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She shrugged lightly

"Perhaps...Perhaps not, no one knows , there was no evidence to prove if he had really done it or not.Roberts was furious and filled with hate and jealousy , but he hid it very well under the guise of friendship.He waited for years to have revenge on the family , then he had sent Matteo , But things didn't go as they planned."

I tensed slightly at the mention of Matteo, the rest of it I knew very well.

My gaze held hers, we were both silent for a moment, I couldn't hold it inside anymore as all the questions poured out straight from my mouth.

"What did he want with me and why did you help me?who exactly are you?, back then your father had said...." Her eyes flashed briefly at my use of the word "Father ".

I couldn't read all the emotions that passed through her dark gaze ,but it made me realized that she wasn't as indifferent to everything as I had thought.The whole thing still affected her deeply even if she kept on a hard neural expression.

"That first day, you approached me intentionally.Was it because you knew me?"I asked again .

"It wasn't hard to recognize you, you look every bit like her "

I tensed a little , Roberts had also spoken the same, even though a part of me was beginning to guess who the SHE was , I still needed to hear it from her.

"what do you mean ?"

"I'm talking about OUR mother " she replied holding my gaze, was there a trace of bitterness lacing her tone?

I had been somewhat expecting her to say exactly that, but it didn't hit me any less when the words left her mouth.

I could only stare at her speechlessly.

Our mother?

A sister?

I stared at her, my gaze unconsciously searching for any similarities between us.

Then does this mean that Roberts was my.....and was she still alive?Matteo had told me then that he had killed her.

"No.He isn't your father , and she's no more" she spoke aloud as if she could read my thoughts.

I waited for her to continue.

"She was Robert's mistress then , I remember they always had fights , every night I would close my ears to her screams ,then one morning I woke up and she wasn't there anymore."she took a brief pause, her gaze distant as if lost in those past memories.

Had Roberts killed her?

No, I answered my own question , if he had, obviously she wouldn't have given birth to me.

"For some time , I had thought he had killed her that night , then I found out that she had ran away " she spoke quietly.

I could sense the bitterness and the slight trace of sadness in her tone.

How could she leave her young daughter with an abusive father and run away?I didn't know anything else about her, but knowing she had abandoned her daughter to a beast made me felt dislike and a twinge of anger .

"She had ran away with Matteo, Robert had thought he was dead, that McAndrew had killed him, he'd somehow survived.He wasn't any better towards , much worse even."

Then Matteo had really killed her like he had told me?

"I only knew she'd given birth to another baby, that was all.Then I saw you the other day .....I knew Robert recognized you too and perhaps that made him.suddenly missed his former mistress."

The meaning behind her words made my skin crawl.

"At first I had only wanted to speak to you, I really liked your little girl, she was like a reminder to all the things I could have been if.......when I found out of Roberts plan, I knew I had to save you, but I hadn't count on him setting his plan much more earlier than I anticipated"