Secrets Hurt

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Patra(Karla's Step mom's) POV

Seeing my baby in this condition because of my past silly mistake just hurt so bad. I am such a horrible mother. I was young and foolish and I let the glamour of dating a billionaire dictate my life and I abandoned my children to fit into his perfect world. But I was struggling and was just tired of being poor. To Luke I'm a strong powerful woman, I painted myself as his equal when I really wasn't. I wasn't a perfect girl or mother, I was a con artist when I first met Luke, it was all about his money at first but I fell in love with being a mother to his daughter and eventually fell in love with him and I just thought there was no need ruining our lives with my truth. Now, my poor baby is critically injured and in a coma, all because I was a selfish fraudster bitch. It was all my fault. I couldn't even look at Luke or Sophia. Sophia was balling her eyes out as she held Karla's hand whispering to her while Luke just stood by the wall, jaws clenched tightly, that I saw the muscles in his face twitch. He's so not forgiving me for this. Even though Luke loved acting tough and macho, he loved his children and was a family guy, but his first daughter was in a Coma and he just found out about my con. I didn't even know what to do as I stood by the door.

Luke (Karla's dad) POV

How dumb could I be? I was so blinded by love for Patra or whatever her name is that I didn't do a background check, because I trusted her. Being as rich as I am, it was a custom to carry out background checks on people and the one person I trusted enough not to do it for ends up being a con artist and a mother of 2 of my children. Now I don't even know what to do. The police had wanted to take her into custody but I told them to hold off for now because, it's either she was a really good con artist or she genuinely cared for Karla and me. My poor Karla.

Sophia(Karla's Birth Mother's) POV

I just got her back. Why does fate have to be so cruel. What was my sin? What atrocity did I commit? Falling in love with a bastard who used me and tossed me out because I was worth nothing to him? Haven't I suffered enough? I couldn't live through this if she dies. I can't do that. I fought for years to be with her and now this happens. I weep as I hold her hand in mine. The machines she was hooked to purring and beeping at the background. From the corner of my eyes I notice Patra, I was so mad at her with all we just found out but how could she abandon her kids? I couldn't breathe well knowing Karla was kept from me and she consciously abandons her own kids but then she was a good mom to Karla too. She looked like she was in so much pain.

"How did you do it?" I say but my voice breaks,

She just stares at me.

"How did you do it?.....How did you abandon your own kids and... care so much for another person's child?....... Did it not weigh on your conscience just once?" I scream at her,

"I'm so sorry Sophia," She stutters as she burst into tears and leaves the room.

I just slumped onto my seat as I looked up at Luke.

"How do you feel now?" I say to him solemnly, "You had me locked up and mistreated and you allow a con artist care for our child? And her psycho son has put my baby in a coma," I scream at him,

"How was I to know? She fooled me" He mutters,

I just shake my head at him as I hold my baby's hand and tuck her hair out of her face.

Damon(Karla's savior from the club's) POV

I remember the night of the party and how everything went sideways. I remember trying to locate Karla just to be there for her because I really cared for her but I just couldn't find her and then I heard she escaped her security, probably because she didn't want to be around people after she just found out her boyfriend was cheating on her, I didn't blame her for going radio silent. That fucking asshole. And then the next day there was no word about her whereabouts, not even her friends knew and they were freaking out already. The next day people were looking for her like mad.

And then the third or fourth day The Kensingtons were all over the news as they had apparently found Karla but she got badly hurt during the rescue and my heart ached so much at the thought that she was fighting for her life somewhere in this damn hospital that I and her friends were sitting at their waiting room, waiting for any information, because we weren't family we couldn't go in to see her. I saw as Xena cuddled Amber who had fainted when she saw the news and heard what had happened. Today was a bad day as it is and then the door burst open and I see a blur of blonde hair run in and requesting to see Karla.

"Where's Karla Kensington?" The voice said,

"What's the relationship with the patient sir?" The nurse asked,

"I'm her boyfriend, I'm family" The blonde guy said,

And then I recognize the voice. It was that smug cheating bastard and rage just filled me.

"Boyfriend? You've got to be kidding me" I growl as I pounce on him, we both fall down and I start punching him.

"You have a lot of nerve showing up here" I shout at him as I punch him at every word I say, I feel somebody dragging me off him,

I dust my shirt as I stand properly, it was Tariah who had pulled me off him.

"You got her into this in the first place," I growl at him.

"I don't owe you any explanation," He says as he shifts his nose back into shape,

I almost pounced on him again but I stand aside as Amber walks past me and smacks him straight in the face.

"Get out," She screams at him,

"I have a right to be here," The bastard goes on to say,

"A right?" I bark at him as I step forward but Tariah holds me back,

"You should leave," Tariah says to him,

"Dude I have to be here when she wakes up," He says,

Tariah just nods his head and turns towards me.

"He wants to be here," He mutters smiling and immediately turns around and punches Ethan in the jaw and he falls down. "I won't say it again, leave," Tariah says as he folds up his sleeves and the fucking coward runs like a wimp.

"If it was all a misunderstanding he would have said so and he would have stayed if he really cared for her but he didn't, and he acted like he cared for her and that's what hurts, he was there at her worse time, how could he do that?," Amber says crying,

"Boys can be manipulative to get something from you, that's boys for you," Xena said solemnly, "No offense guys, but there are good guys too," She adds as she smiles at me and Tariah

The door opens and some people walk in. There's a middle aged man, 4 guys and 6 girls.

"Xena," One girl amongst them exclaims, breaking down as she runs to hug Xena who hugs her back,

"I'm Pastor Craig, I'm the Pastor at the church Karla attends," The middle aged man says as he shakes me and Tariah,

"Still can't understand why Karla attends church but it's nice that you guys are here," Amber says jokingly, smiling slightly,

We all familiarize ourselves with each other and then proceed to keep waiting for information on Karla's case.