59. LIMELIGHT

|Irena|

I couldn’t bring myself to break down in front of my mother. I had made up my mind to be blunt as much as possible because that was the only thing that would push the truth out of my mother. She could see that I come with some knowledge of my father but she didn’t know what extent I knew and didn’t have any choice but to succumb.

I didn’t know what to meet or expect in the box she described for me but I knew that another chapter of my life will be opened with that box. It was a Pandora box that I had to open with caution.

“Are you sure things will be okay when you do this? I can help you investigate if it is overwhelming,” Paul said to me as I staggered out of the prison area

I had stopped a bit around the yard to cry my heart out before I went out to meet him but he must have noticed that I cried as he ushered me into the car that was driven by one of the bodyguards.

“I know it can be tough but then, it is my responsibility. I have to do this. I will be fine,” I told him,