71 Emily comes home (2/2)

”Honestly I was a bit surprised about it at first, but soon I thought it didn't really matter that much to me that he has several women. A guy with that amount of power is sure to have more women. I'm just happy that he even accepted me as well.”

Emily didn't reply thinking about what her mother said. It did make a bit sense to her, but she still couldn't find it in herself to accept sharing the guy she liked. But once she heard the last sentence her mother said she looked up to Margaret, very shocked.

Margaret realized she probably shouldn't have said that she herself was his woman as well for now, but it just popped out of her mouth.

”Y-you what?”

Margaret knew she couldn't take back what she had said and just had to make the most out of it. She sighed and spoke up.

”Yes, I became his woman as well. Not because he is healing my body or anything like that. Unknowingly I fell in love with him. At first, I didn't felt anything for him, even when he started to flirt with me, I just rejected him every time. But he kept trying and soon I even started to fall for him. Me being an older woman and he is so young, but I still rejected it. But he didn't treat me as an old woman or a sick woman or anything like that. He treated me like a woman he liked and wanted. Nobody has made me feel like that in a long time. I didn't want another man in my life after your father left me. But Drake made that feeling change. It made me think that if he was that guy, I would be okay with it. And like that I accepted it. I hope you won't hate your mother for it, as I know you have feelings for him as well, but for the first time in my life I won't change that to make you happy instead.”

After the huge amount of talking Margaret did it was finally silent inside the house. Both Margaret nor Emily didn't talk and just looked at each other.

But finally, after a few minutes, Emily spoke up: ”I-I understand, I'm happy for you that you finally found someone you love again and I won't ask you to leave him for me, but I still can't accept him as well.”

”Because of your father leaving you?”

”What has that to do with it?”

”Well you didn't really have a fatherly figure growing up and you had to rely on mostly yourself because I couldn't do a lot to help you. So I think that growing up without a male in your life, made you feel that you want to meet a man who will take care of you and only you. That's why hearing the guy, who you thought to be your soulmate, tell you he has more women and that you'll have to share made you doubt.”

”That, I, that, I don't know.”

Emily started to stutter and didn't really know what to think anymore. She really wanted to tell her mother this wasn't true, but she couldn't. She didn't know if this was the true reason behind it, but she also couldn't refute it.

Growing up without a father was hard for her, but she managed to succeed even though her mother was sick. And hearing that the guy she gradually fell in love with has more women made her not sure what to do anymore.

”You like Drake right?”

”Y-yes I do,” Emily replied honestly because even though she couldn't accept sharing him, she still liked him a lot.

”You know Drake loves you as well don't you?”

”Yes.”

”Then why the hell are you being so doubtful about it. Yes, you'll have to share him with others, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about you. I know you always dreamed of a prince on the white horse, who would love only you and that you lived happily ever after. But this is the real world where fairy tales don't exist. You love him and he loves you, it's as simple as that.”

”But still, I-.”

”But nothing. I know it isn't conventional, but Drake isn't an ordinary guy at all. If you wait and keep doubting he is eventually gonna stop caring about you. Is that what you want?”

Margaret was truly in mother-mode right now, trying to make her child agree with her.

”No, I don't want that at all.”

”Then why don't you fight for him? Yes, he has more women, but he still cares a lot about you. From the day he told you and you left him, he has been kept asking me about you even though I didn't know where you were as well.”

”He did?”

”Yes, he truly cares about you and you want to throw all of that away just because you can't accept sharing him? You want him to leave you?”

”NO, I don't want him to leave me.”

”Then what do you plan to do about that?”