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chapter 28: Closure

Archie's POV

"Where is our granddaughter? We would like to see her." My mother says as she looks at us in anticipation.

"She's in the room, playing. You can see her later." Kian answers her.

She nod at him with a smile but I can't just let this act continue. So, I break the ice and question them what's bothering me, "why are you here?"

My question surprised everyone in the room and they all look at me shocked. Never in my life I have questioned my parents or my siblings regarding anything, not even when they didn't see me as their family. I always choose to stay silent because that's how I developed my behaviour. At the beginning, when they never bothered about me, it used to hurt me and I thought alot about it as what could be the reason. But as time passed by, I grew habituated to it and decided I'll never again think about it.

And I did the exact same. But now that they're here, especially asking for my daughter I'm getting curious. For them, I wasn't a family and that should mean my daughter is the same, she's also no one to them. Their sudden visit and the interest they're showing towards Gia, I smell something suspicious.

"Why would you ask that, Archie? Ofcourse we're here to see you and the others." My father says with a fake smile as others are there in the room.

"That's not convincing at all. You guys never bothered about me, never seen me as a part of the family. The care, affection and love my siblings received from you as parents I didn't get that. Almost four years passed since I left the kingdom, never once you visited me. But now all of a sudden you guys come here saying you wanted to see me. It isn't adding up." I vent out my feelings.

"Archie, what are you saying?" My mother calls out unhappily.

"Did I say anything wrong?" I challenge her.

"Don't you dare speak against your mother!" My father roars at me as he gets up from the chair and walks to me, "you're complaining that we never made you feel the family love and never showered with the love a child gets from the parents, right? But which parents in the right mind love their child who is a mutant? Forget about love, no one would even dare to keep the child. We atleast let you grow in the kingdom and provided you with everything."

"Your abnormality of carrying a child disgusts us. We didn't want your abnormality make us loose the name and the respect we earned in the kingdom. People would laugh at us if they found out you can carry a child and give birth because which men does that? Men are not born to give birth but you're born that way. You were nothing but an embarrassment to us. That's why we never bothered with you or included you in the family. When I got the chance to send you far away from us, I didn't think twice. I immediately accepted the proposal to marry you to Kian so that people in my kingdom will never know about you."

"Because Kian didn't like you or wanted to marry you in the first place, I thought you would never get pregnant. As much as I hate you, I know how honest and sincere you are. You wouldn't allow anyone near you apart from your husband. I thought he would abandon you and thus no chances of you getting pregnant. But never in million years I thought Kian would come to love you and that you actually have a child. Even now I didn't want to see you but your mother wanted to see her granddaughter and that's the only reason we're here." He explodes letting everything out.

When he finishes speaking, the room becomes silent as we all stay still and speechless. For me, now everything makes sense. Though Kian, his parents, Dean, Winny, the people in Dean's kingdom or our people never questioned about me carrying a child and giving birth, I always had this thought in mind as how I could conceive a child? What my father said isn't wrong, men won't get pregnant. But I got, not just once but twice and it's not normal.