254 Accepting Reality

Eric.

Two things!

One, we could hear a familiar voice and it happily dawned on us that our Cindy aunt was around for a visit. ‘When did she get back to the country?’ My sister and I had whispered to each other, thinking she had come to surprise us.

But just in that moment we decided to run in for a warm welcome, we heard our mother saying the words that shattered us and equally made us happy at the same time.

Christos Fernandez! The man we had thought was just a friend and later to be our step Dad is actually our father? Real father and perplexing of all, our mother wants nothing to do with him again.

How cruel and crazy can fate be?

But we know our mother had told us the truth during that brief moment of interrogation. It’s obvious she had not known the truth until after her wedding to our father.

But how? How did he turn out to be our father?

And would we have called him to come over if we had known? And now that we know the truth, what are we going to do about it?

Will it be that s