Chapter 11— Flashback.

~MERRY POV~

"Do you know what?" I laughed off the rumours that my mother had cheated on my father with another man.

"My mother is still single!" I moved closer to Julian.

"I never noticed her flirting with any men!"

"If she had an affair, my second father would have entered our lives by now, but my mother is still single!" I clicked my tongue and said everything in a single breath.

"You do not have to give me an explanation!" Julian nodded his head.

"I have no memory of your mother, so I never judged her!" His words started to calm me down.

"But your father is a good man; please do not judge him, Merry!"

"I know you were living with your mother, so she must be a wonderful person for you!"

"But I was living with your father—he raised me since my parents died when I was ten years old!" He piqued my interest by revealing some information about himself.

"I grew up in his presence."

"He is God to me, and I would give my life for him." His eyes