The Millionaire and Her Lover

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

LINDSAY

Getting out of the car Ellie tells our driver we'll call when we need to be picked up. This place is very fancy. Why the hell would go here for brunch. 

I guess that's why Ellie made me wear a dress shirt with my jeans. Still, I look out of place here. Like all these people look rich and snobby while I'm here poor and with a millionaire girlfriend. 

She also insisted she came along with me because she wanted to be my moral support. 

"I see your father," Ellie says as we walk in. Spotting him. I hide my smirk as I see the very large bruise on his face. But I don't miss Ellie's displeasure for it. 

Getting to the table we sit down. Ellie sitting right next to me. "I'm glad you two came, Ms.Alavardo I am very sorry I called you those foul names last night, I apologize." He says and Ellie just nods. She doesn't even correct him and tell him to call her Ellie. 

I'd be mad too if some guy who didn't even know my name came up to me and started to insult me. Actually, I wouldn't be nearly as calm as she is currently. 

"Mr.Torres lets make one thing clear, I am only here to support Lindsay, there is no reason for the two of us to communicate," Ellie says making it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. he may change her mind later on but I will let her decide if she chooses to like him or not. 

Honestly, I haven't even decided yet. "Alright then, uh Lindsay, to my knowledge I know Dustin told you that I left because I didn't want to be a father," He begins moving on. It feels weird having a conversation with him. 

I feel like I should hate him after he called my girlfriend a whore. I should have punched him a few more times. Maybe that would have helped. 

"We weren't young and when I met your mother, it was only briefly, It was supposed to be a summer fling but it turned out she fell pregnant," Daniel begins to explain to me. Mom said they met at law school. 

If they didn't meet at law school, did mom even become a lawyer? "My father paid for Dustin to move out to New York while she was pregnant and we figured things out, like what we wanted to do." 

"Four months into the pregnancy is when I first left Dustin, I found out not only were we having one child but two, twins, and she told me that the children weren't mine." Daniel takes a sip from his water, Ellie reaches up and grabs my hand. 

So if he isn't my father, then who is? "Than whos my father?" 

Daniel smiles and taps his finger on the side of his glass. "I am, during the summer me and your mother were together constantly so when she told me I wasn't the father, I doubted that word but I left her only to return once you and your sister, Lilian was born." 

I'm sorry what now? So the whole him running off with my sister was true? I thought that was some joke mom mad up. 

Ellie draws circles in the palm of my hand. "I came back with a court order for a paternity test, which came back to me being the father, but I never got back with her, instead, I tried to work out a schedule when I get to see you and eventually get to see you."

That makes a little more sense now. But I'm still so lost. "You were four when we started going back and forth with lawyers for full custody, I tried going fifty fifty but Dustin wanted you and only you."

Why would she want only me? "The court gave me full custody of both you and Lillian just before you turned five, your mother didn't have a stable income or a stable home for the two of you." 

So if he got full custody, how did I end up with just mom.  "How did I and Lilian get to split that?" I ask him gripping onto Ellie's hand.

"We went back to court a year later, your mother was getting married, at this time Naomi was born I think she was three or four, which by the way, she isn't mine," Wait Naomi is my half-sister? why would mom keep that a secret from us.