Unwanted|| Simon Basset

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Annalises pov
I walk into the house and the smile gets wiped off my face hearing my mother "are you done whoring yourself about town?" I snap "what?" She says "that's what's happening now isn't it? You lost your ability to have children and now you're shoring yourself" Anthony speaks up "mother-" I stop him "no. Let her say as she wishes. Go on mother. Degrade me because despite my inability I still found someone. Go ahead"

She snaps "it is Daphne's season and all they're talking about is you!" "You act as if I intended for people to talk about me! Thank god it's for a positive reason for once and not about my condition!" I snap. She glares "does he even know of your condition or are you lying to him?!" I chuckle "I can't believe you'd think me to stoop to a level you would mother. He knows. It's kind of hard not to when it's all that everyone seems to talk about"

"You were a lady and now you're nothing because you can't bare children! You know how hard it was for me and your father to hear such a thing!" She exclaims. I decide then to stop hiding. I decide to tell her the truth as to why I can't bare children. "Oh I'm so sorry that my condition hurts you so much mother! Really! Have you even wondered how it felt for me?! Have you wondered why! Or how! Have you even stopped to think that it was yours and fathers' fault! Huh?! No of course you haven't! God forbid you ask me if I'm alright! How I'm doing! If I need anything! All I bloody needed was my mother by my side and you weren't there! You outcasted me! You told everyone of the condition you and him caused! But of course you wouldn't believe me even if I said anything!" "You don't get to blame this on me!" She snaps water in her eyes at my words.

I chuckle and Anthony tries "mother, sister please calm down we can talk-" I tell him "I am way passed talking." I add "for years I hid what happened. What truly happened. And why. And im done protecting you and your feelings. I only wish father was here. After all he is at fault. I always said him and his debts would bite him. I said the same to you about your bidding as well. I was out at the market and dragged into an alley and knocked out. I woke in a house and a scalpel in my stomach. I screamed and cried but no one was there. I was put unconscious again and I awoke feeling empty. Because I was. They took everything. Because they figured father wouldn't pay, so they figured taking something important would hurt him and you. I was raped too after they took everything. They knocked me unconscious and cauterized the wound and dumped me a block away. I woke to it raining and came home bleeding. That's why I can't bare children. Not because I have a natural inability, or illness. But because you and him didn't pay a debt and I paid it. I told the doctor to remain silent and you came in and stripped me of everything I had left. You took my family from me. I don't even know them anymore. Just Anthony. You announced my trauma to everyone without a second thought. And ruined every chance I thought I could ever have at a future. But now...I don't see that to be true. And I don't want you to be a part of it. You left me when I needed you the most and I'll never forgive you for that"

Silence. Daphne says "sister" Anthony hugs me tightly and I pull him impossibly closer. He mutters "I am so sorry" I shake my head "don't be Anthony." Wiping my eyes. My mother comes over "Annalise" and tries to touch me "do not touch me. You lost that right long ago" and I head upstairs to my room.

Anthony's pov
Rage fills me at the thought of what she went through. She hid it because she didn't want them to blame themselves for it. She protected them and their feelings. And they didn't deserve it. Whoever did that must've been a doctor or something close to it to know how to cut her so precisely and to keep her alive during such a thing"

My mother speaks "Anthony" seeing the look on my face. I speak "you do not deserve her and you never have. Why couldn't you just accept she found someone who doesn't care about her inability!? Is it that hard for you to see her smile? Is it? You owe her a massive apology considering what just came out. And I'll do my part on finding who did this to her" "so you believe her then?" she asks and I scoff "and you don't? My sister deserves more than you, more than father, and more than this family and name." Walking away and my mother says "tell her I'm sorry. She'll get reinstated as what she was before-" I scoff "you don't seriously think she wants what truly happened to be splattered across the papers do you mother? She didn't want what you thought happened in the papers and whispered about but it was. If you're truly sorry, none of us speak word of it to anyone else. Show her that decency atleast." I walk away and into her room seeing her in a dress pacing with tears on her face "hey" I say. She turns to me and wipes her tears and smiles "hi"