Chapter 76: Angry And Bitter
"So, my mother got married to Ryan shortly after I was taken from the Hanks?" Abigail asked, and Jamal considered it for a moment.
"Before then you didn’t go back to the house with your Mom directly. You stayed alone with your governess and nannies for a while," Jamal said, and Abigail paused when she remembered the dream she had where she always felt empty and lonely and was eating at a dining table alone with Lucy the panda.
"Why?" Abigail asked, and Jamal shook his head.
"I’m not sure, but Lucy and my Mom said they think your mom was still trying to convince her parents to accept you. So you were there until she suddenly got engaged to Ryan and got married to him within two weeks of the engagement," he said, and she narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.
"How did she go from announcing a relationship with Tom to being engaged to Ryan? Doesn’t that mean they weren’t in a relationship prior to then?" She asked with a frown.
"That was what we figured. Everyone thought she did it because her parents asked her to do it. We don’t know. We were not there so we can’t exactly tell what happened. Lucy said your Mom didn’t exactly have friends," Jamal said and she sighed.
"So she married him two weeks later, and then she had a mysterious accident with her family?" Abigail asked, unable to wrap her head around how it had all happened.
Jamal nodded. "First she cut off our friendship and asked that the Hanks stay away from you. She said I should stop reaching out to you. It was so heartbreaking for me," Jamal said, feeling an ache in his heart at the memory. "And then a couple of months later I flew down with my grandfather after he arranged with your paternal grandfather so we could see you. We arrived at Westend that morning and were greeted with the news of the accident. We heard your mom and her parents were dead and you were in a critical condition. So, my grandfather took me to the hospital so we could see you and there we were told you were flown out of the country for surgery. We also found out your name was no longer Dawn but had been changed to Genevieve."
Abigail frowned and cut in before he could continue. "How did the stuffed animal get to you?"
"While we were at the hospital to see you, I saw the cleaner trying to discard it with the rest of the trash and I took it from her," he explained, and immediately Abigail remembered Genevieve’s reaction when she saw the stuffed animal with her five years ago.
Genevieve had reacted that way because she recognized the panda. Genevieve wasn’t innocent. She knew very well what the panda meant hence she had discarded it.