The Billionaires Desires novel Chapter 90

Nathan’s POV

It all happened eight years ago…

My dad was still the chairman of the company and I was still the irresponsible son who doesn’t care about the family's business. I never really cared about everything happening in the family, I guess that was why I didn’t notice the dispute between my mom and dad. If I had paid attention to the affairs of the family, I would have realized that something was not right between my parents and I would have at least tried to make things right between them. But I was too stupid and selfish, I only cared about my own life, that is why my family nearly fell apart, my parents were on the verge of having a divorce, and I never noticed, not even for a second.

Dad was cheating on mom…

That is how it all started. Mom told me the story amid tears, she told me how she noticed that the bond they shared was not as strong as my father was spending too much time outside the house so she did what any curious woman would do about it, she had him investigated and then she uncovered the truth, she found out that my father, the man who I look up to, a man I admire and aspire to be like. She found out that he had another family out there. He had a wife and four kids with another woman and he spends the better part of his days with his other family, treating them better than he treated us, she claims. Now, I know I wasn’t paying too much attention to everything happening in the family but I’m pretty sure that she was making up that part of the story, or maybe that is what she chooses to believe just to justify her actions. But I know for a fact that my father never neglected our family, not even do a second. He spends most of his time in the office and most of those times, he usually carries me along to train me so I can take over from him. Say what you like about my father, but I am pretty sure that he fulfilled his role as a father and he did it perfectly well, but mom wasn’t buying any of that, she refused to believe that she had been wrong.

She did further investigations and she discovered that the lady in question is an orphan, she is one of the many orphans that my mom sent to school. Dad must have met her in one of her numerous visits to the company, he had taken a fancy to her and when he made his move she was too happy to accept and they both started going out. That is what mom says, it is what she believes, she claims that he went after her, but it could have been the other way round, I mean, the girl could have thrown herself at my dad just like Hillary threw herself at me and made me fall in love with her when all she ever wanted was my money. She could have tricked my dad too, right?

If only my father had paid a little more attention to her, then all this could have been avoided, but dad was just too busy to care about her feelings. He pushed her over the edge and she made a decision that has been haunting her down to this day. She checked my dad's schedule, looking for a day that my father would be out of town. She gave the order and they burned down the house in the middle of the night, killing my father's other wife and her children. She did try to cancel the operation at the dine minute, but she wasn’t fast enough, the guys weren’t responding to her calls, she couldn’t get them to stop and that was how she had them all killed.  She is not only an arsonist, she is a murderer as well. She killed five people and she swept all the evidence under the rug, making sure her secret never got out. I think she lost something a part of herself that day, she never remained the same again.

I think I remember everything now, the pieces are finally falling into place. A couple of years ago, dad and mom traveled abroad for a couple of months, leaving my sister and I in the mansion. That was the first time I handled the company on my own and I always thought that my father wanted to give me a chance to handle the family business, I thought it was all a part of his training and I kinda liked it. I thought it was all about me, I had no idea that my parents were going through the worst times of their lives. I had thought that they went on a vacation, I thought they divided to go on a romantic getaway or something like that. But it turns out that they never traveled together. They went to different countries, each trying to live through their pain, both grieving in their own different ways. Dad came back first and mom came back a few months after, they both pretended to be okay, keeping their secrets within them, carrying the pains in their hearts.