Chapter 2 Disappointement 2

I frowned is it his child from another woman?

"But you see due to the greed of the nurse who worked at the hospital where your mother gave birth to you, you two were separated. She switched you with the dead child of another couple. From what I heard after the nurse was caught and interrogated. The husband was crazily in love with his wife, and he couldn't tell his wife the news about their child so when the nurse saw him devastated and in a dilemma like that, she offered to exchange his dead baby with you. Your mother had given birth to two children so she claimed that one of the babies died because she was born weak and we all believed her because no such thing has ever happened. So when I knew and because the man was a foreigner, I have been focusing on searching on his foreign country. I never expected he would abandon you here shortly after stealing you from us because his lie was exposed..." He continued.

"No way..."

"It's hard to believe it but this is the truth..." He affirmed his fake story again.

But I know this isn't the truth but a lie... every word he had spouted now is a lie.

I hadn't been switched.

I hadn't been stolen... rather I and my mother were discarded by none other than my father.

And now? He wanted to rewrite the story painting himself as the grieving father, robbed of his baby girl.

It's just that there was no love in his eyes when he looked at me. Just calculation.

I wasn't family. I was just a pawn.

The girl he introduced her as my twin sister... I'm not sure if his feeling towards her were sincere or if she was his first pawn. But I'm sure about my situation

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"Aira, are you even listening?" He called me, his voice showed a slight irritation.

'There's still so much work to be done on you. First thing's teaching you how to listen properly.' He muttered

Work? Work to be done on me?

What am I? Some unfinished sculpture?

I held back the anger that had been surging and smiled faintly as if I hadn't heard him.

"I'm sorry, Dad. I guess I was just too tired. But don't worry, I remember everything you have told me."

"Good. Rest for a bit. I'll wake you when we arrive." Perhaps satisfied with my answer, his tone improved a lot.

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The rest of the ride passed in silence.

When the car stoped and I stepped out... I choked on my breath. The villa was... majestic. Super grand.

My dear gentle father patted my shoulder as he kindly said;

"Let's get inside and you go take a rest, I'll send the doctor to you shortly."

I nodded and walked by his side..

But as I was walking towards the mansion entrance, I felt a pair of eyes. Watching me.