Chapter 631: A PARENT’S LOVE II
“Why are we leaving so soon?” Stefan voiced out the question that everyone has in mind. They were quite surprised with Monique’s actions. They were expecting her to be emotional and be like so other kids who would throw themselves to their father’s arms. Who would have thought that she’d leave imdiately?
Monique looked back to Simon and looked him in the eyes saying, “You are not happy to see . I’m not taking it against you. Mommy was never happy to have either. Only Nana cares about .”
“Wait.” Simon reached out his hand but he didn’t dare make skin contact with her. He was worried that he’d make her hate him even more. “I’m just really shock to see soone who’s almost identical to . I thought you’d take your looks after your mother. Please give a little bit of ti to process all this. I didn’t really know that I have a child with soone.”
“That’s expected. I never heard my mother ntion my father before. She never even told if he’s alive or dead. I don’t know why I’m eting you all of a sudden now.”
“Just give a mont.” Simon turned to Stefan and sighed deeply. He looked troubled and worried at the sa ti. And he has thousands of reasons to feel these mixed emotions. “I have no doubt that she is my child. At the sa ti, you must have done so test to make solid proof.”
“Sir Travis did.” Elena answered the question this ti and took out the docunts which contain the DNA result. “We showed this to her guardian as well. You must have so ideas of why you are eting the child for the first ti in years today.”
Simon nodded his head and accepted the docunts. He glanced at it, saw the result and felt frustrated upon seeing it. He sighed once again. He couldn’t rember the tis he sighed ever since coming to the café. As ti went by, he felt like he was suffocating. Never in his wildest dream did he ever think of eting his child after so many years. He couldn’t even rember the ti he had sex with Denise. ‘There’s no point of recalling it. The child has been born and it’s mine. Authentic and almost a duplicate.’
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“What are you thinking?” Vincent questioned but not really waiting for his response. “If you want, we’ll give you so space to talk. We’ll stay on a different table.” He stood up first and Elena followed him right after.
When Stefan stood up as well, Monique grabbed the hem of his suit to stop him from leaving. “You want to stay?” He asked and she nodded her head as a form of acknowledgnt. “I think it’s better to give you so privacy. This is your family matter. I’ll be on another table if you need sothing.” Monique didn’t utter a single word and she didn’t let go of him either. It was obvious that she was becoming dependent on him. “Alright. I’ll be staying here.”
Simon felt a little jealous while watching his own daughter depend on soone else other than him. She should be depending on him, clinging to him, smiling at him and talking to him. But the five years of being separated put a huge gap between them.
“This sounds a little strange but let introduce myself. I’m Simon Sumr. I don’t know how things happened but I’m your biological father. They also tested us and it ca out positive. This is our first eting but I hope you’ll give ti to process everything.”
“My na is Monique Amir. I hope I’m not making things difficult for you.”
“No, not at all. I’m happy that you agree to et . I haven’t heard anything from your mom for a long ti now. It’s really a surprise to that I’m eting my child after five years but I am not regretting anything about it. I’m only regretting the ti that I can’t be with you.”
“You can’t be with ? You have another family?”
Simon took a deep breath and leaned closer to his daughter, just ignoring Stefan’s presence which puts a little pressure on him. “Sothing bad happened to my family and for so reason, I cannot appear to the public yet. You are still very young and I don’t want to expose you to negative environnt so, I’ll explain these things when you’re a little bit bigger.”
“Then, can you spend ti with even if we’re not in public? You can co to our house. Not many people visit us. It’s not really a public place.”
Her statent made Simon smile. It appeared to him that she didn’t hate him for being absent in the last five years of her life. However, her next statent broke his heart.
“You know, mom left to Nana when I was very small. I’ve seen her a few tis but she never really spent ti with . She’s always busy and she doesn’t stay at ho either. I speak to her every once in a while through phone call but, my classmates, they said that their mother stays at ho. If a mother doesn’t stay at ho it must be because she didn’t love her family. I didn’t want to believe them because Nana said my mother loves the most. So, why doesn’t she stay with ? She didn’t even tell about you.”
Stefan shifted his gaze and looked outside the glass window, thinking of Cayenne and the things she could be doing at the mont. He didn’t want to hear Monique’s words anymore. He didn’t want to rember his own childhood when Cayenne’s not with him. He needed her.
Monique looked calm as she speaks but the tip of her nose was already red and the sa goes with her eyes. She was about to cry but she held her tears back, not wanting to breakdown in front of them.
How can soone explain a parent’s love? A parent has many responsibilities to uphold and many parents sacrifice their happiness for their children. So parents chose to stay with their family despite being poor. So chose to leave and work their bones in order to provide their children’s needs. You cannot asure your parent’s love with the idea of staying and leaving ho. You have no idea of how much they sacrifice for you to live your life.
With so many things in his mind, Simon held his daughter’s hand, the very first skin contact he made after seeing her. He knew she can feel his trembling hands from being nervous of this eting. “If your Nana says your mommy loves you then, that must be true. There’s no reason for her to lie. I haven’t spoken to your mother for several years but, I hear from so friends of mine that she’s working hard. She’s doing her best to provide your basic needs. As for why she didn’t tell you about , it must be because I am not a good person. She probably felt the need to protect you from having a bad father.”
“I don’t get the part of you being a bad father when you didn’t even have a chance to beco one in the last five years.” Monique retorted which left Simon speechless. He didn’t expect to hear this response coming from her.
At the hospital, Jillyanna watched the father-daughter pair and listened to their conversation through video call with Jackie. Although, she couldn’t hear so of the words clearly, she could read the movent of their lips. There seed to be no tension around the adult and the child but she could feel Monique’s heartache.
“Seeing this child, it made realize sothing. To so children, the absence of a parent in one’s life could mature a kid’s heart and mind. They were supposed to be children, to live according to their age, to be playful and to explore many things. But because they didn’t have their parents around them, they forced themselves to mature and live.”
“Just like you. Just like and Riley, like Shein and like Jade. Like the other kids out there. When we lack parental support, we tend to do our best and support ourselves.” Jackie responded in whisper as she wiped her tears that escaped from her eyes. She felt so sad for Monique. She felt so broken because she’s soone who lost her parents as well.
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