Chapter 374 - Good news of our lives...

"What do you mean? Who forced you to do so?" This time Alonzo snapped his head towards his father.

"It was Frank Howard.. He was the one who forced me to do this." Mr. Brown said while crying his heart out.

"Frank Howard? The one from country Z?" Lisa asked with a frown on her face.

Mr. Brown nodded his head and said, "Yes.. He is the only one who was capable to order me around."

Suddenly a gasp left from Lisa's mouth when she listened to him and her mouth opened slightly to take a few rounds of deep breath.

Diana too was shocked to hear it as she said, "That's mean my mother's so called husband Frank is way more worse than we thought. He is really the biggest bastard of the world.!!"

Reuben nodded and then turned his face towards Rachel and said, "Now it's your turn to complete the next part of the story. Tell us what Mike had asked you to do and at what expense?"

Rachel who was confused with all that was happening around her, came back to her actual state as Reuben asked her about the past relation of her with Mike which too involved her friend Diana.

Still shivering a little in fear, she muttered, "Five years ago, when Diana had already left for country Z, Mike came to visit me one day...

As Diana knows that I belong from a middle class family and my dad needed to have a heart transplant to stay alive but we didn't have the required money for this...

At that exact time, Mike came with an proposal to save my father but only in one condition. And the condition is...I needed to steal Diana's diary, in which she used to write her contact."

"What!!" Diana was too shocked to say something at this unexpected news.

Rachel kept her head bowed down and continued narrating the whole story, "I straight away rejected the proposal. But suddenly my father's health condition started to deteriorate and we needed money for the surgeries in an emergency...

That day when Veronica Ma'am saw me with Mike at the café, was the day I had gone to accept his proposal of destroying the diary..

At the time of exam, when Diana came back from country Z, I lied to her about the diary because they had threatened me that, if I opened my mouth to her then they would kill my dad.."

As she finished her part of story, Rachel broke down in tears as she knelt down on the floor.

Everyone except the REUNIC couple, Mike and Mr. Brown was standing their numb without understanding anything.

It was Tom who was standing behind her, gave her a tissue to wipe off the tears which she took with shaking hands.

Then she went towards Diana with shaky legs and folded her hands in a pleading manner as she begged to her, "Please, forgive me Diana. I had no other option to save my father."

Diana came out of her trance and held her hands while consoling her, "It's not your fault Diana. If I would have in your place, I might do the same. I know whose fault exactly it is.."

She then glared at Mr. Brown and asked, "It was Frank right, who had ordered you to send Mike to Rachel because he was plotting against me?"

Mr. Brown nodded his head and said, "Yes, it was him.."

Henry who was watching the whole drama, had some queries in his head so he just blurted it out, "But why would Frank only choose you to do all his dirty stuffs? Most importantly, why you need to obey his every order?"

This question was actually the main point of the whole incident. Everyone wanted to know the exact reason of this.

Seeing that Mr. Brown wasn't ready to speak, he said, "Because Frank had something in his hand which might destroy his whole business and maybe his relationship with his family members."

Now this came as a big shock to Mr. Brown as he thought that no one would have known about the secret he was hiding from the past twenty years.

He knew that there was no way out for him anymore so finally opted to reveal all the secrets to them, "Frank had a sister few years younger than him. Her name was Harper. We both studied in the same college and fell in love with each other eventually...

I wanted to marry her but Frank didn't accept our relationship because I was not rich that time. He forcefully married her to one of his business acquaintance...

I was completely broken that time as the love of my life was married to another guy and couldn't be with me in this life anymore."

Mrs. Brown was now completely shaken, hearing about her husband's past relationship with some other girl. Tears started to stream down on her cheeks like a heavy downpour.

Mr. Brown knew it'd be a big blow on his wife so he looked at his wife with a content filled eyes and continued, "But then my wife came to my life. Although we had an arrange marriage and I denied any kind of relationship with her at the start, but she slowly had crept into my heart...

I started loving her more than anything. Everything was going good but by the passing time, my hunger towards power and money also increased because of the insult I had to go through because of Frank.."

Inhaling a sharp breath, Mr. Brown stared at his son with loving eyes which was completely new for Alonzo as this was the first time he was witnessing some love and adoration in his father's eyes for him..

Sighing again, Mr. Brown said with a smile, "And then we got the good news of our lives. We were going to be parents of twins. Both I and my wife were extremely happy with this news and I started to arrange everything for my children...