Chapter 25: Under House Arrest by Family
“That… that’s different, mom is really for your own good, Aaron, Garry they have a good family, marry them, you will be happy in the future, Daniel is also good, he is your ……”
“Mom, you should stop talking, there is no point in saying anything now, I am already married, if you really consider me a daughter, then let me go, I will go and bring Fred to meet you, you will understand when you see him.”Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
Elena looked at her mother, she wasn’t angry and she didn’t want to count the past, right now, she just wanted to go back to the hotel, she just wanted to see Fred, she didn’t want to live in this house anymore.
“Married? Elena, who is that boy? Does mommy know him?” Elena’s mother exclaimed at the sound of her voice, overnight, this daughter seems to have changed, her eyes are less tame than before, but more of a ‘hatred’, she is a little uneasy, and a little panicked, for so many years, she has treated Elena as her own daughter, but now, there is an uneasiness of losing this daughter.
“I don’t know Fred, I bumped into him on the road, but whether we knew each other before or not, we’re married and he’s a good man, at least better than the ones Mom introduced, I’ve decided on him.” Elena said stubbornly.
Or maybe she didn’t know what love was, but she knew who was good for her, and now, she couldn’t face her mom at all, and her dad, and she didn’t know what kind of mentality she was going to use to stay in the house.
“Mom, don’t listen to her anymore, she has gone crazy and ghosted, what’s so good about that one man, there are so many men in this world, who don’t you want to pick, you want to pick that kind of man, even if mom and dad agree, I won’t agree either.” Kevin, who had been outside the door, heard Elena being so stubborn and came in angry and scolded.
“Go away, I don’t want to see you, you’re not my brother, you don’t deserve to be my brother at all, there’s a brother under the sky who would do this to his sister, you go–” Seeing Kevin, Elena lost control of her emotions and yelled.
She shouldn’t have trusted her brother, she shouldn’t have opened the door at all, her brother was the bad guy who knocked her out.
“Yes, you’re right, I’m not your brother, but even so, I’ll manage, in short, I won’t let you meet with that man.” Kevin said in annoyance.
“I’m getting out of here, this isn’t my house, you’re not my mother, you’re not my brother, you’re all bad people.” Elena suddenly went crazy and grabbed the paper cutter from the drawer and cried into her heart.
“Elena, put down the knife, you want to marry someone, just do it, but do you at least have to bring that boy back for mom and dad to see?” Elena’s mother was terrified, although there was resentment in her heart towards Elena, but after more than twenty years of raising her, in her heart, she had long treated Elena as her own daughter.
“You get it down, even if you really die here today, I won’t let you see that man.” Kevin, however, blackened his face and pressed closer to Elena step by step.
“Kevin, don’t, don’t you go over there, since Elena wants to marry let her marry, as long as that boy is good, we marry, we marry in style.” Elena’s mother was terrified and tugged her son to keep him away from Elena.
“Mom, go away, Elena Costa, you want to play suicide like others right, then you stab down, you can see if you can see that man after you die, and since I can bring you back, I will never let you see that man again.” Kevin pushed his mother away and walked towards Elena.
“Don’t you come over here, you’re not my brother, you’re bad, you’re all bad, I hate you, I hate you ……” Elena cried, she really didn’t have the courage to pile in, she didn’t even know her own mother, she hadn’t told Fred that she liked He, she was not willing.
At this moment, how she hopes Fred Garner appeared, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar ‘relatives’ in front of her, Elena realized that the only person who really treats her well, seems to be Fred Garner.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.
“Elena, if you really hate marriage, I marry you, no matter what I can’t watch you ruin yourself, what kind of man is that? What is his family background? You don’t even know what his character is like, yet you marry him so recklessly, I won’t allow it, and neither will Mom and Dad.” Kevin lost his mind and said the feelings he had been suppressing in his heart.
“Kevin, you… what did you just say?” Elena’s mother looked at her son in shock, how she never knew that her son liked Elena, if ……
“No, I don’t want to hear it, you are my brother, I don’t want to hear it, I don’t want to hear it ……” Elena threw down the scissors, covered her ears, and cried.
Kevin looked at Elena, walked up, ignored Elena’s struggle, took her into his arms and said, “Elena, if you want me to be a brother, I’m still a brother, if you want me not to be, then I’m not, but this time you have to listen to us, that man, do you know him? Do you know where he’s from? Do you know what’s in his family?”
Kevin said, not that he was cruel, but he could not bear to see Elena hurt, the long pain is better than the short pain, while there are no feelings to kill the marriage is better than later all over the body.
“Yes, I do not know who he is? But I know he won’t hurt me?” Elena Costa tried hard to push Kevin away, but Kevin’s hold was so tight that she couldn’t break free.
“Elena, your brother is right, you just met and got married, is he reliable in terms of character and stuff? Although it is said that the few men that mom helped you arrange before were not ideal, but at least we know our roots, but this …… one you are married to now”
“Know your roots, then do you know how many women they had before the blind date?” Elena Costa gritted her teeth and didn’t even call her mother.
“This,, men spend a little before marriage is very normal, such a man, after marriage to withstand the temptation, the proverb also said: the prodigal son returned to gold.”
Elena mother was embarrassed, even if everyone knows, she can not lift off the face of that shameful cloth, and slapped herself.
“If you still think of me as your daughter, let go of me and let me go to Fred, and I will prove to you that Fred is not the kind of man you say he is.” Elena Costa looked at her mother, over twenty years of parenting was not something that could be covered up by saying a few words.
Over the years, her mother had treated her quite well, and her brother and father had treated her even better.
“Elena, you should stop being obsessed, there are many good men in the world, but it will never be that man, think about it, don’t be so impulsive, I know it’s a bit of a shock to you to suddenly know you’re not your mom and dad’s biological, but ……”
“Brother, what are you saying? I’m not Dad’s kid either?” Elena interrupted Kevin’s words in shock.
How can there be a discrepancy with what she heard before, didn’t she say before that she wasn’t born to her mom, but another woman? How could ……
“Yeah, Kevin, what are you saying? Elena is not born to me, but she is the child of your father and that woman – she, how is she not your father’s child?” Rebecca was also shocked by her son’s words, no wonder her son just said he liked Elena, did …… Rebecca’s heart jerked up for a moment, even with some anticipation.
“Mom, Elena is not Dad’s child.” Kevin, however, insisted.
“You nonsense, who told you that? That woman back then ……” Rebecca looked at her son in shock and kept shaking her head.
“Mom, when Aunt Carole delivered Elena back then, she didn’t even say the baby was Dad’s, you just thought it was.” Kevin looked at his mom sympathetically, if dad hadn’t asked him to keep it a secret back then, if he hadn’t promised dad to let mom know that Elena wasn’t dad’s child, maybe Elena wouldn’t have been treated unequally, and mom wouldn’t have held a grudge against Aunt Carole for over twenty years.
“What are you talking about, Kevin, you bastard? How could she not be your father’s child, that woman, all that time, your father ……” Rebecca pointed at Elena with a trembling hand and took a step closer.
“Elena is indeed not my child, the reason why I often came home late at that time is because there was a problem with the company’s operation.” Unexpectedly, at this time, Gary Costa arrived, standing in front of the door, looking guiltily at his wife.
“What? Why didn’t you tell me?” Rebecca believed it and tears rolled out of her eyes. After all these years, perhaps she had always expected her husband to be innocent, except that Elena was such a big piece of evidence that always stabbed her in the chest like a thorn.
“Back then Carole did not have a boyfriend and was unmarried and pregnant, if I came forward and said it was not mine, it would undoubtedly drive Carole to her death, only I did not expect you to be pregnant then too, and because of this ……” Gary Costa explained only at this point, back in those days, nothing was more important than life.
Just then Gary Costa because of the company, neglected too much, surprisingly did not know his wife pregnant, so that when Elena was sent to The Costa family, Rebecca miscarriage, and from then on can never have children.
“Honey, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have distrusted you.” Rebecca cried and threw herself at her husband, with so much grievance and so much regret in her heart.
Kevin, pulled up Elena, who had stopped crying, and gave space to her parents, believing that they both must have a lot to say at this point.
“Brother, am I,, am I really not Daddy’s child?” Watching her brother close the door behind her, Elena then bit her lip and choked up as she asked.
“Let’s go to the study, I think there should be a photo of your mother there.” Kevin didn’t let go of Elena’s hand since the beginning, he was worried that Elena would run out impulsively.
“Brother, where is my mom? Has dad ever contacted my mom after all these years? And what is Dad’s relationship with my mom?” Elena did want to run half an hour ago, but at this point, she wanted to know who her parents were more than anything else.