Chapter 273: Half-Sister
"What is it?" Aiden asked, "I don’t like that look in your eyes. I’m not going to like what you say either, right?’
"Very right." Matteo sucked in a deep breath before he quickly dealt the finishing blow. The quicker it was done, the faster Aiden would get over it. "We have ample evidence to believe that Emmeline is your half-sister."
Aiden staggered back as if struck. His face paled automatically, and his hands began to shiver. He shook his head, slowly at first, then more wildly as the words sank straight into his bloodstream and entered his mind.
No, no, no!
He was so shocked, he hadn’t even realized he nearly screamed them out loud. Matteo hurriedly clasped a hand over Aiden’s mouth, the same way Aiden’s mother did to shut him up. If circumstances weren’t so dire and fucked up, Aiden would find it highly ironic that his mother and Matteo had similar ways of dealing with him.
But he could find no humor in this situation. His knees buckled, and he would have hit the floor if not for Matteo grabbing his shoulders to hold him up.
"You’re shitting me right?" Aiden whispered weakly as he stared into Matteo’s eyes in frenzied desperation. "This is a lie, right? Yes, it must be, you’re trying to get revenge on me because I didn’t tell you and Amelia the truth about Emmeline’s baby... Yes... That’s it... It’s a lie..."
His voice grew steadier, and he seemed to calm down the more he thought about it.
It was a lie. Emmeline couldn’t be his half-sister. It simply wasn’t possible.