Chapter 87: Brie’s Father
After a month, James announced her pregnancy. Paolo seemed unhappy about it and would beat her every time he got annoyed with her. James didn’t know about it at first, but when it started to get more intense, she started having visible bruises.
Nina suffered from Paolo’s hands for two years. She didn’t even know how she and the baby in her womb survived his beatings. James couldn’t do anything about it, but when he had enough, he took all her punishments.
Paolo stopped the beatings when he was diagnosed with cancer. He became weak and bedridden, then James started acting the Clan’s head on behalf of his father.
Brie grew up close to James, but she knew that he wasn’t his father. She understood that no one should know that his father wasn’t James because the truth would put their lives in danger.
Sometimes Brie would ask her about his father and why he wasn’t around. Nina told her that she will tell her the truth someday and she should not feel any anger towards her real dad.
She was a smart girl and kind-hearted. She had never made Nina worry. Brie had a similarity with his father. Like Andrew, she loved eating bacon and egg in the morning. She also loved pasta cooked by her mother.
Nina gulped when James said to tell Andrew about Brie, but she wasn’t sure if he would be happy to know about her.
"I’ll think about it. I’m scared that she would reject her. I’m already aware that he hates me, that I could accept. But if he rejects our daughter, it would break my heart even more." She said.
James and Nina didn’t know that Brie was actually awake when they were talking about her father. She was four years old, but she understood that the parents she grew up with didn’t love each other.
Her parents didn’t lie to her. They told her that James wasn’t his father, but the guy was really nice to her and her mother. She could feel his love towards them. If she would ask them, James was the best dad for her.