Chapter 39 (DIARY)

Chapter 39 (DIARY)

“Now that he’s crying, what will you feed him with?” she asked them. “Baby milk,” Evelyn answered. “You are feeding this boy baby milk? I gave you only breast milk right from the day you were born. I started giving you baby formula when you turned six months.” She exhaled.

“But he’s fine, that was what I gave my kids too.” Evelyn defended. “Evelyn, you… Do not get me angry now. You know me so very well when I’m angry.” She turned to Harry.

“Go bring the milk.” He hurried away again. “And you, you’ll tell me what you did to that girl. Leave my presence now!” she shouted at her and Evelyn left mumbling words as she went to her room.

“Mum is back! This is bad.” She sat on the bed. “What should I do now. I can’t let her see Emily in this house or the twins. They have been here for more than four years now and she doesn’t know anything about them. She would now if she find out about Emily.”

She stood up from the bed confused on what to do.

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“Naomi, tell us already,” Michael gasped. They’ve been trying to make Naomi tell them what she read in the diary for four days now but she had refused to tell them. Her excuse was she wasn’t done reading it.

“You lied again,” Michael said. “You know what, if you don’t want to tell us then fine.” He turned to leave and Naomi held his hand quickly. “Okay I’m sorry. I’ll tell you.”

Emily and Michael sat on the bench facing her as she opened the book.

“Just summarize everything for us.” He suggested. “Alright.” She closed the book. She opened her mouth to talk but paused. “Why aren’t you saying anything, have you lost your voice?” Michael asked her.

“Uhm Michael, can I have a word with you please? Alone,” she said and he raised a brow. “Over there.” Naomi stood up and he looked at Emily before following her.

“Michael, don’t you think this is a bad idea talking about the diary in front of Emily?” she asked him when they were far from Emily. “No, why?” he said.

“You see, Emily doesn’t know that that woman is our Mum and talking about what’s in this diary would make her understand that woman is our Mum. I don’t want anyone to find out because I hate that woman and it’s a shame telling people she’s our Mum,” she explained.

“You are right. I didn’t even think about that. What should we do now? She’ll think we are hiding something from her if you don’t tell us about the diary,” he said.

“Then let’s tell her but I’ll remove the part where she wrote about us.” Naomi suggested. “Are you sure Emily won’t know you remove some parts?” he asked. “She won’t, trust me.”

“Poor kids, they don’t know I already know Evelyn is their Mum.” She shook her head. She watched them return back to where she was and she smiled at them.

“I wish I can have twins, you guys are so lovely.” She said and Michael giggled. “Don’t worry, you’ll have twins when Harry marry you,” he said and Naomi laughed.

“Stop saying that. What would I do with a betrayer and liar?” She rolled her eyes. “I know you still like him,” Michael teased. “I don’t,” Emily scoffed.

“You guys should listen now of I’ll go my way and won’t tell you anything about this again,” Naomi said to them and they turned to her.

“Good.” She opened the diary and read from it so that she won’t make any mistake by reading their own part.

Naomi read for them and they listened attentively like she was their teacher.

“Dear diary, I’m scared my secrets would one day be out. I don’t know what I would do on that day but I have no regrets over what I’ve done. Diary, Harry isn’t my child.” Naomi paused and looked at Emily and Michael who were shocked.

“Harry isn’t my child. I needed a male child desperately because I was jealous of my friends that has make kids. I lied to my husband that my mum was sick and left the city to another city where no one knew me. I called my husband and lied to him that I was pregnant. He demanded I sent him the pictures of my baby bump but I denied. I returned home a year later with a baby boy and everyone was so happy.” Michael and Emily exchanged glances again.

“Many years later, my husband secretly had a DNA test done on Harry. He found out Harry wasn’t his son and for him not to tell anyone, I staged an accident for him and he died on the spot.”

“Oh no!” Emily and Michael exclaimed. “The truth is, I adopted a new born baby from the orphanage. No one knew who his parents were because his Mum died after giving birth to him and his Dad wasn’t seen again. Diary, I discovered I was two months pregnant after my husband died…” Naomi quickly paused there.

“You see how evil that woman is?” She shook her head. “Harry isn’t her child?” Emily was confused. “She wrote it by herself so, it’s true,” Naomi sighed. “Oh no! I can’t believe this. I just can’t believe this.” She buried her face on her palms.

“Oh my God!” Michael exclaimed. “She’s so evil.” Tears gathered in his eyes and he quickly blinked it away. He couldn’t believe that woman killed their Dad because of Harry. She even went as far as abandoning them again.