"My mother?" I furrowed my eyebrow in disbelief as I spoke. "Yes," The woman responded. She loosened her bun and increased the proximity between us. "Your father and I loved each other a lot, since high school," She informed me, "but he's parents—" Mercedes chuckled sadly. “They always wanted him to get married to Marrie, of course, Benjamin refused because he loved me and I was also pregnant.” “Then how did he end up with Carrie?” I pressed on and Mercedes looked forward, her eyes glistened with tears and she ran her hands through her hair. “The Scotlands started having money problems that only the Qurie’s could solve, their business went down drastically, almost everything was lost and each day they were a step closer to bankruptcy, to losing everything,” We made eye contact. “It happened so fast that it almost felt planned.”“My father loved my mother,” I clarified. “Yes, she wasn’t the best person on earth and she isn’t exactly the epitome of a mother but I have witnessed the
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