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Richard’s POV

Two hours after my mom left, I still couldn’t get over her revelation. It was shocking and I was surprised.

Finding out that I have a brother somewhere in the world was a strange feeling. I’ve always known myself as a single child and I don’t even know how to feel right now.

Mom said I was a product of my father’s extra marital affair, that I knew about but having a brother was not the type of package I was ready to accept.

I felt withdrawn from Vanessa and Racheal all of a sudden, it was as if a cold bucket of water was poured all over me. I had rejected myself to the chair placed in my kitchen. Thinking back and forth about what I should do.

Should I call this my so called brother and ask him about our mother? Can I even call her mother?

Yes! She’s my biological mother, but will it be right if I call her mother despite the fact that it was easy for her to give me away to another woman.

She never showed up for years and she never cared about how I was surviving or