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( Stand For Love… )
CHAPTER 70&71
By; Succie Brown.
★★★★
★( ROSE’S REAL IDENTITY ) ★
Carding kept running non-stop and the more the words “Half siblings” keep penetrating inside his ears, the more he was going insane.
He almost jumped inside the bridge, but Greg was quick to hold him back.
“Are you crazy!!!!!” Greg yells at him, trying to caught his breath. He went after Carding, when he ran off.
“Why will you want to kill yourself? Do you even have any idea how Paige is going to feel, huh!!!” Greg yells at him. He was obviously angry.
“Is not true, right? My ears didn’t hear well, right? Please tell me that Paige is not my dad’s daughter. Please tell me that all I heard ealier was wrong and that I and Paige aren’t half siblings. Please tell me everything I heard is not true!!!” Carding shouted and falls to the ground, crying.
Greg sighs, not knowing what to say to Carding. Even if he’s not inside Carding’s heart, Greg can describe the pains Carding was feeling right now.
“Carding” He managed to call him.
“I don’t want to believe that I and Paige are siblings. I don’t want to believe she’s also my father’s daughter. I can’t accept Paige as my sister, I love her. I love Paige so much!” Carding said crying.
“Carding” Greg said trying to touch him, but Carding moved backwards.
“I and Paige aren’t siblings. She is not my sister” Carding said shaking his head and he took to his heels, running.
“Carding!!” Greg screams going after him, but Greg couldn’t caught up with him.
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Paige slowly opens her eyes and sees Helena sitting beside her, she had tears in her eyes.
“Mom” Paige muttered and hugs Helena.
“Is a dream, right? What I heard ealier was just a dream and I have woken up to reality were you and Dad are my real parents, right?” Paige asked.
But Helena could only cry.
“Please mom, tell me that you’re my mom and dad is my father, please” Paige said crying, hugging Helena.
Edward enters the room with Vince and Tessa. Vince still have tears in his eyes.
“My daughter” He said and Paige looks at him with so much hatred.
“I’m not your daughter!!! Stop calling me that!!!” Paige yells at Vince.
“Please calm down my child” Tessa said and Paige looks at her.
“I’m not your child. You just pop out from nowhere and claim to be my mom and you expect me to believe you. You’re not my mom. They’re my parents and not you both!!!! I can never accept Vince as my father!!!!” Paige yells.
“Paige” Edward called her and Paige quickly held his hands.
“You’re my dad, right? You and mom gave birth to me, right?” She asked hiccuping.
Edward looks at Paige and he could see how hurt she was. If it was up to him, he’d have hide the truth forever but he can’t do that since her real mom showed up.
“I’m sorry that I lied to you for 18 years Paige, the real truth is that your mom handle you to me a day after you were born.
FLASHBACK=EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO***
“Please Ca-ssandra stop crying, Mom has to get you to safety first” Tessa said weakly and like magic, Ca-ssandra stopped crying.
Tessa smiles when baby Ca-ssandra stopped crying. “Don’t worry my child, momma is going to get to safety” Tessa said weakly.
She sees Odessa’s figure approaching her and she quickly diverted into an alley and while looking back to see if Odessa was coming after her, she bumped into Edward.
“Miss are you all right? Oh my God, you’re bleeding” Edward said.
“Please help my daughter” Tessa said weakly.
“Huh?”
“Someone is trying to kill I and my child. I don’t want anything bad to happen to my baby, please help her” Tessa said between pains and tears, and the bleeding in her Tommy increase.
“What should I do with your baby?” Edward asked.
“Please protect her. I can’t do it right now, because I’m running out of time, I’ll go unconscious soon and my baby will be in danger, please help her” Tessa said crying, handling baby Ca-ssandra to Edward.
“Do you have a piece of paper and a pen?” She asked weakling. Edward gave her a pen and a paper since he has one with him.
Tessa took it from and weakly drew something on it and after that, she took off the expensive Amulet necklace she was wearing and worn it on baby Ca-ssandra.
“Please show this to her when she becomes of age” Tessa said giving the paper to her. Edward looks at the paper and it was a picture of her (Tessa), she’s an architect.
“Please tell her everything about me and if by chance I survive, I’m going to come back for her” Tessa said with a crying voice, caressing baby Ca-ssandra’s face.
“Tessa!!!”
Tessa could hear Odessa’s voice from a distance.
“Please get my baby out of here. I promise to pay you back handsomely if I survive this, please take her out of here” Tessa said weakly.
Edward leaves with baby Ca-ssandra. Tessa cries. She sees Odessa slowly approaching her and she took to her heels, weakly.
***
Edward sighs looking at the baby in his hand.
“What should I do with her? Helena is going to give birth soon, our budget can’t handle two babies” Edward said looking at baby Ca-ssandra.
“Guess I’ll have to handle her to the orphanage and come see her from time to time” Edward said and with that he went for the orphanage.
After handling Paige to the caretaker of the orphanage, he got a call from the hospital, saying his pregnant wife was involved in an accident.
“Please do everything to save my wife and baby, I’ll be there in a few” Edward said.
He quickly ended the call, and headed for the hospital.
FLASHBACK ENDS***
“When I arrived in the hospital, I was informed by the doctor that I lost my baby cuz she was born premature. I knew Helena was going to get hurt, since she has always wanted to have her own baby. I didn’t want to see her in sorrow, that’s why I went back to the orphanage and took you from them and lied to Helena that you were her child. Helena, our baby died 18 years ago and Paige, your real parents are Vince and Tessa. I’m sorry for lying to you” Edward said regretfully.
Helena broke into tears crying painfully. The thought of her baby dying years ago and not being able to see her body was so heartbreaking.
“Ca-ssa…..”
“My name is not Ca-ssandra!!! The name I’m familiar with is Paige. I’m Paige Castillo and not Ca-ssandra Wendell. I rather die than bear your name!!!” Paige shouted and run out of the house.
“Ca-ssandra!”
Both Vince and Tessa said, going after Paige.
Helena was still crying non-stop on the floor.
“Helena” Edward said trying to touch her, but Helena slaps his hand off.
“Where is my baby? What did you do with her 18 years ago!!!”
“I buried her years ago” Edward answers and Helena cried the more.
“Helena, I’m sorry” Edward apologize trying to hug her, but Helena pushed him away.
“I hate you Edward, don’t think about coming anywhere close to me!!!” Helena yell. She went to her room and locked herself inside, crying so painfully.
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THE WENDELL’S MANSION***
Carding staggeringly enters the house and sees his mom watching TV.
“Carding”
“You’re the worst mom ever!!!”
“Did something happen?”
“Don’t pretend like you know nothing. When you got pregnant by wedlock, you should have just killed way before I was born, maybe I won’t have come into this world and fell helplessly in love with my stepsister!!” Carding yells at his mom, crying.
“Fall in love with your stepsister? What are you trying to say Carding?”
“You told me that Tessa died way before you met dad and that you both had a one nightstand because the two of you both were drunk. So why did heck is she still alive claiming that Paige is her daughter and Vince is Paige’s Dad!!!”.
“Tessa is still alive, and Paige is her daughter?” Odessa said trying to hide how surprised she was.
“Seems like you knew Tessa had a child for Dad. What’s going on Mom? What really happened 18 years ago” Carding asked crying.
“All I know is Tessa was also pregnant during the time I took in”.
“That means you already knew Dad and Tessa were together and yet you slept with him?”
“I never knew they will be back together after their break-up. And I loved your dad, so I took the opportunity granted to me at that time” Odessa said and more tears falls down Carding’s eyes.
“You should have terminated me back then. You shouldn’t have given birth to me knowing that Vince doesn’t love you!!!”
“Carding”
“You ruined my life mom. Ever since I was a kid, not once have I experienced what it like to have a dad that cares about you. And now that I finally found someone who I love so much, who makes me happy, the reason I keep having a second thought about living, she turns out to be my sister. Do you have any idea how heartbreaking it is? All this while I’ve been loving and ki-ssing my sister, we almost had s-ex!!!!”.
“Vince is your Dad Carding and you have to accept the fact that Paige is your sister” Odessa said.
“I rather die than accept Paige as my sister. Is better I end my life than accept that I and Paige are sharing the same dad!!” Carding yells and leaves the house.
“Carding” Odessa said trying to go after Carding, but she stopped and folded her fists angrily.
“Tessa is still alive and Paige is Vince’s little daughter from years ago? How did that happen? No, I can’t let them take Vince from me. Vince is mine!!!”. She shouted insanely.
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“Did you find her?” Vince asked Tessa. Both have been searching for Paige, but couldn’t find her.
“No I didn’t” Tessa said and Vince resumes his cry.
“Is surely going to be ha-rd for her to forgive me. And I won’t blame her if she loathes me so much. I did a lot of terrible things to her. I almost strangle my own daughter to death. What kind of a father am I? I couldn’t even have the slightest feelings that I was with my baby Ca-ssandra all this while” Vince said crying.
“But what changed you Vince. The Vince I knew years ago wasn’t this ruthless. What happened to the man I fell in love with?”.
“After I lost you both, life became meaningless to me. And slowly I transferred into a monster. If you and Ca-ssandra are alive now, then who was the woman and the baby whose heads were chopped off years ago” Vince asked with tears falling down his eyes.
“It wasn’t I and Ca-ssandra, Vince. I guess the woman who tried to kill me years ago was the one who manipulated everything”.
“A Woman?”
“Yes Vince. I couldn’t see her face that night Cuz she was masked up. After I fell inside the de-ep ocean, I was rescued by Clark and his late mom, who told me I already spent five years of my life in coma. After I got back to my feet, I began searching for my daughter and in the process of doing so, I found that you had a child with another woman who was also the same age as Ca-ssandra. And thinking about that, I couldn’t go back to you, I just forcus on my architect career and looking for my daughter” Tessa said.
“I’m sorry Tessa. Sorry I didn’t tell you about Odessa getting pregnant before we got married” Vince said with a crying voice and Tessa hug-ged him.
“What matters now is to win our daughter’s heart and find the woman who tried to kill me years ago, Cuz I know she still alive” Tessa said.
Vince hugs her tightly with tears falling down his eyes like rain.
“I missed you so much Tessa. Thank you for coming back to me” Vince said hugging her tightly, crying.
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CONVENIENT Sto-re***
“I wonder where those two ran off too. I can’t find Paige neither can Greg find Carding” Desiree said worriedly.
“Is a bitter pill for them to swallow in just a seconds Desiree. Paige and Carding love each other so much and now they find out that they’re siblings, I’ll go mad if it was me”.
Desiree looks at him. “Are you okay now?” She asked.
“About what?”
“Yunno? Your breakup with Nadia”.
“I’m fine Desiree, I guess she never loved me the way I loved her. I have to forget about her” Bryan said and Desiree smiles.
“Bryan” Nadia said entering the convenience sto-re. Desiree’s face became sad when she saw Nadia.
“And what the heck are you doing here?” Bryan asked.
“Bryan will need to talk. I didn’t mean to break up with you. I only did that so my mom will think we already ended our relationship. You should know I love you and I will never break up with you” Nadia said and Desiree fights back her tears.
“Do I look a robot to you, who doesn’t feel any pains you inflict on me, huh!!” Bryan yells at her.
“Bryan, don’t take it the wrong way” Nadia said.
“And why shouldn’t I Nadia? You ended our relationship and you came back expecting me to embrace you like you never hurt me”.
“I’m sorry Bryan, I didn’t mean to break up with you. Please try to understand”.
“I tried to understand you Nadia, but I can’t anymore. Just like you said earlier, is over between us”.
“Bryan, I’m sorry” Nadia apologize.
“I’m done listening to your stories. Desiree”
“Y-Yes” Desiree stuttered.
“Your Dad is in the restroom, right?” Bryan asked and Desiree nods, Bryan held her hand leaving the convenience sto-re.
“Where’re we going Bryan?” Desiree asked.
“Let’s spend time together” He said leaving the Convenience sto-re with Desiree, still holding her hand.
Nadia broke into tears.
“Who’re you?” Mr. Carlos asked when he came out from the restroom.
“I’m sorry” Nadia said, and leaves the Convenience sto-re, crying.
******
Nadine’s car pulls into a halt when she enters the parking lot of a hospital.
“So this was the hospital the so-called Rose was adopted” Nadine said. She made inquiries about Rose identity and she got to find out that Rose was adopted by the Wilsons.
“I have to find out what her real identity is, that way uncle Vince will choose me instead of her” She said with a smile; she’s unaware about Paige and Carding being siblings.
“What do you want to know” The doctor asked when Nadine enters his office.
“A certain couple with the family Wilson adopted a child from you years ago, right?” Nadine asked.
“And what does that have to do with you?” The doctor asked and Nadine smiles.
“Who’re the real parents of the baby they adopted years ago. They’re poor, right?” Nadine asked, Cuz Vince is unaware that Rose was adopted by the Wilsons,.
“And why should I tell you?”
“Don’t test my patience doctor. I always have my ways to find out what I want, is just that I want to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. And if by chance you gave Rose to them illegally, I’m going to let the world know about it”.
“Are you threatening me” The doctor asked and Nadine laughs.
“Yes I’m. You have won so many awards as one of the best doctors in Chicago, do you want your reputation to be painted black?” Nadine asked and the doctor kept mute.
“Fine. I see you don’t want to tell me. I’ll find out on my own and expose you to the public, if by chance Rose was adopted illegally” Nadine said and tries to leave, but the doctor stopped her.
“Miss, wait”
“Are you going to spilled the bean, Cuz I don’t have the time to play hide and seek”.
“Fine. I’ll tell you”.
“Go on”
“Actually, the baby adopted by the Wilsons was born premature. At that time, Mrs. Wilson’s daughter died after she was born. The couple paid me a huge sum of money to give the premature baby (Rose) to them and handle their deceased baby to Rose’s real Parents”.
“My hospital was at point of going bankrupt, so I had no other choice but to do it. I gave Rose to them (The Wilsons) and gave Rose’s real dad the dead baby, lying to him, that his child was dead” The doctor said.
“Who are Rose’s real Parents then?”
“A certain couple named Helena and Edward Castillo are her real Parents” The doctor said and Nadine’s eyes wide-ned.
TBC