Burn Those Who Burned Me novel Chapter 185

Gracie’s POV:

I sat quietly for what felt like an eternity.

So those were the circumstances surrounding my birth? I was possibly the product of an affair, so my

mother wanted me gone to conceal her secret….

My heart started to pace as one thing became painfully clear….My number was up the minute I became a Rochester. I placed my hand over my heart as if to calm myself. Kai sat quietly while staring at me; probably waiting to see what I would say or do next. I needed to compose myself. I didn’t want to cry over these horrible people anymore. Breathing slowly, I lifted my head towards

Thorton.

“Tell me everything.”

He nodded in response; guilt riddled on his face.

“I first met your mother when she became engaged to Calvin Rochester. By then, I had already been working for that family for about three years. When I first met her, she wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen before. She was beautiful. She had this innocence and purity about herself that could melt any type of

ice.”

I sat quietly, giving Thorton my direct attention. I could tell by the way his eyes sparkled, he was in love with my mother.

“Our affair began after their marriage. It honestly just happened. She’d suspected Calvin of bangin his secretary and asked me to find out. At first I said no…I mean my loyalty was technically to Calvin and David Rochester. But the way she looked at me…those pleading eyes…I couldn’t deny her.”

“As it turned out, he was sleeping with the secretary….Sharon was furious. She threw things, yelled, cursed…and then finally…started crying. I couldn’t take it. I couldn’t take those beautiful eyes shedding tears of sadness.”

Kai twitched in his chair. For a moment, it looked as if he understood Thorton.

“Anyway…in my attempt to comfort her…she kissed me. That was how the affair began. It went on for years and I was in love with her. I thought she was in love with me too.”

The sadness in his voice almost made me feel sorry for him.

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“Anyway…when she found out she was pregnant again for the fourth time; she was already irritated. She didn’t want to have another child; the last pregnancy was already too risky.”

I laughed to myself thinking about how much of a pain in the ass Brian has always been.

“And when she found out she was having a girl…well let’s just say that didn’t help. At the time, she asked Calvin if it was wise for her to have another child because of the complications with Brian.”

He recalled the night she called him panicking because the baby might be his.

“Bernie….I can’t have this child! You know that! You know why!”

“I…Sharon…what do you want me to do? You said Rochester didn’t agree to the abortion. What’s the big deal anyway?”

“The big deal!!! This fuckin baby could be yours! Do you want them to find out!!! Do you really not know what would happen if they did??”

“Sharon…why would they find out? They didn’t…”

“Because it’s a girl!!! They’ll test the baby because it’s a girl!”

Thorton explained how that was the first time he’d heard of the Rochers not having girls; how Calvin’s mother Rosemary Rochester ordered an immediate paternity test when my uncle’s wife gave birth to a girl.

“So that was it…she was right…Rochester would have ordered my immediate death.”

I looked at him in disgust and scoffed.

“So, you chose yourself over your possible daughter?”

He looked me in the eyes, so much guilt filled in them.

“I…yeah. I’m scum Graceland. I know that. I don’t make any excuses. But I couldn’t do what she asked me. I couldn’t harm you. The night you were born, Sharon asked Calvin to bring her some specialty soup. That was how she lured him out.”

Thorton told us about how Sharon gave me to him. How callous and detached she had been.

“Sharon…we don’t have to do this maybe-”

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“Do it Benard!! Either you do this…or I’ll tell my husband you took advantage of me.”

Thorton’s eyes darkened as he spoke of Sharon’s betrayal.

“All that time I thought she was in love with me…turns out I was just another patsy. She made that threat without even blinking an eye. So I took you. My original plan was to just drop you off in an orphanage somewhere, but…as I was leaving the hospital, I overheard these nurses talking about this woman that had just discharged who’d lost her husband and child. That was when I first met Diana Teagues.

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My heart skipped a beat at the mention of my adoptive mother.

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