HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 76

Jennie

I watched Lisa and Lucas as they moved from the Pacman game to the Super Mario one. The familiar game sounds drifted from the arcade machine.

"You share a father." I said.

Bambam's brown eyes burned into mine. "You've been reading the journal."

"Yes, I have. So I'm a little confused. The entry that I read, proves that your father was already having an affair with Lorna before he married your mother. Does that mean Nichkhun and Sorn were born later?"

Bambam nodded. "You need to understand something, Jen. My father, Chris, was a con-man and a crook. He and Lorna were a team that lived off their lives by tricking other wealthy families. He took employment in the Manoban household after a lot of planning and plotting, but our mother got pregnant before Lorna did. It would make sense that he had kept the two families away from each other, and a few years later, after Nichkhun and Sorn were born, Lorna took up the servant job in the mansion, and she fed some horse-shit to my mother about having an alcoholic and abusive husband. My mother believed her and that made it easier for our scumbag father to manage two families, having all his children under one roof while he deceived our mother as she invited snakes into our home."

"The journal is not complete. Where is the rest of it?" I asked.

"There's a separate one. I'll give you that journal later tonight."

"I've been wondering, Bambam, is it possible that Lisa knew something more about what's going on?"

Bambam nodded. "Lisa had secrets of her own."

"I don't understand."

Bambam looked at Lisa, who was now playing bowling with Lucas. "She and Nichkhun knew things that I did not. I don't know what happened exactly but before the boating accident, I talked to Lisa and she said, I quote 'You're better off not knowing anything.' I'm not sure what it actually means."

"Did Grace kill Lorna and Chris?"

Bambam stiffened with that question. "I'm going to let you read the second journal."

The second journal was delivered to me after midnight.