Sins Of The Past

Chapter Eight

"I'm a bad mother, I'm a bad mother..."

She kept on muttering to herself as she drove up to the 'Harrison' driveway, thinking of how she left Eva and came to Texas.

She nervously rang the bell as she looked around her.

The house was really big and beautiful. But the Audrigo mansion was bigger.

She rang the door bed again, then the door swung open to reveal an old woman whose face cracked into a happy smile once she saw her.

"Um...I'm looking for..." She started.

"You're the one!" She said in awe.

"Uh..."

Immediately she was whisked into the hallway, where the woman hugged her warmly.

"I'm sure you're mistake ma'am." Natalie tried.

"There's no mistake." She said pulling away. "You're the girl Alessio's been looking for."

"Alessio?"

"You're Natalie right?"

"Yes, who's Alessio?" She asked, puzzled.

"Oh." The old woman chuckled to herself. "You probably know him as Ethan. But I call him Alessio, I gave him that name."
"Ethan?"

"Yes him, my name's Prudencia...forgive my manners." She extended her hand.

"Natalie Audrigo."

They shook hands.

"I'm so glad you're here." Prudencia beamed. "Alessio been looking for all this year's."

"He's been look for me?"

"Most certainly."

"Years?" Natalie was puzzled.

"Come this way my dear." She turned and walked into to kitchen and busied herself with making Natalie a cup of coffee, while sat at the island.

Soon, Prudencia set the cup before her and sat down beside her.

"When Margaret was diagnosed with lung cancer, I told her to call her son. Because I knew she wouldn't last long."
She started as Natalie got ready for a story.

"She wanted Alessio to finish his college education first. No matte how I disturbed her to do so, she wouldn't budge. It wasn't until she was told that she didn't have much time left that she sent for her son.

" And she had already transferred him to d university of Texas. He came immediately, and not long after he came, she died and after her burial he planned to go back, but he found out that the family business was in a mess. It took him three years to bring the business back on it's feet.

"Once it was running smoothly again, he returned to search for you, but you had already left. He looked everywhere but didn't find you. He would have continued sear.ching but he couldn't abandon the business.