Chapter 88: Inez’s Father (2)
’I should go and collect some,’ Inez thought as she looked out at the shore. Shutting down the cabinet, she walked out of the kitchen and headed out of the lodge. Inez heard footsteps approaching from the other end of the path.
When she raised her head, she suddenly felt her heart pause on noticing it was a man. A man whom she had seen in the album that her mother had stored away in the storehouse. He was a good-looking man with a charming smile on his lips.
"Is this man my father?" Inez wondered while looking at the man who was walking towards her. With each step the two of them took, the two of them got closer, and the man briefly turned to look at Inez. However, there was no sign of recognition in his eyes, and he calmly looked away. His hair was shimmering like golden threads, and his eyes were light grey. From his clothes, Inez could already guess that the man was not simple.
The man walked past Inez, and she undid her clenched fingers that she had tightened without even knowing it.
Inez turned to look at the man, and she was taken back to the time when her mother had told her that it was not that she wanted to keep Inez with her, but that it was her father who refused to take her.
’Maybe he knew that you were a monster. He kept telling me that he couldn’t raise you, and it has to be me who needs to raise you. Fucking bastard. He dunked and dipped.’
Her mother’s curses, which were filled with agony and anger, still echoed in her ears. Inez had once wanted to question her father about whether her mother was speaking the truth, that he truly didn’t want her. She wanted to ask him, if he didn’t want her, why he came to see her when she was a child.
Why did he let her mother give birth to her?
Seeing someone who could possibly be her father, logic left her mind, and Inez let her heart make the decisions.