SuperCorp - Arranged Marriage

Chapter 24

Kara's pov:

"Why didn't you tell me? Why did you lie to me for him?" I ask, my throat tight.

Eliza sighs, "Sweetheart, we didn't want to lie to you. We were going to tell you, but for those first few months you were only just grasping full sentences in English. It wouldn't have been fair to explain to you what had happened when you couldn't understand everything that we were telling you, and you were already so confused, we just wanted you to settle and be a little more comfortable," She explains.

"Once you did understand and you were settled in, we tried to tell you so many times, but every time something came up, one of us would get called in to work for an emergency or either you or Alex came home from school upset, Clarke kept telling us to wait longer when we'd ask him about it, it's also not exactly the easiest thing to tell a little girl who was finally starting to come out of her shell. Kara you were such a happy child-" 

"They are all great excuses Jeremiah but within all the years I've been living with you, of all of the years I've been "comfortable" and able to understand your language, I find it hard to believe that you didn't have the time to tell me. You could have easily told me during one of our family nights, or one of the nights Alex was at a friend's and it was just us. Rao, you could have told me when you started to notice my powers coming in instead of making up more lies! You had plenty of time to tell me!" I rant out and I can feel myself starting to get angry.

"I just want the truth. I am fed up of lies and excuses!" I snap.

My eyes start to burn, I am unsure whether it is because of the angry tears forming or my heat vision but before I can think too much about it I feel Lena softly rub my forearm and squeeze my hand that is gripping hers. I look into her eyes and she offers me a tiny, almost non-existent smile. My shoulders sag as a wave of calm washes over me, I take a deep breath before staring ahead at the coffee table. 

In my peripheral I can see Jeremiah shift uncomfortably. Eliza just continues to watch Lena and I with a soft look and another sigh.

"Kara, we didn't tell you and we should have, it wasn't fair for you to have to find out like this and for that I am truly sorry. However, Jeremiah was right, it was difficult to tell you and if I'm honest, I didn't and still don't know where to start."

"I have told plenty of people in my line of work that I couldn't save a loved one and every time it broke my heart. That's just one patient and usually they still have people to help them emotionally. It is selfish, but I didn't want to break that news to you, I didn't know how to tell a little girl that her whole world had been destroyed and that none of her family or friends survived, and then the one sad excuse of a relative that did, didn't want her..." Eliza pauses and takes a visibly deep breath, settling her emotions.

"Sweetheart, I understand that you are angry, and that's perfectly fine, you are allowed to be angry. I also understand that you might not forgive us for keeping this from you and I wouldn't blame you, you have every right not to forgive us. I don't want to lose you though, I may not be your biological mother, and nobody will ever replace her, but I love you as though you were my own and that won't ever change." Eliza says sincerely, a fresh tear rolls down her cheek as she looks at me pleadingly and I can feel my heart clench.

I try to blink away my own tears to no avail. As each droplet silently falls onto my shirt I try my hardest to break the silence that has fallen over the small room.