Jace walks off, anger on his face.
“How do you know him?” Weston's father asks him as soon as Jace leaves. “He used to feel attracted to my girlfriend ,” Weston says, trying as much as possible to keep his voice firm. “Be careful around him,” his father says in a very quiet tone. Weston is going to ask his father why he said that but he goes weak in the knee just looking his father in the face. “Okay, sir,” he says instead of the questions he wants to ask. His father stretches a card to him. “I suppose the money in it is more than a thousand billion. Been saving it there for a day like this.” Weston wipes his hand on his pants before collecting the card from his father. “The training is not going to continue; you have wasted ten years already.” Just hearing the word ‘training’ makes Weston's heart miss the normal rhythm of pumping blood. “Your godfather will reach out to you as soon as you get to New York. He'll tell you what to do.” Weston nods. “Do you have any questions?” His father asks. He wants to ask him if he can help him keep an eye on his daughter but just looking at his father's face makes all the questions in his head disappear. “If you don't have any questions, the car over there is waiting for you. It will get you to the airport.” Lowering his voice, his father adds, “do not call me for any reason.” Weston nods again. “I won't, sir.” “If you fuck up this time around, don't ever dream of coming back.” Weston nods. “O…okay, sir.” His father walks off. The numerous scary bodyguards that are with him leaves too. A man in black suit comes over to Weston and bows. “I'm the driver, sir,” the man says. Weston glances at the man. “The car is over there.” The man bows again before carrying Weston's traveling bag carefully to the car. The driver opens the expensive red tinted car to Weston. Weston gets in. He stares out through the window as the car drives to the airport. He feels his thigh for a scar there. He closes his eyes. He can do this. For his daughter, he can do this. Even if it means having scars worse than this, he can do it. He must do it. Some minutes later, the car stops at the airport. Weston opens the door. Somehow, he can't help but wonder if his father had known something like this would happen or if his influence is really that great that he managed to secure a ticket for him within a few minutes. The driver tries to help him with his traveling bag but Weston collects it. “I'll carry it myself,” Weston says. The driver bows again. “I'll be staying around just in case you need anything, sir.” Weston nods. He walks over to join the rest of the people waiting on the line. “I'm sorry. It's my fault,” a scared voice pleads, attracting people's attention. “You'll be more than sorry when I'm done with you,” a woman says. She slaps the pleading girl. “I'm sorry, ma'am. I would have ironed it if I didn't forget, I—” another slap stops the girl from talking. Weston shakes his head and looks away from them. But, wait a minute…that woman? Weston walks out of the line and walks closer to where the woman is. She's the one. She's Ivy’s fucking friend! “I am going to send you back to the orphanage. I should have known nothing good would ever come out of you. Now because of your stupid brain, I'll have to meet my fiancee in these rough clothes!” The woman says, the veins on her neck very visible. “I'm really sorry, ma'am,” the girl says. Just as the woman is about to slap the girl again, Weston grabs the woman's hand.
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“I have now,” Weston drops the picture frame on the sofa and carries Hannah in arms. “How is that? Did they disappear and come back?” She asks. “Daddy, how do people become people? I have not seen anyone jump down from the sky. Are there places where people go to pick babies? Daddy…answer me…” she whines as he carries her in the car. “Which of them should I answer first?” “When I grow up, can I become an actor? I will be on the screen. Will you watch my movies?” “Of course. Why won't I?” About two hours later when Weston drives to his parents house, Hannah is sleeping in the back seat probably tired of rambling for hours. He smiles as he parks the park and wakes her. “Have we arrived?” She asks, looking at him sleepily. Weston nods. “Big pop and lala are waiting to see you.” He helps her get out of the car and holds her hand. He's barely climbed the first step leading to the house when his mother rushes
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Later that evening, Weston is in the sitting room, watching Lorette and Hannah have one of their long funny conversations as they prepare for a visit to his parents. “When I grow older, I want to be a museum tour guide,” Hannah says. “Didn't you say you want to be a make-up artist some minutes ago?” Lorette asks as he helps her into her shoes. “I can do that as a side job. When I don't have clients in the shop, I'll quickly go to the museum,” Hannah says. “What about the online cooking tutorials? How are you going to have time for that?” “Oh…that? Daddy, I can shoot videos at midnight, right?” Weston frowns. “When are you going to sleep then?” “I can sleep for two hours.” “Two hours?” Weston asks in horror. “Yes. I am going to shoot the cooking tutorial videos for like two hours. Another two hours, I'll use it to shoot videos for my dance clas
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Three days later, Weston knocks at the door of a hospital room before going in. The patient on the bed raises his head. He stares at Weston then at Hannah whom Weston is holding.“You're okay?” Weston asks before realizing it's the dumbest question to ask a person on a hospital bed. “Yes…?” Jose answers. Weston can't really tell if Jose is trying to play dumb too or he doesn't know what he's saying. “Hannah, meet Jose, he's one of the best friends that daddy has,” Weston tells his daughter. “And, Jose, this is my daughter.” Jose's mouth parts slightly. He closes it a few seconds later and smiles. “She…she looks young.” Weston chuckles. “Young? What's a five year old supposed to look like? Old?” “I…sorry. I mean. Shit. You have a sure way of taking me by surprise.” “You think so?” Weston strides to Jose's bed. He drops the fruit basket in his hand on the table. “Last time I checked, you did some
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“Hey, Santiago,” his godfather says once there is an answer at the other end. “How are you, sir?”“I…I'm sorry.” His godfather shut his eyes. “What the fuck did you do again? I already told you I got Weston and Lorette covered. I have Weston's kid with me, I'll use her to—” “That's not it,” his father cuts in quickly. “I…um…I told Weston about Dylan.” For a lot of seconds, there is silence at the other end. “Where are you?” Santiago's voice is unbelievably too calm for the revelation. “Home, of course.” “Let's talk face to face.” Then the line goes off. The phone falls from his godfather's hand. He runs his hand through his grey hair. “You have a kid?” “Am I supposed to answer that?” “If I knew you had a kid, I'd have abducted her and used her against you. I had no idea at all.”What? Is he out of his mind? His godfather raises his head and looks at Weston. “Once San
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Weston can tell from the look on her face that there is something more. He waits for her to tell him. “I stumbled in on San and his father arguing one day, San was kind of telling his father to keep shut if he doesn't want his ass in the pool.” Weston waits. He's sure she isn't just telling him just for telling sake. There must be something more. He waits a while longer, forcing his damn brain not to think his daughter is five and she's with fucking Santiago. “He hates it when people snitch on him,” Lorette adds. “Kind of…he…” she lets out a deep breath. “Sorry. I just…I had no idea I'd be telling this to anyone.” For some seconds, she stops to get her emotions back together. “Even if San tells me something as little as what he ate last night that nobody knows about, he doesn't want me to tell anyone. When…I think we were sixteen when I first realized it. He told me he was fooling around with a girl and I kind of jokingly told the girl to tak
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Weston stops the car and runs his hand through his hair. “I begged you, apologized to you, did all sorts of things but you still didn't agree to get married to me, so why do you keep asking about your daughter?” “When did you apologize to me?” There is silence at the other end before Ivy starts to talk. “Okay, since you want to hear it, I'mma tell you. If there is anything I regret, it's having Hannah. I thought you would dump me for some other women later if I didn't have a child for you since you don't really seem all that ready to get married to me. I needed something to assure me you're not going anywhere and getting pregnant seemed like the best deal.” Weston bites hard on his lower lip. “You must have figured this out but I stopped using contraceptives without telling you. But I'm starting to realize it's all stupid now. If I knew Hannah was going to be a burden to me, I wouldn't have gotten pregna
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