Chapter 17 – Awkward moments
"Mathias King was deeply in love with your mother, Monica, giving her that precious family loom but was ashamed of her background because of his status, even when I assured him to go after his heart," the old man explained to Joanna.
The understanding settled that her mother lied to her. The ring did not belong to her grandmother like her mother said but rather to the Kings.
Clearly, the old man would not lie about something like that and being oblivious to whatever was going on in Joanna’s mind, he continued to speak.
"The woman he married, being Alexander and Logan’s mother, better suited his status, but he was never happy and unable to get over his obsession with Monica."
He smiled bitterly, regretting not getting deeply involved in Mathias’s love life like he was doing with his grandchildren today.
"Monica was hurt, and that was how she ended up with Cole. Then the worst happened. She invested all she had when Cole decided to start a business and even got pregnant for him but instead of marrying her, he married that trash beside him."
The old man did not filter his words one bit and though pained, Cole and his wife Rene could not utter a word, being that they were hanging on a thin rope.
If the Kings withdrew their investment, the Bakers would go down the drain.
Grandpa Aristotle faced his Logan. "Your mother was not the angel she portrayed herself to be and your father endured it for a long time. When he could not endure it anymore, he tried to get Monica back but she was in labor with Cole’s child."