73 The Pas (2/2)

'She betrayed me, now she's gone.. '

He kept repeating those words to himself.

The truth was that he had loved his wife till the very end, the only problem was that he couldn't accept the fact that she had betrayed him and the daughter they had raised together wasn't his.

Anytime he remembered this fact, his heart bled. Even when he wanted to let the past go, anytime he set his eyes on this bastard daughter of an unknown father, his heart would harden again.

Now she was dead, and he had disowned his daughter. He thought he would feel better, but instead untold misery engulfed him.

He sat there weeping like a baby.

.....

When she reached home, she went straight to her parents room and started ransacking the whole room.

She opened every box, searched every bag and pushed down every furniture looking for what God knows what.

Deep down she didn't want to find anything out of the ordinary but like they say curiosity killed the cat.

Even though her heart was beating rapidly, she continued searching.

After a long search, she didn't find anything suspicious. She was a bit glad that her dad was just saying things.

She sighed and stood to leave the room, but her phone fell down from her trouser pockets; she bent to pick it and her eyes involuntarily looked under the bed.

That was the only place she hadn't searched.

Liling's fingers shook hesitatingly. She was contemplating on whether to leave, but her instincts kept telling her to know what was under the bed.

Finally she decided to yield to her heart, besides she had already searched everywhere, it was possible that nothing was there anyway.

Standing up, she walked slowly to the bed and bent down. Using her hands she searched under the bed.