Chapter 375 - Fragile with her tiny frame...

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...

Few months later, we were blessed with two cute baby boys. We were happy but on the day of their check up…we were notified about Alex's brain not being formed completely yet and he might become a little bit abnormal...

I was devastated with the news because I already started to love both of my kids. But because of family reputation, I chose to keep his identity secret till he got cured completely."

"And later you killed him?" Alonzo accused him with anger in his eyes.

"No son.. I never wanted to kill him. Though a little bit mentally abnormal, but he still was my son. And it's impossible for any father to kill his own son willingly." Mr. Brown said almost pleadingly.

Myra who had not said a single word from the moment her father started to speak, asked, "Then what happened dad? Why Alex brother is not with us anymore? And why I didn't have any idea even about his existence?"

Thinking about it, Mr. Brown's face showed immense pain as he said, "I sent Alex for his treatment so he could get treated properly. He was recovering very fast and I was happy with that...

But suddenly one day, I had to leave for country Z for my business. In the middle of my business venture there, I met Harper again."

"Don't tell me you were cheating on our Mom, Mr. Brown." Alonzo shouted at him as soon as he came to know about his father's meeting with his first lover.

Chuckling at her own fate, Mr. Brown looked at his wife's eyes directly who too was looking at him and said, "Never! I can't never cheat on your mother because I love her more than me. Though I don't show it to her, but it is the biggest truth...

The day I met Harper for first time after more than eight years, both you and Alex were already seven years old and my princess had already started going to school...

You know what, when I picked up Myra for the first time in my arms, I felt that I'm carrying all the happiness of the world in my two palms.."

Myra's eyes filled with tears at the confession of her father and she too felt the love emanating from his eyes.

"Then what happened after you met Harper?" Surprisingly, it was Mrs. Brown who asked this question to her husband.

Mr. Brown looked at his wife and narrated, "Harper was not the same Harper I knew once. She became so thin like a stick. Her body was severally bruised and she was pregnant that time...

I got so much tensed to see her in that way. I insisted her to tell me the reason and I got to know that her husband used to abuse her physically. Although I had an past relationship with her but she was my friend first...

So I thought to help her out of the hell. She had a daughter of seven years old with her that time. So she asked me to send her to her grandparents' home. I fixed everything for her so that she could escape away from there. But…"

"But what?" Lisa asked.

Veronica was confused to see her so eager but she shrugged it away, thinking that she must be curious as Frank and she had lived in the same country..

"But the day of the escaping, she didn't arrive at the decided place. I called her again and again, but got no response. Later I got a message that she wanted me too meet her near an abandoned place...

I had some doubt about it but still went there and it proved out to be the biggest mistake of my life. It ruined my whole family and killed my son.." Mr. Brown again started crying.

Veronica too was shocked to know about it as she was completely oblivious with what was going on there.

She had never expected it to turn out like this which was absolutely different to her imagination.

She looked at Reuben with confusion while he just blinked at her to assure her.

"After I gone to visit Harper, I saw her lying in a pool of blood with a knife thrashed into her pregnant belly. I need to put out the knife from her stomach but she held my hands and made me promise her to protect her daughter which I failed to do...

Because that time, Frank came there with his men and he showed me the pictures of me when I tried to save Harper. He portrayed it like that I was the one who killed her...

I was shocked at first but before I could say anything, Harper left her last breath, leaving the world. I then saw the little girl crying hysterically sitting beside her mother. She was looking so fragile with her tiny frame.

But before I could save her, Frank's men took her away and threatened me that if I tried to find out about her then he'd show this pictures to the cops and make me lose my business…"

"I understand everything. But what is the connection between Alex's death and his threat?" Neil pointed it out.

"That's the catch here. If he would have only demanded me to take my business away, I still would have come out with a new idea. But he blackmailed me with my family instead...

He threatened me that if I didn't obey his words, then he would kill my family too. And obviously, I didn't want to risk my family's life at any cost. So from that day, I agreed with whatever he said...

Because of him, I had to torture my whole family. I even locked Alex up in one of my farm house. But one day, when they grew up, Alonzo found his brother and then…"