Chapter 40

Ivan's POV

I want to bleach my eyes.

Why? Because of what I just saw.

Dad and Matt kissing.

Let me backtrack.

I heard shouting.

I was just minding my own business, leaving my siblings and grandparents in the living room, when I heard shouting coming from dad's office.

Doesn't take a genius to figure out who exactly was arguing.

I walk up to the office and hear Matt shouting, something about not being a part of the family, taking a step back, something like that. About us only tolerating his existence. And I guess that is true for me.

And it makes me feel guilty because he has been nothing but nice to me, but I just can't seem to accept him, accept that he has Fran all this time and was basically as guilty as mom was in this whole mess. I know it might not be fair, but it's how I feel every time I look at him. Him having Fran all these years, him keeping her from us, her and mom being a big happy family with him and not us.

and by the time I reach there the shouting had abruptly