17: Pain

WINTER:

The child was not Calcifer’s. How? It was impossible. And if it wasn't him, why did she call him Daddy? Where was Carmela now? What happened to her?

I mentally shook my head.

Calcifer was good at telling lies and now, he was saying it so that I would trust him and give him a chance.

My eyes narrowed while folding my arms in my chest. “You’re lying until now. Let's drop this act, Calcifer, and tell us the truth.”

“What child are you talking about, Cali?” Dad said it seemed that he did not have any idea about the child. Even after talking for three years? Why did he hide it from my father?

Maybe because he got scared that Dad would be mad at him again.

“Calcifer has a child, Dad. The same age as Liam,” I answered for my ex-husband when he did not say anything.

“Jett-Jett is four years old. She is older than my son.”

Four years old? So he had been cheating on me on our first wedding anniversary?

I clenched my fist. How could he do that to me?

“I’m not buying it. The child