Passions Uncovered

Chapter 5

Once we arrived back at Vince's house he took me into Angel's private office. I've never actually been here before, this place is supposed to be Angel's sanctuary. Vince opened the door and pushing me roughly inside and shoving me into the nearest seat. He went over to the desk pushed a button on the intercom telling the person to come to the office. Not long after that two tough-looking members of Angel's organization came into the room. "Watch her and make sure she doesn't go anywhere? Search for any hidden devices as well" he told them.

Well, I guess he doesn't trust me too much right now. What could I have done to piss him off this much? Without even sparing a look in my direction he turned and walked out the door. Probably went off to find his brother, with Bianca being pregnant I know he doesn't al

A lot of things ran through my mind as I sat here waiting for him to walk back through that door. Would he succeed in choking me once in for all, and what does my mother have to do with Bianca? Is it possible what he said is true that my mother is really my best friend's mother too? If he is telling the truth then why did my mom keep such a huge secret from me?

Vince's POV

After leaving Destiny guarded in my brother's office. I went in search of Angel having asked one of the maids on the first floor I was informed he had taken Bianca upstairs to lie down. Once I made my way upstairs I walked down the hallway to their door. And knocked on it shortly after footsteps were heard coming across the floor right as Angel cracked the door open poking his head through the small opening.

"Vince, what do you want?" Angels asked with his head stuck between the opening. I took all I could not to laugh at him. What can you blame me the man looked like a turtle with his head sticking out like that.

"Angel I need you to come down to your office right now, I have Destiny in there. While at her house I came across a picture of her standing beside a woman" I told him softly because I didn't want to let Bianca know what was going on at the moment. I want to get some more information before I brought her into this sticky situation.

"So, what's that got to do with us? Many people stand by others in pictures being taken."

"Well, the lady standing beside Destiny in this picture just so happens to be Bianca's own mother."

Once Angel heard the last part of that sentence his grin dropped and his face harden like it had been turned to stone. I already knew it, anything that might end up hurting my sister-in-law would ruffle his feathers. The second Angel took those first few steps downstairs I had to grab him by the arm quickly turning him to face me. "Now easy Angel we don't want to go in there acting like you want to kill the little witch. We need whatever information she is keeping concerning Bianca's mother."

Angel's POV

When Vince came knocking on our bedroom door my first response was to tell him to take his happy butt somewhere and bug somebody else for a little bit. The reason was Bianca is starting to have very bad pains and wasn't feeling too great. I really didn't want him bugging her, but when he told me my wife's best friend was sitting down in my office under heavy guard and the woman who had been standing with her was my dead mother in law. Or who we all had been led to believe was dead all this time.

There's something shady going on around here. And I need to get to the bottom of everything before my wife finds out. She will get furious and will go after Destiny. Someone's lying and I'd like to find out who it is. Standing outside my office door I gathered my thoughts before stepping foot in that room. Vince was right about one thing if I didn't calm down and go about this the right way. We wouldn't get any kind of useful information from her about anything she may be hiding right now dealing with Bianca's mother.

I pushed the door open studying her appearance hoping I could see any kind of resemblance between Destiny and Bianca. There was none that I could see. Maybe Vince's mind was playing tricks on him this time. Destiny's shoulders tensed when eyes landed on me.

"Angel, what is this all about? Vince didn't say much other than to try and choke me demanding why I was standing with Bianca's mother. How is that possible? The woman in my picture is my stepmother she met my father about 10 years ago and they got married shortly after that" Destiny said shakily.

I turned around and grabbed the file on my desk that contained the articles about Bianca's missing mother. Holding the file out for Destiny to look through the second her eyes found the photo of Bianca's mother her hands began to shake and she raised her head looking at me with tears running down her face.

"Angel, is this true, is this woman in this file really Bianca's mother? Yes, it is, and that's why Vince got pissed when he saw the picture with the two of you standing together."

When Angel confirmed what Vince had told me my insides began to hurt all this time Bianca has been hurting because she was under the impression her mother was dead. Why hide the fact she was still alive from her own daughter? Who is she hiding from or running from that would prevent her from finding her own daughter? So many thoughts were flying through my head. But the main one is that my best friend may never talk to me again when she finds out her mother is my stepmother.

"I'm sorry Angel I didn't know. If I had known I would have done told Bianca where her mother was. She not even going by the same name anymore."

"What name is she going by now?"

"When my father met her she was going by the name Lilith Wilson from New York"

It's not much information but at least it's something to start with I can call my contacts in the FBI and see what the real truth is concerning this matter.