His Forgotten Ex- Wife

Chapter 25

Daniel

"Answer me," I raged out as I looked at him with my heart breaking in pieces. I was angry. There was so much rage inside of me at the moment that I would have destroyed the whole room if I hadn't been torn apart on the inside. I was angry at Heath but more than that I was angry at myself. 

I believed all the lies. Everything said about her I had thought to be true but they were nothing but lies. Lies that were now cracking all of me on the inside. It hurt. Everything hurt.

"Goddammit, answer me," I screamed at him to answer as I stared into his fearful eyes. I needed an answer. Why did he do this to me?

"TELL ME!" I grabbed onto his collar tighter.

"Because Josephine told me to," he answered yelling pulling himself out of my hold. I couldn't understand his words. I heard them but my brain couldn't register. Did he say Josephine? My grip on his collar weakened. He pulled himself away from me walking a few steps making some distance between us.

"Aunt Josephine told me to," he gasped for air as he stared at me.

"You are lying," I whispered in disbelief, he had to be. Goddammit, he had to be. My mom won't do this to me. She won't do this to Amelia.

God Amelia, what had I done to her? How could I have done this to her? What was I going to do? How was I even going to survive knowing this? My head was spinning.

"I'm not lying," he cried out with tearful eyes as he sat down with his elbows over his knees. "She told me," he paused as he looked up at the ceiling trying to get a hold of all his emotions. He looked as if he couldn't find the words and choking on his emotions. 

He pressed his lips together as the first tear rolled down his cheek and all I could think was how many tears Amelia might have shed for me to hear her once. How many tears would she have shed when she had gone through it all alone? It hurt just to try to imagine it. It made me want to cry.

The pain and hurt she had gone through would have been nothing compared to what I had felt. I wanted to stop breathing just thinking what I had done to her, all that she had to suffer all because of me.

"She told me that Amelia was after the money, " Heath breathed and my eyes turned towards him.

"You are lying!" I raged out. "Amelia was never after the money. She had none but she was never after the money."

"You say that now?" He called out making me shut up and eat my own words. "You believed everything back then. It wasn't just me it was everyone else even your mother," he added. I couldn't understand anything. Everything felt so confusing while I was still trying to reel in from the pain of the revelation that Amelia was innocent.

"Just like me, you believed in what was shown to you," he paused as I slumped down to the floor. I didn't know what to say to him. Everything hurt. The memories one after another flashed through my mind and they were knives to my heart. The pain already felt so excruciating. Breathing hurt, moving pained me, and closing my eyes felt like torture because all I could see was her and hear her cries.

"I still don't know whether she had stolen that money from the company or not but she wasn't unfaithful, I can assure you. Somewhere deep down I even believe that she wasn't what Aunt Josephine told me and accused her of," he confessed splitting my heart in two. My mother wouldn't do this. I was in denial of what he was saying. He just wanted to save himself.

"She loves me, Heath. My mother loves me she wouldn't do something..... like this," I believed in what I said yet my words trembled. My beliefs were shaken. The pillars of my trust were shattering down. Heath looked at me with pure pity as he wiped a tear from under his eye.