Family Business

Chapter 48

William felt numb.

He was in shock.

He thought she was safe.

He was angry ofcourse but he never wanted her to end up like this.

And the baby.....

William touched his forehead against the glass container. Trying to think of a way to get her out of this mess.

"You don't think I know that you still love her?" John said. William spun around to look at John. He was holding up a picture of Leah and William laughing together at a carnival.

William looked at his father and then to the picture in his hand. He couldn't remember ever being so happy. It's funny how a few days with his father could make him forget his happy life he was forced to leave behind.

"So what?" William said. "She is my past. She cheated on me!" William tried not to look at her again but the slight cough told him she was waking up.

"Yet you want to protect her and be with her if you could." John said.

"She is history. She has nothing to do with me anymore." William said raising his voice desperately.

"She was once part of your life. And it is for this reason she will be part of this." John said firmly and William kicked the container in frustration before he could stop himself.

"I know people, my son." John told him. "I know when I'm being lied to." He looked straight into William's  eyes without blinking.

"John, what are you doing." Helen interrupted. "This girl. She was to marry our son!"

"But she cheated!" John said now turning to Helen. "She cheated and got pregnant with the other man's child."

Helen was about to protest but John held up his hand to silence her. She fell quiet immediately.

"I'm not finished with the rest of you." John said going down the passage a little more to see the next two containers.

Helen and Cristy went pale as they followed.

The moment they saw the next container they knew who it was for.

It was a child. A girl not older than ten years. She was unconscious and lying on the floor of the container.

"I don't know who she is." Cristy said hiding her hands in her pocket so that they wouldn't see it shaking.

"I know how much you want a child. But I think it's holding you back from the potential you have. You can do great many things if you let that part of yourself go." John said.

"How?" Cristy asked. She was sure she wouldn't like his answer.

"Pass the test and she will be freed." John said. "How much do you care for a stranger, even a child."

Cristy let out the breath she didn't realise she had been holding in. Her head was spinning. This was the last thing she expected her father to do.

"This should be a piece of cake, eh Crissy." Aaron said slapping his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't call me that." She snarled.