103: Homebreakers and Nonsense.

GIOVANNI.

Mom?

To say I was confused, dumbfounded or even shocked will be an understatement as I literally had my mouth opened and kept looking from Kiki to Grace and then from Grace back to Kiki.

It was like she gave me time to savour the moment and shocking revelation too and they both remained mute while I tried to process what I had just heard.

“What are you talking about, Kiki? Is this a freaking joke?” I finally spoke, utterly confused.

“Look, I know that this seems so unbelievable to you but it’s the truth. Your parents lied to you, baby. They lied so much. This was all their fault, they separated you from your biological mother as a baby not that story of her abandoning you, Gigi. She never did, Grace never stopped thinking about you even for once, she had been looking for you for so long too. She was thrown out of the house after she gave birth to you…” I had to shut Kiki up at this point cos it was all sounding like mumbo jumbo nonsense to me.

“Wait… wait a minute, Kiki. What are you even talking about? I don’t understand anything anything you’re saying right now? She has been looking for me? For over thirty years? And she couldn’t find me, what am I? A freaking pin? This is not even sounding believable at all, it all sounds so stupid!” I snapped, getting worked out.

“I know that you’re in the denial phase right now, Gigi but I swear, it’s the truth, you have to give her a chance to explain herself. She had told me to help her look for her grown up son and I was planning to, but when you told me your story and then I put two and two together after you left, we both discovered that you’re that son that she wants me to help her find. And it's not her fault, she was raped by her boss who is your dad and then sent away after she gave birth, she went through so much ill treatments in the hands of your parents, Gigi... I..." Kiki kept ranting on and I was getting a hang of it all now but I just still couldn’t believe what my ears were hearing.

It sounded like absolute nonsense.

Grace started to move closer to touch and speak to me but I flinched and took two steps away from her.

There’s absolutely no way any of this is true, I’m not going to just believe all of that. No way!

Father and Mother came out at that exact moment followed by Imelda.

“What’s the noise and ratchet shouts all for, who are these people?” Mother asked, furious. She was about to say more when she seemed to notice Grace’s presence and her countenance fell.

It was so obvious and I was sure that even the blind would have noticed that reaction, I glanced at Father too, and it looked like all color had drained from his face, he was white. He stared in horror at Grace like he had just seen a ghost.

These reactions were enough for me to gouge some observations, they both know her and that could only mean one thing, Kiki might be right.

And honestly. I do not know how to feel.

After it seemed like Mother had gotten over the shock, she started to walk over to where we stood followed slowly by Imelda who was helping Father walk properly.

“How dare you step foot into this house, you bitch?!” Mother yelled at Grace with such venom that scared me.

“Uh… Mother, do you know her?” I asked in a very low tone, she threw me a glare before speaking.

“Are you out of your damn mind? Where would I know such nuisance from? Do I look like someone who knows people like that? Do you not see her?” She replied, eyeing Grace so furiously, one would think there were sworn enemies.

“Hello, madam.” Grace greeted with a scowl and furious look on her face.

Madam?

“Don’t you even dare pretend to know me, you homebreaker and slut! How can you saunter into this home like you own it after all the damage that you caused my family, huh? Have you no shame? Are you back to finish what you started?” Mother literally yelled in her face.

At this point, I would be a fool to deny not understanding the back and forth between the two women.

“So much spit, so many nonsense.” Grace retorted shocking me. Even Mother was shocked at her audacity and so was Father and Kiki, but she was not done so she continued.

“You keep blaming anybody but your husband! You keep trying to maneuver it all and blame the victim instead of that devil behind you, your husband raped me so many times till I got pregnant, and what did you do, you locked me up in the basement like a freaking animal for months until I gave birth, and as if that was not enough, you threw me out like trash, took my baby from me and then threatened me till I was literally dumped back in my country! But for some reason, I’m the bitch, the homebreaker and the slut?” Grace said, standing up for herself and I found myself boiling as I heard everything that came out of her mouth.

I had been deceived for years, I had been separated from my mother for almost thirty years. I was deprived of motherly love for almost thirty years and it was all because of my parents?

“Shut the hell up, you manipulative bitch. What are you even waiting for, Knightsbridge, do I have to teach you your job? Get this bitch out of our property and take whatever trash she came with as well, you dumbass!” Mother snapped at Knightsbridge who was immediately proceeding to carry out her instruction.

But I was not going to let that happen, no! Not under my watch will I watch this woman disrespect and maltreat the two important women in my life, so I was about to step into the situation and stop it all but Father did first.

“Don’t you dare touch either one of them, Knightsbridge!” He commanded as we all looked in his direction in shock.