The Silent One ✔

Chapter Thirty-Five

"You saved her life," Chris tells me as we stand in the hallway with his arm around me.

I take a second to think. How did this happen? Her heart stopped for fuck sake. That doesn't just happen.

"What do they think caused it?" I question.

"They're still running tests but they think it was a drug overdose" Ned explains as he stands in front of us.

I furrow my brows. Jenny would never do drugs. I've been around the kind my entire life - she's too pure.

"Someone must have spiked her drink" Blake sighs.

Suddenly I spot Sam from down the hallway.

"I just spoke to the doc," Sam says as approaching us, "they say she's gonna have to stay here overnight"

"Thank god you were with her" Blake glances at me.

"You're a hero" Chris smiles as kissing the top of my head.

I don't feel like one. It seems that I'm spending all my time in hospitals lately - seeing my favourite doctor, who happens to be Chris and Blake's dad; the man who abandoned them as kids.

"Will you guys excuse me" I start as walking away from the group.

I feel their eyes on me as I speed walk through the hallway. I eventually arrive at his office.

"Evangeline, what are you doing here?" The handsome doctor questions with a smile as I stood at the door frame.

He looks so sweet and kind. I know better than to trust him.

"You lied to me" I glare at him.

"What?" Doctor Rafferty Marcus shoots looks over to me.

He jumps out if his chair, looking at me in horror. I'm still wearing my blond wig. He's looking at me like the others did, I ignore it. Too livid to question it.

"You lied to me...you told me that you have no children but that's a lie, You have eighteen-year-old twin boys named Chris and Blake Marcus and you left them to raise themselves"

There's a moment of silence as the doc takes a second to analyse the situation.

I don't like putting my trust in the wrong people. I thought Raff was one of the good ones. But how could a father who abandons his kids be good?

"I am very good friends with the people that he is currently living with...I can't justify what I did...you asked me if I had children and I had given you my honest answer" he shrugs.

"I don't...." I trail off.

"A father is a man that has a relationship with his children....a man that is in his kids lives...a man that is there for them no matter what...I don't check off any of those boxes" he half smiles before shrugging "I love my boys more than words can say Evangeline but that doesn't mean that I deserve to be in their lives"

I take a second to look at the doctor. To really look at him. He's so God damn broken inside. I take a shaky deep breath before narrowing my eyes on the man.

"Nobody is better off without their parents," I tell him honestly "believe me, I know that better than anyone on this earth"

He shakes his head. "I wasn't good for those boys...neither was their mother... She wanted to put them up for adoption but I wouldn't let her...I loved them too much"

"So why did you leave?" I raise my voice slightly in frustration.

"You think I left?" He cocks a brow.