Adam's Eve

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Ten seconds later, Eva was still staring at Adam, stupefied, wondering whether she had misheard him.

“Adam, what are you talking about?” She would have chuckled at the absurdity of his declaration if not for the gravity of this whole situation. “How can my mother be your mother?”

She scanned Adam's face, waiting for any twitch, any sign to indicate that this was just his example of an extremely bad joke.

The hard lines of incense remained. Eva looked back at her mother to find the woman sobbing and looking at the floor like she found it very interesting.

Reality slammed into her with an intensity that sent her hurtling right into absolute shock.

“Get her the fuck out of here, Eva!” Adam whisper-yelled churlishly, but his next words were ground out loudly. “Somebody get her the fuck out of here before I lose my shit and do something I'm going to regret.”

His hands were balled into fists, his whole body crackling with rage, like an elastic string stretched beyond the yield point and just waiting to snap. Lucas was by his side, telling him to get his shit together and not cause a scene because they were in a hospital.

“Please let her leave.” He directed at Eva, his eyes filled with some remnants of shock. That shock obviously paled in comparison to what she was feeling in that moment.

Eva slewed around only to find her mother running out of there. She dashed after the woman immediately, head still whirling.

God, Rebecca was Adam's mother, the woman who'd abandoned him, the woman who'd walked out of Adam and his little brother's life without a second thought and had never bothered to look back.

“Mother!” She shouted when they'd run out of the building.

Catching up with her, she caught her by the arm, forcing her to stop. The woman was sobbing more than Eva remembered ever seeing her do.

“Mum, what the hell is going on? Tell me this is just some joke you and Adam are playing or something.” Eva demanded, still finding it hard to wrap her head around all this. “You're the woman who abandoned Adam and his brother when they were little?”

She could barely reconcile the woman Adam had told her about at the cabin with the woman she'd always known, the woman whom had loved her so unconditionally and to whom she looked up to so much.

“I can explain.” Her mother croaked.

“Ah, well then there better be a good enough explanation!” With that, she spun around and stormed away towards the parking lot where they could talk in private.

Her heart was beating so fast. After holding this woman in high esteem all her life, finding out that she had been capable of something so horrendous came as nothing short of a blow. A hard-hitting blow.

Eva entered the driver's side, banging the door shut. She waited for her crying mother to enter, tapping her fingers on her lap rhythmically.

“Well?” Eva didn't waste time after her mum had entered the car. “Start talking.”

Her mother winced at her tone. Eva had never talked to her in that tone of voice, but right now she didn't care whether she was being disrespectful. She needed answers and now!

Tear-stained eyes met hers. Eva looked away immediately as her mother began to speak. “I was born and raised from a filthy rich family, pampered, treated like a queen, thought to only associate with people of my own social status.”

A small pause. “What I was thought didn't seem to matter when I met Adam's father. He was this gorgeous young man, sexy, virile.”

From the corner of her eyes, Eva saw her smile through her tears. “I was helpless against falling in love with him. All my dreams were shattered when I introduced him to my parents. They were instantly against our relationship. We hatched a plan; to get me pregnant. That would cause my parents to finally accept us. My father disowned me instead.”