James and Thea's Past

“...more importantly, I want to know. What was going on between you and my parents?” Thea asked watching James’ expression carefully as he looked at her with a blank face.

Then the man smiled chuckling at that and shaking his head. As expected he was too perceptive to be shaken by something this predictable from her.

“So you’re finally asking me this question,” He trailed off looking down at his linked hands as if he was readying himself to be questioned by her.

“Since the moment you told me about my father, you expected me to come ask you,” She said and he nodded.

“I told you fully prepared for you to come asking about the past. I have nothing to hide about this. But it’s going to be a story you know very well,” he warned and she nodded.

She already suspected what kind of truth was behind this mysterious encounter.

“Before you were born your father and I used to be lab