Rita smiled but it was a fake smile. She said Julia is doing great and would have loved to accompany her there that evening, but he had a busy schedule and meeting clients.
” Oh! wow. That’s great. We’ll invite him over for dinner one of these days” Monica said, slicing in some vegetables to be steamed.
“Mm.. mm” Alfred grunted and smiled as Rita turned to glance at him. She wasn’t comfortable with her brother’s grunt. It carries a meaning.
Alfred felt like puking blood. Busy schedule and meeting clients indeed. Busy doing a woman and meeting clients between her thighs.
Looks like his sister was trying to cover up for her husband’s misconduct. She is trying to portray an image of him to their mother and that image is not a real one.
Or, could it be that she doesn’t know the true personality of her husband? That he is a two-faced sword? Has a wife and keeps a mistress.
But he wasn’t going to say anything to her yet. Maybe they’re both in love, whatever he says or shows her might incubate and hatch into a fight.
If she doesn’t know that her husband is a casanova, one day, she would know and he will also tell her what he knows.
Soon Alfred went into his room and bath, changed into another clothes and came downstairs. The family of three had a sumptuous dinner.
“.. but don’t be quick to judge me. Perhaps when I finish with my explanation, you will understand why I choose to pick up a fake identity.
I had a friend back in high school who was in love with her childhood sweetheart. They both loved each other.
But we had a classmate who happened to be the sister of my friend’s boyfriend. She doesn’t like my friend to be with her brother.
Many years passed and they got into the University. My friend is Xiaoxi, her childhood sweetheart is Zongtian and his sister is Anita.
Anita has a friend who has a crush on her brother Zongtian and hence wants to remove Xiaoxi out of the way. That woman is Molly..”Nanny was explaining.
Lanre squinted. In his research and answers he got so far, his mother’s name was Ye Xiaoxi and his father is Zongtian Mo.
Is Nanny talking about his parents or someone else. Is it possible that she knew his parents before they both died?
Theresa Mo was quietly listening. Her mother was Xiaoxi and her aunt was Anita. She had always known that Aunt Lulu used to be her mother’s Best friend and that’s why, she always comes to check on her as often as she’s in town until five years ago when she never came even after her father’s death.
“But Zongtian hardly comes home from abroad. He came home one holiday and Xiaoxi became pregnant after intersecting with him.
Zongtian was happy and hoped that she would give birth to the baby. At the time, I was a nurse, and I advised Xiaoxi to deliver her baby in the hospital where I worked.
Zongtian had returned abroad for further studies at the time and told his sister to look after Xiaoxi and her baby when she gave birth to her baby…” Nanny paused to calm her emotions.
Junxie Li has stopped drinking and just listened.
Nanny went ahead and told them how Xiaoxi delivered twins. A boy and a girl. But the boy was abducted by Anita and came to her, not knowing she was Xiaoxi’s friend and asked her to kill the baby.
She was afraid. If she refused, Anita is rich and would implicate her and still find someone to do the job for her.
She accepted to do what she wanted and Anita paid her a large sum of money… Nanny wasn’t done when Lanre asked “Tell me, were you the anonymous woman that brought the baby to the orphanage?”
Aunt Lulu said yes. She brought the baby to the orphanage at a month old. Because she doesn’t want Anita to suspect that the baby was still alive and come for it.
“You gave the orphanage the large sum of money you were paid to kill the baby right?” Lanre asked again. He was talking as if the baby was not himself.
Nanny said yes. Theresa Mo was analysing things in her head already. She’s a twin? She had a brother? Could it be that Lanre is… no, she can’t just jump to an inclusion yet.
Lanre was quiet for a long time. The sitting room was silent. No one said a word. Everyone is left in their analysis. . Junxie Li already know, Lanre is Theresa’s twin.
He looked closely, and for the first time since he knew Lanre, he saw the semblance between the two of them.
And his nanny would definitely have known that he was Xiaoxi’s son when she started working with him.
” Have you always known who I am all these years?” Lanre asked. He looked at his nanny with a cold stare as if trying to read her mind for answers before she utters it.
Nanny closed her eyes momentarily and a drop of tears escaped. She nodded her head and sniffled.
Lanre became angry. ” You knew Who I was, and hid it from me all these years? You claim you love me and cared so much about me?
How can you do this to me nanny? I told you I was searching for my origin and you never told me still?
Everything is fake! Your love for me isn’t genuine. There’s nothing genuine about loving someone and keeping him hidden from his family…” Lanre was yelling.
Nanny was now shedding tears all over her. She was sweating as well. Lanre didn’t know what she went through to keep him alive.
He misunderstood her and is even yelling at her? She isn’t a terrible woman for not telling him who he is all these years.
Rosa saw Nanny, and tapped Lanre, trying to calm him down. Looks like Theresa is his twin sister.
Lanre moved away from Rosa, preventing her from trying to stop him. But Theresa spoke, she suddenly raised her voice to Lanre:
” Listen Lanre, Aunt Lulu is not such a person. Allow her to finish what she’s saying..” she was trying to intervene but Lanre cut her short.
“You are going to defend her from keeping your own brother from you? Because she let you Know her true side, you will side her against me, your own twin brother?” Lanre asked, staring at Theresa.
Everything is clear. They are siblings and despite that they hadn’t heard the end of the story. She’s his sister.
Theresa’s eyes went moist. She buried her face in Junxie’s arm and the latter held her tightly.
Seeing Theresa Mo sobbing quietly, Lanre quieted down. He reduced the tempo of his voice but still spanked his nanny.
“I regret that I trusted you. Why didn’t you tell me who I am? Why keep me in the dark?..” Lanre was still talking like someone offended.
“Shut the crap Lanre!” Nanny cleaned her tears and stood up. She glared at Lanre with a saddened face.
” You open your mouth and go radical with me Lanre? Are you out of your mind? For spending my entire life saving and protecting you from those who wanted to kill you, I have become a fake woman?
You think I chose to live my life like this because I wanted to? No, I didn’t dream that I would end up like this until I promised your mother!!..”