The Seventh Miserable Bride novel Chapter 119

Titus Simons thought for a moment and spoke with a hoarse voice: "I have never loved any woman other than your mother in my entire life, but I've slept with two women. One is your mother, and the other is Abigail Tanner’s mother, Pearl Haymitch. Perhaps you might think that I had sex with her out of love, but It's not, I don’t love her at all. She is a manipulative and devious woman. She wanted to marry into a rich family, so there were many times that she had deliberately created opportunities to get close to me. Of course, I avoided her repeatedly, but I was still fooled by her. She was a just secretary in my company so she would occasionally follow me to meet my clients. One day, she took advantage of me while I was drunk after a social meeting with a client. She sent me to a hotel and gave me some aphrodisiacs. That was why I slept with her, I wasn't sober when I did it. Afterward, she tried to force me to divorce your mother. I was afraid that your mother wouldn't forgive me if she found out about it, so I compensated a huge amount of money for her to keep her quiet. She took the money and left for a while, but she came back half a year later, and pregnant. She said that the child was mine and wanted me to take responsibility for it. I didn't believe that the child is mine because Pearl herself was a very slutty woman and was with many men before me, so I said to her that I wanted a paternity test to be conducted after the child was born. So if it was proven that the child is indeed mine, I will of course take up the responsibility. However, if the child was not mine, I told her that I would send her to jail for blackmailing me. Perhaps my words had frightened her so she disappeared and never came for me again. It wasn't until 20 years later, one day when you brought a girl home, whom I thought looked very much alike to Pearl. So I decided to ask her about it, and it turned out that she was really her daughter. My first instinct was that this was Pearl's plan. Since her dream of marrying a wealthy man did not come true, she had sent her daughter to realize it for her 20 years later. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence that my son would fall in love with Pearl Haymitch's daughter?"

After Titus had finished speaking, Mila Zordon continued to say—

"I didn't have a clue on what had happened twenty years ago at all. If it was not for Pearl Haymitch who I met up with and told me about it later, I would never have known that your father had cheated on me when he was young. That was when Abigail Tanner had already left. One day, I received an anonymous letter, attached with an old photo. It was the evidence of your father's affair with Pearl Haymitch. In the letter, there was a time and a place, asking to meet me. I suppressed my anger and went to appointment. It was only at that time that I had learned that the woman in the photo was the mother of the girl who had almost become my daughter-in-law. Pearl was an arrogant woman. At the beginning of our meeting, she had already insulted me with your father's betrayal. I argued with her, and she suddenly said:" Do you know who Abigail's father is? He was your husband, Titus Simons." At that very moment, my mind went blank and couldn't accept it at all so I asked her for the evidence. She then said, "The fact that your husband was so eager to get Abigail to leave your son was the best evidence because he knew very well that your son and Abigail were half-siblings!" After that, she started to ask for money from me with the condition that she will not tell the world about this. I was concerned about your situation at that time and our family's reputation too, so I gave her a huge sum of money and asked her to leave for good. But this woman was too greedy, and she continued to ask money from me repeatedly. I can still remember clearly that she had asked money from me seven times. Initially, I wanted to confront your father about this matter, but I thought that since it happened such a long time ago, there was no point arguing about it anymore. For the sake of our marriage, I didn't bring it up at all. However, I started to doubt whether Abigail was really your father's biological child, so I hired a private investigator to look into it. The results that the private investigator had gotten for me made me furious. It turned out that your father did sleep with her, but Abigail was not his child. Thinking that she had deliberately scammed our family so many times, I was so angry that I asked someone to give her a lesson, but I never thought of taking her life. The people I hired did something to her car which had caused her and her husband to die in an accident.

Madam Simons cried while covering her face. "I felt so guilty when I heard the news. Although their death was an accident, I was partially responsible for it too. That was why I prayed to God every day."

The truth had finally been revealed, but Sebastian Simons still could not forgive his parents for doing such evil things. He said bitterly, "No matter how helpless you were, you can never make up for everything that you have done after those innocent people have died. Just because you hated someone, so you vented your anger on their daughter. Just because you couldn't accept the situation, so you found someone to take revenge for you. But have you ever thought that your thoughts and the things that you have done have caused innumerable misfortunes to the others? Because of both of you, I lost my beloved woman, and because of you guys, my life was almost destroyed. It's because of both of you that I'm drowning in the darkness once again. The only thing that I can feel for the two of you now is just deep disappointment."

Sebastian glanced at his parents who had broken his heart for the last time and said, "From now on, I will not come back to this house anymore."

Yasmine's face was already covered with tears. Sebastian's words were constantly playing in her mind, "Because of the both of you, I lost my beloved woman." These words were like a sharp knife constantly piercing into her heart whenever she thought about it.

She didn't come back to her senses until she had heard her mother-in-law's heart-wrenching cry. She immediately ran out of the house to chase after Sebastian.

Sebastian's car had already left the mansion. Yasmine tried her best to catch up with him and tears were constantly streaming down her cheeks against the cold wind. Even though her vision was blurred, her determination to catch up with Sebastian did not waver at all.

Sebastian who was already drained, sat on the passenger's seat. He was in such a bad mood that he didn't even have the strength to drive. It was the driver who was driving the car for him.

He looked into the rear view mirror with his tired eyes and instantly noticed Yasmine, who was chasing after the car with tears in her eyes. He immediately said, "Stop the car."

The driver stopped the car. He pushed the door open and walked down, quietly waited for Yasmine to run towards him.

Yasmine stopped at about fifty meters away from him. Then, she looked at him with tears in her eyes. Neither of them took a step towards each other. They only looked at each other silently and after a long pause, Yasmine finally moved her legs and gradually approached him. When she was close enough to him, she asked sadly, "If you won't be coming back to the house from now on, then what will I do in that house without you?"

Thinking of that sentence, 'Wherever I am, it will be your home', at that instant, her tears flowed down like a river.