Chapter 4 - The Secret Lover Identity Is Finally Revealed
My father’s eyes followed my finger down the paper until he reached the name printed beside a series of five-hundred-dollar weekly transactions. The name was Gregory Vance—his own business partner and the man who had been attending our Sunday family barbecues for five years.
"Gregory?" my father gasped, the paper fluttering from his fingers and drifting down onto the carpeted floor like a fallen leaf. "You took our hard-earned retirement savings to pay off my business partner while pretending to carry my child?"
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My mother sank onto the edge of the bed, burying her face in her hands as her entire body shook with uncontrollable, pathetic weeping. "Gregory threatened to tell you about what happened between us in Chicago two years ago if I didn't keep paying his silence money!" she confessed, her voice muffled behind her trembling fingers.
"So the fake pregnancy wasn't just to keep Dad from leaving," I realized, feeling a cold wave of disgust wash over me. "It was to cover up the fact that you were being blackmailed by his best friend."
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