He's my son, not my brother
Equally wounded
"Did you think I wasn't sick seeing you suffer from having children out of wedlock? Do you think I'm not hurt and vengeful for her because she's the one who made my son suffer and ruined my son's future? Do you think I've been okay all this time, Naina? I was hurt watching you get hurt." Mom started crying. Holding Naina's shoulders to look at him.
"You're the biological child of Mom and I can feel what you've been feeling all along. Even if your lips say you're okay, your smiling face covers your pain, but I know very well that you're suffering just as much as Mom and Dad felt as long as Zel was in your womb."
Naina was crying in silence.
"If I could, I'd really like to avenge your pain all this time to her and even kill her. But I can't do it Naina. You know what it's because? Because Mother still has the heart and instincts as a Grandmother who can feel if the mother's grandchild really needs the affection of her father. You can be stubborn and selfish with yourself if you only live alone in this world. But now it's different. You have a son who still needs affection from his biological father." Mother took a deep breath as she felt her chest tightening.
"Mother asked you to forgive her not for yourself, Naina. But also for the good of Zeline. Forgiving him doesn't mean I told you to go back with him. You just need to learn to accept your past and work your way through life because your past that has happened can't be changed."
Naina down. His tongue felt faint when he wanted to refute his mother's words.
"Zeline is entitled to the affection of her biological father, Naina. Can't you understand what's been going on lately with Zeline that's a form of longing for her real father? Although they have only met a few times, but the inner bond between them is so strong that in his subconscious Zeline continues to want the figure of his father. Maybe you could have said that without Daniel you could be a mother and father figure to Zeline. But in reality you can't do it Naina. Because your role and Daniel's role are different. And Daniel is still in this world so you have no right to make him look like he doesn't exist."
"Mommy just asked you to forgive her for Zeline's sake. Zeline has the right to know her true status before she grows up. Did I never think that maybe someday your daughter would hate you because she thinks that if you don't want her presence you've been hiding her true status all along."
"Nai's heart is very sick, Mom..." Naina was crying so hard. Her chest felt increasingly claustrophobic as she recalled the conversation Daniel and his friends had a few years ago.
"Don't Daniel have a fiance?" Asked the weakly-nodled Mother by Naina.
"You and Daniel have every right to choose your partner without being together. But it will be better from now on you and Daniel reveal this truth to your partner so that no heart gets hurt more later." Mom said as she stroked Naina's trembling back.
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