Chapter 96
It was an artificial rain, it wasn’t so cloudy and there was no lightning or thunder but the water kept dropping. Faces were sad, the people wore black and everyone was giving their heartfelt words as they moved close and then walked away leaving only Bruce and Ryan there to stand in front of the grave.
‘We’ll miss you,’ was engraved on the stone in front of them with her name on it, Ella. The people dropped their flowers in front of the stone as they made one or two statements to the stone before leaving.
After the people had calmly left, the day became bright again, the umbrellas were dropped also. Ryan made his way to where the twins stood
“Ryan, let’s go and play,” Miley says and Ryan nodded before running away with them. Tia and Henri gave him a weird look but the boy didn’t seem to care at the moment, he left to play with his friends.
Lyra made her way to where Bruce stood still staring at the stone. She said while looking at the stone
“My condolences”
“I would say the same to you too,” he replied, still looking at the grave.
Lyra smiled before saying “I had always known that Ella has eyes for big things. She would always want to be at the receiving end and she loves her life a lot. For her to commit suicide, you will agree with me that she was really pained by the death of Clinton and her unborn child. She must have thought that she had completely lost her way the moment she lost the two most precious things in her life”
Bruce bobbed his head “She fell in love”
“Her way of loving was funny I must say” Lyra replied. “She did everything she did because Clinton asked her to. She had been crazily in love with the man since our days in school. All she did was try to please him. It broke her when she saw his dead body. Ella was a strong woman who fell helplessly in love”
Lyra sighed before dropping the flower in her hands on the stone
“I’ll miss your stupidity, sister”
When she got up, Bruce turned to leave and she did also.
“Do you have time?” She asked but Bruce shook his head.
“I’ve not been going to work as I should so I have a lot of things to cover. By the way, thanks for taking care of Ryan”
“It’s alright. I knew you’ll need time for yourself that’s why I had to take him in for the main time. Well, since you’re busy, I’ll let you do what it is you wish to do but there’s something important I’ll like to discuss with you. Come around when you are free” she said.
Bruce agreed to do that, he spoke to his son for a while before driving away.
Lyra stood there staring at the car as it left, her eyes watered but she cleaned them immediately. If there was something she had come to learn from all that had happened was that, so many things they had fought for were not worth fighting for in the first place.
First, Bruce had fought for his love for Ella and lost her in the process, Ella had fought for her love for Clinton and had lost him in the process while she had fought for Bryan and lost him as well. It was useless trying to go extreme for love. Give what you can.
Lyra didn’t set her eyes on Bruce for another week, Ella’s death had weakened him more than she thought.
When she came back from work, she saw them all in the living room chatting and playing. She furrowed her brows when she saw Bruce also with them in her house.
Bruce, who wanted to spend some time with his son, came around. He had missed his son so much, he felt he was wronging him for leaving him for too long.
“Mommy!” They raced to her and hugged her legs. She smiled as she kissed them all as well.
Bruce couldn’t help but stare and be marveled at how Ryan had also called her mommy and ran to hug her too. She had even dropped a kiss on his cheek as she did with the rest of the kids.
She spoke to the kids for a while before greeting every other person in the living room who responded with a smile
“Tia, you didn’t go to work?” Tia shook her head
“I need to rest. That show was hectic” Tia replied but Lyra rolled her eyes. Show that had happened two weeks back.
“You need to rest or because Henri came around” Tia blushed as she shrugged.
“Do you have time now?” She asked the man with a pawn in his hand. The adult had been playing chess before she walked in.
Bruce dropped the piece of chess before standing up. Dressed in well-ironed long sleeves and trousers, he made his way to her. She has been asking to meet with him since Ella’s death that had been a month ago and he wondered why
“I am available now. Where would you like to discuss?” He asked.
Lyra gestured for him to follow her as they made their way to the back garden. She suddenly felt self-conscious walking in front of him and she could tell that his gaze was on her the whole time
Lyra gestured for him to sit and they both sat down on the bench. She searched her bag and brought out a paper before handing it over to Bruce.
The man took it wondering what was in it. Lyra didn’t know how to start explaining herself but she tried as Bruce opened the paper to read the content of it
“I am sorry, I never knew either”
Bruce gasped when he was faced with a DNA result that says his relationship with the twins was 98. 9 percent accurate. He is the biological father to the twins
“Bryan hypnotized me into believing that he was the father and faked the DNA results of before” her head was down with her hands covering her face.