Meanwhile, Arianna who is seen going back to the dining room saw Hannah climbing stairs with tears in her eyes.
“Hannah” she called and Hannah raised her head and stared at her.
She wondered why she was crying, she had just left the dining room not quite long and then something had made her cry. She wondered why she was crying.
“What’s wrong, sweetheart?” She asked and Hannah pulled her into a hug.
“Hey, stop crying,” she said while patting her back.
Hannah nodded and pulled away from the hug.
“My father, he’s here-” she wiped her tears and then sniffed.
“What? When did he arrive? And who invited him?” Arianna asked with a hint of anger in her eyes. From the look of Hannah’s eyes, she could see how hurt she was.
She hated the fact that she had cried, it broke her heart. A hint of anger flashed in her eyes.
“Brandon did-” she sniffed and Arianna sighed. Hannah paused when she noticed the look on Arianna’s face. She was furious. Hannah became calm instantly, she knew whenever Arianna was angry, things could go wrong.
“I have waited so long to meet that jerk of a father” She stared at Hannah one last time and was about to walk away when Hannah held her hands, thereby stopping her from leaving.
“Where are you going?” She asked.
“I’m going to meet the man who fucking hurt you, he deserved to be told a word he would never forget,” Arianna said as she pulled her hands away from Hannah’s and then walked away.
“Mom, please, Mom” Hannah called as she went after Arianna who was already going to the dining.
Brandon and Lucas raised their heads the moment they saw Arianna walking towards the dining area angrily.
“Oh god, hell is about to set loose” Lucas muttered and then stood up to block Arianna’s way.
“Get out of my way Lucas, I just want to talk” Arianna yelled and Humphrey and Jessica turned to them.
“Talk? and the look on your face says something else?” Lucas muttered and Brandon sighed softly.
“Mom please,” Hannah said and then held Arianna’s hand.
Meanwhile, Daniel who was sitting on the dining chair staring at the floor the whole while In a deep thought, was jolted out of his thoughts by the sound of Arianna.
That voice sounds familiar, he thought to himself as he stood up and raised his head, then turned to Arianna.
“You…” Arianna paused the moment she and Daniel’s eyes came in contact. Her eyes opened wide in shock. Her heartbeat increased at once.
She felt a wave of shock rush through her at once.
“Daniel….” Arianna called.
“Camilla…” Daniel called.
Everyone in the room then stared at each other with a surprised look on their faces.
“You guys know each other?” Jessica asked and Daniel turned to Jessica and then to Hannah and then to Arianna.
“Damn!! What are you doing here Camilla?” Daniel asked, still surprised to see her.
“I should be asking you that instead, what are you doing here?” Camilla asked, trying to push back whatever emotion was trying to take over her at the moment.
“Okay, now I’m lost, how the hell did you guys know each other?” Brandon asked cutting off their speech while staring at the both of them but none of them said anything.
Hannah wondered what they were both hiding and why they weren’t saying a word.
“Dad, how do you know mom?” Hannah asked and Daniel raised his eyebrows.
“Mom? You know already?” He asked and everyone stared at him looking confused wondering what he was talking about.
“What are you talking about? Know what?” Hannah asked and then Daniel sighed softly and then spoke while staring at Arianna who was trying so hard to avoid his looks.
“Camilla is my wife…”
“Ex-wife…” she said as she gritted her teeth, cutting off his speech. Everyone opened their mouths wide in shock, as they all stared at each other.
Lucas stared at Humphrey, who was staring at everyone with no expression on his face.
“What’s going on mom?” Jessica asked.
“Daniel was the first man I got married to before I met your father…” Arianna said and Jessica raised her eyebrows.
“Wait, you were first married before you met our father? Now I’m confused” Brandon said as he sat on the chair staring at his mom, waiting for her to give them a proper explanation of what was going on.
“I met Daniel when I was working as a cook in a restaurant. We fell in love, got married and I got pregnant with our first daughter.
Daniel changed when I got pregnant, he would beat me up with pregnancy and maltreated me because I had no one to stand up for me.
Finally, I had given birth and it was a baby girl. Two weeks into giving birth, he had beaten me up till I started bleeding and lost consciousness.
I woke up at the hospital with a divorce paper beside me. He had left me a divorce paper and took the child from me….” Arianna paused as those memories came back running into her head. She could remember every pain she felt those times. This was the reason she hated Daniel so much.
“Did you sign it?” Jessica asked and she nodded.
“I had to. He threatened me. He took my baby and left town with his new mistress.
I tried finding them but I couldn’t find them. You separated me from my child.
Years later, I went back to find my child but then found out she was dead, the mistress had died of cancer too and Daniel was nowhere to be found” Arianna said as tears gathered in her eyes as she stared at Daniel. She hated him so much.
“Camilla…”
“Do not fucking call my name. I’m no longer the Camilla you used to know. My name is Arianna” she said between gritted teeth, anger rushing through her:
“You killed my child, I’ll never forgive you for it” she yelled, and then Lucas held her.
“Please hear me out Arianna, the child isn’t dead, she never died,” he said and Arianna turned to him with a look of surprise on her face but then laughed.
“What the hell are you saying? She was confirmed dead!!..”
“She didn’t. She survived, she’s alive….” Daniel said as he turned to Hannah who was standing beside Arianna with no expression on her face.
Arianna stared at Daniel who was staring at Hannah. She turned to Hannah who had no expression on her face.
“Hannah is your daughter…our daughter..”
TBC