Chapter 138: Pathetic Childhood
"You already heard that my father and Charlotte Morgan divorced long ago?" Sawyer asked.
"Yes, I read about it in the news," Abigail responded.
"Yeah, they divorced soon after the Jones family accepted me as the legitimate children. Of course, my father also brought my mother into the household after the divorce was completed. Not long after, he secretly yet legally married her. And you know what? In my teenage years, I started to understand things..."
Sawyer’s voice hung in the air as he turned his gaze toward the dark sky outside, trying to calm his mind for a moment before continuing to speak.
"I know the reason why Charlotte Morgan agreed to accept me into the Jones family and agreed to divorce because of two conditions," Sawyer said.
"Two conditions?" Abigail asked curiously.
"Mhmm. As you can guess, the first condition is that she asked for a ton of alimony, the amount nearly bankrupting my father. I still don’t know what he thought about agreeing with the crazy amount!" Sawyer sighed deeply.
"But the most sickening was not the first. It was the second condition. The second condition is that my father must never declare that he had married or remarried my mother. So, the public will never know about my mother’s existence, or in other words, they will only know my mother as a mistress. Therefore, my mother wouldn’t have the opportunity to call me her biological son publicly."
Abigail was utterly at a loss for words. She could imagine Sawyer’s misery; he couldn’t call his mother "Mom" in public. And how sad Hannah Walker must be! She married Walter Jones, but only their close family knew about it. To everyone else, she might be seen only as a mistress.