"His" (Book 2 Of The Williams Series)

CHAPTER 21: Revelation

Alexandria Rodrigo Point of View:

The whole room went quiet after Andre said the name Amber Cortes. Nat had a stricken look on her face, Nate and Chase looked surprised, Luke was acting indifferent and Camilla and I were probably the only people in the room who had no idea what was going on.

"What does Amber Cortes have to do with anything?" I asked.

Nobody said anything. I could practically hear a pin drop. This Andre character seemed rather pleased with himself as he sat down and watched the drama unfold. I looked over at Camilla who was looking down at her hands. It broke my heart to see her so unsure of herself.

She looked up at Luke who was already looking at her, "what is he talking about Luke?"

Luke sighed and pulled her closer to him, "Amber Cortes was my father's assistant over twenty years ago"

"She was the reason why Luke never met his father until he was almost five years old," Nat grimaced as she recalled what seemed to be a painful part of her life "she was manipulative, she was obsessed with Chase and created a plan to break us up"

"When she failed at that she kidnapped Luke but we managed to save him," Camilla gasped loudly at that.

"You never told me that," she said sadly.

I watched as Luke sighed, "I didn't want to upset you love"

Nat and Chase looked conflicted as if they didn't know what to believe or which emotion to latch on to, in the end anger won.

"Did she send you here?" Nat asked hotly "did that bitch send you after my son?"

"Mom!" Nate and Luke both shouted in disbelief while Camilla looked as if she'd just seen a ghost. I was at a lost for words.

"Is it true?" Camilla directed her question to me. I knew why she asked that but the rest didn't.

I almost didn't want to answer her, "it is true"

Her mouth fell open in shock as she looked around the room. Her gaze settled on Luke who once again didn't seem to care about the whole thing. I stood to go over to her to give her a much needed hug or to just let her know that I was here for her but she stood up and took off running. 

Luke ran after her shouting her name. I was torn between making sure she was alright and giving these people a piece of my mine. The Latina in me was victorious.

"I can't believe you accused my bestfriend of doing anything other than being in love with Luke"

"Alex maybe-"

"Zip it," I huffed as Nate spoke up. He closed his mouth shocked that I scolded him.

I directed my anger to Natalia, "You just met us today, you barely know us. Camilla doesn't talk about her parents because she was adopted"

"That's not true her mother is Amber Cortes," Andre spoke for the first time since he started this.

I gritted my teeth and clenched my hands together as I tried not to strangle him, "one more word out of you and I'll kill you myself"

He raised his hands in surrender and continued to look on, "Camilla's biological mother was Amber but she gave up Camilla as soon as she was born because she was in prison at the time"

"Oh my God," Nat's eyes welled up with tears.

"Camilla was adopted and raised by a loving couple, everything was okay until they were killed in a car crash, Amber was the cause of it and she died as well"