His Forgotten Ex- Wife

Chapter 18

Daniel

I looked at them as both of their heads snapped up to me, eyes wide with shock. Mom quickly composed herself, a tight smile forming on her lips. "Daniel, dear, we didn't hear you come in." I just nodded to her words giving a tight smile.

"Heath," I nodded to my cousin, who looked at me as if he'd seen a ghost. "What brings you here? Shouldn't you be home with Sasha, prepping for the big day?"

"You had left in such a hurry from the office as if it was something important. I had to deal with a troublesome client all alone," I spoke the partial truth. I had to deal with a client but it wasn't troublesome at all. I just wanted him to feel bad and more tense than before.

Heath stammered, glancing nervously at Mom. "Uh, yeah, I just... had to discuss some very important stuff with Aunt Josephine. Wedding stuff."

"Wedding stuff?" I echoed, raising an eyebrow. "From what all I could hear it sounded a bit more serious than that."

"Daniel," Mom interjected smoothly, stepping closer to me. "Heath was here to talk about the wedding only," she paused looking at Heath who averted his eyes from both of us.

"But then he got into talking about how he saw someone a few days back, someone who looked like someone from our past. It shook him up a bit."

"Amelia?" I repeated, the name leaving a bitter taste in my mouth. "I heard her name in your talks." My mother's eyes couldn't meet mine.

"You talked about that she was dead?" I added as I took a step away from my mother. "I never knew that she was dead?" I looked right into my mother's eyes. The word dead reverberated through my mind, a tidal waveof confusion and anger crashing over me. "I had never thought Amelia was dead. She had betrayed me, yes. Hurt me, absolutely. But dead? I never wished that upon her and never even knew she was. You said that she was gone but never dead."

"How did you know she was dead, Mom?" I asked as gnawing curiosity grew inside me.

"It's just that we thought that she had died," Heath blurted out before Mom could say anything. "However I saw someone who looked just like her. It was probably just a mistake." I studied their faces, noting the flicker of panic in Mom's eyes and the sweat beading on Heath's forehead. They were hiding something, but what? And why?

"What was a mistake?" I questioned. "That she was dead or whom you saw wasn't Amelia." I looked towards Heath for an answer.

"Assuming she was dead was the mistake and I think even whom Heath assumed to be Amelia was a mistake," Mom interrupted turning everything into a mistake.

"Probably," I said, though I didn't believe it for a second. "But I think that Heath really did see her," my eyes turned towards Heath. I felt him go stiff.

"That is why he was talking about Karma and her, a few days back looking troubled and hinged. Isn't that the truth Heath?" I saw Heath getting tensed. I saw him gulping down as he grew stressed.

"But don't worry if she is alive and it's her you saw, she'll regret being in our lives again. I'll make sure of that," the bitterness in my voice made me even hate myself. They had done something I should have been trying to unravel what they had done but I felt this desire for revenge running inside of me.

Mom's face paled, and Heath looked like he was about to pass out. "Daniel, there's no need for that," Mom said quickly. "It's probably just someone who looks like her. Don't let this ruin your evening."

Ruin my evening? My entire life was ruined after her. She had done that but was she the only one to be blamed? I looked at my mother and Heath.

"And even if she is alive all she will be is a problem," my mom snapped making me feel angry.