A Sweet Chase (gxg)

Forty- Two

The older man with icy eyes a little darker than Waverly's sat staring at the person whom he'd recently learned was his child. She was almost a copy of both himself and Harper smashed together and it was enough to stop anyone dead in their tracks.

"Such a shock, isn't it?"

Harper questioned. She watched as the man was lost for words, readjusting the tie around his neck that seemed to be getting tighter and tighter each time he did it. He was sweating profusely, his icy eyes darting between the faces of the three women sitting in his office.

"It's uh. quite a shock, yes. I had no idea I had an offspring, until,"

"Well, she was a product of rape after all," Ryn answered calmly and Harge's eyes snapped unto her.

"What!" He exclaimed the colour drained from his face.

"Therese told me how I happened,"
Waverly explained and the man turned to her, shaking his head frantically he stood up from his desk, pushing his right hand roughly into his pocket.

"That woman's a liar and all of you know it! I can't believe she said that I'd do such a thing."

"Save it Harge we already know. If there's one thing I actually believe from Therese is that you'd do something like that. She said she had just turned eighteen when it happened. You had invited her to one of your parties with all your colleagues there. You then took her to your study, locking the door and defiling her body afterwards."

"I did not do such a thing! Your sister was a whore and had seduced me."

"Really? So you're saying someone who was as tiny as she was back then, seduced you? Couldn't you have refused?"

"Yes!" He lied. "You have no proof that I raped her, no one does!" He hissed.

"Look she's sitting right there."
Ryn nodded her head over to the younger version Harper.

"What, you're going to use her as evidence?"

"Yes Harge, we will. You know that the statute of limitations for rape here is well over two decades. I'm sure if Therese were to tell this to the cops, and an investigation was launched you'd be screwed."

"What? She would never because she's the one that's screwed."

Harge was furious. He had walked over to Harper and was towering over her.
Ryn got up from her seat and positioned herself between the man and Harper.

"You can speak freely back over there,"
Ryn nodded her head and the man turned around slightly to look back at his desk. Scowling he walked back over and took a seat.
His eyes pinned unto Waverly who sat quietly observing him.

"What did she say about me?"

"Nothing for the last seventeen years until yesterday of course.
This entire time Therese said nothing about who my father was then when she did I learned that I was conceived because of rape.

Do you have any idea what the events of the past day have done to me, especially learning that I'm a rape child?"

"Im sorry," He whispered and Waverly shook her head.

"I don't want you to be sorry but want I want you to hear this.

You were practically my mother's final breaking point because after she got me her life seemed to go downhill.
It's because of you that she saw nothing good in this world to live for, not even for me.
Hell, no wonder she was hardly ever around because every time she looked at me she probably saw you! And that makes perfect sense to me now."