Forty-Seven: Secrets

LISA

“I'm an illegitimate child,” he told me casually and my jaws figuratively dropped to the ground. Of all the things I was expecting him to say, this was the last one, in fact, this wasn't on the list at all.

I wasn't expecting him to say this and I did not believe him at all because who would, nothing about him screamed illegitimate child at all.

Just like nothing about you screams bloody assassin, my subconscious mocked me.

“You really don't expect me to believe that, do you?”

He shrugged casually, “no, I don't but the fact that you don't believe it doesn't mean that it's not the truth.”

“Come on Axel, I don't understand why you feel the need to make me have leverage over you but it's really not needed, I told you what I told you because I wanted to, not because you forced me so you don't have to make up a lie about yourself just to make me feel better that I shared a weakness with an enemy.”

“I don't care about you enough to try to make you feel better because you told me somet