They all stared at me, all of them. I clench unto the pregnancy report in my hand as I watched all of their reaction. Beatriz was in utter shock at this as she looked at me with unbelief, her eyes were fixed on the pregnancy report that she requested to be seen.
When I offered it to her, she quickly tore out the sealed brown envelope before glaring at Damon, "Get my reading glasses" she said to maid standing next to her. Rather than waiting on her reading glasses, she could've asked one of her sons with perfectly good eyes to take a look but apparently she wanted to be the first to take a look and decide.
I wouldn't lie my legs felt like jelly, even the urge to pee disturbed me that there might be a possibility that I had peed a bit on my panties.... I hope not.
With my body shivering with fear I just couldn't bear to look directly at Damon's face, he must be angry within, everyone was. I think I heard Elizabeth muttered, "That's impossible!" And I also think Beatriz will agree to it as well, maybe I had over calculated that they might.
When her reading glasses came, Beatriz scrolled through the page at one glance---- she has two sons so she definitely knew where to read. "I don't believe this" she said passing on the paper to Damon to take a look, "We'll run another test and this time with our private doctor, no excuses" she said curtly taking off her reading glasses and putting them properly in it's case.
"There will be no need for that..." Damon countered, "If she is pregnant then she is, Liliana won't lie about it" he took a quick glance at me and turned away. I know it was wrong but I was starting to feel again.
"Damon... She could be lying" Beatriz touched Damon's shoulders so his mind would be changed.
I sighed at this. Xander smiled at me to probably give me courage, I had actually expected him to be a bit perplexed like the others were, I was starting to think maybe he was the one who wrote the back note on Elizabeth's diary.... Nah, Xander was also conniving with his partner so he definitely wasn't the one.
"I am not lying! If you want to rerun the test then I won't mind, Damon slept with me several times without protection and he knows that" I spat out, a bit regretful at the the things I had just said looked at Damon then back at Beatriz when she blurted out about how I just proved what a loose woman I was to be sleeping around with a man that wasn't married to me.
If it wasn't for respect or home training that I got from my mother I would've slapped her by now. I get that she is Damon's mom and has he right to speak in such matters but there are levels to how well you speak to a person. I may not be Damon's woman anymore and neither do I wish to be but I do deserve a bit of respect----- don't !?
"Priscilla isn't loose, she just love easy and some ignorant ingrate just can't see what a wonderful woman is standing before him" Xander defended, though I was thankful, it still didn't change what I felt for him... A conniving bastard!
I saw as Damon batted his eyes at his words, he knew he was referring to him but Xander never mentioned a name and I so hate myself for being too easy for these brothers so much that one of them read me like a book and the other captured my heart but I couldn't capture his.
"If Alicia was here she would've agreed with me" Beatriz mumbled as she exited the living room, she noticed how things weren't going her way and Damon wasn't letting her ride him on this one so she gave up hope at the lost war. "
Afterwards Elizabeth had came up to me, she slightly touched my cheeks while flashing a smile at me, that kind of smile that if I hadn't read that diary would've thought she was so innocent at everything she does and carry herself.
I kept telling myself to be natural around them and not act like I knew everything but as she stood before me I don't think that I could.
"I really don't mind you having Damon's baby, it's really nice hearing a baby sound once in a while, this house can be a whole cemetery.... If you know what I mean, Ah... That reminds me, where are your luggages? It seems you didn't bring any...."
"They are on it's way, didn't want to bring them along just in case I am not be let in, what about Liliana?" I asked looking around.
"Oh... I dropped her off with a nanny at my mom's place, you know now that I am the President of the company, I really don't have the time and strength to take care of her, since you will be around am sure she will love that you take care of her and so will I, I love having my baby around someone that I can trust" she took my hand and led me to my room, at the final step, I turned back to see Damon and he looked back at me, this time he didn't turn away.
He looked like he was trying to communicate with me and I think I would've gone to him to hear what he had to say if Elizabeth hadn't pulled me to my room.
My room still looked like how it was before only that it was empty and there was no crib, they carried it away. "Welcome back!" Elizabeth said happily as she extended her arms wide for a hug and I gave her that. She later left my room after my luggage arrived. I took my time to arrange my clothes on the wardrobe and rearranged my bed with a much better sheets that suits me--- it was the bed sheets my mum used when she was alive, I wanted to use it so I still feel close to her even though she was farther away from me.
This past weeks that I was away from Damon's family and he himself, I had taken much of my time to miss my mum. I tear fell from my eyes as I sniffed the bed sheets. I wiped the tears away immediately I saw Xander at my doorstep.
"Hey... What's wrong?" He asked, walking closer to me. He sat next to me and laid his hand on my hair, I cringed. I don't know why I did that at that moment but it did take him a back as he notice that I wasn't receiving. "Don't know if it's the right time to talk about this...." He started off.
I knew where he was heading at, so as to avoid the discussion I cut him off by saying, "You are right this isn't the right time, let's talk when I am less busy" I said bluntly and he took cue and left the room.
When I was done I took a quick shower and dressed up in my night gown. I had wanted to visit Liliana at her grandma's but it was already too late to walk that far so I took a stroll around the mansion.
I had to admit the mansion feels empty without Alicia and Jeanette in it, though she was my rival that still didn't change the fact that she had a strong presence in the mansion. I wondered what she might be doing right now--- probably plotting her return especially if she finds out I had squeezed my way back in.
I finally settled for the stars. It was soothing to wonder how many stars where in the sky. I know it was stupid but I couldn't help counting the ones I could find. I was at five hundred and twenty seven when he interrupted me.
Nothing was said as always but his presence did catch my attention as I was left staring as he walks past me. He hasn't said a single word to me since I returned and I hope he didn't say anything.
The next couple of days where like that for me, he walked past and I stood and stare. At some point I knew he was doing it deliberately. Anyways it just doesn't matter, I fine as long as he avoids speak to me... I think.
I was here for one thing and until when everything is completed my heart shall be sealed.
Each day was a drag as I waited for whoever had sent me the diary to reach out to me. While I waited, I did a secret investigation with the maids to figure out who had arranged my things. They all didn't know, but they linked me to a maid who had just recently resigned due to an unknown reason probably unrelated to this case. They did say she was secretive and hid most of her thoughts to herself and that none of them even know where she lives or if she had family.
Since that was a dead end, I decided to look into the drivers who might've transported the boxes but neither of them knew of anything. The only person I think might've seen this person must've been my neighbor who is very creepy. He started bugging into my life when he noticed several times as expensive cars pull up at the front of my house... The whole neighborhood had questioned what I did for a living, what they believe I did was something I can't speak of so I would let it slide.
Since at every tunnel I went there was always a dead end, I decided to visit Liliana and see how she was doing. You wouldn't believe how fat she'd gotten. She is so chubby and cute that I couldn't take my eyes off her.
"Where did mommy go?" I closed my eyes "Here I am!", she laughed while wiggling her legs up in the air, her tiny fingers gripped on my thumb as she spoke gibberish but I will translate, "Mommy you are beautiful and strong, and nost of all I miss you" she stretched out so I could hug her and I did, lifting her out of the crib while spreading lot of kisses on her face.
When I gave her to the nanny to put her to sleep, Liliana made a fuss as she cried but when given to me she became calm. She refused anyone who came close to her, even her grandma, Janet. I stayed with her until she slept peacefully in my arms before laying her back into her crib, kissed her forehead, then steathily walked away.
I felt a bit of emptiness when I left her but I was going to see her tomorrow which was still okay. Will try hard to bring her back to the mansion and for that to happen I will need to incite a feud between Elizabeth and Beatriz. Those two are beginning to get close to each other.
I went back to my room after dinner---- nobody apart from me had attended it, they all seem to be extremely busy with their lives to think of food. There was an envelope on my bed but before I opened it, I made sure my door was properly locked, I don't want any intrusion from anybody.
At the front of the envelope it read; "Stop asking the maids and chauffeurs about me. All you need to know is that I can see you and so can you, in here you will see an instruction on what to do next", in block letters at the other back of the envelope, he or she wrote "NEVER REVEAL!!!"