.
“I was worried,” he then added, and a smile came to my mother’s lips as well. Wow! It feels so good to have a child.
“Let me speak to him,” mother whispered, nudging me nonstop.
“Worried for your daddy?” I asked, and he only sighed from the other side.
“Don’t cry, okay. Although I am still upset with you, it’s not like I can see you cry,” he quickly spoke, as if he didn’t want to be questioned for caring for me.
“Now that you called, of course I wouldn’t cry, I was smiling so widely, even I couldn’t believe it.
“Hey! Do you want to speak to your grandma? She misses you a lot too,” I finally replied to my mother through a gesture to
calm down.
“Sure!” Turner was a sweet child; he knew the value of relationships. I must give it to Reyna for teaching him such good manners. She had done an incredible job with his upbringing
“Hey, my sweet grandson,” mom quickly snatched the phone out of my hands even when she could have just talked while 1 was holding it.
“Grandma, I am really upset with you,” Turner started, and my mother pouted.
“Why is that?” she asked, smiling like a fool. I don’t remember any of us smiling so widely after Reyna left, to be honest.
“Why did you hate my mother so much? She is such a nice woman,” his concern for Reyna and his love for her was an indication that she never made him feel lonely. She must have been too good to him for him to be this dedicated to her.
“My child! People don’t know what they have until they lose it. I was a fool, and I got punished by having a woman like Tara around me now,” my mother had never openly admitted to being wrong, so that was new.
While the two of us talked with him for hours, I realized that now more than ever, I want to take him back. But not only him, I want Reyna back too. Even if it means that I don’t forgive her, she should stay with me, look at me every day, and realize what she has done to me. Being with me will be her new punishment.
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